Groundwater quality measurements in Southern Alabama

Access to clean drinking water is a cornerstone of community resilience and sustainability. Contaminated drinking water can expose people to a variety of pollutants and pathogens increasing the burden of disease within the community. Here, we focus on community sustainability by assessing multiple stressors on groundwater quality in the Alabama Gulf Coast. Geochemistry, land use, and climate change can all act as stressors on groundwater quality. Understanding groundwater quality in domestic wells can help to answer questions about mechanistic stressors on groundwater contamination like, (i) how does the underlying aquifer geology control variations in groundwater chemistry?, (ii) how does proximity to agricultural land affect domestic well water quality?, (iii) what geochemical and geophysical variables predict groundwater contamination?, and (iv) what relationships exist between precipitation, flooding, and other extreme events and contaminant concentrations in well water? Together, these efforts will enhance community sustainability in the AL Gulf Coast.