Uranium Groundwater Contamination – San Joaquin Valley, CA

New! How Water Contamination is putting California’s San Joaquin Valley at Risk
(Robin MEADOWS, Pacific Standard; July 7, 2017)
https://psmag.com/environment/how-water-contamination-is-putting-this-california-town-at-risk

Fear at the tap:  Unranium contaminates water in the West
(Ellen KNICKMEYER and Scott SMITH, Associated Press; December 8, 2015)
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ce678b95a88c40e2b8e53aed3176c600/fear-tap-uranium-contaminates-water-west

Research Articles:

Metrics for Assessing the Quality of Groundwater Used for Public Supply, CA, USA: Equivalent-Population and Area (BELITZ et al., 2015)
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.5b00265

Natural Uranium Contamination in Major U. S. Aquifers Linked to Nitrate
(NOLAN and WEBER, 2015)
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00174

Effects of Groundwater Development on Uranium:  Central Valley, California USA
(JURGENS et al., 2009)
http://oh.water.usgs.gov/tanc/pubs/Jurgens&Others_2009.pdf

Websites:

U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) 

California Water Science Center (CAWSC):  Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program
http://ca.water.usgs.gov/projects/gama/

California Environmental Protection Agency (CEPA)

California State Water Resources Control Board
GAMA Program
http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/gama/

 

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