Università Roma Tre

1. Introduction
- The issue of environmental matrix contamination and its impact on water resource quality
- Sources of contamination
- Classification of contaminants: chemical, physical, and toxicological aspects
2. Transport of Non-Reactive Substances in the Saturated Zone
- Review of flow equations in saturated media
- Solute transport: mechanisms and mathematical modeling
- Introduction to stochastic models
3. Transport of Reactive Substances in the Saturated Zone
- Classification of chemical reactions
- Adsorption of water-soluble compounds
- Adsorption of hydrophobic compounds
- Homogeneous reactions
- Radioactive decay
- Biodegradation
4. Transport of Substances in the Unsaturated Zone
- Review of flow equations
- Transport of non-reactive solutes
- Transport of reactive solutes: ADE and Mobile-Immobile models
5. Multiphase Flow
- Relative permeability and Darcy’s law for multiphase flow
- DNAPL and LNAPL: behavior and environmental implications
6. Coastal Aquifers
- Introduction to the problem of coastal aquifer salinization
- Equations for variable-density flow modeling
- Evaluation of the saltwater wedge using simplified approaches (e.g., SWI)
7. Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Aquifers
- Methods for assessing the quantitative status of an aquifer
- Methods for assessing the chemical status of an aquifer
8. Monitoring and Sampling
- Environmental matrix sampling techniques
Design of a monitoring and sampling system
9. Remediation and Site Cleanup
- Source control and remediation techniques
- Plume containment and cleanup strategies
10. Human Health Risk Assessment
- Risk models (EPA): carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic
11. Aquifer Vulnerability
- Index and overlay models for aquifer vulnerability assessment

Practical Exercise
Development of a numerical model to simulate a contamination event and the remediation of a polluted site.

- Groundwater Engineering, Rajandrea Sethi and Antonio Di Molfetta, Springer Science & Business Media, 2019
- Contaminant Hydrogeology: C. W. Fetter, Thomas Boving, David Kreamer,  Waveland Press, 2017