Granite fracturing and incipient pollution beneath a recent landfill facility as detected by geoelectrical surveys

Mota, R.; Santos, Fernando A. Monteiro; Mateus, António; Marques, F.O.; Gonçalves, Mário A.; Figueiras, Jorge; Amaral, Helena

doi:10.1016/j.jappgeo.2004.08.007

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“…8 to other unsampled sites, it does lend strong credence to the hypothesis that the surface resistivity measurements are imaging relative changes in ARD concentration in ground water across the site and not simply differences in mineralization due to the epithermal mineral deposits. Many have used electrical resistivity to map contaminated ground water, such as at landfills (Bernstone et al 2000;Lima et al 1995;Mota et al 2004;Perozzi and Holliger 2008), locations affected by salt water intrusion (Nowroozi et al 1999), degradation of hydrocarbons (Atekwana et al 2000), and nitrate loading from irrigation (Boadu et al 2008;Casas et al 2008). Regardless of application, the addition of water with higher ionic strength than the natural water likely will affect the electrical resistivity.…”

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Electrical Resistivity Characterization of a Reclaimed Gold Mine to Delineate Acid Rock Drainage Pathways

Rucker

Glaser

Osborne³

et al. 2009

Mine Water Environ

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An electrical resistivity survey was completed at the Landusky mine. The survey consisted of 15 lines on the surface of the reclaimed Suprise pit, Queen Rose pit, and the region immediately south of Swift Gulch. Additionally, wells and seeps were used by energizing electrodes in direct contact with ground water to increase the sensitivity of the resistivity method at depth. The survey was conducted to locate potential acid rock drainage pathways that are contaminating Swift Gulch. The results showed that the lowest resistivity values were coincident with the Queen Rose pit. Furthermore, the low resistivity feature appeared to trend northeast along a known fault, consistent with the geologic understanding of the site. A scatter plot of resistivity values versus total dissolved solids (TDS) showed a strong correlation (R 2 = 0.85). A linear regression model suggests TDS at the lowest resistivity region to be approximately 2.5 times greater than that measured in ground water wells.

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Electrical Resistivity Characterization of a Reclaimed Gold Mine to Delineate Acid Rock Drainage Pathways

Rucker

Glaser

Osborne³

et al. 2009

Mine Water Environ

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“…contamination, conductive media and groundwater contamination monitoring (Mota et al 2004;Rosqvist et al 2003;Buselli and Kanglin Lu 2001;Buselli et al,1999). This methods also used to identify the limits and thickness of the dumpsite, delineated the base of a landfill and mapping the geometries of the host sediments (Cardarelli and Bernabini 1997;De Iaco et al 2003;Gilles 2006).…”

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Integrated Study on the Distribution of Contamination Flow Path at a Waste Disposal Site in Malaysia

Samuding¹,

Rahman²,

Abustan³

et al. 2012

Municipal and Industrial Waste Disposal

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“…This method is widely used in studies of environmental diagnosis, in cases such as investigations of contaminants in soil and groundwater from landfills (Mota et al, 2004;Georgaki et al, 2008;Belmonte-Jiménez et al, 2012;Moreira et al, 2013;Moreira et al, 2014;Omolayo & Tope, 2014). The characteristic signature of liquid contaminants enriched in salts like the leachate arising from the decomposition of organic waste is the low electric resistivity.…”

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Relationship Between Biogas Production and Variations in Electric Resistivity in Landfill of Rio Claro City, Brazil

Moreira¹,

Castro²,

Carrazza³

et al. 2015

Rev. Bras. Geof.

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ABSTRACT. This work relates measures of the biogas flow in drains located on landfill with measurements of electric resistivity, obtained by the technique of geophysical logging by measuring cable installed in two vertical boreholes near to two biogas drains, with different flows. The results indicate that variation in rainfall, generation and accumulation of biogas in landfill, are repairable correlation with oscillations in electrical resistivity measures. The biogas production is apparently conditioned by age of residues and organic matter available from the degradation. The biogas drain in region with low production of biogas does not present resistivity pattern directly or indirectly correlated to biogas production, while the biogas drain in region with high gas production was characterized by high resistivity values, with seasonal variation by influence of rainfall.

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Granite fracturing and incipient pollution beneath a recent landfill facility as detected by geoelectrical surveys

Cited by 41 publications

References 23 publications

Electrical Resistivity Characterization of a Reclaimed Gold Mine to Delineate Acid Rock Drainage Pathways

Electrical Resistivity Characterization of a Reclaimed Gold Mine to Delineate Acid Rock Drainage Pathways

Integrated Study on the Distribution of Contamination Flow Path at a Waste Disposal Site in Malaysia

Relationship Between Biogas Production and Variations in Electric Resistivity in Landfill of Rio Claro City, Brazil

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