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Published in Soil Sci Soc Am J 58:1031-1039 (1994)
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Laboratory Measurements of Solute Transport Using Time Domain Reflectometry

A. L. Ward* and D. E. Elrick

Dep. of Land Resource Science, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1

R. G. Kachanoski

Univ. of Guelph and Waterloo Center of Ground Water Research, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1

*Corresponding author.

ABSTRACT

Measurement of solute transport at different depths in layered soil columns provides more information than traditional outflow measurements. The objective of this study was to extend the time domain reflectometry (TDR) method of measuring soil water content, {theta}, and bulk electrical conductivity, {sigma}T, to the nondestructive measurement of resident concentration, CR, of an added electrolytic tracer. Calibration curves of CR vs. {theta} and {sigma}T were obtained directly, by mixing a sandy soil with different amounts of tracer and water and taking TDR readings of impedance. Similar soil was packed into a Plexiglas box fitted with curved TDR probes at different radial distances from one corner. A constant flux of water was applied at the corner of the box and a pulse of KCl tracer added. Measurements of {theta} and CR as a function of time and radial distance were made during the three-dimensional flux experiment. In a one-dimensional flux experiment, undisturbed soil columns (1.5 m long, 0.15-m diam.) were instrumented with straight TDR probes installed horizontally at 0.10-m increments. Indirect calibration of CR vs. {theta} and {sigma}T were obtained under steady-flow conditions by using a step increase in tracer, and by numerically convolving measurements from a pulse application of tracer. The final value of {sigma}T was equated to the input concentration of the tracer to obtain the calibration relationship. The method overcomes many of the limitations associated with soil solution samplers, allowing frequent measurements at close spacings and low cost.

NOTES

Joint contribution from the Dep. of Land Resource Science, Univ. of Guelph, and Waterloo Center for Ground Water Res., Univ. of Waterloo.

Received for publication February 16, 1993.


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