Prediction and Remediation of Groundwater Pollution in a Dynamic and Complex Hydrologic Environment of an Illegal Waste Dumping Site
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The manuscript “Prediction and Remediation of Groundwater Pollution in a Dynamic and Complex Hydrologic Environment of an Illegal Waste Dumping Site” is interesting and within the scope of the journal but some minor changes should be addressed:
- I recommend to update the state-of-the-art. It will be interesting to discuss briefly about a potential model, based on fugacity, for the assessment of pollutant dynamic evolution (please see https://doi.org/10.37358/RC.19.10.7575).
- Please discuss in the manuscript about the information from table 3.
- I recommend to make figure 2 more readable.
- Please check the references and rewrite them according to journal instructions.
Author Response
Thank you for your comments.
We have revised the paper according to the proposed revision.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The manuscript proposed by Pongritsakda et al aims to evaluate the long term trend and the effect of remediation action on 1,4-dioxane groundwater 12 pollution. The manuscript is interesting but need an comple English rephrase. Moreover i cannot see a robust model description which need to be implemented.
General comments:
Line 33 rephrase "and so good groundwater quality should be maintained" you can change in "thus the mateinance of a suitable groundwater quality status is of mandatory importance"
Line 36: be carefull in using the word contanimate since you are talking about pollution.
Line 38-39: add example and references to enforce the statement.
Line 39: change "has also occurred" in "also occur"
Line 41-45. Rephrase the senteces..it is too long and hard to follow
Where are all the information of geology, soil, recharge, which are necessary to build the model? Please discuss them also adding a geological cross section of the area or at least a general conceptualization.
It is not clear to me as the groundwater flow model has been realized, which parameters has been used? the cell size? how many layers?. Moreover I cannot see any calibration and validation procedure in the text. Did you use groundwater head to calibrate? If yes please add a paragraph with all the info.
Author Response
Thank you for your comments.
We have revised the paper according to the proposed revision.
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
I appreciate the work done by the authors in improve the manuscript accordingly to the reviewers suggestions. I think now the work is suitable for pubblication. I only suggest to highlight in the text the limitation of data in the study are to enforce the obtained results.
