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Assessment of Nitrification Potential in Ground Water Using Short Term, Single-Well Injection Experiments

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2006

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Smith, R, Baumgartner, L, Miller, D, Repert, D, and Böhlke, J, 2006, Assessment of Nitrification Potential in Ground Water Using Short Term, Single-Well Injection Experiments: Microbial Ecology, v. 51, iss. 1, p. 22-35.

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Nitrification was measured within a sand and gravel aquifer on Cape Cod, MA, using a series of single-well injection tests. The aquifer contained a wastewater-derived contaminant plume, the core of which was anoxic and contained ammonium. The study was conducted near the downgradient end of the ammonium zone, which was characterized by inversely trending vertical gradients of oxygen (270 to 0 μM) and ammonium (19 to 625 μM) and appeared to be a potentially active zone for nitrification. The tests were conducted by injecting a tracer solution (ambient ground water + added constituents) into selected locations within the gradients using multilevel samplers. After injection, the tracers moved by natural ground water flow and were sampled [...]

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DOI http://sciencebase.gov/vocab/identifierScheme 10.1007/s00248-004-0159-7

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