Viral transport in a sand and gravel aquifer under field pumping conditions.
Ground Water
; 39(6): 886-94, 2001.
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ABSTRACT
Ground water supplies contaminated with microbes cause more than 50% of the water-borne disease outbreaks in the United States. Proposed regulations suggest natural disinfection as a possible mechanism to treat microbe-impacted ground water under favorable conditions. However, the usefulness of current models employed to predict viral transport and natural attenuation rates is limited by the absence of field scale calibration data. At a remote floodplain aquifer in western Montana, the bacteriophages MS2, phiX174, and PRD1; attenuated poliovirus type-1 (CHAT strain); and bromide were seeded as a slug 21.5 m from a well pumping at a steady rate of 408 L/min. Over the 47-hour duration of the test, resulting in the exchange of 12 to 13 pore volumes, 77% of the bromide, 55% of the PRD1, 17% of the MS2, 7% of the phiX174, and 0.12% of the poliovirus masses were recovered at the pumping well. Virus transport behavior was controlled by mechanical dispersion, preferential flow, time-dependent nonreversible and reversible attachment, and apparent mass transfer to immobile domains within the sand and gravel dominated aquifer. The percentage of virus recovery appears correlated with reported viral isoelectric point (pI) values. Successful modeling of viral transport in coarse-grained aquifers will require separation of viral specific properties from reported lumped viral-transport system parameters.
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Assunto principal:
Vírus
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Microbiologia da Água
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Movimentos da Água
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Abastecimento de Água
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Modelos Teóricos
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Ground Water
Assunto da revista:
SAUDE AMBIENTAL
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TOXICOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2001
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos