Persistent source influences on the trailing edge of a groundwater plume, and natural attenuation timeframes: The F-Area Savannah River Site

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4490-4497

  Wan, Jiamin ^a   Tokunaga, Tetsu K ^a   Dong, Wenming ^a   Denham, Miles E ^b   Hubbard, Susan S ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SAVANNAH RIVER NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN DRAINAGE; DEEP BOREHOLES; GROUNDWATER PLUMES; MIXING MODELS; NATURAL ATTENUATION; NATURAL RECHARGE; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; PLUME DYNAMICS; SAVANNAH RIVER SITES; SOURCE ZONE; TIME-DEPENDENT; TRAILING EDGES; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; VADOSE ZONE;

IMPURITIES; REMEDIATION; TRITIUM;

GROUNDWATER;

GROUND WATER; NITRATE; RADIOISOTOPE; TRITIUM;

BOREHOLE LOGGING; CAPPING; DILUTION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NATURAL ATTENUATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERSISTENCE; PLUME; PREDICTION; RADIONUCLIDE; RECHARGE; REMEDIATION; SEEPAGE; TRITIUM; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; DILUTION; DYNAMICS; PLUME; PREDICTION; RIVER; SAVANNA; THEORETICAL MODEL; WASTE WATER;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRATES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SOUTH CAROLINA; TRITIUM; URANIUM; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

SAVANNAH RIVER SITE; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859835915     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es204265q     Document Type: Article

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