Groundwater Pollution Transport from Tsumeb Copper Smelter in Namibia

Abstract

The master thesis “Groundwater Pollution Transport from Tsumeb Copper Smelter in Namibia” firstly presents the physical conditions of the Tsumeb area i.e. the description of the study area, climatology, geomorphology, geology and hydrogeology. The subsequent part after physical conditions is the monitoring of groundwater quality on the site. Furthermore, the thesis focuses on the general geochemical and transport processes that control the behavior of arsenic in the environment. A geochemical transport model PHREEQC was used to calculate aqueous geochemical reactions. The second last subchapter deals with the prediction of the contaminant plume movement based on the model outputs, which is the primary objective of this thesis.