Transport of MS-2 and f2 bacteriophage through saturated Tanque Verde Wash soil

Viruses may have caused 65 percent of all the waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States from 1946 to 1977. Many mathematical models proposed to describe virus (colloidal) transport in ground water assume solute advection-dispersion equations will apply to viruses. This research, using bacteriophage viruses, found that modified solute advection-dispersion equations may apply to virus transport. Experimental results indicate that all assumptions for solute transport apply to virus transport except one. The mean N/N₀ concentration displacement velocity for viruses appears to be greater than the average linear water flow velocity through a porous medium when no adsorption occurs. The solute advection-dipersion equations assume the velocities are equal when no adsorption occurs.hydrology collectio