Arsenic in Ground Water

1. Front Matter

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2. Arsenic thermodynamic data and environmental geochemistry

   • D. Kirk Nordstrom, Donald G. Archer

   Pages 1-25

3. Spectroscopic Investigations of Arsenic Species in Solid Phases

   • Andrea L. Foster

   Pages 27-65

4. Geochemical Processes Controlling Transport of Arsenic in Groundwater: A Review of Adsorption

   • Kenneth G. Stollenwerk

   Pages 67-100

5. Geothermal Arsenic

   • Jenny G. Webster, D. Kirk Nordstrom

   Pages 101-125

6. Role of Large Scale Fluid-Flow in Subsurface Arsenic Enrichment

   • M.B. Goldhaber, R.C. Lee, J.R. Hatch, J.C. Pashin, J. Treworgy

   Pages 127-164

7. Arsenic in ground water used for drinking water in the United States

   • Sarah J. Ryker

   Pages 165-178

8. Arsenic in groundwater — south and east Asia

   • Pauline L Smedley

   Pages 179-209

9. The scale and causes of the groundwater arsenic problem in Bangladesh

   • David G. Kinniburgh, Pauline L. Smedley, Jeff Davies, Chris J. Milne, Irina Gaus, Janice M. Trafford et al.

   Pages 211-257

10. Mechanisms of Arsenic Release to Ground Water from Naturally Occurring Sources, Eastern Wisconsin

    • M E Schreiber, M B Gotkowitz, J A Simo, P G Freiberg

    Pages 259-280

11. Arsenic in southeastern Michigan

    • Allan Kolker, S. K. Haack, W. F. Cannon, D. B. Westjohn, M.-J. Kim, Jerome Nriagu et al.

    Pages 281-294

12. Occurrence of arsenic in ground water of the Middle Rio Grande Basin, central New Mexico

    • Laura M. Bexfield, L. Niel Plummer

    Pages 295-327

13. Arsenic Contamination in the Water Supply of Milltown, Montana

    • Johnnie N. Moore, William W. Woessner

    Pages 329-350

14. Natural Remediation Potential of Arsenic-Contaminated Ground Water

    • Kenneth G. Stollenwerk, John A. Colman

    Pages 351-379

15. Modeling in situ iron removal from groundwater with trace elements such as As

    • C.A.J. Appelo, W.W.J.M. de Vet

    Pages 381-401

16. In situ Arsenic Remediation in a fractured, alkaline aquifer

    • Alan H. Welch, Kenneth G. Stollenwerk, Douglas K. Maurer, Lawrence S. Feinson

    Pages 403-419

17. Back Matter

    Pages 421-475

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Interest in arsenic in ground water has greatly increased in the past decade because of the increased awareness of human health effects and the costs of avoidance or treatment of ground water supplies used for consumption. The goal of this book is to provide a description of the basic processes that affect arsenic occurrence and transport by providing sufficient background information on arsenic geochemistry and descriptions of hi- arsenic ground water, both affected and unaffected by human activity. An understanding of thermodynamics, adsorption, and the speciation of arsenic in solid phases, which are described in first three chapters, is needed to predict the fate of arsenic in ground water systems. Large-scale and deep movement of ground water can and has redistributed arsenic in the near surface environment, as described in the next two chapters. These large-scale systems can affect large volumes of both ground water and surface water, such as in the Yellowstone system, and can produce mineralised zones that subsequently release arsenic to ground water supplies. Regional identification of high-arsenic ground water and its consumption as described in the next three chapters clearly demonstrates a need for increased wat- quality monitoring, particularly in south and southeast Asia. Chapters 9-11 provide examples of high arsenic ground water associated with sulfide mineral oxidation and alkaline conditions. Finally, smaller scale studies of the effects of human activities that have produced high-arsenic ground water and methods for attenuation of ground water are presented.

• Groundwater
• Sorption
• Transport
• Water supply
• contamination
• drinking water
• environment
• geochemistry
• ground water
• hazard
• health hazard
• human health
• leachate
• remediation
• ecotoxicology
• terrestrial pollution
• hydrogeology

• U.S. Geological Survey, USA

  Alan H. Welch, Kenneth G. Stollenwerk

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