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Name: paula carey Reply to Ad Date Posted: 08/25/2004
Water quality is a key indicator of the need for or success of contaminated land remediation programmes and as such students need to understand the controls water quality and techniques of remediation. A knowledge of groundwater is also of vital importance in the safe design of civil engineering projects. This course aims to address the implications that contaminated land has on the hydrologic cycle and the use of water quality objectives to evaluate both the results of remediation and pre-remediation conditions and to provide an introduction to and the importance of surface water and groundwater in civil engineering projects. Indicative Content:The water cycle and conducting a water balance; the occurrence of groundwater; assessment of groundwater conditions; relationship between the mechanics of groundwater seepage and permeability and storage coefficient; flow nets and computer modelling;; control of groundwater using deep wells,well testing and the determination of permeability of aquifers mechanisms of ground contamination and methods of remediation. Definition of water quality and how water quality criteria are developed and implemented. The difference between water quality criteria and priority pollutant tests. The use of water quality models including geochemical equilibria models for the analysis of water quality data. Problems of rising water tables.
