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contributor authorYvonne J. Meeks
contributor authorJ. David Dean
date accessioned2017-05-08T21:06:40Z
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date copyrightSeptember 1990
date issued1990
identifier other%28asce%290733-9496%281990%29116%3A5%28693%29.pdf
identifier urihttp://yetl.yabesh.ir/yetl/handle/yetl/39056
description abstractA methodology was developed to rank the relative vulnerability of ground‐water areas to contamination by agriculturally applied pesticides. The method uses the advection‐dispersion equation for chemical transport in soils to develop the leaching potential index (LPI), which is an indicator of the relative susceptibility of each area. The index incorporates the effects of depth to ground water, natural and irrigation recharge rates, absorption, and chemical decay. The importance (weighting) of the hydrological factors is physically based, not subjective as it is in a number of approaches reviewed. The weights are not required to have constant values, as is typical of other methodologies; instead dependent on the specific chemical properties of the pesticide under consideration. The methodology is verified by comparing the calculated rank of 381 1‐sq‐mi
publisherAmerican Society of Civil Engineers
titleEvaluating Ground‐Water Vulnerability to Pesticides
typeJournal Paper
journal volume116
journal issue5
journal titleJournal of Water Resources Planning and Management
identifier doi10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9496(1990)116:5(693)
treeJournal of Water Resources Planning and Management:;1990:;Volume ( 116 ):;issue: 005
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