Any case studies I may use? We are currently involved in a project of setting guidelines for using tracers in groundwater/aquifer studies for SA.
However, following my research I still cannot get to the allowable or acceptable amounts to be used when performing tracer tests. Especially amounts that will meet drinking standards. In what amount do tracers become harmful to the environment or animals/aquatic life and humans when introduced into water?
This study is based on groundwater and covers: water temperature, solid particulates, ions, isotopes, organic dyes, gases and CFCs. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hello! Perhaps the following publications and additonal websites might be of some assistance to you:
Environmental Isotopes in the Hydrologic Cycle: Principles and Applications
[Volume IV, Groundwater ](MOOK, 2000)
http://www.hydrology.nl/images/docs/ihp/Mook_IV.pdf
Tracers and Tracer Testing: Design, Implementation, and Interpretation Methods
(SHOOK et al., 2004)
http://www.inl.gov/technicalpublications/Documents/2603379.pdf
Ozark Underground Laboratory’s Groundwater Tracing Handbook (ALEY, 2002)
http://www.ozarkundergroundlab.com/Downloads/Groundwater%20Tracing%20Handbook.pdf
Additional websites:
Environmental Isotopes in the Hydrologic Cycle: Principles and Applications
[Volumes 1 – 6] (MOOK, 2000 – 2001)
http://www.hydrology.nl/ihppublications/149-environmental-isotopes-in-the-hydrological-cycle-principles-and-applications.html
Field Sampling Procedures for Surface and Groundwater (US EPA, Region 9)
http://www.epa.gov/region9/qa/fieldsamp.html
Guidance Manuals for Groundwater Investigations (Cal EPA)
http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/sitecleanup/ground_water_investigations.cfm
Thank you a lot for all your valuable sent articles C. Mei-Ling Hamilton. It will help me greatly on this research.
You are quite welcome! I wish you much success in your current research endeavour.
check out
Butcher, A.S., Griffiths, K., Lapworth, D., Humpage A., Burke, S. 2009. Investigation of rising nitrate concentrations in groundwater in the Eden Valley, Cumbria: Estimating Recharge Rates Through Glacial Till Using An Applied Tracer Technique. British Geological Survey Technical Report, OR/09/059.
Several researchers from my institute have performed tracer tests at the Krauthausen test site in Germany. See the paper at the link below and references therein. To get permission from the water authorities to inject these tracers, they requested model simulations to ensure that the tracer would be sufficiently diluted at the nearest extraction well that they operated. Of course, such model simulations are necessarily quite simplistic. I guess we assumed a homogeneous aquifer with a hydraulic conductivity derived from pumping tests.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248808983_Imaging_and_characterization_of_solute_transport_during_two_tracer_tests_in_a_shallow_aquifer_using_electrical_resistivity_tomography_and_multilevel_groundwater_samplers?ev=prf_pub
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