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<p style="text-align: justify;">Groundwater contamination due to Municipal Landfill Site (MLS) is a serious threat to groundwater integrity.This current research characterized leachate from Solous <br />Landfill Site and assessed the groundwater quality at ...
Reference: International Journal of Chemical Engineering and Applications, Vol. 3, No. 6, December 2012
The purpose of this report is to provide a brief review of selected concepts, assumptions, and uncertainties related to estimating areas contributing recharge to wells.
Filed under: Geology -  Hydrogeology
Reference: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1174, 14 p
A common feature of civil engineering design is the ""french drain"", a trench intended to intercept and collect groundwater and transfer it laterally to a sump. The environmental marketplace ahs created a larger demand for these drains for the purpose of ...
Reference: Slurry Walls: Design, construction and Quality Control, ASTM STP 1129
This paper presents a construction method, the bio-polymer slurry drainage trench, which is a modification of the well known slurry trench method which uses biodegradable trenching slurry to temporarily support the trench walls and control trench width.
Reference: Hazardous Materials Control Research Institute Superfund '90
This paper presents a bio-polymer slurry used, instead of bentonite slurry to temporarily to support the trench walls without structural bracing. Upon completion of backfilling, the slurry in the trench was chemically reduced to water and simple sugars to ...
Reference: National water well association outdoor action conference, Nevada, 1988
An investigation was conducted at a site in Greenville County, South Carolina which detected contaminants in the groundwater. It was then decided that remedial action was required. The contaminants and their location in the groundwater led to the selection ...