Estimation of the proximity of private domestic wells to underground storage tanks: Oklahoma pilot study.

ABSTRACT: For protecting drinking water supplies, the locations of areas with reliance on private domestic wells (hereafter referred to as "wells") and their relationship to contaminant sources need to be determined. A key resource in the U.S. was the 1990 Census where the source of domestic drinking water was a survey question. Two methods are developed to update estimates of the areal density of well use using readily accessible data. The first uses well logs reported to the states and the addition of housing units reported to the Census Bureau at the county, census tract and census block group scales. The second uses housing units reported to the Census and an estimated well use fraction. To limit the scope and because of abundant data, Oklahoma was used for a pilot project. The resulting well de

SUBMITTER: Weaver JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7391352 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature