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Membrane Water Treatment
  Volume 10, Number 4, July 2019 , pages 313-320
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/mwt.2019.10.4.313
 

Evaluation of Meymeh Aquifer vulnerability to nitrate pollution by GIS and statistical methods
Javad Tabatabaei and Leila Gorji

 
Abstract
    Increasing the concentration of nitrate ions in the soil solution and then leaching it to underground aquifers increases the concentration of nitrate in the water, and can cause many health and ecological problems. This study was conducted to evaluate the vulnerability of Meymeh aquifer to nitrate pollution. In this research, sampling of 10 wells was performed according to standard sampling principles and analyzed in the laboratory by spectrophotometric method, then; the nitrate concentration zonation map was drawn by using intermediate models. In the drastic model, the effective parameters for assessing the vulnerability of groundwater aquifers, including the depth of ground water, pure feeding, aquifer environment, soil type, topography slope, non-saturated area and hydraulic conductivity. Which were prepared in the form of seven layers in the ARC GIS software, and by weighting and ranking and integrating these seven layers, the final map of groundwater vulnerability to contamination was prepared. Drastic index estimated for the region between 75-128. For verification of the model, nitrate concentration data in groundwater of the region were used, which showed a relative correlation between the concentration of nitrate and the prepared version of the model. A combination of two vulnerability map and nitrate concentration zonation was provided a qualitative aquifer classification map. According to this map, most of the study areas are within safe and low risk, and only a small portion of the Meymeh Aquifer, which has a nitrate concentration of more than 50 mg / L in groundwater, is classified in a hazardous area.
 
Key Words
    nitrate contamination; GIS; Meymeh aquifer; drastic model
 
Address
Javad Tabatabaei: Department of petroleum engineering and geology, Meymeh branch, Islamic Azad University, Meymeh, Iran
Leila Gorji: Department of Geology, Meymeh branch, Islamic Azad University, Meymeh, Iran
 

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