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Resourcing the investigation and management of groundwater contamination in Western Australia - a case study of contamination from herbicide manufacture near Perth
A groundwater contamination plume with peak concentrations of the herbicides 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T of up to 180 mg/ L and 60 mg/L, respectively, occurs in the Kwinana industrial area near Perth, Western Australia. Drilling and sampling in 1989 and 1990 have indicated that contamination is largely restricted to a shallow sand aquifer, and that the underlying limestone aquifer is mostly unaffected. Contaminants may be undergoing microbial degradation at the margins of the contamination plume in the sand aquifer. This groundwater contamination incident occurred before the current Western Australian Environmental Act came into force, and responsibility for investigating and managing such contamination is vested in several Western Australian State Government agencies. There is currently no centralised resource pool in Western Australia to carry out investigations of groundwater contamination .
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Australian Geological Survey Organisation
Canberra Author Appleyard, S.J.
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AGSO Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics
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14:2-3:177-181
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Owner Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Custodian Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
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CC-BY
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4.0
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- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
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- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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AGSO BMR Journal
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- 2018-04-20T06:07:50
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
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ISO 19115-1:2014
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
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