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Karst Groundwater Contamination and Public Health

Beyond Case Studies

  • William B. White
  • Janet S. Herman
  • Ellen K. Herman
  • Marian Rutigliano
Conference proceedings

Part of the Advances in Karst Science book series (AKS)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction to the Conference

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
      PDF
    2. Contaminated Groundwater in Karst: Why Is It an Issue? An Introduction to the KWI San Juan Conference
      William B. White, Janet S. Herman, Ellen K. Herman, Marian Rutigliano
      Pages 3-5
    3. Public Health and Karst Groundwater Contamination: From Multidisciplinary Research to Exposure Prevention
      Heather F. Henry, William A. Suk
      Pages 7-14

  3. Keynote Papers

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 15-15
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    2. Team Science Applied to Environmental Health Research: Karst Hydrogeology and Preterm Birth in Puerto Rico
      José F. Cordero, John D. Meeker, Rita Loch-Caruso, Roger Giese, Ingrid Padilla, Dorothy Vesper et al.
      Pages 17-25
    3. Flow Routing in the Karst of Puerto Rico
      Thomas E. Miller, Gilles Brocard, Jane Willenbring
      Pages 27-31
    4. Fate, Transport, and Exposure of Emerging and Legacy Contaminants in Karst Systems: State of Knowledge and Uncertainty
      Ingrid Y. Padilla, Dorothy J. Vesper
      Pages 33-49
    5. Puerto Rico’s Karst Protection—Beyond the Laws and Regulations
      Abel Vale-Nieves
      Pages 51-54
    6. Contaminant Transport in Karst Aquifers: Systematics and Mechanisms
      William B. White
      Pages 55-81

  4. Karst Groundwater Contaminants and Tools for Their Evaluation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 83-83
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    2. Trace Metal Accumulation and Re-mobilization in Phreatic Karst Conduits
      Amy L. Brown, Jonathan B. Martin
      Pages 85-89
    3. Evaluation of Spill Response System for Mammoth Cave National Park Using Quantitative Dye Tracer Studies
      JeTara Brown, Thomas Byl, Rickard Toomey III, Lonnie Sharpe Jr.
      Pages 91-95
    4. Bioremediation Potential in Karst Aquifers of Tennessee and Kentucky
      Thomas Byl, Michael Bradley, Lashun K. Thomas, Roger Painter
      Pages 97-100
    5. Investigating and Remediating Contaminated Karst Aquifers
      Malcolm S. Field
      Pages 101-115
    6. Electrochemical Remediation of Contaminated Groundwater: Pilot Scale Study
      Savannah Gregor, Noushin Fallahpour, Ljiljana Rajic, Akram Alshawabkeh
      Pages 117-120
    7. Water Tracing Tests and Public Health in Karst Areas
      William K. Jones
      Pages 121-125
    8. Turbidity as an Indicator of Contamination in Karst Springs: A Short Review
      Ferry Schiperski
      Pages 127-139
    9. Using Nutrient Data and Dye Tracing to Infer Groundwater Flow Paths and Contaminant Transfer Time in Grayson-Gunnar Cave, Monticello, KY
      G. V. Tagne, L. J. Florea
      Pages 141-144
    10. Development and Testing of Hydrogel Beads as Potential Floating Tracers of Contaminant Movement in Karst Aquifers
      Dorothy J. Vesper, Habib Bravo-Ruiz, Amanda F. Laskoskie, Harry M. Edenborn
      Pages 145-153

  5. Contaminant Exposure and Public Health

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 155-155
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    2. Cave Characterization in the North Karst Belt Zone of Puerto Rico: Cave Mesofauna Diversity as an Indicator of Pathogenic and Opportunistic Species
      Ángel A. Acosta-Colón
      Pages 157-168
    3. Social Determinants of Contaminant Exposure and Pregnancy in the Northern Karst of Puerto Rico
      Nancy R. Cardona-Cordero, Carmen M. Vélez-Vega, José F. Cordero, Zaira Rosario, Colleen Murphy, Hernando Mattei et al.
      Pages 169-175
    4. Public Health Approaches to Preventing Outbreaks of Gastrointestinal Infection Linked to Karst Systems
      Samuel Dorevitch
      Pages 177-183
    5. Integrated Strategy to Guide Health-Related Microbial Quality Management at Alpine Karstic Drinking Water Resources
      Andreas H. Farnleitner, Domenico Savio, Regina Sommer, Georg Reischer, Alexander Kirschner, Wolfgang Zerobin et al.
      Pages 185-192
    6. Bassett’s Cave, Bermuda
      Maureen Handler, John Hoffelt
      Pages 193-200
    7. Moving Beyond Case Studies: Research Examples from Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
      Michael Hendryx
      Pages 201-208
    8. Using Enteric Pathogens to Assess Sources of Fecal Contamination in the Silurian Dolomite Aquifer: Preliminary Results
      Maureen A. Muldoon, Mark A. Borchardt, Susan K. Spencer, Randall J. Hunt, David Owens
      Pages 209-213
    9. Human Perceptions of Anthropogenic Impact on the Aquifer Recharge Zone in Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico
      Betzaida Ortiz-Carrión, Jorge R. Ortiz-Zayas, Josefina Arce-Quiñones
      Pages 215-217
    10. Factors Influencing the Occurrence and the Fate of E. coli Population in Karst Hydrosystems
      Fabienne Petit, Thierry Berthe, Gautier Chaix, Erick Denamur, Olivier Clermont, Nicolas Massei et al.
      Pages 219-230
    11. Spatiotemporal Assessment of CVOC Contamination in Karst Groundwater Sources and Exposure at Tap Water Point of Use
      Vilda L. Rivera, Ingrid Y. Padilla, Norma I. Torres
      Pages 231-235
    12. Potential Exposure of Emerging Contaminants in Tap water from Karst Groundwater Sources
      Norma I. Torres, Ingrid Y. Padilla, Vilda L. Rivera
      Pages 237-241

  6. Risk Assessment and Regulatory Issues

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 243-243
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    2. On the Implementation of Environmental Indices in Karst
      Marianna Mazzei, Mario Parise
      Pages 245-247
    3. Fitting Regulatory Square Pegs into Round Holes: Local Land Use Regulation in Karst Terrain
      Jesse J. Richardson Jr.
      Pages 249-254
    4. Recommended Strategies for the Response to Hazardous Materials Releases in Karst
      Geary M. Schindel
      Pages 255-260
    5. Investigating Groundwater Vulnerability of a Karst Aquifer in Tampa Bay, Florida
      Philip E. van Beynen, Michael Niedzielski, Elzbieta Bialkowska-Jelinska, Kamal Alsharif
      Pages 261-273

  7. Aquifer Studies

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 275-275
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    2. Lithofacies and Transport for Clastic Sediments in Karst Conduits
      Rachel F. Bosch, William B. White
      Pages 277-281
    3. Delineation of a Major Karst Basin with Multiple Input Points, Roaring River, Tennessee
      Ryan Gardner, Evan Hart, Chuck Sutherland
      Pages 283-287
    4. Karst Geology and Regional Hydrogeology in Denmark
      Bertel Nilsson, Peter Gravesen
      Pages 289-298
    5. Recharge and Water-Quality Controls for a Karst Aquifer in Central Texas
      Brian A. Smith, Brian B. Hunt
      Pages 299-317
    6. Monitoring of Cueva Larga, Puerto Rico—A First Step to Decode Speleothem Climate Records
      Rolf Vieten, Sophie Warken, Amos Winter, Denis Scholz, Thomas Miller, Christoph Spötl et al.
      Pages 319-331

  8. Conference Summary

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 333-333
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    2. Abstracts of Additional Conference Papers
      William B. White
      Pages 335-340
    3. The Intersection of Groundwater Contamination and Human Health: Summary of an Interdisciplinary Conference
      Janet S. Herman
      Pages 341-347

About these proceedings

Introduction

This book sheds new light on contaminant transport in karst aquifers and the public health implications of contaminated karst groundwater. The papers included were presented at a conference held in early 2016 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and range from lengthy reviews on contaminant transport mechanisms to short articles summarizing research findings. The conference addressed a variety of topics, such as contamination sources, the hydrogeology of contaminant transport, the storage and release of contaminants, and the health impacts as well as the epidemiology of contaminated water supplies drawn from karst aquifers, and gathered perspectives from experts in different disciplines, including hydrogeologists and public health specialists. Although there is a wealth of literature on specific instances of karst groundwater contamination, this book offers an integrated conceptual framework for the public health impacts of karst groundwater, making it a valuable resource for a broad interdisciplinary readership.

Keywords

Contaminant Transport Contaminated Groundwater Groundwater Influence on Public Health Karst Aquifers Water Pollution Water Supplies

Editors and affiliations

  • William B. White
    • 1
  • Janet S. Herman
    • 2
  • Ellen K. Herman
    • 3
  • Marian Rutigliano
    • 4
  1. 1.Geosciences DepartmentThe Pennsylvania State University Geosciences DepartmentUniversity ParkUSA
  2. 2.University of VirginiaDepartment of Environmental Sciences University of VirginiaCharlottesville, VAUSA
  3. 3.Bucknell UniversityDepartment of Geology Bucknell UniversityLewisburg, PAUSA
  4. 4.US Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DCUSA

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