Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Numerical Modeling of the Environment Impact of Landfill Leachate Leakage on Groundwater Quality-A Field Application

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Numerical Modelling of the Environment Impact of Landfill Leachate Leakage on Groundwater Quality--A Field Application",
by Shao-Gang Dong, Zhong-Hua Tang, Bai-Wei Liu, O.D. Orodu
in the Proceeedings of the 2009 International Conference on Environmental Science and Information Application Technology, ESIAT 09, pp. 565-568

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied with a reference to the original author and paper title, but the copied portions were not delineated from the rest of the paper.

"Numerical Modelling of the Environmental Impact of Landfill Leachate Leakage on Groundwater Quality--A Field Application",
by M.P. Papadopoulou, G.P. Karatzas, G.G.Bougioukou
in Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 12:1, February 2007 pp 43-54, Springer


There are more than 372 big uncontrolled landfill areas in China. Waste disposal facilities are mainly responsible for the gradual quality degradation of groundwater. This paper reports an integrated study undertaken to develop an environmental assessment of the uncontrolled sanitary landfill area of the city of Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China. The USGS modular 3D finite difference groundwater flow model (Mod- flow) and Modular 3D Finite Difference Mass Transport Model (MT3D) software were used to simulate groundwater flow and contaminant transport modeling. The results indicated that landfill leachate leakage has significant effect on groundwater quality.