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Quality of water recovered from a municipal effluent injection well in the Floridan aquifer system, Pompano Beach, Florida

Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4100
Prepared in cooperation with the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation and Broward County Utilities Department
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wri844100

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Abstract

Approximately 69 million gallons of backflow from an injection well used for the disposal of secondary treated municipal effluent in the Floridan aquifer system near Pompano Beach, Florida, was periodically sampled for inorganic quality from March 1975 through March 1977. Analyses of the backflow effluent showed a concomitant increase in dissolved solids and a change in ionic composition as a function of cumulative volume of backflow. Both the increase in dissolved solids and the change in major ionic composition were directly related to an estimated 6 to 7 percent mixing of the moderately saline water in the Florida aquifer system with the injected system with the injected effluent. Although an estimated 3.5 billion gallons of effluent was injected into the aquifer system during the 16-year operation of the Collier Manor treatment plant, only 65 to 70 million gallons was backflowed before the chloride concentration approached 250 milligrams per liter. (USGS)

Suggested Citation

McKenzie, D., and Irwin, G.A., 1984, Quality of water recovered from a municipal effluent injection well in the Floridan aquifer system, Pompano Beach, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4100, iv, 23 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/wri844100.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Quality of water recovered from a municipal effluent injection well in the Floridan aquifer system, Pompano Beach, Florida
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 84-4100
DOI 10.3133/wri844100
Year Published 1984
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center
Description iv, 23 p.
Country United States
State Florida
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