Riverbank Filtration: Understanding Contaminant Biogeochemistry and Pathogen Removal

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Effect of Biogeochemical, Hydrogeological, and Well Construction Factors on Riverbank Filtrate Quality

   • Chittaranjan Ray

   Pages 1-16

3. Hydrogeological Issues of Riverbank Filtration — A Review

   • Eduard Hoehn

   Pages 17-41

4. Organic Matter as the Driving Force in the Solubilization of Fe and Mn During Riverbank Filtration

   • Alain C. M. Bourg, Monika A. M. Kedziorek, Dominique Darmendrail

   Pages 43-54

5. Virus Removal by Soil Passage at Field Scale and Groundwater Protection

   • Jack F. Schijven

   Pages 55-84

6. Removal of Cryptosporidium Using Bank Filtration

   • Philip Berger

   Pages 85-121

7. Elimination of Microcystins by Slow Sand Filtration at the UBA Experimental Field

   • Hartmut Bartel, Gesche Grützmacher

   Pages 123-133

8. Experiences on the Fate of Organic Micropollutants During Riverbank Filtration

   • Frank Sacher, Heinz-Jürgen Brauch

   Pages 135-151

9. Public Health Aspects of Riverbank Filtration

   • Rolf A. Deininger, Jiyoung Lee, Arvil Ancheta, Chak Somana

   Pages 153-176

10. Groundwater Quality Processes after Bank Infiltration from the Danube at Čunovo

    • Igor Mucha, Dalibor Rodák, Zoltán Hlavatý, L’Ubomír Banský

    Pages 177-219

11. Use of Bank Filtration in Hungary

    • Zsuzsa Homonnay

    Pages 221-228

12. Laboratory and Field Studies of Pollutant Removal

    • F. Laszlo, P. Literathy

    Pages 229-233

13. Riverbank Filtration in Water Supply in Romania—Old Solutions, New Problems

    • Vladimir Rojanschi, Luminita Mlenajek, Mariana Stanciulescu

    Pages 235-245

14. Conclusions and Recommendations of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Contaminant Biogeochemistry and Pathogen Removal Efficiency

    • Chittaranjan Ray

    Pages 247-250

15. Back Matter

    Pages 251-253

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Riverbank filtration is widely used in Europe and to some extent in the United States for the public water supply. It is a cost-effective and realisable treatment technology in which horizontal and vertical wells pump a mixture of ground water and induced surface water from a river. This book describes the biogeochemical issues involved in contaminant removal from surface water and the mechanisms of pathogen removal. Specifically, the following three points are considered:
*The role of hydrogeological and well construction factors in the development of redox zones at bank filtration sites and the resulting impacts on contaminant removal.
*The mechanisms of pathogen removal, including the processes, colloid filtration, die-away, decay, and predation.
*The status of riverbank filtration processes in NATO partner countries.

• Danube
• Filtration
• Geochemistry
• Infiltration
• Pathogen
• Water supply
• groundwater
• air pollution and air quality
• hydrogeology
• water quality and water pollution

• Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA

  Chittaranjan Ray

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