Syllabus
1. Introduction
2. Water quality, water law
3. Pollutants, their properties and sources
4. Contaminant sources and thein evaluation
5. Fuel and chlorinated hydrocarbons as contaminants
6. Transport processes in rock environment
7. Natural attenuation of organic and inorganic pollutants
8. Methods of contaminant sites investigation,
9. Risk assessment
10. Mathematical models of groundwater flow and mass transport
Annotation
Importance of groundwater protection in hydrogeology and environmental protection, history of groundwater protection and contaminant hydrogeology. Qualitative water standards, inorganic and organic compounds in groundwater, their sources and properties, migration and behavior of contaminants in geological environment
(saturated and unsaturated zone). Mathematical and other models of groundwater flow and contaminant behavior and transport. Main principles and methods of contaminant investigation, risk assessment