Sreenivasalu Chandalavada (PhD Student)
University of South Australia

Project Title
Optimal monitoring network design for effective site characterization and pollution control/remediation

Biography
Sreenivasalu is from a rural South Indian agricultural family. He did his schooling in Tangutur, his hometown in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India. He has a Bachelors in Civil Engineering from Pondicherry University and Masters in Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, known as IIT Kanpur. Sreeni has also worked in a consultancy firm in designing of hydro electric power plants and modeling the surge phenomena in the turbine shafts.

Start Date
March 2006

Project Details
The work is aimed at developing a tool which would be able to assist the contaminated site managers/ decision makers in arriving at the network of monitoring wells in an optimal manner such that the network of wells would be able to delienate the contaminated plume and simultaneous identification of unknown pollutant sources. The concept of simulation-optimization approach will be used in developing the methodology.The tool/methodology will have a great potential in assisting the effective hazardous site characterization and formulation of cost effective remediation goals.