groundwater containment Articles
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The naturally occurring carcinogen ptaquiloside (PTA) is present in groundwater below bracken vegetation
The present study demonstrates unequivocally the presence of the natural carcinogen ptaquiloside and its transformation product pterosin B in groundwater and surface water. Groundwater concentrations up to 0.23 nmol/L (92 ng/L) ptaquiloside and up to 2.2 nmol/L (0.47 µg/L) pterosin B were found. Five of 21 groundwater samples contained ptaquiloside exceeding the estimated threshold for ...
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Case study - Reactive barrier wall project update
Reactive Barrier Wall solves space and on-going activity problems during remediation project “Name Removed”, was contracted to install a passive reactive barrier wall in “Name Removed”. The wall was designed to remediate groundwater containing tetrachloroethylene (TCE). What made this job unique was the site location. Installation would occur in an operating commercial ...
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Application of coupled zero-valent iron/biochar system for degradation of chlorobenzene-contaminated groundwater
A novel iron-carbon micro-electrolysis system, bamboo-derived biochar coupled with zero-valent iron (ZVI), was investigated for chlorobenzene (CB)-contaminated groundwater removal. Influences of initial pH value, mass ratio of the ZVI/Biochar, initial CB concentration and ionic strength of the ZVI/Biochar micro-electrolysis were studied. The results indicated that the increase of initial pH ...
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Confidential Client - Environmental Remediation Project - Delray Beach, Florida
Levine Fricke Engineers (LFE), an environmental firm under contract to Blackstone Consultants LLC (Blackstone), was responsible for specifying and selecting a cleanup remedy for a former contaminated nursery site located in Delray Beach, Florida. LFE and Blackstone performed site characterization and demonstrated that site groundwater contained very high arsenic concentrations. ...
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Subsurface iron and arsenic removal: low-cost technology for community-based water supply in Bangladesh
The principle of subsurface or in situ iron and arsenic removal is that aerated water is periodically injected into an anoxic aquifer through a tube well, displacing groundwater containing Fe(II). An oxidation zone is created around the tube well where Fe(II) is oxidised. The freshly formed iron hydroxide surfaces provide new sorption sites for soluble Fe(II) and arsenic. The system's efficiency ...
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Biological active groundwater filters: exploiting natural diversity
In the Netherlands, biological trickling filters without chemical pre-oxidation are generally applied to treat anaerobic groundwater, containing methane, iron, ammonium and manganese. Previous research showed that all compounds can be removed in one filter step and that not only the ammonia oxidation (by nitrification), but also the iron oxidation is often a biological process, despite oxygen ...
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Continuous treatments of synthetic groundwater by an
in situ denitrification and oxidation process with injection of electrolytic hydrogen and oxygenLong-term continuous treatments of synthetic groundwater containing 15.06 ± 0.55 mg-N/L nitrate were conducted using an in situ denitrification and oxidation process under different operating conditions. In the experiments, electrolytic hydrogen and oxygen were injected upstream and downstream in a laboratory-scale aquifer, respectively, and measurements were made for nitrate, nitrite, ...
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Membrane contactors (NDSX and EPT): an innovative alternative for the treatment of effluents containing metallic pollutants
This work presents an overview of membrane–based solvent extraction technologies using membrane contactors as an innovative alternative for the remediation of effluents containing metallic pollutants. The discussion is focused on the description of Non–Dispersive Solvent Extraction (NDSX) and Emulsion Pertraction Technologies (EPTs). Three case studies are reported to demonstrate the viability of ...
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Elevated and variable groundwater iron in rural northwestern Bangladesh
Over the past 30 years, tubewells have become a ubiquitous source of potable groundwater in South Asia. Considered safer than surface water, groundwater naturally contains minerals that may impact human health; however, few data exist on tubewell water mineral content or its association with human nutritional or health conditions. We surveyed iron concentration in tubewell water across a 435 km2, ...
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Microbiological assessment of private groundwater-derived potable water supplies in the Mid-West Region of Ireland
Determining the likelihood that groundwater contains faecal coliforms can aid water resource management in facilitating the protection of drinking water supplies. This study assesses the incidence of the faecal indicator organism Escherichia coli in 125 private water supplies (PWSs) serving individual houses in the Mid-West Region of Ireland. Two factors, aquifer type and rainfall (mm), were ...
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Determinants of the use of alternatives to arsenic-contaminated shallow groundwater: an exploratory study in rural West Bengal, India
Shallow groundwater containing toxic concentrations of arsenic is the primary source of drinking water for millions of households in rural West Bengal, India. Often, this water also contains unpleasant levels of iron and non-negligible fecal contamination. Alternatives to shallow groundwater are increasingly available, including government-built deep tubewells, water purchased from ...
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Treating drinking water with 99% removal - Case Study
QED E-Z Tray® Air Stripper Treating Drinking Water with 99% Removal in Cedarburg, Wisconsin In October 2011, the Cedarburg, Wisconsin Light and Water Utility installed a QED E-Z Tray® (U.S. Patent Number 5,518,668) Air Stripper in a discreet addition to their existing production pump building. The E-Z Tray 72.6 handles a flow rate of 600 gpm and treats groundwater containing vinyl ...
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Project - Continuous LNAPL monitoring under tidal conditions - Former petrochemical site, UK
Client: Environmental Consultant Site Area: 0.3HA Location: Former Petrochemical Site Challenge Geostream UK was contracted to provide detailed information on the thickness of Light Non Aqueous Phase Liquid (LNAPL) on a site situated next to an estuary. Redundant for over a decade, the site had previously been used to store petroleum products and there were multiple groundwater monitoring ...
By Geostream UK
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Child-education program for the reduction of health risks due to fluoride in water sources in the Chiang Mai Basin, Thailand
Groundwater is the major source of drinking water in Lamphun Province in the Chiang Mai Basin, Thailand. However, groundwater contains high fluoride up to 16 mg F/L, which has caused dental and skeletal fluorosis. Although Thai Government installed RO membrane plants for the removal of fluoride from groundwater; and delivers RO-filtered bottled water that contains less fluoride than the Thai ...
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The effect of human activities on the pollution of water in southwest Giza area, Egypt
Southwest Giza area is one of the most complicated regions in Egypt because of the combination of agricultural, industrial and urbanization activities with few studies about water resources contamination with heavy metals. In this study, ten surface water samples and eight groundwater samples were collected and analyzed for pollution with Fe, Mn, As, Cr, Cd, Pb and Cu. The samples were ...
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Treament of Hydrogen Sulfide (H2s)
This gas is often found in groundwater that contains iron and manganese. It is easily identified by its "rotten egg" odor. In addition to causing serious taste and odor problems, sulfide also promotes the growth of sulfur bacteria. Hydrogen sulfide can cause corrosion problems with iron and concrete pipes and reservoirs. Sulfides are formed by the anaerobic reduction of sulfates and organic ...
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Fluoride removal from drinking water by adsorption using bone char as a biosorbent
As a biomass material, bone char was investigated for the feasibility to be used as a cost-effective biosorbent for fluoride removal from drinking water in groundwater environment. Based on the batch tests with natural tourmalin and active alumina being the reference adsorbents, bone char has demonstrated a higher fluoride adsorption capacity. This capacity was found to increase with the increase ...
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More efficient alkalisation with ground limestone in groundwater treatment
Most Finnish groundwater must be alkalised before use as municipal drinking water because it is corrosive. The corrosiveness is due to low pH and softness of water. Groundwater also often contains aggressive carbon dioxide (CO2), so there is more free CO2 than is required to keep calcium and hydrogen carbonate in solution. The most popular alkalisation method in the past was addition of sodium ...
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Breakthrough studies with mono-, binary- and ternary-ion systems comprised of Fe(II), F− and As(III) using river sand packed columns for groundwater treatment
Groundwater in Assam, India, contains excessive amounts of arsenic (As(III)), fluoride (F−) and iron (Fe(II)). The rural and semi-urban population of Assam uses indigenous iron filters fabricated using processed sand (PS) as one of the chief constituents to reduce Fe(II) concentration; however, no efforts have been made to reduce As(III) or F− concentrations before use. The ...
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Technology for treatment of groundwater simultaneously containing iron, manganese, ammonium and organic matter
The groundwater used as drinking water often contains unacceptable amounts of iron and manganese compounds and ammonium ions. These substances are efficiently removed using conventional technologies (aeration and filtration through granular media filters). However, the efficiency is drastically reduced for water containing considerable amounts of organic matter, which usually enters the water ...
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