Abstract
Recently, the assessing of the natural attenuation capacity in the aquifer, which is called the monitored natural attenuation (MNA), is attempted as a remediation technique for groundwater contamination by the volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The natural attenuation includes the processes of biodegradation, dispersion, dilution, sorption, and volatilization of contaminants. Especially the biodegradation process is often recognized as a dominant destructive attenuation mechanism. In this paper, the characteristics of biodegradation in the aquifer and the effect of natural attenuation capacity were evaluated by the field survey and the numerical simulation at the groundwater remediation site. As a result, the biodegradation rates of trichloroethylene (TCE) and dichloroethylenes (DCEs) were calculated and it was cleared that DCEs were degraded faster than TCE.
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