Soil and Groundwater Remediation
Fundamentals, Practices, and Sustainability
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About This Book
An introduction to the principles and practices of soil and groundwater remediation
Soil and Groundwater Remediation offers a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the principles, practices, and concepts of sustainability of soil and groundwater remediation. The book starts with an overview of the importance of groundwater resource/quality, contaminant sources/types, and the scope of soil and groundwater remediation. It then provides the essential components of soil and groundwater remediation with easy-to-understand design equations/calculations and the practical applications.
The book contains information on remediation basics such as subsurface chemical behaviors, soil and groundwater hydrology and characterization, regulations, cost analysis, and risk assessment. The author explores various conventional and innovative remediation technologies, including pump-and-treat, soil vapor extraction, bioremediation, incineration, thermally enhanced techniques, soil washing/flushing, and permeable reactive barriers. The book also examines the modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport in saturated and unsaturated zones. This important book:
- Presents the current challenges of remediation practices
- Includes up-to-date information about the low-cost, risk-based, sustainable remediation practices, as well as institutional control and management
- Offers a balanced mix of the principles, practices, and sustainable concepts in soil and groundwater remediation
- Contains learning objectives, discussions of key theories, and example problems
- Provides illustrative case studies and recent research when remediation techniques are introduced
Written for undergraduate seniors and graduate students in natural resource, earth science, environmental science/engineering, and environmental management, Soil and Groundwater Remediation is an authoritative guide to the principles and components of soil and groundwater remediation that is filled with worked and practice problems.
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Chapter 1
Sources and Types of Soil and Groundwater Contamination
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Identify the major use categories of surface water vs. groundwater
- Discuss the current groundwater quality and the factors affecting groundwater quality
- Understand the interactions between surface water and groundwater
- Identify the major soil and groundwater contamination sources
- Understand the terms relating to soil and groundwater contamination, including Superfund sites, brownfields, RCRA facilities, and underground storage tanks
- Locate Superfund sites, brownfields, and/or RCRA facilities in an area of interest
- Gain a general overview of soil and groundwater remediation
- Develop a general understanding of the sources and types of soil and groundwater contamination in the United States and other regions of interest
- Identify Internet resources related to global issues of soil and groundwater contamination and remediation
1.1 Uses of Surface Water vs. Groundwater
Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Whom This Book Is Written For
- To the Instructor
- List of Symbols
- About the Companion Website
- Chapter 1: Sources and Types of Soil and Groundwater Contamination
- Chapter 2: Subsurface Contaminant Fate and Transport
- Chapter 3: Soil and Groundwater Hydrology
- Chapter 4: Legal, Economical, and Risk Assessment Considerations
- Chapter 5: Site Characterization for Soil and Groundwater Remediation
- Chapter 6: Overview of Remediation Options
- Chapter 7: PumpâandâTreat Systems
- Chapter 8: Soil Vapor Extraction and Air Sparging
- Chapter 9: Bioremediation and Environmental Biotechnology
- Chapter 10: Thermal Remediation Technologies
- Chapter 11: Soil Washing and Flushing
- Chapter 12: Permeable Reactive Barriers
- 13 Modeling of Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport
- Appendix A: Common Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Appendix B: Definition of Soil and Groundwater Remediation Technologies
- Appendix C: Structures and Properties of Important Organic Pollutants in Soil and Groundwater
- Appendix D: Unit Conversion Factors
- Appendix E: Answers to Selected Problems
- Index
- IUPAC Periodic Table of the Elements
- End User License Agreement