The use of permanganate
to treat groundwater contaminated with chlorinated solvents, thus effective
in many cases, is expensive and resource consuming. There is a considerable
interest among practicing hydrogeologists to have a model of this process
in order to design remediation actions, to determine the number and depth
of injection wells and length of permanganate treatment. To solve this problem,
a new reaction module to simulate destruction of chlorinated solvents with
permanganate has been developed and tested for the MODFLOW 2000/RT3D 2.5 modeling
environment.