Geochemical determination of anthropogenic sources of elevated chloride in groundwater and surface water across various land uses of an urbanizing watershed
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Abstract
Chloride concentrations in natural surface and groundwaters of the Western Lake Ontario Basin are rising, surpassing guidelines for the protection of aquatic organisms. Thus far the observed increases of chloride have been attributed primarily to the application of winter de-icing salts on an increasing impervious area. To develop effective best management practices for chloride application, a complete understanding of the sources of anthropogenic chloride is required. Continuous monitoring and discrete sampling were performed at four research sites within the Credit River Watershed for one hydrological year. To determine sources of chloride, geochemical and isotopic source characterization techniques were applied, including Cl/Na ratios, Cl/Br ratios, deuterium, iodine, artificial sweeteners, tritium, and helium analysis. The highest chloride concentrations in surface and groundwater samples occurred during the winter at the two urban sites. Cl/Na plots suggest that three of the four sites were impacted by road salt to varying extents. Cl/Br ratios revealed further sources including wastewater, and landfill leachate at the most urbanized site. These sources were further confirmed using analysis of deuterium, iodine, tritium-helium and artificial sweeteners. The findings of this study indicate that various anthropogenic sources of chloride must be considered and can be discerned using geochemical and isotopic techniques.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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