Mass transport modelling to assess contamination of a water supply well in Sabarmati river bed aquifer, Ahmedabad City, India

Environmental Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 893-900

  Gurunadha Rao, V V S ^a   Gupta, S K ^b  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Dry river bed; Flow model; French collector well; Groundwater velocity; Mass transport; Pathlines; Sabarmati river; Tracer

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; EFFLUENTS; GROUNDWATER; MASS TRANSFER; POTABLE WATER; RIVERS; SEWAGE; WATER QUALITY;

DRY RIVER BED; GROUNDWATER VELOCITY; MASS TRANSPORT MODELLING; PATHLINES; WATER SUPPLY WELL;

WATER WELLS;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER; MASS TRANSPORT; MODELING; WATER SUPPLY;

INDIA;

EID: 0034213488     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002549900037     Document Type: Article

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