Assessment and prediction of contaminant transport and migration at a Florida superfund site

An important issue in the application of mathematical models to describe or predict the fate of solutes in soil and groundwater systems is providing t he necessary data to support the spatial, temporal, and hydrogeologic model parameter requirements. The larger, more complex the model and scope of ap plication, the more likely that significant amounts of data of several type s are required. A management tool is required that allows the model and the modeler to interact with various needed databases, cope with numerous data base management issues, efficiently achieve model parameterization and prov ide visualization of model output. The three-dimensional Groundwater Modeli ng System (GMS) that contains a state-of-the-art flow and solute transport model and a graphical user interface for data manipulation and analysis was applied to a Superfund site in Florida to demonstrate its capabilities for predicting solute migration.