Karst groundwater contamination and public health : beyond case studies

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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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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