Groundwater Monitoring and Sustainable Remediation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Pollution Prevention, Mitigation and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2022) | Viewed by 330
Special Issue Editors
2. Tracer Technologies Labs, Waterloo, ON N2V1K4, Canada
Interests: stable isotopes; Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis (CSIA); bioremediation; natural attenuation; groundwater and soil remediation
Interests: hydrogeology; stable isotopes; nitrate and ammonium contamination; groundwater management; groundwater age-dating
Interests: natural and enhanced bioremediation; contaminated site characterization; biomolecular tools; science communication
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable groundwater remediation is intended as a remedy, or combination of remedies, the benefits of which are maximized through a discreet use of resources while minimizing environmental and social impacts.
Sustainable groundwater remediation necessarily starts with a diligent selection of the remedy (i), hence mitigating the possibility of extending timing and resource consumption with inappropriate technologies, before it develops following an oriented monitoring-based approach to take actions to improve efficiency or to re-modulate specific aspects of the initial remedy design (ii). The overall planning should consider a clear and communicative–effective approach, to demonstrate the whole treatment performance, including a simulation and prediction of how and when the expected environmental target will be achieved.
All these aspects are intimately derived by tailored characterization and monitoring plans, which necessarily entail dedicated tools in addition to the determination of contaminant concentration by itself. While traditional monitoring data such the target contaminant concentration focuses mainly on compliance aspects, innovative monitoring tools allow key aspects to be taken into consideration such as, among others, the origin of the contaminants, the localization of the sources, the presence of proper conditions and bacterial communities for biodegradation same as the occurrence of natural attenuation processes. These tools will serve also to monitor the evolution of the remedy in terms of, for example, bacterial community response to the applied sustainable remediation.
This Special Issue focuses primarily on monitoring tools which are much needed and help to build a more realistic conceptual model aimed, firstly, to achieve a better sustainable remedy selection, the same as at the monitoring of its progress, and to better evaluate and predict the efficacy during implementation.
Particular emphasis will be given to papers applying multidisciplinary monitoring approaches, including for example high-resolution characterizations techniques, stable isotopes, particularly Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis (CSIA), microbiological techniques, such as determination of the presence and concentration of functional genes, and specific species, and also reactive transport modeling, useful in simulating and predicting remedies behaviors.
We invite the submission of contributions that highlight best practices in groundwater-site characterization and monitoring within sustainable remediation actions. We welcome original research papers, case studies, and critical reviews.
Dr. Massimo Marchesi
Dr. Mariachiara Caschetto
Dr. Ilaria Pietrini
Dr. Tatiana Stella
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- groundwater monitoring
- sustainable remediation
- stable isotopes
- molecular biology technique
- high-resolution site characterization
- reactive transport modeling
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