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Quantitative Dye-Tracing of Karst Ground-Water Flow

by James Smoot, US Geological Survey, United States,
Donald Mull, US Geological Survey, United States,
Timothy Liebermann, US Geological Survey, United States,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Environmental Engineering

Abstract:

Analysis of the results of repeat quantitative dye traces between a sinkhole and a spring used for public water supply were used to describe predictive relations between discharge, mean travel time, apparent ground-water flow velocity and solute transport characteristics. Normalized peak concentration, mean travel time, and standard deviation of travel times were used to produce a dimensionless, composite type curve that was used to produce a dimensionless, composite type curve that was used to simulate solute transport characteristics for selected discharges. Using this curve and previously developed statistical relations, a water manager can estimate the arrival time, peak concentration, and persistence of a soluble contaminant at a supply spring or well based on discharge and the quantity of spilled contaminant.

Subject Headings: Water discharge | Water supply systems | Groundwater flow | Water supply | Water quality | Water pollution | Fluid flow

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