Groundwater Quality Protection (A guide for water utilities, municipal authorities, and environmental agencies)

Contents:

Foreword
Acknowledgments, Dedication

Part A: Executive Overview

Rationale for Groundwater Protection

Part B: Technical Guide

Methodological Approaches to Groundwater Protection

B1. Mapping Aquifer Pollution Vulnerability
1.1 Principles Underlying the Vulnerability Approach
1.2 Development of the Vulnerability Concept
1.3 Need for an Absolute Integrated Vulnerability Index
1.4 Application of GOD Vulnerability Index
1.5 Comparison with Other Methodologies
1.6 Limitations of Vulnerability Mapping
1.7 Procedural Issues in Vulnerability Mapping

B2. Delineation of Groundwater Supply Protection Areas
 2.1 Basis for Definition of Perimeters of Areas
 2.2 Factors Controlling Shapes of Zones
 2.3 Limitations to Supply Protection Area Concept
 2.4 Methods for Definitions of Protection Zone Perimeters
 2.5 Dealing with Scientific Uncertainty
 2.6 Perimeter Adjustment and Map Production

B3. Inventory of Subsurface Contaminant Load
 3.1 Common Cause of Groundwater Pollution
 3.2 Basic Data Collection Procedures
 3.3 Classification and Estimation of Subsurface Contaminant Load
 3.4 Estimation of Subsurface Contaminant Load
 3.5 Presentation of Results

B4. Assessment and Control of Groundwater Pollution Hazards
4.1 Evaluation of Aquifer Pollution Hazard
4.2 Evaluation of Groundwater Supply Pollution Hazard
4.3 Strategies for Control of Groundwater Pollution
4.4 Role and Approach to Groundwater Quality Monitoring
4.5 Mounting Groundwater Quality Protection Programs

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Post Date : 22 Juli 2008