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Evaluating the environmental consequences of groundwater contamination: 4. Obtaining arid utilizing contaminant arrival distributions in transient flow systems
Author(s) -
Nelson R. William
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/wr014i003p00441
Subject(s) - environmental science , transient (computer programming) , arid , groundwater , pollution , groundwater contamination , groundwater flow , contamination , flow (mathematics) , hydrology (agriculture) , computer science , aquifer , geology , geotechnical engineering , mathematics , paleontology , ecology , geometry , biology , operating system
The versatility of the new contaminant arrival distributions for determining environmental consequences of subsurface pollution problems is demonstrated through application to a transient flow system. Though some of the four phases of the hydrologic evaluations are more complicated because of the time dependence of the flow and input contaminant concentrations, the arrival distributions still effectively summarize the data required to determine the environmental implications. These arrival distributions yield two graphs or tabular sets of data giving the consequences of the subsurface pollution problems in a simple and direct form. Accordingly, the public control authorities would be able to use these results to choose alternatives or to initiate corrective actions, depending on the indicated environmental consequences.