Groundwater quality assessment and optimization of monitored wells using multivariate geostatistical techniques in Amol-Babol Plain, Iran

Groundwater plays an essential role for human, animal, and plant life as well as an indispensable resource for the economy, especially in arid and semi-arid region. Appropriate monitoring strategies are required to assess the conditions of groundwater quality in the aquifer system, prevention of...

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Main Author:	Narany, Tahoora Sheikhy
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	Environmental technology Groundwater - Quality
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/67798/1/FPAS%202015%2011%20IR.pdf
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spelling	my-upm-ir.677982019-03-29T01:57:39Z Groundwater quality assessment and optimization of monitored wells using multivariate geostatistical techniques in Amol-Babol Plain, Iran 2015-03 Narany, Tahoora Sheikhy Groundwater plays an essential role for human, animal, and plant life as well as an indispensable resource for the economy, especially in arid and semi-arid region. Appropriate monitoring strategies are required to assess the conditions of groundwater quality in the aquifer system, prevention of a potential threat to human health, and measurement of the efficiency of water protection. The main aim of this study is to assess and redesign the information-cost-effective groundwater monitoring network using geostatistical techniques in Amol-Babol Plain, Iran. The integration of multivariate statistical methods with geostatistical interpolation techniques revealed that salinity and total and faecal coliforms as time independent variables and hardness as a time dependent variable influenced the groundwater quality in the study area. The graphical geochemical analyses justified that the groundwater types vary from fresh water type in the west and south sides, to brackish-saline water type in central and eastern sides, and to saline water on the north-eastern area. Hydrogeochemical investigation revealed that evaporation/precipitation and dissolution of carbonate minerals as dominant factors, which control groundwater salinity and hardness in the study area, respectively. Since the agricultural lands cover more than 80% of the plain, the newly devised GIS-Index integration approach was proposed in order to identify the suitability of groundwater for irrigation usage and to determine suitable zones for irrigation activities based on the irrigation water quality index (IWQ) and hydrogeological factors. The index approach shows that more than 90% of the total study area has good to excellent suitability condition for irrigation purpose. Groundwater quality assessment based on the data obtained from arbitrary sampling wells might be presented redundant or shortage of information. Therefore, monitoring network wells should be optimized in information-cost-effective way, based on the current groundwater quality data and vulnerability of aquifer to contamination. DRASTIC model was applied as a vulnerability assessment method based on the physical environmental aquifer parameters for assessing potential risk zone of aquifer to contamination, which showed more than 88% of the total area was classified as low to moderate risk to pollutant. A new optimization approach was proposed for redesign monitoring network wells using optimization algorithm based on the vulnerability of aquifer to contaminations, estimation error of sampling wells, nearest distance between wells, and source of contamination in the study area. Application of mass estimation error revealed that 100 and 74 sampling wells are suitable scenarios for monitoring natural and anthropogenic contaminant, respectively. Combination of the selected scenarios in GIS showed that contaminant mass detection capacity of around 86% can be obtained from 114 sampling wells, instead of 154 initial sampling wells. Environmental technology Groundwater - Quality 2015-03 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/67798/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/67798/1/FPAS%202015%2011%20IR.pdf text en public doctoral Universiti Putra Malaysia Environmental technology Groundwater - Quality
institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
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topic	Environmental technology Groundwater - Quality
spellingShingle	Environmental technology Groundwater - Quality Narany, Tahoora Sheikhy Groundwater quality assessment and optimization of monitored wells using multivariate geostatistical techniques in Amol-Babol Plain, Iran
description	Groundwater plays an essential role for human, animal, and plant life as well as an indispensable resource for the economy, especially in arid and semi-arid region. Appropriate monitoring strategies are required to assess the conditions of groundwater quality in the aquifer system, prevention of a potential threat to human health, and measurement of the efficiency of water protection. The main aim of this study is to assess and redesign the information-cost-effective groundwater monitoring network using geostatistical techniques in Amol-Babol Plain, Iran. The integration of multivariate statistical methods with geostatistical interpolation techniques revealed that salinity and total and faecal coliforms as time independent variables and hardness as a time dependent variable influenced the groundwater quality in the study area. The graphical geochemical analyses justified that the groundwater types vary from fresh water type in the west and south sides, to brackish-saline water type in central and eastern sides, and to saline water on the north-eastern area. Hydrogeochemical investigation revealed that evaporation/precipitation and dissolution of carbonate minerals as dominant factors, which control groundwater salinity and hardness in the study area, respectively. Since the agricultural lands cover more than 80% of the plain, the newly devised GIS-Index integration approach was proposed in order to identify the suitability of groundwater for irrigation usage and to determine suitable zones for irrigation activities based on the irrigation water quality index (IWQ) and hydrogeological factors. The index approach shows that more than 90% of the total study area has good to excellent suitability condition for irrigation purpose. Groundwater quality assessment based on the data obtained from arbitrary sampling wells might be presented redundant or shortage of information. Therefore, monitoring network wells should be optimized in information-cost-effective way, based on the current groundwater quality data and vulnerability of aquifer to contamination. DRASTIC model was applied as a vulnerability assessment method based on the physical environmental aquifer parameters for assessing potential risk zone of aquifer to contamination, which showed more than 88% of the total area was classified as low to moderate risk to pollutant. A new optimization approach was proposed for redesign monitoring network wells using optimization algorithm based on the vulnerability of aquifer to contaminations, estimation error of sampling wells, nearest distance between wells, and source of contamination in the study area. Application of mass estimation error revealed that 100 and 74 sampling wells are suitable scenarios for monitoring natural and anthropogenic contaminant, respectively. Combination of the selected scenarios in GIS showed that contaminant mass detection capacity of around 86% can be obtained from 114 sampling wells, instead of 154 initial sampling wells.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Doctorate
author	Narany, Tahoora Sheikhy
author_facet	Narany, Tahoora Sheikhy
author_sort	Narany, Tahoora Sheikhy
title	Groundwater quality assessment and optimization of monitored wells using multivariate geostatistical techniques in Amol-Babol Plain, Iran
title_short	Groundwater quality assessment and optimization of monitored wells using multivariate geostatistical techniques in Amol-Babol Plain, Iran
title_full	Groundwater quality assessment and optimization of monitored wells using multivariate geostatistical techniques in Amol-Babol Plain, Iran
title_fullStr	Groundwater quality assessment and optimization of monitored wells using multivariate geostatistical techniques in Amol-Babol Plain, Iran
title_full_unstemmed	Groundwater quality assessment and optimization of monitored wells using multivariate geostatistical techniques in Amol-Babol Plain, Iran
title_sort	groundwater quality assessment and optimization of monitored wells using multivariate geostatistical techniques in amol-babol plain, iran
granting_institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
publishDate	2015
url	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/67798/1/FPAS%202015%2011%20IR.pdf
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Groundwater quality assessment and optimization of monitored wells using multivariate geostatistical techniques in Amol-Babol Plain, Iran

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