Getting Started

sutra2 (SUbsurface TRAnsport) is a python package to model the behavior of Organic MicroPollutants (OMPs) and pathogens for 4 standard types of Public Supply Well Fields (PSWFs).

Main features:

  • Calculate the travel time distribition for 4 PSWF types using an analytical or numerical (Modflow) solution

  • Calculate the travel time for different aquifer zones

  • Numerical solution using Flopy

  • Includes database(s) of substance and microbial organism removal parameters

  • Calculate the removal and concentration of the substance or microbial organism of interest in each aquifer zone and the well

Install

sutra2 requires Python 3.6 or later.

To get sutra2, use the following command:

pip install git+https://github.com/KWR-Water/sutra2.git

Philosophy

sutra2 calculates the behavior of OMPs and microbial organisms for ultimately 4 standard types of PSWFs, which cover the most frequently occurring and most vulnerable groundwater resources for drinking water supply in the Netherlands (and Flanders). One of the aims of this approach is to forecast the behavior of new OMPs - and microbial organisms - in groundwater. Groundwater is often overlooked in current environmental risk assessment methods, which are a priori or a posteriori applied when new organic chemicals appear on the market.

Conventions

The naming conventions follow the naming conventions for… Flopy?