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Removal of Arsenic Using a Cationic Polymer Gel Impregnated with Iron Hydroxide
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Process-based reactive transport model to quantify arsenic mobility during aquifer storage and recovery of potable
Ilka Wallis1, Henning Prommer, Thomas Pichler
1School of the Environment, Flinders University, Adelaide, GPO Box 2100, SA 5001, Australia. ilka.wallis@csiro.au
Abstract:
Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) is an aquifer recharge technique in which water is injected in an aquifer during periods of surplus and withdrawn from the same well during periods of deficit. It is a critical component of the long-term water supply plan in various regions, including Florida, USA. Here, the viability of ASR as a safe and cost-effective water resource is currently being tested at a number of sites due to elevated arsenic concentrations detected during groundwater recovery. In this study, we developed a process-based reactive transport model of the coupled physical and geochemical mechanisms controlling the fate of arsenic during ASR. We analyzed multicycle hydrochemical data from a well-documented affected southwest Floridan site and evaluated a conceptual/numerical model in which (i) arsenic is initially released during pyrite oxidation triggered by the injection of oxygenated water (ii) then largely complexes to neo-formed hydrous ferric oxides before (iii) being remobilized during recovery as a result of both dissolution of hydrous ferric oxides and displacement from sorption sites by competing anions.
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