Development of a Distributed Source Containment Transport, Transformation, and Fate (CTT&F) Sub-Model for Military Installations

摘要

One of the responsibilities of the U.S. military is to operate munitions test and live-fire training ranges. As a result of this testing and training, many explosives and their degradation products persist in the environment. Ecosystem management by military installations can be met only by providing the tools necessary to actively manage watersheds. Water quality and related aquatic ecosystems are major end-points and are insufficiently understood components of natural resource management. Numerical modeling, as part of watershed management, is not new. Considerable advances have been made in physically based distributed watershed hydrologic modeling in the past few years; however, few physically based, distributed models simulate contaminant transformation and transport processes. This report summarizes the development of overland and channel contaminant fate and transport modules for linkage with a variety of hydraulic and hydrologic modeling systems.