The NYSCPG and Midwest Geosciences Group are happy to offer:

The hydrogeologic complexity of fractured rock aquifers has often led to frustration and significant expenditure of resources in characterizing groundwater and predicting contamination. It is not uncommon to experience persistent contamination at fractured rock sites subjected to long-term pump and treat remedial technologies.

Fluid flow and contaminant transport in fractured rock fundamentally differs from granular porous media as fractures serve as interconnected and spatially discontinuous preferential pathways. Given the high degree of heterogeneity, fractured rock hydrogeology is very challenging but not impossible if site-specific data on physical and hydraulic fracture properties are used to properly develop conceptual models of fluid flow and contaminant transport.

In this course, participants will learn step-wise procedures to develop professional level conceptualizations of fracture networks for a variety of rock types, fracture patterns, and tectonic settings for application to field-scale transport problems and the assessment and design of remedial strategies.

Course Elements

• Understand how fluid flow and contaminant transport in fractured rock fundamentally differs from granular porous media.
• Conceptualize fracture flow and contaminant transport at the field-scale for a variety of rock types, fracture patterns, and tectonic settings.
• Distinguish between discrete fracture network and equivalent continuum representations, including simplifying assumptions and suitable applications.
• Link fracture attributes such as orientation, density, length, spacing and clustering to fluid flow and contaminant transport behavior.
• Apply site-specific fracture information to develop transport predictions and remedial strategies.
• Plus the New PFAS Workshop added this year.

This is the fourth continuing education collaboration between Midwest GeoSciences Group and the NYSCPG, and members of the NYSCPG can save $150  when registering with this coupon code: NYSCPG-SAV150.
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 Register for the event on the Midwest GeoSciences Group website.