In the Brunswick, Georgia, area (fig. 1), saltwater has been contaminating the Upper Floridan aquifer for about 50 years. As of 2008, within a 2-square-mile (mi2) area in downtown Brunswick, the aquifer yielded water with a chloride concentration greater than 2,000 milligrams per liter (mg/L), which exceeds the State and Federal secondary drinking-water standard of 250 mg/L (Georgia Environmental Protection Division, 1997; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2000).
| Author: U. S. Department of the Interior |
| Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Mar 29, 2014 |
| Number of Pages: 64 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1497455278 |
| ISBN-13: 9781497455276 |