A risk assessment tool for contaminated sites in low-permeability fractured media

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 124, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 82-98

  Chambon, Julie C ^a   Binning, Philip J ^a   Jørgensen, Peter R ^b   Bjerg, Poul L ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Geoteknisk Institut   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Analytical solutions; Discrete fracture; Equivalent porous media; Fractured media; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CHLORINATED SOLVENT; CONTAMINATED SITES; DISCRETE FRACTURE; DISCRETE FRACTURES; EQUIVALENT POROUS MEDIA; FIELD DATA; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FRACTURE PARAMETER; FRACTURED MEDIA; LONG TERM; LONG TERM MONITORING; LOW PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIA; RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL; SHORT DURATIONS; SOURCE GEOMETRY;

BENZENE; FRACTURE; POROUS MATERIALS; RATING;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

BENZENE; GROUND WATER; PESTICIDE; SOLVENT; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BENZENE; CONTAMINATED LAND; FRACTURED MEDIUM; MTBE; PESTICIDE; POROUS MEDIUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLVENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CHLORINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DISCRETE FRACTURE TOOL; EQUIVALENT POROUS MEDIA; FIELD STUDY; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSPORT MEDIUM; WATER POLLUTION;

BENZAMIDES; BENZENE; METHYL ETHERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PESTICIDES; POROSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOLVENTS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 79955910895     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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