RECOVERY: A Contaminated Sediment-Water Interaction Model |
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Authors: | Carlos E Ruiz Nadim M Aziz Paul R Schroeder |
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Institution: | (1) U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, CEERD-EP-W, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199, USA;(2) Department of Civil Engineering, Clemson University, 110 Lowry Hall, Clemson, SC 29634-0911, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper describes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers screening-level water quality model (RECOVERY version 3.0) for assessing long-term impacts of contaminated bottom sediments on surface waters. The model couples contaminant interaction between the water column and the bottom sediment, as well as between contaminated and clean bottom sediments. The analysis is intended primarily for organic contaminants with the assumption that the overlying water column is well mixed vertically. The contaminant is assumed to follow linear, reversible, equilibrium sorption and first-order decay kinetics. The system is physically represented as a well-mixed water column (i.e., zero-dimensional) underlain by a vertically-stratified sediment column (i.e., one-dimensional). The sediment is well-mixed horizontally but segmented vertically into a well-mixed surface (active) layer and deep sediment. The deep sediment is segmented into variably contaminated and clean sediment regions. Processes incorporated in the model are sorption, decay, volatilization, burial, resuspension, settling, bioturbation, and pore-water diffusion. The solution couples contaminant mass balance in the water column and in the mixed sediment layer along with diffusion in the deep sediment layers. The model was verified against laboratory and field data, as well as against an analytical solution for the water and mixed sediment layers. These comparisons indicate that the model can be used as an assessment tool for evaluating remediation alternatives for contaminated bottom sediments. |
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Keywords: | contaminated sediments modeling natural attenuation RECOVERY sediment quality water quality |
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