Early View article: “Estimating Contributions of Nitrate and Herbicides From Groundwater to Headwater Streams, Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain, United States,” by Scott W. Ator and Judith M. Denver
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The authors estimated the regional flux of nitrate and selected herbicides from groundwater to nontidal headwater streams of the Atlantic Coastal Plain (New Jersey through North Carolina) based on late-winter or spring base-flow samples from 174 streams. In Coastal Plain watersheds of Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds, <2% of applied nitrogen reaches headwater streams as base flow. On the Delmarva Peninsula part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, however, more than 10% of such applications are transported through groundwater to streams, and base-flow nitrate flux represents 70% of total nitrogen flux in headwater streams.
[Please note: I have quoted and paraphrased freely from the article, but the interpretation is my own.]
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