Assessing contaminant migration pathways and vertical gradients in a low-permeability aquifer using multilevel borehole systems

Land Contamination and Reclamation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 699-711

  Dumble, Peter ^a   Fuller, Max ^a,b   Beck, Paul ^c,e   Sojka, Paul ^d  

^a Waterra (UK) Limited   (United Kingdom)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Solinst Canada Ltd   (Canada)

^d Worcestershire County Council   (United Kingdom)

^e Jacques Whitford Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Borehole; Gas; Groundwater; Landfill; Leachate; Long screened; Low permeability; Mercia Mudstone; Methane; Migration; Monitoring; Multilevel; Vertical gradients

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; BOREHOLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROCHEMISTRY; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; METHANE; PERMEABILITY; VERTICAL MIGRATION; WATER LEVEL;

EID: 33746870725     PISSN: 09670513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2462/09670513.698     Document Type: Article

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