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RIVERBANK FILTRATION
AN OLD SOLUTION TO A NEW PROBLEM
Jack Wittman
Layne Hydro
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OUTLINE
• History of River Bank Filtration (RBF)
• Alternative Well Field Designs
– collector/angle/vertical wells, infiltration galleries
• Water Quality Benefits: pathogens, inorganics
• Predicting Yield
• Lessons from 3 sites
– Sonoma County, California
– Des Moines, Iowa
– Pine Bluff, Arkansas
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HISTORY OF RBF
• European RBF (1800s)
– Line of wells along shoreline
– Vertical wells pumping ~500 gpm
– Primary purpose is treatment
– Long history (>100 yrs)
– Belgrade, Berlin, Amsterdam
• USA RBF (1940s)
– Clusters of vertical wells angle wells or collector wells (Ranney wells)
– Many Ranney wells with very high yields
– Purpose has been high capacity intake
– Relatively short history (1940s)
– Cincinnati, Louisville, Terre Haute, Sonoma County
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What is River Bank Filtration?
(RBF)
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What is River Bank Filtration?
(RBF)
Example from Arkansas
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WHY USE RBF?
• Improve upon raw surface water quality
• Lower cost than “direct” SW treatment
• Treatment effects are credited in LT2ESWTR
• Effective on pharmaceutically active compounds,
• RBF enhances well yield and improves water quality
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LITERATURE REVIEW
• Water Research Foundation (AwwaRF)
– #3121, 3136, 3180
• Gollnitz – Great Miami River
– Found that quality improved most at stream-aquifer interface
• Hubbs – Ohio River
– Possible to over-pump
• Bouwer - national
– RBF effective pretreatment
• Jasperse and Constanz – Russian River – Heat is a good tracer
• Verstraeten – Platte River – PAC can move to wells
• Massman – Berlin – Mix of ages found in
wells • Levy and others
– Quality improved when stream detached
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WATER QUALITY BENEFITS OF RBF What have we learned by using this technology?
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RBF Processes
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EFFECTS ON WATER QUALITY
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RBF REMOVAL AND LIMITATIONS
parameter RBF removal limitations
Sediment Good travel time
Algal toxins Good texture
Nutrients Moderate anoxic
Anions Cations Poor TDS – salinity
Heavy metals Depends Site
pesticides Depends Site
Endocrine distruptors
Good missing oxic zone
Pharmaceuticals Depends ?
DBP Good anoxic zone
Chlorinated hydrocarbons
Moderate oxic zone
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REGULATORY ISSUES Ground water Under the Direct Influence (GWUDI)
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Utilities want to limit regulations while assuring reliability, quality and low cost
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Pathogens
Impacts
Water Quality
Regulatory effectiveness
REGULATORY OBJECTIVES SAFETY
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EXAMPLE AT ST. JOSEPH, MO
Abandoned sw plant
New well field near Missouri River
1 Ranney well + 7 vertical wells (30 MGD)
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EXAMPLE AT ST. JOSEPH, MO
water quality (soft-> hard)
Promise of RBF?
Cost for sludge removal
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LAYOUT OF THE WELL FIELD
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HARDNESS AFTER STARTUP
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LAYOUT OF THE WELL FIELD
• How does quality vary around the collector well?
• Softer water near vertical wells?
Missouri River
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MODELING RBF HARDNESS IN RANNEY WELL
– 3-D vector geometry
– Aquifer layering
– Explicit interaction between arms
– 3-D pathline tracing, residence time calculations
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MODELING RESIDENCE TIME
• Assume:
1) Hardness - mixing sw and groundwater
2) Affected by the choice of operational wells
• Use calibrated model
– Determine the fraction of river water pumped by the wells for many pumping configurations
• Choose configuration -> largest fraction of river water for any pumping rate
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SW/GW MIXING RATIO • Based on 16 MGD models:
– Average fraction of river water: 76.7%
– Estimated hardness from mixing: 295 ppm
• Actual influent hardness averages ~340 ppm
• Why the discrepancy?
• Hypothesis: distribution of travel times
– Short travel time low hardness
– Long travel time higher hardness
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MODELING ST. JOSEPH WELLS
• 10 model runs were performed
• Total water pumped from the river (blue bars) insensitive to configuration
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16 MGD Summary
% River
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Collector well only
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MODELING ST. JOSEPH WELLS
• 10 model runs were performed
• Total water pumped from the river (blue bars) insensitive to configuration
• What happened? M
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16 MGD Summary
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MODELING ST. JOSEPH WELLS
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16 MGD Summary
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• Water pumped from the river in less than two years (purple bars) is quite sensitive to the configuration
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Groundwater Under the Direct Influence
What are the rules?
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PROBLEM OF PATHOGENS
• Short residence times = more pathogens?
– NOT SO FAST!
• Gollnitz, Verstraeten, Clancy, Hubbs, Weiss, Ray
• How do the states manage GWUDI?
– Some examples
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APPROACHES TO GWUDI: COMPARISON
– Indiana
• 200 ft setback or chemistry + performance (MPA)
– Iowa
• Performance (sampling)
– Arkansas
• Performance (sampling)
– Missouri
• 200 ft setback for the lateral arm tips
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RECONSIDERING RBF
Engineering
groundwater
systems
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RBF IS CRITICAL TO FUTURE
• Supplies need to be diversified
– Drought, impacts, sustainability, quality
• Regulations need to reflect research
– Pathogens
– DWBP
– Endocrine disruptors
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PREDICTING YIELDS OF RBF SYSTEMS
Design considerations of RBF systems
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SONOMA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
• Collector wells along the
Russian River
• Population growth
suggested additional
capacity
• Not much land in a
limited area
• Evaluate new
construction techniques
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Sonoma County
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modeled with
3D tools
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APPLIED COLLECTOR WELL MODELING
• Specialized models for
collector wells
• Need to capture the
complex flow near the
well and the regional
impacts
• Used by Sonoma Co.
• Helps determine
options and make good
decisions
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Sonoma County Lateral
Extension
Original Proposed
Same pumping rate in each
but diminishing returns on
additional length
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Sonoma County
changes in yield and travel time
Original Proposed
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DES MOINES, IOWA • New well field
needed to add 10 MGD
• Des Moines has several Ranney wells – How many new wells
to produce 10 MGD?
– How much water was possible from the thin 30 ft sand aquifer?
– Could we optimize water quality for treatment plant?
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DES MOINES, IOWA
• DMWW coordinated the hydrogeologic investigation
• Layne conducted aquifer tests and did interpretation of the results
– Regional 2-D models
– Local 3-D models
– Aquifer yield
– Water quality
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RBF Processes
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DES MOINES – LATERAL DESIGN
ANALYSIS
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CONCLUSIONS AND SUMMARY
• Minimize costs of treatment
• Remove new contaminants
• Add capacity by using available surface water
• Removes pathogens and increases the safety of the supply
• Drought-proof supplies on large rivers
• Limits impact to the smallest possible area
• Important for developing countries