A review of groundwater contamination near municipal solid waste landfill sites in China

Z Han, H Ma, G Shi, L He, L Wei, Q Shi - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Landfills are the most widely used method for municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal method
in China. However, these facilities have caused serious groundwater contamination due to …

A critical review of data on field‐scale dispersion in aquifers

LW Gelhar, C Welty, KR Rehfeldt - Water resources research, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
A critical review of dispersivity observations from 59 different field sites was developed by
compiling extensive tabulations of information on aquifer type, hydraulic properties, flow …

Biogeochemistry of landfill leachate plumes

TH Christensen, P Kjeldsen, PL Bjerg, DL Jensen… - Applied …, 2001 - Elsevier
The literature has been critically reviewed in order to assess the attenuation processes
governing contaminants in leachate affected aquifers. Attenuation here refers to dilution …

Environmental impacts of solid waste landfilling

M El-Fadel, AN Findikakis, JO Leckie - Journal of environmental …, 1997 - Elsevier
Inevitable consequences of the practice of solid waste disposal in landfills are gas and
leachate generation due primarily to microbial decomposition, climatic conditions, refuse …

A natural gradient experiment on solute transport in a sand aquifer: Spatial variability of hydraulic conductivity and its role in the dispersion process

EA Sudicky - Water resources research, 1986 - Wiley Online Library
The spatial variability of hydraulic conductivity at the site of a long‐term tracer test performed
in the Borden aquifer was examined in great detail by conducting permeability …

Non-agricultural sources of groundwater nitrate: a review and case study

FT Wakida, DN Lerner - Water research, 2005 - Elsevier
Nitrate is often seen as an agricultural pollutant of groundwater and so is expected to be at
higher concentrations in the groundwaters surrounding a city than in those beneath it …

Contemporary environmental issues of landfill leachate: assessment and remedies

S Mukherjee, S Mukhopadhyay… - Critical reviews in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Landfills are the primary option for waste disposal all over the world. Most of the landfill sites
across the world are old and are not engineered to prevent contamination of the underlying …

Attenuation of landfill leachate pollutants in aquifers

TH Christensen, P Kjeldsen… - Critical reviews in …, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
Landfill leachate contains a variety of pollutants that may potentially contaminate the ground
water and affect the quality of surface waters and well waters. The literature has been …

A natural gradient experiment on solute transport in a sand aquifer: 2. Spatial moments and the advection and dispersion of nonreactive tracers

DL Freyberg - Water Resources Research, 1986 - Wiley Online Library
The three‐dimensional movement of a tracer plume containing bromide and chloride is
investigated using the data base from a large‐scale natural gradient field experiment on …

A natural gradient experiment on solute transport in a sand aquifer: 1. Approach and overview of plume movement

DM Mackay, DL Freyberg, PV Roberts… - Water Resources …, 1986 - Wiley Online Library
A large‐scale field experiment on natural gradient transport of solutes in groundwater has
been conducted at a site in Borden, Ontario. Well‐defined initial conditions were achieved …