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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
General notions of Hydrogeology
Objectives
Contents Theory and practice of Hydrogeology Applied to the management, protection, monitoring and treatment of groundwater.
Extended Syllabus - Review of Elements of Hydrogeology.
- Use of tracers in hydrogeology.
- Hydrodynamic of Wells:
Steady state (Dupuit theory).
Steps test.
Transient state (Theis theory; Jacob, Hantush – Jacob and Neuman theories).
Curve slope.
Examples and exercises on the various methods.
- Hydrogeology of unsaturated zone.
- Groundwater pollution.
- Remediation and decontamination of groundwater.
- Management of coastal aquifers.
Relationship fresh water – salt water;
Ghibern Herzberg’s relation.
- Groundwater protection:
vulnerability, hazard and risk;
static and dynamic protection of wells and springs.
- Artificial recharge of groundwater (hints on).
- Interactions between groundwater and engineering works.
- Outline of Mathematical Modeling in Hydrogeology (hints on).
- Water uses. Agricultural, civil and industrial.
- The laws on groundwater.
- Outline of low-enthalpy geothermal (hints on).
- Hydrogeological cartography with national and international examples.
- Seminars and thematic analysis conducted by experts.
- Cases history and tutorials.
Recommended Bibliography Basic:
- G. Pranzini: Le acque sotterranee / Pitagora Editrice
- Lecture notes
Alternatively:
- M. Civita: Idrogeologia Applicata e Ambientale / CEA
For further details and updates:
G.P. Beretta: Idrogeologia per il disinquinamento delle acque sotterranee / Pitagora Ed. Bologna.
- L. Bonomo: Bonifica dei siti contaminati / McGraw-Hill.
- M. Civita: Le carte della vulnerabilità degli acquiferi all’inquinamento / Pitagora Ed. Bologna.
- E. Custodio & M.R. Llamas: Idrologia sotterranea Vol. 1 e 2 / Dario Flaccovio Editore
Methods of Provision
Teaching Methods Lectures, tutorials and excursions
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The assessment of learning will be oral and will consist in the exposition, with the greatest possible detail, of a topic among those treated in class. In addition, the description of a remediation technique may be requested.