Applications of OTEQ, OTIS, and Transient Storage for Metals, Cations, and Acidic Streams
Compilation by
Ken Bencala
<kbencala@usgs.gov>
9/14/2007
This reading list also may be downloaded as a Word document [49 Kb].
General | |
OTEQ is formed by coupling the
solute transport model OTIS
with a chemical equilibrium submodel. The submodel is based on
MINTEQ,
a model that calculates the distribution of inorganic species under
the assumption of chemical equilibrium. The coupled model considers a
variety of processes including advection, dispersion, transient storage,
transport and deposition of water-borne solid phases, acid/base reactions,
complexation, precipitation/dissolution, and sorption. Precipitated and
sorbed species may reside within the water column or on the streambed;
precipitated and sorbed species residing in the water column are subject
to transport and settling. Total component concentrations are partitioned
between dissolved, precipitated and sorbed phases based on equilibrium
calculations for each computational stream segment.
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Software | |
More information about OTEQ is available at
http://co.water.usgs.gov/oteq/.
The OTIS software is available from
http://co.water.usgs.gov/otis/.
More information and a current version of MINTEQ is available from
http://www.epa.gov/ceampubl/mmedia/minteq/.
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OTEQ: Applications | |
A simulation-based approach for estimating premining water quality: Red
Mountain Creek, Colorado Runkel R.L., Kimball B.A., Walton-Day, K., Verplanck, P.L. (2007) Applied Geochemistry, 22 (9), pp. 1899-1918. | |
Use of field-scale experiments and reactive transport modeling to evaluate
remediation alternatives in streams affected by acid mine drainage Kimball, B.A., Runkel, R.L., and Walton-Day, K. (2003) in Jambor, J.L., Blowes, D.W., Ritchie, A.I.M., eds., Environmental Aspects of Mine Wastes: Mineralogical Association of Canada, Short Course Series, v. 31, p. 261-282. | |
Evaluating remedial alternatives for an acid mine drainage stream:
Application of a reactive transport model Runkel R.L., Kimball B.A. (2002) Environmental Science and Technology, 36 (5), pp. 1093-1101. | |
pH dependence of iron photoreduction in a rocky mountain stream affected by
acid mine drainage McKnight D.M., Kimball B.A., Runkel R.L. (2001) Hydrological Processes, 15 (10), pp. 1979-1992. | |
Development of OTEQ | |
Reactive solute transport in streams: A surface complexation approach for
trace metal sorption Runkel, R.L., Kimball, B.A., McKnight, D.M., Bencala, K.E. (1999) Water Resources Research, 35 (12), pp. 3829-3840. | |
Reactive solute transport in streams. 2. Simulation of a pH modification
experiment Runkel, R.L., McKnight, D.M., Bencala, K.E., Chapra, S.C. (1996) Water Resources Research, 32 (2), pp. 419-430 | |
Reactive solute transport in streams. 1. Development of an
equilibrium-based model Runkel, R.L., Bencala, K.E., Broshears, R.E., Chapra, S.C. (1996) Water Resources Research, 32 (2), pp. 409-418. | |
Reactive solute transport in an acidic stream: Experimental pH increase
and simulation of controls on pH, aluminum, and iron Broshears, R.E., Runkel, R.L., Kimball, B.A., McKnight, D.M., Bencala, K.E. (1996) Environmental Science and Technology, 30 (10), pp. 3016-3024. | |
OTIS: Mine Drainage Streams | |
Walton-Day, Katherine, Paschke, S.S., Runkel, R.L and Kimball, B.A, in press, expected 2007, Using the OTIS solute-transport model to evaluate remediation scenarios in Cement Creek and the upper Animas River, Chapter E25, in Church, S.E., von Guerard, Paul, and Finger, S.E., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1651. | |
Flooding and arsenic pollution: influences on stream ecosystem structure
and function Lottig, N.R.,Valett, H.M., Schreiber , M.E., Webster, J.R. (2007) Limnology and Oceanography, 52:1991-2001. | |
Predicting changes in hydrologic retention in an evolving semi-arid
alluvial stream Harvey, J.W., Conklin, M.H., Koelsch, R.S. (2003) Advances in Water Resources, 26, 939. | |
Effect of enhanced manganese oxidation in the hyporheic zone on basin-scale
geochemical mass balance Harvey, J.W., Fuller, C.C. (1998) Water Resources Research, 34 (4), pp. 623-636. | |
Modeling CO degassing and pH in a stream-aquifer system Choi, J., Hulseapple, S.M., Conklin, M.H., Harvey, J.W. (1998) Journal of Hydrology, 209 (1-4), pp. 297-310. | |
OTIS: Acidic Streams | |
Transport and cycling of iron and hydrogen peroxide in a freshwater stream:
Influence of organic acids Scott, D.T., Runkel, R.L., McKnight, D.M., Voelker, B.M., Kimball, B.A., Carraway, E.R. (2003) Water Resources Research, 39 (11), pp. HWC11-HWC114. | |
In-stream sorption of fulvic acid in an acidic stream: A stream-scale
transport experiment McKnight, D.M., Hornberger, G.M., Bencala, K.E., Boyer, E.W. (2002) Water Resources Research, 38 (1), pp. 61-612. | |
OTIS: Cation Transport | |
Sensitivity analysis of conservative and reactive stream transient storage
models applied to field data from multiple-reach experiments Gooseff, M.N., Bencala, K.E., Scott, D.T., Runkel, R.L., McKnight, D.M. (2005) Advances in Water Resources, 28 (5), pp. 479-492. | |
Reach-scale cation exchange controls on major ion chemistry of an
Antarctic glacial meltwater stream Gooseff M.N., McKnight D.M., Runkel R.L. (2004) Aquatic Geochemistry, 10 (3-4), pp. 221-238. | |
Weathering reactions and hyporheic exchange controls on stream water
chemistry in a glacial meltwater stream in the McMurdo Dry Valleys Gooseff M.N., McKnight D.M., Lyons W.B., Blum A.E. (2002) Water Resources Research, 38 (12), pp. 151-1517. | |
Redox processes controlling manganese fate and transport in a mountain stream Scott, D.T., McKnight, D.M., Voelker, B.M., Hrncir, D.C. (2002) Environmental Science and Technology, 36 (3), pp. 453-459 | |
Documentation of OTIS | |
One-dimensional transport with inflow and storage (OTIS): a solute transport
model for streams and rivers. RL Runkel, USGS WRIR 98-4018, 1998. LINK: [http://co.water.usgs.gov/otis/]. | |
Using OTIS to model solute transport in streams and rivers. RL Runkel, USGS
Fact Sheet 138-99, 4p., 2000. LINK: [http://pubs.water.usgs.gov/fac138-99/]. | |
Related Applications Leading to the Development of OTIS | |
Evaluating the reliability of the stream tracer approach to characterize
surface-subsurface water exchange Harvey, J.W., Wagner, B.J., Bencala, K.E. (1996) Water Resources Research, 32 (8), 2441. | |
Coupling of hydrologic transport and chemical reactions in a stream
affected by acid mine drainage Kimball, B.A., Broshears, R.E., Bencala, K.E., McKnight, D.M. (1994) Environmental Science and Technology, 28 (12), pp. 2065-2073. | |
Tracer-dilution experiments and solute-transport simulations for a mountain
stream, Saint Kevin Gulch, Colorado Broshears, R.E., Bencala, K.E., Kimball, B.A., McKnight, D.M. (1993) U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 92-4081, pp. 1-18. U.S. Geological Survey: Denver, CO. LINK: [http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/wri/wri924081] | |
Characterization of transport in an acidic and metal-rich mountain stream
based on a lithium tracer injection and simulations of transient storage Bencala, K.E., McKnight, D.M., Zellweger, G.W. (1990) Water Resources Research, 26 (5), pp. 989-1000. | |
Reactive iron transport in an acidic mountain stream in Summit County,
Colorado: a hydrologic perspective McKnight, D.M., Bencala, K.E. (1989) Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 53 (9), pp. 2225-2234. | |
Interactions of solutes and streambed sediment. 2. A dynamic analysis of
coupled hydrologic and chemical processes that determine solute transport. Bencala K.E. (1984) Water Resources Research, 20 (12), pp. 1804-1814. | |
Copper transport along a Sierra Nevada stream Kuwabara, J.S., Leland, H.V., Bencala, K.E. (1984) Journal of Environmental Engineering, 110 (3), pp. 646-655. | |
Simulation of solute transport in a mountain pool-and-riffle stream with a
kinetic mass transfer model for sorption. Bencala K.E. (1983) Water Resources Research, 19 (3), pp. 732-738. |
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