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Groundwater contamination is the most critical among various types of pollution that can occur in the water cycle. This is a consequence of the large time scales of the phenomena and the irreversible character of the damage caused. In fact, due to the very slow movement of groundwaters, pollutants can reside for a very long time in the aquifer. As a consequence, groundwater remains polluted for centuries even if the pollutant sources are no longer active. In the same time, because of the complex interaction between pollutants, soil and groundwater, remediation of contaminated subsurface is a very delicate operation. Most of the time total removal and cleaning up of the contaminated soil is necessary or biological techniques should be applied for a long time in order to become efficient.
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Ganoulis, J. (1993). Risk Analysis of Groundwater Contamination. In: Petruzzelli, D., Helfferich, F.G. (eds) Migration and Fate of Pollutants in Soils and Subsoils. NATO ASI Series, vol 32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77862-9_19
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