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Book/Book Chapter 
Riverbank filtration 
Maliva, RG 
2020 
Springer 
New York, NY 
Anthropogenic Aquifer Recharge 
5 
647-682 
English 
WOS:000486264000021 
Riverbank filtration (RBF), which is also referred to as bank filtration, induced infiltration, and induced recharge, is a very old technology for treating surface water. Surface water is indirectly drawn from rivers or lakes using wells, galleries, or collectors constructed on adjacent land. RBF systems take advantage of the natural filtration and chemical contaminant attenuation processes that occur as water passes through bed sediments and flows through the underlying aquifer. RBF systems have received a great amount of study and much data are available on system design and water quality improvements. RBF has been shown to be very effective in reducing the concentrations of pathogens and many (but not all) chemical contaminants. RBF has the great advantage in developing areas of being a simple and low cost technology, which can provide substantial improvements in water quality and associated decreases in waterborne diseases. Key design issues are optimizing system capacity, surface water (as opposed to native groundwater) production, contaminant removal, and reliability. Management of clogging can be operation challenge in some systems. 
WSP Methods in Water Resources Evaluation Series 
9783030110833