STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO

Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering

CIE 445/541: Spring, 1999

 

1999 schedule: Updated 3/25/99

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Date

Topic

Reading

Assignment

1

1/19

Introduction/definitions/ Darcy’s Law

DS 3; F 1

 

2

1/21

Contaminant properties

DS 17,19; F 3,7

 

3

1/26

Transport processes & equations

DS 10, 14

 

4

1/28

Storage, flow equation

DS 3,4; F 2

HW 1 Due

5

2/2

Radial flow to wells

DS 6; S 2

 

6

2/4

Interpretation of aquifer test data

DS 6; S 2

 

7

2/9

Risk assessment 1

DS 17; S 22

 

8

2/11

Site investigation, interpolation

HO

HW 2 Due

9

2/16

Modeling lab: intro to flow modeling

DS 21

 

10

2/18

Risk assessment 2

S 23

 

11

2/23

Heterogeneity, dispersion

DS 3, 10

 

12

2/25

NAPL Physics

DS 19; F 5; S 5

HW 3 Due

13

3/2

Group presentations

 

Project 1 Due

14

3/4

Midterm Exam

 

 

 

3/8-3/12

SPING BREAK

 

 

15

3/16

NAPL physics

DS 19; F 5

 

16

3/18

Overview of remediation

DS 20; F 9

 

17

3/23

Pump-and-treat: capture zone analysis

D 20; F 9

 

18

3/25

Pump-and-treat: mass removal

DS 20; F 9

HW 4 Due

19

3/30

Reactive walls

DS 21; F 9

 

20

4/1

Reactive walls

DS 21; F 9

 

21

4/6

Containment technology

DS 20; F 9

 

22

4/8

Containment technology

DS 20; F 9

HW 5 Due

23

4/13

Vapor extraction/sparging

DS 20; F 9

 

24

4/15

Bioremediation

DS 21; F 9

 

25

4/20

Bioremediation

DS 21; F 9

 

26

4/22

Emerging remediation technology

 

HW 6 Due

27

4/27

Group Presentations

 

 

28

4/30

Final Exam review

 

 

 

5/4

No class: Final Project Reports Due

DS = Domenico & Schwartz; F = Fetter (Contaminant hydrogeology)

HO = handout to be provided

S# = numbered reading from supplemental list