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Pollutants, Volume 1, Issue 2

June 2021 - 3 articles

Cover Story: In several parts of the world, the groundwater table is rising. This issue creates a concern for the management of urban and agricultural environments. This work demonstrates that the groundwater table rising poses a potential threat around industrialized area, as it can mobilize contaminants that are currently locked within the vadose zone. A mechanistic numerical model is developed to evaluate how dichloroethylene plumes can form in a shallow aquifer near Naples (Italy) where the groundwater table rising has been observed to exceed 16 m since the 1990s. The model suggests that peaks of contaminant concentrations are well correlated to the highest stages of the fluctuating water table. The transport model provides a suitable tool to reoptimize existing mitigating solutions to prevent solute spreading from the polluting source. View this paper.

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71 Citations

12,732 Views

24 Pages

Microplastics in the Aquatic Environment—The Occurrence, Sources, Ecological Impacts, Fate, and Remediation Challenges

Nhamo Chaukura,
Kebede K. Kefeni,
Innocent Chikurunhe,
Isaac Nyambiya,
Willis Gwenzi,
Welldone Moyo,
Thabo T. I. Nkambule,
Bhekie B. Mamba and
Francis O. Abulude

Pollutants2021, 1(2), 95-118;https://doi.org/10.3390/pollutants1020009

18 June 2021

Microplastics are discharged into the environment through human activities and are persistent in the environment. With the prevalent use of plastic-based personal protective equipment in the prevention of the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the concent...

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Investigating the 2017 Erratic Fishkill Episode in the Jhelum River, Kashmir Himalaya

Irfan Rashid,
Mohmmad Irshad Rather and
Shabir A. Khanday

Pollutants2021, 1(2), 87-94;https://doi.org/10.3390/pollutants1020008

12 May 2021

Globally, the frequency of fishkill episodes is increasing, owing to natural and human-induced modification of aquatic ecosystems. A massive fishkill took place on 22 October 2017 along an approximately 1.5 km stretch of the Jhelum River in Srinagar...

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Model-Based Analysis of the Link between Groundwater Table Rising and the Formation of Solute Plumes in a Shallow Stratified Aquifer

Simone Varisco,
Giovanni Pietro Beretta,
Luca Raffaelli,
Paola Raimondi and
Daniele Pedretti

Pollutants2021, 1(2), 66-86;https://doi.org/10.3390/pollutants1020007

23 April 2021

Groundwater table rising (GTR) represents a well-known issue that affects several urban and agricultural areas of the world. This work addresses the link between GTR and the formation of solute plumes from contaminant sources that are located in the...

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