Assessment of groundwater vulnerability to pollution: a combination of GIS, fuzzy logic and decision making techniques

被引:94
作者
Gemitzi, A [1 ]
Petalas, C
Tsihrintzis, VA
Pisinaras, V
机构
[1] Democritus Univ Thrace, Lab Ecol Engn & Technol, Dept Environm Engn, Sch Engn, GR-67100 Xanthi, Greece
[2] Reg Author Easrtern Macedonia Thrace, Dept Water Resources Management, Komotini 69100, Greece
来源
ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY | 2006年 / 49卷 / 05期
关键词
groundwater vulnerability; fuzzy logic; multicriteria evaluation; geographic information systems;
D O I
10.1007/s00254-005-0104-1
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
The assessment of groundwater vulnerability to pollution aims at highlighting areas at a high risk of being polluted. This study presents a methodology, to estimate the risk of an aquifer to be polluted from concentrated and/or dispersed sources, which applies an overlay and index method involving several parameters. The parameters are categorized into three factor groups: factor group 1 includes parameters relevant to the internal aquifer system's properties, thus determining the intrinsic aquifer vulnerability to pollution; factor group 2 comprises parameters relevant to the external stresses to the system, such as human activities and rainfall effects; factor group 3 incorporates specific geological settings, such as the presence of geothermal fields or salt intrusion zones, into the computation process. Geographical information systems have been used for data acquisition and processing, coupled with a multicriteria evaluation technique enhanced with fuzzy factor standardization. Moreover, besides assigning weights to factors, a second set of weights, i.e., order weights, has been applied to factors on a pixel by pixel basis, thus allowing control of the level of risk in the vulnerability determination and the enhancement of local site characteristics. Individual analysis of each factor group resulted in three intermediate groundwater vulnerability to pollution maps, which were combined in order to produce the final composite groundwater vulnerability map for the study area. The method has been applied in the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (Northern Greece), an area of approximately 14,000 km(2) stop. The methodology has been tested and calibrated against the measured nitrate concentration in wells, in the northwest part of the study area, providing results related to the aggregation and weighting procedure.
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页码:653 / 673
页数:21
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