Course Objectives

The students will get knowledge about interaction between groundwater/surface water, groundwater contamination, mathematical modelling of groundwater flow and transport of contamination.

The students will learn

· the interaction between groundwater flow and surface water including the physics, the chemistry, the ecology

· how different contamination sources impact aquifers

· groundwater modelling by the finite difference method

· build, calibrate, and verify a model for flow between an aquifer and surface water using MODFLOW with the interface PMWIN

· modelling capture zones for wells

· build, calibrate, and verify a model for transport of a conservative tracer like chlorine

Course Description

· Aquifers, rivers and water balance

· Ground water flow modelling. Finite difference method

· Exercises in PMWIN

· Short field survey

· Modelling and simulating flow in effluent and influent aquifers

· Modelling capture zones for wells

· Sources of groundwater contamination

· Transport of groundwater contamination

· Modelling of contamination transport

Links:

http://www.mines.edu/igwmc/Colorado School of Mines
International Ground Water Modelling Centre Colorado 80401-1887, USAGolden,

http://water.usgs.gov/software/ground_water.html
USGS Ground-Water Software

http://www.epa.gov/safewater/
EPA Ground water and drinking water

http://www.ngwa.org/publication/gw/gw-menu.html
Journal of Ground Water

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503343/description#description
Journal of hydrology

http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/water/
Water policy in the European Union

http://www.who.int/en/
World Health Organization

http://www.euro.who.int/
World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe

Learning Methods

Lectures, field work, computer works

Assessment Methods

Students have to make a ground water flow model and a transport model. They shall express the water balance for the area, comment the flow and transport pattern and document the calibration of the models.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean