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Nothing Happens Right Away—Predicting Decreases in Nitrate Concentrations After Zero Loading is Achieved

November 16, 2023

This focuses on how we use groundwater age to predict changes in nitrate concentrations over time. Typically, deep public supply wells draw from deeper parts of the aquifer where water is decades, centuries, or even millenia old.

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