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TECHNICAL REPORT
VADOSE ZONE PROCESSES AND CHEMICAL TRANSPORT

Field-Scale Preferential Transport of Water and Chloride Tracer by Depression-Focused Recharge

^a Soil Science Dep., North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND 58105
^b USDA-CSREES-NRE, Washington, DC

Corresponding author (Nathan_Derby{at}ndsu.nodak.edu)

A tracer study was initiated in November 1993 to investigate depression-focused recharge and to monitor solute movement through the vadose zone into the shallow ground water in southeastern North Dakota. Granular potassium chloride (KCl) was surface-applied to two areas overlying subsurface drains and to one area instrumented with soil solution samplers, ground water monitoring wells, time domain reflectometry (TDR) probes, and temperature probes. One of the subsurface drain tracer plots was located on level ground while the other two sites were in small topographic depressions. Formation of ground water mounds beneath the depressions indicated that these areas are recharge sites. The applied Cl^- tracer was found to move rapidly to the shallow ground water under the depressional areas after infiltration of spring snowmelt in 1994. Excessive rainfall events were also responsible for focused recharge and the rapid transport of the applied Cl^- tracer. Water flow through partially frozen soil at the bottom of the depressions during thaw enhanced preferential movement of the tracer.

Abbreviations: TDR, time domain reflectometry

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