Ground water pollution and the bored hole latrine
Ground water pollution and the bored hole latrine
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DOI:
10.1093/infdis/61.2.148
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发表时间:
1937-01-01
影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
Parr, LW
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作者:
Caldwell, EL;Parr, LW
The principles and extent of pollution flow were detd. from latrines 15 inches in diam. reaching into ground water through unconsolidated soils to the stratum controlling flow. Their use approximated normal family use. From such septic chambers the effluent travels with the ground water toward the drainage channel at different rates through the strata penetrated, forming a pollution stream. As the ground water flow varies, the stream shifts back and forth about the source. It widens due to dispersion and lag of products during oscillation and then converges to zero due to dilution and oxidation. It varies in diminishing intensity of characteristics lineally from source to end point and in width from midchannel to margins. Characteristics at varying depths were complexly related to velocity and position of strata in relation to latrine conditions. Due to forces (defense) which restrict flow the advance is limited and the stream regresses. Early in advancing streams typical Bacillus coli predominate but are shortly accompanied or preceded by Clostridium welchii. In aging streams other and atypical colon organisms accompany or predominate over typical B. coli. The chemical stream is longer and wider than the bacterial, and the anaerobic greater than the colon. With rising waters a new flow may occur above and through a diminishing stream. The significance of pollution is detd. by latrine conditions and rate of ground water flow. From a typical latrine (5-foot effluent), B. coli initially were carried 15-20 ft. through the 2 lower strata at the rate of ground water flow (5 and 8[image] per day), and after 2 mos. some reached 25 ft. and a few 35 ft. for a 10-day period. Through the upper stratum (rate 3[image]) some B. coli were carried 10 but not 15 ft. In 3 mos. the colon advance was checked and in 7 mos. had retreated to the latrine, when the chemical stream was diminishing. In a new flow B. coli reached only 10 ft. before regression. The chemical stream could be traced 85 but not 100 ft. Its maximum width was 5[image] at 25[image] and the B. coli extent was 3[image] at 15[image], with significant recovery at any phase less than 2[image]. The maximum shift was over an expanse of 3[image].