Το work with title Evaluation of the potential for the natural attenuation of hexavalent chromium within a sub-wetland ground water by Nikolaidis Nikolaos, Lucas A Hellerich, Gregory M Dobbs is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bibliographic Citation
Hellerich L.A., N.P. Nikolaidis and G.M. Dobbs, "Evaluation of the potential for the natural attenuation of hexavalent chromium within a sub-wetland ground water" Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 1513-1524, Oct. 2008. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.07.032
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.07.032
In this work, the potential for natural attenuation (NA) of Cr(VI) is evaluated for sub-wetland ground water at a chromium-contaminated site in Connecticut, incorporating the experimental findings of previous work at the site. Experimental data is assessed through long-term attenuation capacity calculations and modeling, which incorporates statistical uncertainty of parametric values. The NA evaluation yielded the following results: (1) Significant increases in Cr(VI) concentration and extremely long chromium source dissolution timeframes are required to exceed the attenuation capacity of the sub-wetland region soils studied in this work; and (2) Based on the 1-D transport modeling and incorporating input parameter uncertainty, there is an approximately 92% and 98% probability that the applicable regulatory criteria will not be exceeded at Point C, near a river which serves as the receptor, for the cases of (1) sorption of Cr(VI) only and (2) pseudo first order disappearance of Cr(VI) from the aqueous phase only, respectively.