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http://dx.doi.org/10.9719/EEG.2021.54.2.247

Numerical Simulation of Water Table Drawdown due to Groundwater Pumping in a Contaminated Aquifer System at a Shooting Test Site, Pocheon, Korea

Kihm, Jung-Hwi (Department of Fire and Disaster Prevention, Jungwon University)
Hwang, Gisub (GNS Engineering, Co. Ltd.)

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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.54, no.2, 2021 , pp. 247-257 More about this Journal

Abstract

The study area has been contaminated with explosive materials and heavy metals for several decades. For the design of the pump and treat remediation method, groundwater flow before and during groundwater pumping in a contaminated aquifer system was simulated, calibrated, and predicted using a generalized multidimensional hydrological numerical model. A three-dimensional geologic formation model representing the geology, hydrogeology, and topography of the aquifer system was established. A steady-state numerical simulation with model calibration was performed to obtain initial steady-state spatial distributions of groundwater flow and groundwater table in the aquifer system before groundwater pumping, and its results were illustrated and analyzed. A series of transient-state numerical simulations were then performed during groundwater pumping with the four different pumping rates at a potential location of the pumping well. Its results are illustrated and analyzed to provide primary reference data for the pump and treat remediation method. The results of both steady-state and transient-state numerical simulations show that the spatial distribution and properties of the geologic media and the topography have significant effects on the groundwater flow and thus depression zone.

Keywords

contaminated aquifer system; groundwater pumping; groundwater drawdown; pumping and treat remediation; numerical simulation;

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