Groundwater Engineering

Groundwater Engineering: A Technical Approach to Hydrogeology, Contaminant Transport and Groundwater Remediation

This textbook employs a technical and quantitative approach to explain subsurface hydrology and hydrogeology, and to offer a comprehensive overview of groundwater-related topics such as flow in porous media, aquifer characterization, contaminant description and transport, risk assessment, and groundwater remediation. It describes the characterization of subsurface flow of pristine and polluted water and provides readers with easily applicable tools for the design of water supply systems, drinking-water source protection, and remediation interventions. Specific applications range from groundwater exploitation as a drinking water supply to the remediation of contaminated aquifers, from the definition and safeguarding of drinking-water sources to the assessment of human health risks in connection with groundwater contamination events.

The book represents an ideal learning resource for upper-undergraduate and graduate students of civil engineering, environmental engineering, and geology, as well as practitioners in the fields of water resource management and environmental protection who are interested in groundwater engineering and technical hydrogeology.

Table of contents :

Front Matter ….Pages i-xxi
Basic Concepts (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 1-25
The Groundwater Flow Equation (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 27-32
Analytical Solutions of the Groundwater Flow Equation (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 33-53
Aquifer Characterization (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 55-112
Well Testing (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 113-125
Optimization of a Water Supply System (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 127-136
Aquifer Vulnerability and Contamination Risk (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 137-159
Well Head Protection Areas (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 161-168
Groundwater Contaminants (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 169-192
Mechanisms of Contaminant Transport in Aquifers (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 193-217
The Mass Transport Equations (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 219-223
Analytical Solutions to the Differential Equation of Mass Transport for Conservative Solutes (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 225-237
Analytical Solutions of the Differential Equation of Mass Transport for Reactive Solutes (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 239-247
Transport of Immiscible Fluids (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 249-262
Characterization of a Contamination Event (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 263-299
Human Health Risk Assessment (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 301-329
Remediation of Contaminated Groundwater (Rajandrea Sethi, Antonio Di Molfetta)….Pages 331-409
Back Matter ….Pages 411-439