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Titel (primär) Groundwater-surface water interactions at the contaminated mega-site Bitterfeld, Germany
Titel (sekundär) Groundwater quality: securing groundwater quality in urban and industrial environments
Autor Kalbus, E.; Schmidt, C.; Molson, J.W.; Reinstorf, F.; Schirmer, M.
Herausgeber Trefry, M.G.
Quelle IAHS Publication
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
Department ENVINF; HDG
Band/Volume 324
Seite von 491
Seite bis 498
Sprache englisch
Keywords groundwater–surface-water interactions; groundwater temperature; thermal transport modelling; heterogeneity
Abstract More than a century of mining and industrial activities has resulted in large-scale groundwater contamination at the mega-site Bitterfeld, Germany. Contaminated groundwater is discharging to the local streams and poses a long-term threat to the stream ecosystems. A small man-made stream was investigated in detail to determine water and contaminant mass fluxes from the aquifer to the stream. Various measuring methods were applied to gain insight into the controlling factors of the exchange flows, including direct-push hydrostratigraphic profiling, integral pumping tests, and streambed temperature mapping. A flow and heat transport model using HEATFLOW was set up to investigate the influence of subsurface heterogeneity on the groundwater–surface-water interactions. The simulations were completed using stochastically-generated hydraulic conductivity fields, which were calibrated with streambed temperature data. The study shows that heat can be a useful tool to explore interactions between groundwater and surface water.
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Kalbus, E., Schmidt, C., Molson, J.W., Reinstorf, F., Schirmer, M. (2008):
Groundwater-surface water interactions at the contaminated mega-site Bitterfeld, Germany
In: Trefry, M.G. (ed.)
Groundwater quality: securing groundwater quality in urban and industrial environments
IAHS Publ. 324
International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), Wallingford, Oxfordshire, p. 491 - 498