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Surface Application System for In Situ Ground‐Water Bioremediation: Site Characterization and Modeling
Author(s) -
Sweed Howard G.,
Bedient Philip B.,
Hutchins Stephen R.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
groundwater
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1745-6584
pISSN - 0017-467X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1996.tb01881.x
Subject(s) - hydrogeology , aquifer , infiltration (hvac) , groundwater , subsurface flow , tracer , environmental science , groundwater recharge , hydraulics , hydrology (agriculture) , surface water , soil science , geology , environmental engineering , geotechnical engineering , materials science , engineering , physics , aerospace engineering , nuclear physics , composite material
Surface application offers an inexpensive, noninvasive alternative to injection wells and infiltration galleries for in situ ground‐water bioreniediation applications. The technology employs artificial recharge to create favorable hydraulic conditions for mixing and vertical transport of supplemental electron acceptor and nutrients. A test plot infdtration test and a conservative tracer test at Eglin Air Force Base, FL confirmed the potential for transporting solutes to the subsurface via recharging water. These experiments demonstrated both the mounding hydraulics and vertical solute transport that occurs in response to surface application. Modeling provided quantitative estimates of site‐specific hydrogeologic and transport parameters. Experimental results also indicated that dilution may be a dominant attenuation mechanism associated with high surface application rates. The tests also served as the basis for the design of a pilot scale surface application system for delivery of nitrate to bioremediate a JP‐4 contaminated aquifer at the Eglin site. Models calibrated to data from the infiltration experiment were scaled up for design of the pilot scale surface application system. Preliminary tracer results from the pilot scale experiment confirm that surface application can adequately deliver chemicals to the subsurface.