Karst groundwater contamination and public health : beyond case studies ; procedings of a conference held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 27 to February 1, 2016 organized by the Karst Waters Institute

"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."-- Quatrième de couverture Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 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 Public Health and Karst Groundwater Contamination: From Multidisciplinary Research to Exposure Prevention (Heather F. Henry, William A. Suk)....Pages 7-14 Front Matter ....Pages 15-15 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 Flow Routing in the Karst of Puerto Rico (Thomas E. Miller, Gilles Brocard, Jane Willenbring)....Pages 27-31 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 Puerto Rico’s Karst Protection—Beyond the Laws and Regulations (Abel Vale-Nieves)....Pages 51-54 Contaminant Transport in Karst Aquifers: Systematics and Mechanisms (William B. White)....Pages 55-81 Front Matter ....Pages 83-83 Trace Metal Accumulation and Re-mobilization in Phreatic Karst Conduits (Amy L. Brown, Jonathan B. Martin)....Pages 85-89 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 Bioremediation Potential in Karst Aquifers of Tennessee and Kentucky (Thomas Byl, Michael Bradley, Lashun K. Thomas, Roger Painter)....Pages 97-100 Investigating and Remediating Contaminated Karst Aquifers (Malcolm S. Field)....Pages 101-115 Electrochemical Remediation of Contaminated Groundwater: Pilot Scale Study (Savannah Gregor, Noushin Fallahpour, Ljiljana Rajic, Akram Alshawabkeh)....Pages 117-120 Water Tracing Tests and Public Health in Karst Areas (William K. Jones)....Pages 121-125 Turbidity as an Indicator of Contamination in Karst Springs: A Short Review (Ferry Schiperski)....Pages 127-139 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 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 Front Matter ....Pages 155-155 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 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 Public Health Approaches to Preventing Outbreaks of Gastrointestinal Infection Linked to Karst Systems (Samuel Dorevitch)....Pages 177-183 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 Bassett’s Cave, Bermuda (Maureen Handler, John Hoffelt)....Pages 193-200 Moving Beyond Case Studies: Research Examples from Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining (Michael Hendryx)....Pages 201-208 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 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 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 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 Potential Exposure of Emerging Contaminants in Tap water from Karst Groundwater Sources (Norma I. Torres, Ingrid Y. Padilla, Vilda L. Rivera)....Pages 237-241 Front Matter ....Pages 243-243 On the Implementation of Environmental Indices in Karst (Marianna Mazzei, Mario Parise)....Pages 245-247 Fitting Regulatory Square Pegs into Round Holes: Local Land Use Regulation in Karst Terrain (Jesse J. Richardson Jr.)....Pages 249-254 Recommended Strategies for the Response to Hazardous Materials Releases in Karst (Geary M. Schindel)....Pages 255-260 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 Front Matter ....Pages 275-275 Lithofacies and Transport for Clastic Sediments in Karst Conduits (Rachel F. Bosch, William B. White)....Pages 277-281 Delineation of a Major Karst Basin with Multiple Input Points, Roaring River, Tennessee (Ryan Gardner, Evan Hart, Chuck Sutherland)....Pages 283-287 Karst Geology and Regional Hydrogeology in Denmark (Bertel Nilsson, Peter Gravesen)....Pages 289-298 Recharge and Water-Quality Controls for a Karst Aquifer in Central Texas (Brian A. Smith, Brian B. Hunt)....Pages 299-317 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 Front Matter ....Pages 333-333 Abstracts of Additional Conference Papers (William B. White)....Pages 335-340 The Intersection of Groundwater Contamination and Human Health: Summary of an Interdisciplinary Conference (Janet S. Herman)....Pages 341-347 "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."--Back cover