MODEL-BASED ASSESSMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AT A GERMAN CONTAMINATED SITE

A site management plan was proposed to control the groundwater contamination at a German metal recovery plant. A model-based assessment and optimization of the proposed strategies was carried out with a numerical groundwater flow model and an innovative model-based optimization technique. The optimization work considerably improved the pumping wells arrangement, allowing a significant reduction of the required number of wells and of their...