The Australian National Groundwater Data Transfer Standard

Odour

Domain of odour DESCRIPTION attribute of RESULT entity                
References                
ASTM D5410-93 1993, Standard guide for set of data elements to describe a ground-water site; Part Three- usage descriptors. American Society for Testing and Materials                
NGC 1998, Review of Data Structures for Core Groundwater Data in Australia, NLP 97/7020 Project Report, National Groundwater Committee Working Group on National Groundwater Data Standards, 345 p.                
Qualifier 1:                
Qualifier 2:                
Note:                
Attribute Code Parent Category   Synonyms Description Qualifier 1 Qualifier 2
odour CHEM   chemical     groundwater smells to be contaminated by a synthetic chemical    
odour CL CHEM   chlorine   groundwater smells to be contaminated by chlorine    
odour NON   none     groundwater has no distinctive smell    
odour ORG   organic   earthy groundwater has an organic earthy smell    
odour PET   petroleum product   oil groundwater smells to be contaminated by a petroleum-type product    
odour UNK   unknown     odour of groundwater is unknown    

 

 

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