1987
DOI: 10.3133/ofr87761
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West Virginia ground-water quality

Abstract: background and compliance monitoring programs, and water-purity analyses. The Department of Health (wvc, section 16-1) is responsible for the protection of drinking-water supplies, including the regulation of all drinking-water wells, both public and private. The Environmental Engineering Division of the WVDH has primacy for the "Safe Drinking Water Act" to develop laws, design standards, policies, and regulations for public water supplies. This Division also has the authority to enforce drinking-water standar… Show more

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“…According to current regulatory benchmarks, groundwater quality is generally acceptable for domestic and other uses, with most problems resulting from geology, fossil-fuel extraction and other industrial activities, agriculture, and improper waste disposal. Groundwater chemistry is strongly affected by topographic setting, complicating areal delineations of water quality based on aquifer composition and compounding the effects of anthropogenic activities (Ferrel, 1987). Elevated levels of radon-222, iron, manganese, and arsenic, relative to drinking-water benchmarks set by the EPA, represent the primary constituents adversely impacting water quality in West Virginia (Ferrel, 1987;Chambers and others, 2012;Law and others, 2017).…”
Section: Previous Investigations Of Water Quality and Pfas In West Vi...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…According to current regulatory benchmarks, groundwater quality is generally acceptable for domestic and other uses, with most problems resulting from geology, fossil-fuel extraction and other industrial activities, agriculture, and improper waste disposal. Groundwater chemistry is strongly affected by topographic setting, complicating areal delineations of water quality based on aquifer composition and compounding the effects of anthropogenic activities (Ferrel, 1987). Elevated levels of radon-222, iron, manganese, and arsenic, relative to drinking-water benchmarks set by the EPA, represent the primary constituents adversely impacting water quality in West Virginia (Ferrel, 1987;Chambers and others, 2012;Law and others, 2017).…”
Section: Previous Investigations Of Water Quality and Pfas In West Vi...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Groundwater chemistry is strongly affected by topographic setting, complicating areal delineations of water quality based on aquifer composition and compounding the effects of anthropogenic activities (Ferrel, 1987). Elevated levels of radon-222, iron, manganese, and arsenic, relative to drinking-water benchmarks set by the EPA, represent the primary constituents adversely impacting water quality in West Virginia (Ferrel, 1987;Chambers and others, 2012;Law and others, 2017).…”
Section: Previous Investigations Of Water Quality and Pfas In West Vi...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…High transmissivities in the alluvium (4,800 feet squared per day; Kozar and Mathes, 2001) allow rapid infiltration of overland flow, either from precipitation or flooding, and induced infiltration directly from the Ohio River because of pumping (Kozar and Paybins, 2016). Progressive urbanization, industrialization, and agricultural development along the Ohio River has created multiple sources of contamination and removed surficial clays that retard infiltration (Ferrel, 1987). This removal simultaneously increases the intrinsic susceptibility and vulnerability of the alluvial aquifers that are a major groundwater resource in West Virginia, underlining the need to refine current [2019] delineations of SWIGs in the Ohio River alluvium.…”
Section: Surface-water-influenced Groundwater Supply (Swig)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Development, particularly agriculture, decreases away from the river because of rugged terrain that typifies the Appalachian Plateau physiographic province. Residential land use is a result of the Ohio River facilitating transport across the mountainous topography during settlement, which has spawned a diverse industrial presence including electric-power generation, chemical and metal manufacturing, and petroleum refinement that supports municipal growth alongside agriculture activity (Ferrel, 1987;Bader and others, 1997;Battelle Memorial Institute, 2003). Agricultural land use, which is concentrated in the Ohio River Valley, has declined by 58 percent since 1950 (Kutta and Hubbart, 2019).…”
Section: Study Area and Previous Investigationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These limited published data illustrate wide ranges in hydrogeologic and water-quality characteristics for sites in Morgan County. Ferrell (1987) and Mathes and others (1998) provide summaries of available ground-water quality data, and Kozar and Mathes (2001) provide a compendium of aquifer characteristics throughout West Virginia. However, few data were available for Morgan County in these studies.…”
Section: Previous Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%