Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Book chapters |
| Title (Primary) | Groundwater-surface water interactions at the contaminated mega-site Bitterfeld, Germany |
| Title (Secondary) | Groundwater quality: securing groundwater quality in urban and industrial environments |
| Author | Kalbus, E.; Schmidt, C.; Molson, J.W.; Reinstorf, F.; Schirmer, M. |
| Publisher | Trefry, M.G. |
| Source Titel | IAHS Publication |
| Year | 2008 |
| Department | ENVINF; HDG |
| Volume | 324 |
| Page From | 491 |
| Page To | 498 |
| Language | 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. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=1080 |
| 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 |
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