{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["020:00"], "contactPoint": {"fn": "Tamara Newcomer Johnson", "hasEmail": "mailto:newcomer-johnson.tammy@epa.gov"}, "description": "\u2022Base cations increased in drinking water over \u223c50 years coinciding with urbanization.\n\u2022DIC, cations, Si, SO42- and pH in streams increased with impervious surface cover.\n\u2022Road salts and weathering of impervious surfaces were major sources of ions.\n\u2022Base cations and pH contributed to alkalinization from headwaters to coastal waters.\n\u2022Increased ions impact drinking water, infrastructure, and coastal alkalinization. \n\nThis dataset is associated with the following publication:\nKaushal, S., S. Duan, T. Doody, S. Haq, R. Smith, T. Newcomer Johnson, K. Delany Newcomb, J. Gorman, N. Bowman, P. Mayer, K.L. Wood, K.T. Belt, and W.P. Sack. Human-accelerated weathering increases salinization, major ions, and alkalinization in fresh water across land use.   APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRY. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, USA, 83: 121-135, (2017).", "distribution": [{"accessURL": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883292717301282", "title": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883292717301282"}], "identifier": "https://doi.org/10.23719/1404721", "keyword": ["salinization", "weathering", "alkalinization", "base cations", "drinking water", "impervious surface cover", "road salt", "infrastructure", "land use"], "license": "https://pasteur.epa.gov/license/sciencehub-license.html", "modified": "2016-07-15", "programCode": ["020:000"], "publisher": {"name": "U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD)", "subOrganizationOf": {"name": "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency", "subOrganizationOf": {"name": "U.S. Government"}}}, "references": ["https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2017.02.006"], "rights": null, "title": "Kaushal et al. 2017 (Applied Geochemistry) Human-accelerated weathering increases salinization, major ions, and alkalinization in fresh water across land use"}