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Occurrence of sulfonamide antimicrobials in private water wells in Washington County, Idaho, USA

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Title Occurrence of sulfonamide antimicrobials in private water wells in Washington County, Idaho, USA
 
Creator Batt, Angela L.
Snow, Daniel D
Aga, Diana S.
 
Description County (Weiser, Idaho) were collected to assess the impact of a nearby confined animal feeding operation (CAFO) on the quality of the local groundwater. All six samples were found contaminated by two veterinary antimicrobials, sulfamethazine (at concentrations from 0.076 to 0.22 μg/l) and sulfadimethoxine (at concentrations from 0.046 to 0.068 μg/l). These groundwater samples also contained elevated concentrations of nitrate and ammonium. Three of the sampled wells have nitrate levels that...
 
Date 2006-09-01
 
Type text
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/watercenterpubs/18
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=watercenterpubs
 
Source Faculty Publications from The Water Center
 
Publisher DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln
 
Subject antibiotics
nitrate
nitrogen isotope analysis
LC/MS/MS
CAFO
groundwater
Water Resource Management
 
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