A new device for collecting time-integrated water samples from springs and surface water bodies
Environmental & Engineering Geoscience
By: S.V. Panno, I.G. Krapac, and D.A. Keefer
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Abstract
A new device termed the 'seepage sampler' was developed to collect representative water samples from springs, streams, and other surface-water bodies. The sampler collects composite, time-integrated water samples over short (hours) or extended (weeks) periods without causing significant changes to the chemical composition of the samples. The water sample within the sampler remains at the ambient temperature of the water body and does not need to be cooled. Seepage samplers are inexpensive to construct and easy to use. A sampling program of numerous springs and/or streams can be designed at a relatively low cost through the use of these samplers. Transient solutes migrating through such flow systems, potentially unnoticed by periodic sampling, may be detected. In addition, the mass loading of solutes (e.g., agrichemicals) may be determined when seepage samplers are used in conjunction with discharge measurements.
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Panno, S., Krapac, I., and Keefer, D., 1998, A new device for collecting time-integrated water samples from springs and surface water bodies: Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, v. 4, no. 3, p. 375-383, https://doi.org/10.2113/gseegeosci.IV.3.375.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | A new device for collecting time-integrated water samples from springs and surface water bodies |
| Series title | Environmental & Engineering Geoscience |
| DOI | 10.2113/gseegeosci.IV.3.375 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Year Published | 1998 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Environmental Engineering Geologists |
| Description | 9 p. |
| First page | 375 |
| Last page | 383 |