Groundwater Contamination from Landfills

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GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION FROM LANDFILLS

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MODELS

To start investigating groundwater contamination from landfills, a good model needs to be developed. The computer modeling package for sale Groundwater Modeling System on this home page might do the trick, and make you the envy of your co-workers. I've used a couple of different computer generated models, such as MODFLOW and GRAPHIC GROUNDWATER and they are adequate to handle most groundwater modeling problems.

RESEARCH

Collecting and sampling groundwater data can be:

time consuming
expensive and
burdensome.

To cut down on cost and time it is worth while to investigate groundwater data that already exists. Here are several good places to start:

TOOLS

Besides data, your going to need:

some good detailed current maps. One place you might find a current maps is in Digital Geospatial Maps For further information contact any ESIC or call 1-800-USA-MAPS
a good educational background. You can sign up for some classes by looking at this ftp document. Groundwater modeling coarses using GIS
some photographs for your report. You can buy some photographs at this location USGS photographs for sale some have never even been published.
some technical references so that you can figure everything out. book sales
If the following steps are not followed you may get a mess like this Department of Interior Mess

REFERENCES

The following HTML document is a bibliography of Water Resources reports from California from 1993. Bibliography on Water Resources in California

Here are two articles on a specific subject matter Sewage Contamination or CFC's, Tools for age dating and tracing shallow groundwater here is a list of 26 abstracts that deal with leachate from 1987 to 1994.leachate abstracts

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