new approach for groundwater detection monitoring at landfills

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NEW APPROACH FOR GROUNDWATER DETECTION MONITORING AT LINED LANDFILLS N. Buket YENiGüL1 ,a , Amro M.M. ELFEKI 2 ,c and Cees van den AKKER 1,b 1 Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Water Resources Section, TU Delft, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands. Fax:+31-15-2785915 a Corresponding author. e- mail address: [email protected] b e- mail address: [email protected] 2Department of Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Faculty of Meteorology, Environment and Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80208, Jeddah 21589, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. e-mail address: [email protected] c On leave from Irrigation and Hydraulics Dept., Faculty of Engneering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.

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Page 1: New Approach for Groundwater Detection Monitoring at Landfills

NEW APPROACH FOR GROUNDWATER DETECTION

MONITORING AT LINED LANDFILLS

N. Buket YENiGüL1,a, Amro M.M. ELFEKI 2,c and Cees van den AKKER 1,b

1 Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Water Resources Section, TU Delft, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands. Fax:+31-15-2785915

a Corresponding author. e- mail address: [email protected] b e- mail address: [email protected]

2Department of Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Faculty of Meteorology, Environment and Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz

University, P.O. Box 80208, Jeddah 21589, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. e-mail address: [email protected]

c On leave from Irrigation and Hydraulics Dept., Faculty of Engneering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.

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Average contaminated area as a function of distance from the source for selected monitoring systems for conventional

monitoring approach:

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System reliability as a function of distance from the source for a 3-well monitoring system for the proposed monitoring

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Average contaminated area as a function of distance from the source for a 3-well monitoring system for the proposed

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Influence of the pumping rate on (a) detection probability of a 3-well system

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Influence of the pumping rate on (b) average contaminated area.

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Comparison of the conventional and the proposed monitoring approaches (pumping rate = 100 l/day) in terms

of reliability “in heterogeneous medium”: (a) transverse dispersivity, T = 0.01 m, and

(b) transverse dispersivity, T = 0.03 m.

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Comparison of the conventional and the proposed monitoring approaches (pumping rate = 100 l/day) in terms

of the average contaminated area “in homogenous medium”:

(a) transverse dispersivity, T = 0.01 m and (b) transverse dispersivity, T = 0.03 m.

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Comparison of the conventional and the proposed monitoring approaches (pumping rate = 100 l/day) in terms

of the average contaminated area “in homogenous medium”: (a) transverse dispersivity, T = 0.01 m and (b)

transverse dispersivity, T = 0.03 m.

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Comparison of the conventional and the proposed monitoring approaches (pumping rate = 100 l/day) in terms

of the average contaminated area “in heterogeneous medium”: (a) transverse dispersivity, T = 0.01 m and (b)

transverse dispersivity, T = 0.03 m.

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Expected cost as a function of number of wells in a monitoring system for transverse dispersivity, T = 0.03 m:

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