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GROUND WATER HYDROLOGY: Properties of ground water -- Ground water movement -- General flow equations -- Dupuit equation -- Streamlines and equipotential lines -- Unsaturated flow and water table -- GROUND WATER FLOW AND WELL MECHANICS: Steady-state well hydraulics -- Unsteady well hydraulics -- SOURCES AND TYPES OF GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION: Underground storage tanks -- Landfills -- Surface impoundments -- Waste disposal injection wells -- Septic systems -- Agricultural wastes -- Land application -- Radioactive contaminants -- Other sources of contamination -- Classification of organic compounds -- Inorganic compounds in ground water -- DATA-COLLECTION METHODS / Robert S. Lee -- Geologic data acquisition -- Hydrologic data acquisition -- Acquisition of soil and ground water quality -- CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT MECHANISMS: Advection processes -- Diffusion and dispersion processes -- Mass-transport equations -- One-dimensional models -- Governing flow and transport equations in two dimensions -- Two-dimensional modeling -- Semianalytical methods -- Tests for dispersivity -- Natural gradient field tests for dispersion. SOPRTION AND OTHER CHEMICAL REACTIONS: The concept of sorption -- Factors influencing sorption -- Sorption isotherms -- Hydrophobic theory for organic contaminants -- Soprtion effects on fate and transport of pollutants -- Estimation of sorption -- Redox reactions -- Hydrolysis -- Volatilization -- Acid-base reactions -- Ion exchange -- Dissolution and precipitation of solids -- Complexation reactions -- Chemistry of metals -- Radioactive isotopes -- Models incorporating chemical reactions -- BIODEGRADATION REACTIONS AND KINETICS: Biological transformations -- Biological activity in subsurface materials -- Microbial dynamics -- Kinetics of biodegradation -- Field studies of natural attenuation -- Modeling biodegradation -- FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN THE UNSATURATED ZONE: Capillarity -- Soil-water characteristic curves -- Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity -- Governing equation for unsaturated flow -- Measurement of soil properties -- Infiltration models -- Transport processes in the unsaturated zone -- Vadose zone flow and transport models -- NUMERICAL MODELING OF CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT: Numerical methods -- Finite difference methods -- Finite element methods -- Method of characteristics (MOC) -- Numerical flow models -- Numerical transport models -- Applying numerical models to field sites -- NONAQUEOUS-PHASE LIQUIDS: Types of NAPLs -- NAPL transport: general processes -- NAPL Transport: computational methods -- Fate of NAPLs in the subsurface -- Characterizing NAPLs at remediation sites -- HYDROGEOLOGIC SITE INVESTIGATIONS: Development of conceptual site model -- General strategy for soil and ground water contamination studies -- Development of a detailed site investigation workplan -- Data evaluation procedures -- Case studies / John A. Connor, P.E.