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CIV_ENV 355: Hydrogeology and Subsurface Contamination


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Description

Applied aspects of subsurface properties and their impact on flow, and transport including: Darcy's law, parameter determination, aquifer test analysis, geotechnical parameters, contaminant transport, analytical and numerical modeling, and the current state of practice in remedial engineering strategies and techniques.

Topics

Basic Hydrology and Geology, Darcy’s Law, Flow Equations, Saturated Zone Properties, Flow Nets, Subsurface Access, Aquifer Testing, Vadose Zone Properties, Infiltration, Slopes and Stability, Dams, Tunnels, Subsidence, Basic Chemistry, Contaminant transport, Subsurface Characterization and Conceptual Models, Remedial Treatment Theory and Practice, Analytical and Numerical Modeling.

Project - Progressive Term Paper

Choose contaminant, research physical and chemical properties, develop subsurface conceptual model of its distribution, how it can be found and remediated. Emphasis on what it is and why we care about it.

Teaching

Two interactive Lectures per week

Evaluation Method

  • 20% HW
  • 25% Project
  • 25% Midterm
  • 25% Final
  • 5% Class Participation

Textbook

  1. Applied Hydrology, C.W. Fetter, ISBN 0-13-088239-9/2001/4th/Prentice Hall
  2. Open Access - Groundwater, Freeze and Cherry, 1979   http://hydrogeologistswithoutborders.org/wordpress/original-groundwater-by-freeze-and-cherry-1979-now-available-online/
  3. Other Supplemental Materials provided.
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