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For the last decades tracer tests have being treated as one of the most accessible tools to study field parameters governing subsurface contaminant transport. The importance of tracer tests for this purpose have been illustrated by their numerous applications for solving different hydro-geo-environmental problems. On the other hand the tracer tests turned out to be affected by many natural and technical factors which could not be successfully studied in field conditions and/or incorporated into interpretation procedures. Among them are the strongly scale-dependent flow and dispersion phenomenon accompanying tracer tests in actual heterogeneous geological environment that reduces the efficiency of the experiments to a minimum or even makes them being useless. That is, why many practically thinking hydrogeologists are now very skeptical about the possible progress in this field.
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Rumynin, V.G., Mironenko, V.A. (1996). Development of Theoretical and Technical Basis for Tracer Tests in Aquifers. In: Aral, M.M. (eds) Advances in Groundwater Pollution Control and Remediation. NATO ASI Series, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0205-3_8
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