Contaminant Hydrogeology, EEES 6440

Fall Semester, 2001

Instructor Class

Dr. James Martin-Hayden Place: Bowman-Oddy 3045

Office: 3034 Bowman-Oddy Time: Tu, Th 11:00-12:15pm

Telephone: 530-2634 (let it ring for voice mail) Credits: 3 hrs

Office Hours: M, Tu, W 12:15-1:00 (or by appointment)

Course Objective: An introduction to: 1) fundamentals of transport and fate of contamination in the subsurface; 2) terminology of the field of contaminant hydrogeology; 3) applications of hydrogeology and geochemistry to contaminant characterization, transport, transformation, degradation, and remediation; and 4) modeling contaminant transport in order to perform computations to assess, predict, and remediate of groundwater contamination.

Texts:

Required: Physical and Chemical Hydrogeology, Second edition. P.A. Domenico and F.S. Schwartz, John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Reference: Applied Hydrogeology, Applied Hydrogeology, 3rd. ed. by C.W. Fetter, Macmillan College Publishing, Inc. (or other introductory hydrogeology text)

Good Reading: A Civil Action, 1995, J. Harr, Random House. (now a major motion picture!)

Grading: Homework/quizzes 30%, Two exams 20% each, Final exam 30%

Course Schedule:

Week Topic

1 Introduction to contaminant hydrogeology

2 Source conditions and contaminant classification

3 Contaminant concentration and analysis and presentation of contaminant data

4 Diffusion, mechanical dispersion and hydrodynamic dispersion

5 Transport modeling (Exam 1: Tuesday, Oct. 2)

6 Transport modeling (continued)

7 Stochastic hydrogeology

8 Sorption and retardation processes

9 Sorption and retardation modeling

10 Reaction and degradation processes (Exam 2: Tuesday, Nov. 6)

11 Reaction and degradation modeling

12 Multiphase Flow

13 Contamination investigations

14 Contaminant remediation (Thanksgiving Break)

15 Remediation (cont.)

Final Exam: Tuesday, December 20, 10:15-12:15, BO-3045