Push-Pull Tests for Site Characterization

• Main Author: Istok, Jonathan David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences, 144
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Sedimentology.; Hydrogeology.; Geotechnical engineering.; Earth Sciences.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Earth Sciences, general.

The push-pull test is a powerful site characterization technique that has been applied to a wide range of problems in contaminant hydrogeology. The theoretical and practical aspects of push-pull testing were initially developed to characterize groundwater aquifers but the method has now been extende...

Table of Contents:

• Push-pull tests
• Setting up a site
• Evaluation of site
• Improvement of site
• Long-term prognosis
• The shape of things to come
• Analysis.