Barrier well

Barrier wells are hydraulic structures in landfills or in the event of soil contamination , which are created to protect the natural groundwater .

The water level in the polluted area is kept lower than the surrounding groundwater level by means of barrier wells or rows of barrier wells . This is to prevent contamination from seeping out. Also in the hydraulic remediation of contaminated sites , hydrodynamic conditions are influenced by means of barrier wells. In this process, contaminated groundwater is often pumped out of barrier wells using the so-called “pump-and-treat” method and fed to a cleaning system. The purified water is then brought back to the infiltration.

Individual evidence

↑ Landfill and environmental technology. In: bachner-brunnenbau.at. 2014, accessed September 10, 2018 .
^ Franz-Joseph Dreyhaupt (Ed.): VDI-Lexikon Umwelttechnik . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-95750-5 , p. 117 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Harald Gerstl: The groundwater care concept. Development of a method for sustainable groundwater management: examples from the Vienna area . Vienna 2009, p. 106 ( boku.ac.at [PDF; 7.0 MB ] dissertation).

[1] Landfill and environmental technology. In: bachner-brunnenbau.at. 2014, accessed September 10, 2018 .

[2] Franz-Joseph Dreyhaupt (Ed.): VDI-Lexikon Umwelttechnik . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-95750-5 , p. 117 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[3] Harald Gerstl: The groundwater care concept. Development of a method for sustainable groundwater management: examples from the Vienna area . Vienna 2009, p. 106 ( boku.ac.at [PDF; 7.0 MB ] dissertation).