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Reactive transport modeling for supporting climate resilience at groundwater contamination sites

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Reactive transport modeling for supporting climate resilience at groundwater contamination sites
المؤلفون: Z. Xu, R. Serata, H. Wainwright, M. Denham, S. Molins, H. Gonzalez-Raymat, K. Lipnikov, J. D. Moulton, C. Eddy-Dilek
المصدر: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol 26, Pp 755-773 (2022)
بيانات النشر: Copernicus Publications, 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: LCC:Technology
LCC:Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
LCC:Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
LCC:Environmental sciences
مصطلحات موضوعية: Technology, Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering, TD1-1066, Geography. Anthropology. Recreation, Environmental sciences, GE1-350
الوصف: Climate resilience is an emerging issue at contaminated sites and hazardous waste sites, since projected climate shifts (e.g., increased/decreased precipitation) and extreme events (e.g., flooding, drought) could affect ongoing remediation or closure strategies. In this study, we develop a reactive transport model (Amanzi) for radionuclides (uranium, tritium, and others) and evaluate how different scenarios under climate change will influence the contaminant plume conditions and groundwater well concentrations. We demonstrate our approach using a two-dimensional (2D) reactive transport model for the Savannah River Site F-Area, including mineral reaction and sorption processes. Different recharge scenarios are considered by perturbing the infiltration rate from the base case as well as considering cap-failure and climate projection scenarios. We also evaluate the uranium and nitrate concentration ratios between scenarios and the base case to isolate the sorption effects with changing recharge rates. The modeling results indicate that the competing effects of dilution and remobilization significantly influence pH, thus changing the sorption of uranium. At the maximum concentration on the breakthrough curve, higher aqueous uranium concentration implies that sorption is reduced with lower pH due to remobilization. To better evaluate the climate change impacts in the future, we develop the workflow to include the downscaled CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project) climate projection data in the reactive transport model and evaluate how residual contamination evolves through 2100 under four climate Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenarios. The integration of climate modeling data and hydrogeochemistry models enables us to quantify the climate change impacts, assess which impacts need to be planned for, and therefore assist climate resiliency efforts and help guide site management.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1027-5606
1607-7938
Relation: https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/26/755/2022/hess-26-755-2022.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/1027-5606; https://doaj.org/toc/1607-7938
DOI: 10.5194/hess-26-755-2022
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/aa4c3410ec314ef693650e946df9754b
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.4c3410ec314ef693650e946df9754b
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:10275606
16077938
DOI:10.5194/hess-26-755-2022