[PDF] Top 20 Assessing Groundwater Vulnerability in Azraq Basin Area by a Modified DRASTIC Index

... The Azraq Basin is one of the important ground water basins in ...The Basin is lo- cated in the northeastern part of the country, extending northwards into Syria and southwards touching the bor- der ... See full document

... of Azraq in Fuhais area would be classi- fied as a vulnerable area that could be highly contaminated by the treated wastewater and other sources in the ...high vulnerability were identified by ... See full document

... other vulnerability assessments that can be used to generate digital maps that can highlight areas of groundwater that are vulnerable to nitrate contamination using spatial ...the DRASTIC model, ... See full document

... Groundwater vulnerability is an overlay method that is used to determine the ability of pollutants to penetrate to the target aquifer and to harm ...pollute groundwater aquifers as caused by human ... See full document

... the assessing the groundwater ...in assessing the aquifer vulnerability in ...in assessing the vulnerability in the study ...The groundwater vulnerability to ... See full document

... the vulnerability is used of the DRASTIC model and GIS. DRASTIC model is one of the tools created to protect groundwater that first introduced by ...the groundwater movement into, ... See full document

... aquifer vulnerability to con- taminations were however, not conducted in the ...the vulnerability of groundwater to contamina- tion in Kaduna metropolis using DRASTIC Index model ...in ... See full document

... The DRASTIC method is the most common method to assess groundwater vulnerability to pollution (Denny et ...study area and its specificity (Denny et ...the DRASTIC model to the ... See full document

... is located at the northwest of Khuzestan Province (140 km from Ahvaz City). It is a portion of folded Zagros sedimentary- structural basin. From the stratigraphy viewpoint, the most important sedimentary units ... See full document

... final groundwater vulnerability map was obtained using the seven data layers in GIS environment (Figure ...the DRASTIC vulnerability index in this studied was between 26 and ...the ... See full document

... aquifer vulnerability of Coimbatore South Taluk employing the empirical index DRASTIC model of the ...to groundwater, Net recharge, Aquifer media, Soil media, Topography, Impact of vadose zone ... See full document

... in Azraq area play an important role in the loca- lization of oil in the reservoirs, where carbonate reservoirs are capped by shale and argillaceous limestone which are sufficiently thick to cap underlying ... See full document

... Kahe-Mtakuja basin aimed at appraising the potential of the basin as a source of groundwater by establish- ing shallow stratigraphy and delineating aquifer ...Kahe-Mtakuja basin has shallow ... See full document

... of groundwater in the aquifer medium is important in determining the time for attenuation processes, such as sorption, reactivity and dispersion to occur along with the amount of effective surface area of ... See full document

... the area, demand for water has significantly increased due to a very high rate of urbanization and industrialization in past two ...of groundwater in the area is far less than its consumption ... See full document

... The DRASTIC method, which belongs to the group of weighted classes, is a system that was developed by [3] as a means to evaluate the intrinsic vertical groundwater vulnerability to pollution by ... See full document

... The reliability of data, moreover, can vary widely with a mean elevation of the investigated area. A sharp de- crease in the reliability of results is above a compara- tively low altitude (300-400 m a.s.l.) due to ... See full document

... In this research, the Boolean techniques will be used in selecting the optimum sites for groundwater recharge within the study area, Jordan. The implementation of this technique could be done through the ... See full document

... study area range from 68 to 183 (Fig. 3). Nearly one third of the study area shows DRAS- TIC values above 160, indicating a high groundwater pol- lution ...land area in the centre of the study ... See full document

... Water is one of the most important natural resources for all the living organisms, whether unicellular or multi cellular, since it is required for their various metabolic activities. In addition, water is required for ... See full document