“…Soil columns are used widely in studies on the fate and transport of nutrients, pesticides, microbes, and heavy metals (Lewis and Sjöstrom, 2010). Specifically, soil columns have been used in several studies including leaching of pharmaceuticals (Oppel et al, 2004), response of root growth to soil compaction levels (Tracy et al, 2012), dissolved organic carbon and nitrate fluxes (Eykelbosh et al, 2015), fate of organic micropollutants (Banzhaf and Hebig, 2016), and modelling of micropollutants to simulate riverbank filtration (Bertelkamp et al, 2016).…”