GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY AND POLLUTION RISK ASSESSMENT

Summary

This volume offers detailed comparisons and validations of different methods of assessing groundwater vulnerability (DRASTIC, GOD, PI, RTt, AVI, SINTACS, COP). It contains new aspects of vulnerability assessment for the evaluation of coastal aquifer vulnerability and aquifer vulnerability to methane gas leakage from shale gas wells. The book also contains the results of studies on intrinsic and specific vulnerability assessment (migration of antibiotics and nitrate, groundwatersurface water interaction), with examples of the different national approaches to groundwater vulnerability mapping in Poland, Ireland, Italy and elsewhere. There are 15 chapters derived from two IAH conferences held in Ustron´, Poland in 2015 and 2018.

The book is valuable for those interested in groundwater vulnerability, in risk assessment, and in environmental issues. It is aimed at land use planners, water managers, the environmental industry, regional and local environmental protection councils and students studying hydrogeology and environmental sciences.

Table of Contents

New approaches to groundwater vulnerability

1 ACVM (Aquifer Comprehensive Vulnerability Mapping) – a new method for evaluating coastal aquifer vulnerability based on a wide concept of aquifer vulnerability
S. Carrubba, A. Aureli & M. Lagod

2 Assessment of the intrinsic vulnerability of the Rhine-Meuse basin limestone aquifers
V. Fister, B. Losson, D. François, E. Gille & M. Marchetto

3 Numerical simulations of aquifer vulnerability to methane gas leakage from decommissioned shale gas wells
N. Roy, J. Molson, J.-M. Lemieux, D. Van Stempvoort & A. Nowamooz

4 Sanitary protection zoning of groundwater sources in unconsolidated sediments based on a Time-Dependent Model
V. Živanovic´, I. Jemcov, V. Dragišic´ & N. Atanackovic

Factors affecting vulnerability assessment – from scientific concept to practical application

5 Meander effect on river-aquifer interactions
U. Boyraz & C.M. Kazezyılmaz-Alhan

6 Comparison of pre-mining and post-mining conditions in an area impacted by coal mining as an aid to groundwater vulnerability assessment
K. David, W. Timms & R. Mitra

7 Nitrate migration in the regional groundwater recharge zone (Lwówek region, Poland)
K. Dragon

8 Adsorption and desorption parameters of erythromycin migration in saturated porous media based on column tests
M. Okon´ska & K. Pietrewicz

Comparison and validation of different methods of groundwater vulnerability assessment for different groundwater systems

9 Groundwater vulnerability and risk assessment in Kaduna metropolis, northwest Nigeria
M.S. Ahmed, A.I. Tanko, M.M. Badamasi & A. Abdulhamid

10 Evaluation of the comparison of four groundwater vulnerability methodologies: a case study of Dahomey Basin shallow aquifers, Nigeria
S.A. Oke & D. Vermeulen

11 Vulnerability assessment of the Karst aquifer feeding Pertuso spring in Central Italy
G. Sappa, F. Ferranti & F.M. De Filippi

Groundwater vulnerability mapping – examples of different national approaches

12 The groundwater contamination potential risk evaluation: an all-country wide approach for protection planning
M.V. Civita

13 The methodology of assessing groundwater vulnerability applied to Hydrogeological Map of Poland scale 1:50 000
P. Herbich, M. Woz´nicka & M. Nidental

14 Groundwater vulnerability assessment for the Hydrogeological Map of Poland 1:50 000 and Major Groundwater Reservoirs projects
K. Józ´wiak, J. Mikołajków, M. Nidental & M. Woz´nicka

15 Irish groundwater vulnerability mapping and Groundwater Protection Schemes: past, present and future
M. Lee, C. Kelly, R. Meehan, C. Hickey & N. Hunter Williams