Ground-Water Solute-Transport Simulation

Ground-Water solute-transport simulation modeling is an important tool that aids in the analysis of ground-water contamination problems, both actual and potential. Accidental spills, leakage, and waste disposal operations can lead to ground-water contamination. The ability to analyze and predict the movement of solutes in ground-water systems is necessary to assess the effects of a contamination situation or properly design a waste-disposal operation. Laboratory experiments are essential to understanding geochemical reactions in the field and for obtaining the necessary reaction coefficients and rate constants used in transport models. Simulation modeling also is used to compare alternative strategies for aquifer reclamation. In some cases, the transported component of interest is thermal energy. Heat transport simulation is useful in the analysis of geothermal systems, waste heat storage systems, and some deep aquifer systems. Project objectives are to develop and apply new analytical, quasi-analytical, and numerical techniques to the field of saturated ground-water solute-transport simulation modeling; develop mathematical representations of solute-porous medium interactions and chemical reactions and develop and apply efficient algorithms for numerical calculation; apply analytical and numerical simulation modeling to laboratory and field-scale situations, both actual and experimental; and evaluate accuracy of laboratory experiments for predicting geochemical behavior of solutes in the field.For additional information, see project's home page

REPORTS PUBLISHED 1999-2008

Welch, A.H., Stollenwerk, K.G., Paul, A.P., Maurer, D.K., and Halford, K.J., 2008, In situ arsenic removal in an alkaline clastic aquifer: Applied Geochemistry, v. 8, p. 2477-2495. (on-line abstract of journal article)

Kipp, Jr., K.L., Hsieh, P.A., and Charlton, S.R., 2008, Guide to the revised ground-water flow and heat transport simulator: HYDROTHERM -- Version 3: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 6-A25, 160 p. (on-line abstract or on-line report in pdf format, 3 MB)

McMahon, P.B., Böhlke, J.K., Kauffman, L.J., Kipp, K.L., Landon, M.K., Crandall, C.A., Burow, K.R., and Brown, C.J., 2008, Source and transport controls on the movement of nitrate to public supply wells in selected principal aquifers of the United States , Water Resources Research, Vol. 44 (W04401, doi:10.1029/2007WR006252), p. 1-17. (on-line abstract or on-line article in pdf format, 1157 KB, published by the American Geophysical Union, not subject to U.S. copyright

Reddy, M.M., Reddy, M.B., Kipp, K.L., Burman, A., Schuster, P.F., and Rawlik, P.S., 2008, Peat porewater chloride concentration profiles in the Everglades during wet/dry cycles from January 1996 to June 1998—field measurements and theoretical analysis: Hydrological Processes, v. 22, p. 1713-1724. (on-line abstract or on-line article in pdf format, 244 KB, published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, as a US Government work in the public domain)

Bhattacharya, P., Welch, A.H., Stollenwerk, K.G., McLaughlin, M.J., Bundschuh, J., and Panaullah, G., eds., 2007, Arsenic in the Environment: Biology and Chemistry—Arsenic in the Environment Special Issue : The Science of the Total Environment, v. 379, issues 2 and 3, p.109-266. (on-line journal issue)

Bhattacharya, P., Welch, A.H., Stollenwerk, K.G., McLaughlin, M.J., Bundschuh, J., and Panaullah, G., 2007, Arsenic in the environment, Biology and Chemistry, Editorial: Arsenic in the Environment, Biology and Chemistry—Arsenic in the Environment Special Issue, The Science of the Total Environment, v. 379, p. 109-120. (on-line abstract of journal article)

Stollenwerk, K.G., Breit, G.N., Welch, A.H., Yount, J.C., Whitney, J.W., Foster, A.L., Uddin, M.N., Majumder, R.K., and Ahmed, N., 2007, Arsenic attenuation by oxidized aquifer sediments in Bangladesh: Arsenic in the Environment, Biology and Chemistry -Arsenic in the Environment Special Issue, The Science of the Total Environment, v. 379, p. 133-150. (on-line abstract of journal article)

Welch, A.H., Stollenwerk, K.G., Breit, G.N., Foster, A.L., Yount, J.C., Whitney, J.W., Uddin, M.N., Alam, M.M., and Islam, M.S., 2006, Attenuation of arsenic in Bangladesh sediments—Implications for ground-water development, in Naidu, R., Smith, E., Owens, G., Bhattacharya, P., and Nadebaum, P., eds., Managing arsenic in the environment - From soil to human health: Collingwood, Australia, CSIRO Publishing, p. 363-377.

Kipp, K.L., Hsieh, P.A., Hayba, D.O., and Ingebritsen, S.E., 2005, HYDROTHERM: A simulator of two-phase ground-water flow and heat transport: International Ground Water Modeling Center Newsletter, v. 23, no. 3, p. 3.

Rousseau, J.P., Landa, E.R., Nimmo, J.R., Cecil, L.D., Knobel, L.L., Glynn, P.D., Kwicklis, E.M., Curtis, G.P., Stollenwerk, K.G., Anderson, S.R., Bartholomay, R.C., Bossong, C.R., and Orr, B.R., 2005, Review of the transport of selected radionuclides in the interim risk assessment for the Radioactive Waste Management Complex, Waste Area Group 7 Operable Unit 7-13/14, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5026, 283 p. in 2 volumes. (on-line volume 1 (text) in pdf format, 2.4 MB or on-line volume 2 (figures) in pdf format, 3.3 MB)

Seiler, R.L., Stollenwerk, K.G., and Garbarino, J.R., 2005, Factors controlling tungsten concentrations in ground water, Carson Desert, Nevada: Applied Geochemistry, v. 20, p. 423-441. (on-line abstract or on-line journal article in pdf format, 917 kb, published by Elsevier Ltd, not subject to copyright transfer)

Nimmo, J.R., Rousseau, J.P., Perkins, K.S., Stollenwerk, K.G., Glynn, P.G., Bartholomay, R.C., and Knobel, L.L., 2004, Hydraulic and geochemical framework of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory vadose zone: Vadose Zone Journal, v. 3, p. 6-34. (on-line abstract)

Parkhurst, D.L., Kipp, K.L., Engesgaard, Peter, and Charlton, S.R., 2004, PHAST--A program for simulating ground-water flow, solute transport, and multicomponent geochemical reactions: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 6-A8, 154 p. (on-line abstract or on-line report in pdf format, 2.1 MB)

Stollenwerk, K.G., and Colman, J.A., 2004, Natural remediation of arsenic contaminated ground water associated with landfill leachate: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2004-3057. (on-line fact sheet)

Hurwitz, S., Kipp, K.L., Ingebritsen, S.E., and Reid, M.E., 2003, Groundwater flow, heat transport, and water table position within volcanic edifices: Implications for volcanic processes in the Cascade Range: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 108, no. B12, p. 1-1 to 1-19. (on-line abstract)

Parkhurst, D.L., Stollenwerk, K.G., and Colman, J.A., 2003, Reactive-transport simulation of phosphorus in the sewage plume at the Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4017, 33 p. (on-line abstract or report in pdf format - 2.4MB)

Stollenwerk, K.G., 2003, Geochemical processes controlling transport of arsenic, in Welch, A.H., and Stollenwerk, K.G., eds., Arsenic in Ground Water: Geochemistry and Occurrence: Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 67-100.

Stollenwerk, K.G., and Colman, J.A., 2003, Natural remediation potential of arsenic-contaminated ground water, in Welch, A.H., and Stollenwerk, K.G., eds., Arsenic in Ground Water: Geochemistry and Occurrence: Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 351-380.

Welch, A.H., and Stollenwerk, K.G., 2003, In situ arsenic remediation in a fractured, alkaline aquifer in Welch, A.H., and Stollenwerk, K.G., eds., Arsenic in Ground Water: Geochemistry and Occurrence: Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 403-420.

Welch, A.H., and Stollenwerk, K.G., eds., 2003, Arsenic in Ground Water: Geochemistry and Occurrence: Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 475 p. (on-line information about book and contents link)

Anderman, E.R., Kipp, K.L., Hill, M.C., Valstar, J., and Neupauer, R.M., 2002, Modflow-2000, the U.S. Geological Survey modular ground-water model -- Documentation of the model-layer variable-direction horizontal anisotropy (LVDA) capability of the hydrogeologic-unit flow (HUF) package: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-409, 61 p.

Mason, J.L., and Kipp, Jr., K.L., 2002, Investigation of hydrology and solute transport, Bonneville Salt Flats, Northwestern Utah, in Gwynn, J.W., ed., Great Salt Lake: an Overview of Change: Special Publication of the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Salt Lake City, Utah, Utah Geological Survey, p. 423-432.

Parkhurst, D.L., and Kipp, K.L., 2002, Parallel processing for PHAST--a three-dimensional reactive-transport simulator, in Hassanizadeh, S.M., Schlotting, R.J., Gray, W.H., and Pinder, G.F., eds., Computational Methods in Water Resources: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Elsevier, Developments in Water Science 47, v. 1, p. 711-718.

Christensen, F.D., Engesgaard, P., and Kipp, K.L., 2001, A reactive transport investigation of seawater intrusion experiment in a shallow aquifer, Skansehage, Denmark: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Saltwater Intrusion and Coastal Aquifers, Essaouira, Morocco, April 23-25, 2001.

Parkhurst, D.L, Thorstenson, D.C., and Kipp, K.L., 2000, Calculating carbon-isotope compositions in an unsaturated zone with seasonally varying CO2 production, in Wang, Yanzin, ed., Proceedings of the International Symposium on Hydrogeology and the Environment: October 17-21, Wuhan, Peoples Republic of China, p. 220-224.

LeBlanc, D.R., Hess, K.M., Kent, D.B., Smith, R.L., Barber, L.B., Stollenwerk, K.G., and Campo, K.W., 1999, Natural restoration of a sewage plume in a sand and gravel aquifer, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program - A Proceeding of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, p. 245-260. (on-line abstract)

Stollenwerk, K.G., and Parkhurst, D.L., 1999, Modeling the evolution and natural remediation of a ground-water sewage plume, in Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program - A Proceeding of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, p. 371-381. (on-line abstract)

Walter, D.A., LeBlanc, D.R., Stollenwerk, K.G., and Campo, K.W., 1999, Phosphorus transport in sewager-contaminated ground water, Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program - A Proceeding of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, p. 305-316. (on-line abstract)

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PROJECT, CONTACT:
Kenneth L. Kipp
U.S. Geological Survey, P.O. Box 25046, ms413, Denver Federal Center, Lakewood, CO
Internet: klkipp@usgs.gov
Telephone: 303-236-4991