Tutorial to simulate a contaminant plume from a waste dump with MODFLOW MT3DMS

Quick tutorial for the simulation of a contaminant plume from  a waste dump.

This tutorial cover the following parts:

• Review of the groundwater flow regime

• Water table plot on cross section

• Set up of MT3DMS packages (ADV, DSP, SSM) and the contaminant species

• Setup of MODFLOW time

• Run the groundwater flow model

• Definition of hydraulic parameters and background concentration

• Implementation of the Waste Dump as a source on the Water Table

• Run the mass transport simulation

• Import results

The simulated species on this tutorial and their background concentration / source concentrations in mg/l are listed below

Sulphate:  0.448 / 1290
Fe: 2.61 / 286

Some other parameters related to the contaminant transport are:
Longitudinal Dispersivity: 10
Porosity: 0.02

Download the data for this tutorial in this link.