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A geospatial analysis of water-quality threats from orphan wells in principal and secondary aquifers of the United States

Joshua Woda, Karl B. Haase, Nicholas J. Gianoutsos, Kalle Jahn, Kristina Gutchess | May 10th, 2025


This work is the first multivariate geospatial investigation of orphan wells and groundwater resources on a national scale and identifies which aquifers are most susceptible to groundwater contamination from orphan wells.

Keywords

groundwater contamination, monitoring, water and energy, water quality