Sensitivity analysis of groundwater contamination caused by immobilized gasoline hydrocarbons
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Authors
Kirk, Marcia W. O.
Issue Date
1987
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
Keywords
Hydrology , Hydrogeology , Contaminant Transport , Gasoline , Ground-water , Modeling , Solute Transport Model , Parametric Sensitivity Analysis , Boundary Conditions , Vadose zone , Solute Transport , Benzene , Seftran , Mackay Theses and Dissertations Grant Collection
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Abstract
The potential threat of immobilized gasoline in the vadose zone to groundwater resources is evaluated using a two-dimensional solute transport model. A parametric sensitivity analysis identified the ranking order of most important transport parameters. A conservative prediction of benzene transport shows a long term threat to groundwater resources located a half mile down-gradient from the contamination source.
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Publisher
University of Nevada, Reno
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In Copyright(All Rights Reserved)