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Contamination of groundwater due to leachate percolation is an alarming issue globally. Developing countries in the sub-continent are no exception, and the present work focuses on assessing a similar issue in one of the landfills of the Himalayan region, Kashmir. The work entails the identification of prominent heavy metals in surface water, subsurface water, and leachate present in and around the landfill site. Geotechnical properties and sorption studies were carried out to determine the input parameters required to model contaminant flow using the HYDRUS 1D and 3D package, and the models were validated with the laboratory-scale dynamic assays. The modeling was carried out in a bid to provide a better work plan for policy-makers and government agencies to remediate the two primary problems at hand: problems of flooded leachate pools in the vast open spaces of the landfill and direct draining out of untreated leachate through drainage lines/pipes into the nearby stream. This work concludes that the remediation work on untreated leachate drainage into the river stream must take precedence over the flooded leachate pool in the landfill as the subsurface migration of the prominent contaminant Pb does not pose a significant threat in the near future. The flooded leachate pool can therefore be pumped out, at convenience, through remediated drainage lines which would save labor and time.
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Kenue, A.W., Sana, E., Adhikary, A., Hussain, M., Pal, S. (2023). Assessment of Subsurface Migratory Behavior of Lead (Pb) Laden Leachate Generated from a Waste Dumpsite in Srinagar, Kashmir, India. In: Reddy, K.R., Kalia, S., Tangellapalli, S., Prakash, D. (eds) Recent Advances in Sustainable Environment . Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 285. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5077-3_30
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