Contaminant Hydrogeology, 3rd Edition

Tremendous progress has been made in the field of remediation technologies since the second edition of Contaminant Hydrogeology was published two decades ago, and its content is more important than ever. Recognizing the extensive advancement and research taking place around the world, the authors have embraced and worked from a larger global perspective. Boving and Kreamer incorporate environmental innovation in studying and treating groundwater/soil contamination and the transport of those contaminants while building on Fetter’s original foundational work.

Thoroughly updated, expanded, and reorganized, the new edition presents a wealth of new material, including new discussions of emerging and potential contaminant sources and their characteristics like deep well injection, fracking fluids, and in situ leach mining. New sections cover BET and Polanyi adsorption potential theory, vapor transport theory, the introduction of the Capillary and Bond Numbers, the partitioning interwell tracer testing technique for investigating NAPL sites, aerial photographic interpretation, geophysics, immunological surveys, high resolution vertical sampling, flexible liner systems, groundwater tracers, and much more.

Contaminant Hydrogeology is intended as a textbook in upper level courses in mass transport and contaminant hydrogeology, and remains a valuable resource for professionals in both the public and private sectors.

Titles of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Charbeneau, Groundwater Hydraulics and Pollutant Transport (ISBN 9781577664796); Dingman, Physical Hydrology, Third Edition (ISBN 9781478611189); Gupta, Hydrology and Hydraulic Systems, Fourth Edition (ISBN 9781478630913); and Manning, Applied Principles of Hydrology, Third Edition (ISBN 9781478634195).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Mass Transport in Saturated Media
Chapter 3: Transformation, Retardation, and Attenuation of Solutes
Chapter 4: Flow and Mass Transport in the Vadose Zone
Chapter 5: Multiphase Flow
Chapter 6: Inorganic Chemicals in Groundwater
Chapter 7: Organic Compounds in Groundwater
Chapter 8: Site Characterization—Groundwater and Soil Monitoring
Chapter 9: Site Remediation
Appendix A: Error Function Values
Appendix B: Bessel Functions
Appendix C: W(tD, B) Values
Appendix D: Exponential Integral
Appendix E: Unit Abbreviations