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Soil aquifer treatment (SAT) is a nature-inspired solution for improving the water quality through soil percolation. The biodegradation of organic matter typically occurs in the shallowest soil layer and it depends on the contaminant’s characteristics (water solubility, molecular structure) and specific soil properties (pore size distribution). The present study aims at identifying which grain size fraction of typically used sandy soils in the shallowest layer of SAT systems can provide the optimal conditions for microbiological growth that can be reached by a trade-off between soil moisture as well as nutrients and oxygen supply. For this, soil columns were used at a laboratory scale to determine the relationship between the pore size distribution of four different grain size fractions and biodegradation rates of organic matter from synthetic wastewater. The results obtained from this experimental setup indicate that bacterial colonies reached optimum growth when about 60% of the available pore space was filled with water. For the selected soil, this was achieved by the fraction with grain sizes in the range of 630 µm to 1000 µm, having pore diameters between 87 µm and 320 µm and a mean pore diameter of 230 µm.

Influence of Soil Pore System Properties on the Degradation Rates of Organic Substances during Soil Aquifer Treatment (SAT)