Daily Objectives #28                                                                                         Dr. Sanders
(April 25, 2002)

By the end of today’s class, you should be able to do the following:

* List the major groups of ground water contaminants and describe their nature and common sources.

* Describe the major groups of organic contaminants based on their volatility, solubility, mobility, chemical structure, and industrial uses.

* Describe each of the mechanisms that determine how contaminants move in ground water (advection, mechanical dispersion, diffusion, retardation, decay).

* Be able to respond appropriately to situations like the following: "Some ground water is contaminated.  You're going to install some monitoring wells to find out how bad the situation is.  Where will you put the wells?  How deep should they be?  How large should they be?  How long should the screened portion (intake) be?  It's your first day on the job, and the drillers are waiting for you to tell them where to start drilling.  What will you do?"

The course evaluation will be conducted today, as well as a final assessment.

Updated April 23, 2002.