Development of a Sustainable Remediation System to Remove TCE from Groundwater
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Karst aquifers are a particular type of groundwater system that supplies drinking water in Puerto Rico, as well as in several U.S. regions and around the world. The karst aquifers contain cave systems that are vulnerable to contamination from toxic chemicals, such as TCE. This is because these contaminants tend to be trapped in the rock formations as nonaqueous phase liquids (known as NAPLs) and there is little opportunity for their dissolved phase to be filtered by soil or to become bound to bedrock while flowing through the systems.
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