Geomorphology
Asghar Asghari Moghaddam; Maryam Gharekhani; Ata Allah Nadiri; Mahdi Khord; Elhan Fijani
Abstract
growing of population, development of agricultural and industrial activities were intensively increased the consumption of water resources, as results, the water quality and quantity have been decreased. Vast declining of fresh groundwater resources levels and infiltrations of surface runoffs and precipitations ...
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growing of population, development of agricultural and industrial activities were intensively increased the consumption of water resources, as results, the water quality and quantity have been decreased. Vast declining of fresh groundwater resources levels and infiltrations of surface runoffs and precipitations into groundwater, were decreased the runoffs dramatically and, as a consequence, the groundwater resources became as an important part of the water resources for drinking, industrial and agricultural demands in all over the country. Therefore, the importance of groundwater preservation, management and prevention of its contamination becomes as an inevitable task. One of the effective solutions to prevent the contamination of groundwater is to distinguish the vulnerable areas of the aquifer. In this study, DRASTIC, SINTACS and SI methods are used for assessment of vulnerability of the Ardabil plain aquifer. Using from these methods and with respect to the hydrological and hydrogeological characters of the study area, zoning of the vulnerability of aquifer to contamination is carried out and then susceptible areas to contamination was distinguished in each method. The measured nitrate concentrations in the area were used to validate each method. Correlation Index (CI) between vulnerability maps and nitrate amounts were calculated for exact and better comparing of these methods. Results showed that DRASTIC model has the highest CI, this means it is better than other methods for vulnerability assessment. According to the results of DRASTIC, 44.36% of the Ardabil plain aquifer area, located in the eastern and southern part of the plain, has low vulnerability and the rest parts including northern and western part of the plain has moderate vulnerability.
All other Geographic fields of studies , Interdisciplinary
Asghar Asghari Moghddam; Mir sajad Fakhri; Morteza Najib
Volume 19, Issue 54 , February 2016, , Pages 19-41
Abstract
Purpose of this study is zoning of Marand aquifer vulnerability mapping using DRASTIC, AVI methods and comparing their susceptibility adopted from these methods. The DRASTIC method is a combination of seven measurable hydro-geological characteristics that are effective on transportation of contaminant ...
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Purpose of this study is zoning of Marand aquifer vulnerability mapping using DRASTIC, AVI methods and comparing their susceptibility adopted from these methods. The DRASTIC method is a combination of seven measurable hydro-geological characteristics that are effective on transportation of contaminant into groundwater. The GODS and AVI methods combine four and have two properties respectively. The DRASTIC method results is the most complete index for assessing groundwater vulnerability, which has been estimated the vulnerability for the study area as moderate 50.4 percent, high 32.9 percent and very high16.7 percent. The GODS method results suggest three classes for the Marand aquifer vulnerability including moderate, high and very high with 43.8, 5.16 and 51.04 percent, respectively. Also the AVI method results indicate that the aquifer has a vulnerability of moderate, high and very high with 39.13, 6.5 and 54.37 percent, respectively. In all three methods, the degree of vulnerability in the East, Southeast and Northeast parts of the pain is more than the central and western parts of the pain. DRASTIC model is determined the vulnerability areas more accurately due to having more features and different weighting of the features based on their role in pollution.