Groundwater Pollution Risk Assessment

2018 ◽  
pp. 63-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huan Huan ◽  
Jianwei Xu ◽  
Jinsheng Wang ◽  
Beidou Xi
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Groundwater Pollution ◽  
Pollution Risk

Groundwater pollution risk assessment methodology

2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Lytton ◽  
S. Howe ◽  
R. Sage ◽  
P. Greenaway
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Risk Score ◽  
Groundwater Pollution ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Risk Scores ◽  
Assessment Methodology ◽  
Pollution Transport ◽  
Pollution Risk ◽  
Risk Assessment Methodology

A generic groundwater pollution risk assessment methodology has been developed to enable the evaluation and ranking of the potential risk of pollution to groundwater abstractions. The ranking can then be used to prioritise risk management or mitigation procedures in a robust and quantifiable framework and thus inform business investment decisions. The risk assessment considers the three components of the pollution transport model: source - pathway - receptor. For groundwater abstractions these correspond to land use (with associated pollutants and shallow subsurface characteristics), aquifer and the abstraction borehole. An hierarchical approach was chosen to allow the risk assessment to be successfully carried out with different quality data for different parts of the model. The 400-day groundwater protection zone defines the catchment boundary that forms the spatial limit of the land use audit for each receptor. A risk score is obtained for each land use (potential pollution source) within the catchment. These scores are derived by considering the characteristics (such as load, persistence and toxicity) of all pollutants pertaining to each land use, their on-site management and the potential for the unsaturated subsurface to attenuate their effects in the event of a release. Risk scores are also applied to the aquifer characteristics (as pollutant pathway) and to the abstraction borehole (as pollutant receptor). Each risk score is accompanied by an uncertainty score which provides a guide to the confidence in the data used to compile the risk assessment. The application of the methodology has highlighted a number of problems in this type of work and results of initial case studies are being used to trial alternative scoring methods and a more simplified approach to accelerate the process of pollution risk assessment.

scholarly journals Spatial mapping for Groundwater Vulnerability to Pollution Risk Assessment Using DRASTIC Model in Ponnaiyar River Basin, South India

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-364
Author(s):  
Ingershal G. Ravindranath ◽  
Venugopal Thirukumaran
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Groundwater Contamination ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Groundwater Pollution ◽  
Risk Index ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Drastic Model ◽  
Pollution Risk ◽  
Contamination Risk ◽  
Ponnaiyar River

Groundwater is the principle source of drinking water and protection of groundwater quality is an important issue meets out the increasing population and agricultural practices. The present research an attempt made to develop DRASTIC model to understand the groundwater contamination risk in Ponnaiyar River Basin (PRB), Tamil Nadu, India using geographical information system (GIS). GIS have been shown to be useful tools for assessing groundwater pollution hazard. According to Central Ground Water Board reports the PRB categorized by semi-critical groundwater development. In view of the extensive reliance on this basin, contamination of PRB groundwater became an alarming issue. To assess groundwater contamination risk in the PRB the parameters such as Groundwater depth, Net recharge, Aquifer media, Soil media, Topography, Impact of vadose zone and Hydraulic conductivity were selected. Based on the importance of groundwater contamination all the parameters were assigned to rank and weights. Then all the themes were integrated and classified into five categories such as very low (9.33%), low (26.54%), moderate (34.77%), high (22.38%) and very high (6.98) risk. To validate the DRASTIC model, nitrate concentration was selected and found that it is 81.53% accurate which reflects that, DRASTIC model is appropriate to understand groundwater pollution risk assessment. In the GSB groundwater is contaminated mainly due to extensive use of groundwater extraction for agriculture purpose. Groundwater risk index assessment is an effective tool for groundwater management in the PRB.

Research on GIS-Based Risk Assessment Method of Groundwater Pollution and its Application

2011 ◽  
Vol 356-360 ◽  
pp. 819-824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Ping Bai ◽  
Ye Yao Wang ◽  
Fa Sheng Li
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Groundwater Pollution ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Groundwater Vulnerability ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Pollution Sources ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Multi Index ◽  
Pollution Risk ◽  
Risk Assessment Method

The risk assessment model and parameter system of groundwater pollution were established in this paper. The multi-index evaluation method of groundwater pollution sources was proposed, and the GIS-based risk assessment method of groundwater pollution was produced in comprehensive consideration of groundwater vulnerability and groundwater pollution sources. The multi-index method suggested in this paper was used in the risk assessment of groundwater pollution at a plain area of a big city in North China, and the different grades of groundwater pollution risk were computed. The evaluation results show that the groundwater pollution risk is determined by the combined action of ground pollution sources and groundwater vulnerability. The established risk assessment method of groundwater pollution could give a scientific support for the regional groundwater pollution prevention and control planning.

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