Private well groundwater quality in West Virginia, USA-2010.

ABSTRACT: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with the West Virginia Bureau of Public Health (BPH), initiated an investigation to characterize private well water quality in West Virginia. The objective was to better characterize private well water across various aquifer geologies by testing household drinking water samples and comparing them to EPA's National Primary Drinking Water Standards. The BPH selected ten counties representing three regions to capture geologically diverse areas that represent varying aquifer geology. We collected well-water samples from participating households and analyzed all water samples for 20 constituents currently monitored in public drinking-water systems. We calculated geometric means for each constituent and compared metal concent

SUBMITTER: Law RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5590756 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature