Assessment of the contamination of drinking water supply wells by pesticides from surface water resources using a finite element reactive transport model and global sensitivity analysis techniques

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 476, Issue , 2013, Pages 321-331

  Malaguerra, Flavio ^a   Albrechtsen, Hans Jørgen ^a   Binning, Philip John ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Pesticides; Pumping well; Sensitivity analysis; Surface water groundwater interaction

Indexed keywords

AQUITARDS; CONFINED AQUIFERS; DEGRADATION PROCESS; DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; DENMARK; FINITE ELEMENT; GEOLOGIC SETTINGS; GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; GLYPHOSATES; MODEL PARAMETERS; MORRIS METHOD; PERSISTENT COMPOUNDS; PUMPING WELL; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELS; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SURFACE WATER-GROUNDWATER INTERACTION; TRACER EXPERIMENT; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS; WATER CONCENTRATIONS; WELL DEPTH;

AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; DEGRADATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HERBICIDES; HYDROGEOLOGY; PESTICIDES; POTABLE WATER; RIVER POLLUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SORPTION; WATER WELLS;

SURFACE WATERS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GLYPHOSATE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION EFFECT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATER; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY; WELL;

DENMARK;

EID: 84871007080     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.11.010     Document Type: Article

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