Advances in Groundwater Pollution Control and Remediation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Sorption and Retardation of Organic Contaminants in Subsurface Systems: Effects on Transport and Fate

   • Walter J. Weber Jr., Kurt D. Pennell, Timothy J. Dekker, Linda M. Abriola

   Pages 1-31

3. Theoretical Assessment and Experimental Validation of Models for Contaminant Transport Processes in Ground Water

   • Valery A. Mironenko, Vjacheslav G. Rumynin

   Pages 33-45

4. Stochastic Modeling of Contaminant Transport in Field-Scale Heterogeneous Soils

   • M. L. Kavvas, R. S. Govindaraju, D. E. Rolston, S. Jones

   Pages 47-74

5. Higher-Order Effects on Flow and Transport in Randomly Heterogeneous Porous Media

   • Kuo-Chin Hsu, Dongxiao Zhang, Shlomo P. Neuman

   Pages 75-96

6. Projection Methods for the Finite Element Solution of the Dual-Porosity Model in Variably Saturated Porous Media

   • Giuseppe Gambolati, Mario Putti, Claudio Paniconi

   Pages 97-125

7. A Transient Green’s Function Flow and Particle Tracking Model to Quantify a Coupled River-Aquifer System: Application to the Assessment of Possible Groundwater Contamination from a Floridan Industrial River

   • Manfred Koch, H. Murat Cekirge

   Pages 127-154

8. Newton-Type Linearization and Line Search Methods for Unsaturated Flow Models

   • Claudio Paniconi, Mario Putti

   Pages 155-172

9. Development of Theoretical and Technical Basis for Tracer Tests in Aquifers

   • Vyacheslav G. Rumynin, Valery A. Mironenko

   Pages 173-199

10. Monitoring of Leakage in Subsurface Injection of Liquid Industrial Wastes

    • Cem B. Avci

    Pages 201-214

11. Study of Groundwater Contamination by Radioactive Waste Filtration from Storage Basin

    • S. P. Pozdinakov

    Pages 215-224

12. Application Of Artificial Geochemical Barriers For Ground Water Quality Monitoring

    • V. Alexeev, G. Communar

    Pages 225-231

13. Mathematical Models of Contaminant Transport in Stratified Media

    • G. Communar

    Pages 233-247

14. In Situ Treatment of Groundwater: Metal-Enhanced Degradation of Chlorinated Organic Contaminants

    • Robert W. Gillham

    Pages 249-274

15. Spreading and Recovery of LNAPLs in Groundwater

    • M. Yavuz Corapcioglu, Kagan Tuncay, R. Lingam, A. Ahmed, B. K. Ceylan, K. K. R. Kambham

    Pages 275-305

16. Optimal Design of Capture Zones in Aquifer Remediation

    • Mustafa M. Aral, Charles Shea, Faiz Al-Khayyal

    Pages 307-333

17. A Mixed Integer Programming Model for Optimal Groundwater Pollution Plume Interception and Treatment

    • Feyzan Misirli, Hasan Yazicigil

    Pages 335-345

18. Genetic Algorithms in Search of Groundwater Pollution Sources

    • Mustafa M. Aral, Jiabao Guan

    Pages 347-369

19. The Role of Diffusion and the Modelling of its Impact on Groundwater Quality

    • R. Kerry Rowe

    Pages 371-403

20. Waste Containment Systems for Pollution Control Part I: Application of Geosynthetics

    • Jean-Pierre Gourc

    Pages 405-435

In the past decades, environmental scientists, economists and physicists have been juggling critical issues within environmental strategies and environmental management styles in order to find a feasible medium between limited resources, long term demands and objectives, and interest groups. In the search for best management alternatives, practice has undergone a pendulum swing between stages that can be characterised as frontier economics, radical environmentalism, resource management/allocation, selective environmentalism and sustainable environmental management. The next stage of management must answer such questions as: `Can there be a global - uniform environmental strategy?', or `Based on their characteristics, can different issues, different regions and different applications have unique environmental strategies?' Based on this premise, the next stage of management may be identified as risk based sustainable environmental management. The goal of this style will be the risk based, long term, harmonious management of economic resources and environmental preservation for health, safety and prosperity of sustainable populations. When evaluation of risk or risk based ranking of management alternatives enter the picture as part of the overall puzzle, then social policy, ethics and health issues assume a very important role in the management strategy. Economic incentives and environmental constraints have to be considered harmoniously, the main emphasis being placed on protection and preservation of human health and the long term sustaining of populations.

• Contamination
• Filtration
• Groundwater
• Radioactive Waste
• Water pollution
• contaminant
• contaminants
• human health
• landfill
• leachate
• pesticide
• pollution
• remediation
• safety
• hydrogeology
• terrestrial pollution

• Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, USA

  Mustafa M. Aral

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