Estimates of vadose zone drainage from a capped seepage basin, F-area, savannah river site

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Tokunaga, Tetsu K ^a   Wan, Jiamin ^a   Denham, Miles E ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SAVANNAH RIVER NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE RATE; GEOLOGICAL SETTING; GROUND-WATER QUALITIES; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINANT PLUME; GROUNDWATER MONITORING; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGH WATER; MONITORED NATURAL ATTENUATION; PLUME BEHAVIOR; SAVANNAH RIVER; SAVANNAH RIVER SITES; SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE; TIME-SCALES; TWO-COMPARTMENT MODELS; VADOSE ZONE; WASTE SOLUTION;

AQUIFERS; CESIUM; ESTIMATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; IMPURITIES; ISOTOPES; RIVERS; SEEPAGE; STRONTIUM; TRITIUM; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER QUALITY;

CATCHMENTS;

DRAINAGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIONUCLIDE; SEEPAGE; TIMESCALE; VADOSE ZONE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTEWATER;

SAVANNAH RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859832159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2011.0131     Document Type: Article

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