Volunteer Nitrate Monitoring Network Final Report

Volunteer Nitrate Monitoring Network Final Report

2009

This regional project developed and tested the concept of a cost-effective, locally-driven, and self-sustaining means of obtaining long-term trend data for nitrate occurrence in private drinking water supplies where the well owner is at the heart of the process. To obtain a representative sample of wells that would answer the question, What is the quality of the water that people are drinking in terms of nitrate? a 675-point grid was superimposed over a nine-county region of southeastern Minnesota. A buffer two miles in diameter was circumscribed around each grid point. A random parcel was then selected within each buffer and the parcel owner recruited as a volunteer. If this parcel owner was not interested another parcel was identified"

Dahl, Linda

Director, Southeast Minnesota Water Resources Board

Southeast Minnesota Water Resources Board
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Winona State University

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Drinking Water
Groundwater
Water Quality & Pollutants
Water Conveyance & Hydraulics
Water Restoration & Protection

Drinking water monitor
drinking water monitoring
drinking-water monitor
drinking-water monitoring
nitrate
nitrates
Nitrate-N
private well
private wells
domestic well
domestic wells
drinking water
drinking water testing
drinking water testings
well
wells
water well
water wells
water education, outreach, & community capacity
drinking water supplies
drinking water supply
drinking water quality
drinking water contaminant
drinking water contaminants
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319 Demonstration, Education, Research Final Research Report

2000-2009

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Public Domain

Minnesota Water Research Digital Library