Overview
- Includes a comparison of various guidelines on groundwater contamination (threshold values according to the WHO, EU, and US-EPA) and methods for defining drinking-water source protection measures
- Qualitatively and mathematically describes the main groundwater flow and solute transport models, in an accessible way
- Includes a chapter on sanitary risk assessment and risk-based corrective actions
Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering (SPRTRCIENG)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This textbook employs a technical and quantitative approach to explain subsurface hydrology and hydrogeology, and to offer a comprehensive overview of groundwater-related topics such as flow in porous media, aquifer characterization, contaminant description and transport, risk assessment, and groundwater remediation. It describes the characterization of subsurface flow of pristine and polluted water and provides readers with easily applicable tools for the design of water supply systems, drinking-water source protection, and remediation interventions. Specific applications range from groundwater exploitation as a drinking water supply to the remediation of contaminated aquifers, from the definition and safeguarding of drinking-water sources to the assessment of human health risks in connection with groundwater contamination events.
The book represents an ideal learning resource for upper-undergraduate and graduate students of civil engineering, environmental engineering, andgeology, as well as practitioners in the fields of water resource management and environmental protection who are interested in groundwater engineering and technical hydrogeology.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Prof. Rajandrea Sethi is Head of the Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI) of Politecnico di Torino, Italy, where he conducts teaching and research activities in the field of Groundwater Engineering. His research activity focuses on flow and contaminant transport modelling, colloidal transport in porous media, groundwater monitoring, development of novel environmental reclamation technologies, and environmental nanotechnologies. He participated in the design and monitoring of the first permeable reactive barrier emplaced in Italy, and for ten years he was responsible for the monitoring of the groundwater system within the Project “MOSE” for the defence of the Venice Lagoon from high tides. In the framework of several projects funded by the Italian Government and of three projects funded by the EU (FP7 AQUAREHAB, FP7 NANOREM, and H2020 REGROUND projects), he has investigated the application and transport of microscale and nanoscale particles for the remediation of contaminated aquifer systems. In 2012 he was the Official of the Italian delegation at a Senior officials’ meeting of the Carnegie Group (G8+5) at Joint Research Centre in Brussels. He is Associate Editor for the peer-reviewed journal Water Resources Research.
Antonio Di Molfetta was a professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy until 2013, where he first established in 1992 and then taught the first Groundwater Engineering course in Italy. From 1992 to 2001 he served as President of the Engineering Program in Environmental Engineering. In the course of his academic career he published more than 150 research papers in the fields of groundwater and petroleum engineering, fluid mechanics in porous media and coordinated several research programs. In addition to his academic role, Prof. Di Molfetta conducted a consulting activity serving also as expert advisor for important legal procedures. Since 2013 he has been active as consultant for primary industrial groups in the groundwater engineering field.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Groundwater Engineering
Book Subtitle: A Technical Approach to Hydrogeology, Contaminant Transport and Groundwater Remediation
Authors: Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta
Series Title: Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20516-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20514-0Published: 18 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20516-4Published: 03 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2366-259X
Series E-ISSN: 2366-2603
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 439
Number of Illustrations: 231 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Hydrology/Water Resources, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Hydrogeology