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Stratigraphic Trapping of Spilled Jet Fuel Beneath the Water Table
Author(s) -
Vroblesky D. A.,
Robertson J. F.,
Rhodes L.C.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
groundwater monitoring and remediation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-6592
pISSN - 1069-3629
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6592.1995.tb00529.x
Subject(s) - aquifer , water table , jet fuel , geology , jet (fluid) , table (database) , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental science , contamination , groundwater , petroleum engineering , geotechnical engineering , waste management , ecology , biology , computer science , data mining , engineering , physics , thermodynamics
Environmental conditions and the initial attempt to recover JP‐4 jet fuel from a shallow aquifer at a tank farm in Hanahan, South Carolina, in 1975. allowed the jet fuel to become stratigraphically trapped below the water table. The trapped jet fuel remained an undetected source of dissolved hydrocarbon contamination in shallow ground water in the area for 17 years. The trapped jet fuel was located when a variety of chemical, hydrologic. geologic, and historical evidence led investigators to install and sample deeper wells. These findings emphasize the need to use an integrated approach lo evaluating the data when determining the extent of contamination and planning fuel recovery operations in a lithologically heterogeneous aquifer.