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APPLICATION OF FATE AND TRANSPORT MODELING TO THE REMEDIAL DECISION MAKING PROCESS – INTRODUCTION TO WORKSHOP
Citation:
WILSON, J. T. APPLICATION OF FATE AND TRANSPORT MODELING TO THE REMEDIAL DECISION MAKING PROCESS – INTRODUCTION TO WORKSHOP. Presented at Air and Waste Management Conference, Brownsfield, WV, September 26, 2006.
Impact/Purpose:
To inform the public.
Description:
The conventional site conceptual model for Brownfield sites considers that the extent of plumes of aromatic petroleum hydrocarbons (such as the BTEX compounds) in ground water are limited by natural biodegradation of the aromatic hydrocarbons by bacteria that use oxygen, nitrate and sulfate as an electron acceptor. Screening models conventionally used at Brownfield sites model the interaction as occurring in plan two-dimensional space. At many sites, the interaction does control the extent of the plume, but the interaction is in vertical two-dimensional space. Conventional monitoring wells can not be used to collect data that properly depict the interaction of aromatic hydrocarbons and soluble electron acceptors.