Abstract
The Buenavista shallow aquifer, in Leon central Mexico is polluted with hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI). The soil and groundwater contamination by it has a significant problem in this area, which must be studied given the importance that represents the shallow aquifer for the drinking water supply at the local level. The real system state of the wells and piezometers in the Buenavista shallow aquifer was revised to design a scheme of P&T and select the sites, wells number and pumping flow most appropriate for the system. The best well location and pumping flow was chosen to capture and reduce the Cr(VI) groundwater concentration. A remediation strategy based on P&T system has been designed by the mathematical approximation optimization simulation (O/S) and a single period of planning, it was used as a tool to identify the sites appropriate to extract Cr(VI) contaminated groundwater, they have the potential to reduce Cr(VI) concentrations with an actual cost for remediation. The strategy was built using a simulation-optimization tool, combining the answer function with a genetic algorithm.
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Reyes-Gutiérrez, L.R., Rodríguez-Castillo, R., Romero-Guzmán, E.T. (2012). Remediation Strategy for a Cr(VI) Polluted Aquifer Using Numerical Simulation. In: Klapp, J., Cros, A., Velasco Fuentes, O., Stern, C., Rodriguez Meza, M. (eds) Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Fluid Dynamics. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17958-7_13
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