Applications of Time-Domain Reflectometry Techniques to Field-Scale Tracer Testing in Unsaturated Sediments
Field scale tracer testing in partially saturated sediments has proven to be extremely challenging due, in part, to limitations of available monitoring instrumentation. Recent developments and applications of time-domain reflectometry (TDR) techniques to
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INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MECHANICAL SCIENCES COURSESAND LECTURES -No. 364
ADVANCED METHODS FOR GROUNDWATER POLLUTION CONTROL EDITEDBY G. GAMBOLATI UNIVERSITY OF PADUA AND G. VERRI FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA REGION
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ISBN 978-3-211-82714-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-7091-2696-7
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PREFACE
Discovering,- controlling and remediafing groundwater and soil contamination is a problern of primary importance for the correct preservation, manageme11:t and use of natural water resources. Pollutants introduced into the subsurface system can contaminate not only the soil (thereby damaging vegetation or making crops unfit for consumption), but also the atmosphere (through volatilization), acquifers (through percolation, leaching and recharge), and streams (through suiface and subsuiface runoff and seepage). Transported by gtoundwater, these hazardous substances may also contaminate withdrawal sites at pumping wells, and they may reappear at the suiface, ernerging from , springs and seepage faces. The degradation of soil and water quality resulting from underground pollution can pose a serious risk to public health. Cantamination can occur at point sources (e.g. isolated spills; leaking storage tanks; waste tailings from mining operations; sanitary landfills; septic tanks; radioactive waste disposal) or at nonpoint sources (e g. herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers used in agriculture; urban runoff; sewage and waste water; atmospheric deposition including acid rain). The contaminants can be organics, trace metals, or radionuclides. This volume addresses some of the issues concerned with groundwater pollution and constitutes the edited
