Statistical evidence on the effectiveness of sewering to protect groundwater from VOC contamination |
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Authors: | Cleve E Willis Sandeep Sacheti |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts, Draper Hall, 01003 Amherst, Massachusetts, USA;(2) Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, 94720 Berkeley, California, USA |
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Abstract: | Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are an important source of contamination of groundwater supplies in Massachusetts and many parts of the United States. One local response is to require sewering in wellhead protection areas as an easily enforceable policy designed to reduce the probability of VOC contamination of groundwater. Data were collected for 238 wellhead protection areas in Massachusetts on VOC contamination levels and the sewered and unsewered land uses in those aquifer recharge areas. Logistic regression procedures were used to see whether sewering had any statistical effect on likelihood of contamination of well water. The results provided limited, but not overpowering, support for the idea that requiring commercial and industrial land uses to use sewers would reduce the chance of VOC contamination. |
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Keywords: | Groundwater GIS Volatile organic compounds Sewering |
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