ArticleEnvironmental health perspectives2021
Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment for Contaminated Private Wells in the Fractured Dolomite Aquifer of Kewaunee County, Wisconsin.
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- Producing ratio measures of effect with quantitative microbial risk assessment.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2023Article
- Juxtaposition of intensive agriculture, vulnerable aquifers, and mixed chemical/microbial exposures in private-well tapwater in northeast Iowa.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Study design and methods of the Wells and Enteric disease Transmission (WET) Trial: a randomised controlled trial.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Identifying sources of antibiotic resistance genes in the environment using the microbialFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Statewide Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment for Waterborne Viruses, Bacteria, and Protozoa in Public Water Supply Wells in Minnesota.Environmental science & technology · 2022Article
- Farm to Faucet? Agricultural Waste and Private Well Contamination in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin.Environmental health perspectives · 2021Article
- Quantitative microbial risk assessment with microbial source tracking for enteric pathogens in southwest Wisconsin private wells.Journal of environmental qualityArticle
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Abstract
backgroundPrivate wells are an important source of drinking water in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin. Due to the region's fractured dolomite aquifer, these wells are vulnerable to contamination by human and zoonotic gastrointestinal pathogens originating from land-applied cattle manure and private septic systems.
objectiveWe determined the magnitude of the health burden associated with contamination of private wells in Kewaunee County by feces-borne gastrointestinal pathogens.
methodsThis study used data from a year-long countywide pathogen occurrence study as inputs into a quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) to predict the total cases of acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) caused by private well contamination in the county. Microbial source tracking was used to associate predicted cases of illness with bovine, human, or unknown fecal sources.
resultsResults suggest that private well contamination could be responsible for as many as 301 AGI cases per year in Kewaunee County, and that 230 and 12 cases per year were associated with a bovine and human fecal source, respectively. Furthermore, DISCUSSION: This study has important implications for land use and water resource management in Kewaunee County and informs the public health impacts of consuming drinking water produced in other similarly vulnerable hydrogeological settings. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP7815.
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