High‐Permeability Layers for Remediation of Ground Water; Go Wide, Not Deep
- 4 July 2005
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Groundwater
- Vol. 43 (4), 574-581
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6584.2005.0062.x
Abstract
A nitrate-reactive porous media layer comprising wood particles with very high hydraulic conductivity (K∼ 1 cm/s) was used to successfully treat nitrate in a shallow sand-and-gravel aquifer in southern Ontario. Nitrate concentrations of 1.3 to 14 mg/L as N in the aquifer were attenuated to K reactive media opens up the possibility of installing permeable reactive barriers as horizontal layers in the shallow water table zone that do not necessarily have to penetrate the full depth of a contaminant plume to be effective. Model simulations show that the depth of capture of a high-K layer increases as the layer width in the direction of flow increases. Shallower emplacement could decrease barrier costs at some sites.Keywords
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