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Ground Water Contamination: Transport and Remediation [Paperback]

Philip B. Bedient (Author), Hanadi S. Rifai (Author), Charles J. Newell (Author)

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This text addresses the scientific and engineering aspects of subsurface contaminant transport, analysis, and modeling as well as remediation in ground water. It offers a modern engineering approach to ground water contamination problems of the nineties and beyond.

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State-of-the-art theory and practice of groundwater contamination, mitigation, and remediation

Ground Water Contamination, Second Edition is a thorough update to the leading book on groundwater contamination and remediation for scientists and engineers. Written from both a theoretical and practical viewpoint, this edition focuses on the critical new challenges facing professionals seeking to prevent, mitigate, or remediate groundwater problems -- especially today's highly-complex transport problems.

Detailed new coverage includes a full chapter on sorption, biodegradation, and natural attenuation processes; extensive new coverage of risk assessment; and the results of major field studies on several military and Superfund sites. The book reflects increased concern about source zone areas with non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs), residual oils, vapors in the unsaturated zone, gasoline spills which float on the water table, and chlorinated solvent spills which sink to the bottom of aquifers. Coverage includes:

  • Detailed coverage of analytical and numerical methods
  • Extensive case studies and field research from military and Superfund sites
  • Waste site characterization and remedial design
  • Emerging remediation methods, including surfactant and co-solvent soil flushing

The new edition includes access to programs and worksheets for Microsoft Excel via the World Wide Web, and contains an extensive set of revised homework problems and solutions for topics such as groundwater flow, well mechanics, and contamination transport. Ground Water Contamination, Second Edition is an essential resource for all hydrogeologists, civil and environmental consulting engineers, and other professionals concerned with groundwater contamination and remediation. It is ideally designed for use in the college classroom.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Please, the errors! The errors! 30 Nov 2000
By Dan Klinger - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
If I can speak for myself and my classmates,

We have taken a graduate level contaminant groundwater class at one of the City University of New York branches throughout the last semester. As a group of students that actually read through books and work out problem sets that are provided, we were baffled to see all of the typographical, graphical, and equation errors that abound throughout. How can a book that is supposed to be used by people in groundwater professions not have a scientific editor go through it with a fine toothed comb? In this case, any comb would have been adequate to spot the errors. At a certain level in the sciences, professionals turn to reference texts that will aid them through certain problems. Equations that are crucial for modeling contaminant transport are definitely not made for memorization. Unfortunately, this book has fundamental problems with these equations and will never be part of my professional library. We thought we ran into a short barrier when we found errors in the beginning of the class. We then realized that we were to be plagued by grotesque errors throughout. Save your ninety dollars and buy something by Fetter. Or at least burn this when you are done highlighting and correcting. Better yet, wait for the revised third edition.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
It works for me 30 Jan 2001
By Ken Rainwater - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I teach a graduate course in groundwater contaminant transport each year, and I have used several texts in the last 15 years. The latest edition of Bedient et al. is the best current overall reference for this course. Few texts mention characterization and remediation at the same level of detail, and this text has the most complete presentation of analytical transport solutions with problems that demonstrate their use. In my course I stress application of computer modeling tools (which I must provide separately), but this text provides a fine foundation to my students' physical and chemical understanding of the available models.
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I switched from our own text to this more current version 3 Jan 2001
By David Sabatini - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I teach a course at the University of Oklahoma on the topic of this text. Actually, colleagues and I published a now outdated text on the same subject in the early 90s. I compared this text with other available texts and selected it to replace our own volume. While not perfect (what textbook is) I found this revised edition to be a valuable introduction to the subject. I liked the way it covers not only the fundamental processes governing fate and transport but also has sections discussing the applied aspects of the subject (remediation, characterization, etc.). The authors have taken great effort to make sure the updated version is very current -- I can especially speak to this in the specific areas of my research. Admittedly, I did supplement the text in certain areas, but I do this with every class I teach (and did it with our own text). And different professors supplement on different topics in keeping with their personal interests. Based on my experience with the text, and feedback from students, I definitely plan to use it again.

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