Hydrology of a first-order riparian zone and stream, mid-Atlantic coastal plain, Maryland

Travel time controls the magnitude of ni

Travel time controls the magnitude of nitrate discharge in groundwater bypassing the riparian zone to a stream on Virginia's coastal plain

✍ Samuel A. Flewelling; Janet S. Herman; George M. Hornberger; Aaron L. Mills 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 288 KB

## Abstract Groundwater that bypasses the riparian zone by travelling along deep flow paths may deliver high concentrations of fertilizer‐derived NO~3~^−^ to streams, or it may be impacted by the NO~3~^−^ removal process of denitrification in streambed sediments. In a study of a small agricultural