Lead Contamination Modeling in Groundwater Guifang Tan EWRE

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Lead Contamination Modeling in GroundwaterGuifang
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Outline

• Introduction
• Data Requisition
• Visualization and Evaluation of Data
• Future Work

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Introduction

• What is lead?
• Where does it come from?
• Burning fossil fuel
• Paints
• mining
• Why lead?
• EPA standard (National Primary Drinking Water
  Reg.)
• Bad health effect in children

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Data Requisition
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Data Requisition
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Map of Groundwater Lead Concentration
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Groundwater Sources for Public Supply
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Locations with Highest Lead Conc. In Groundwater
for Public Supply
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Groundwater Sources for Domestic Use
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Locations with Highest Lead Conc. In Groundwater
for Domestic Use
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Future Work

• Find what causes lead concentration is higher in
  eastern part of US