Exercise 22 Solution
This list is only a sample of activities that might degrade water quality if conducted on the outcrop of a karst aquifer.
- Any activity that involves application of pesticides or fertilizer, such as golf courses, agriculture, or urban lawn maintenance.
- Industrial activities that involve the use of chemicals, especially liquids, when spills may occur.
- Poorly maintained tanks, such as in a tank farm or gasoline station.
- Activities that store waste liquids in lined ponds, such as Confined Animal Feeding Operations (pig or chicken farms for example).
- Neighborhoods built with septic tanks for each residence rather than a sewer system feeding a wastewater treatment plant.