Quality of Ground Water used for Selected Municipal Water Supplies in Iowa, 1982-96 Water Years, 1998

(1998) Quality of Ground Water used for Selected Municipal Water Supplies in Iowa, 1982-96 Water Years, 1998. University of Iowa

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Abstract

The Iowa ground-water-quality monitoring program has been conducted cooperatively since 1982 by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey Bureau; the University of Iowa Hygienic Laboratory, and the U.S. Geological Survey. The original objectives of the program were to provide baseline ground-water quality data throughout the State for the major aquifers and to address any new areas of water-quality concern. Since the program began, the emphasis and objectives of the program have changed several times. For water years 1992 through 1996, more emphasis has been placed on determining trends in ground-water quality and correlating water quality with possible contributing factors such as location, land use, aquifer, aquifer depth, and precipitation.