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Predicting Arsenic in Drinking Water Wells of the Central Valley, California

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Science & Technology, July 2016
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Title
Predicting Arsenic in Drinking Water Wells of the Central Valley, California
Published in
Environmental Science & Technology, July 2016
DOI 10.1021/acs.est.6b01914
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Joseph D. Ayotte, Bernard T. Nolan, Jo Ann Gronberg

Abstract

Probabilities of arsenic in groundwater at depths used for domestic and public supply in the Central Valley of California are predicted using weak-learner ensemble models (boosted regression trees, BRT) and more traditional linear models (logistic regression, LR). Both methods captured major processes that affect arsenic concentrations, such as the chemical evolution of groundwater, redox differences, and the influence of aquifer geochemistry. Inferred flow-path length was the most important variable but near-surface-aquifer geochemical data also were significant. A unique feature of this study was that previously predicted nitrate concentrations in three dimensions were themselves predictive of arsenic and indicated an important redox effect at >10 μg/L, indicating low arsenic where nitrate was high. Additionally, a variable representing three-dimensional aquifer texture from the Central Valley Hydrologic Model was an important predictor, indicating high arsenic associated with fine-grained aquifer sediment. BRT outperformed LR at the 5 μg/L threshold in all five predictive performance measures and at 10 μg/L in four out of five measures. BRT yielded higher prediction sensitivity (39%) than LR (18%) at the 10 μg/L threshold-a useful outcome because a major objective of the modeling was to improve our ability to predict high arsenic areas.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 98 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 29%
Researcher 17 17%
Student > Bachelor 8 8%
Student > Master 8 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Other 14 14%
Unknown 18 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 26 27%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 19 19%
Engineering 10 10%
Chemistry 7 7%
Computer Science 1 1%
Other 7 7%
Unknown 28 29%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 August 2016.
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#7,302,619
of 25,377,790 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Science & Technology
#8,472
of 20,675 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#114,316
of 370,008 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Science & Technology
#121
of 268 outputs
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