| Title | A METHODOLOGY FOR SPACE-TIME CLASSIFICATION OF GROUNDWATER QUALITY |
| Abstract | Safeguarding groundwater from civil, agricultural and industrial contamination is matter
of great interest in water resource management. During recent years, much legislation has been
produced stating the importance of groundwater as a source for drinking water supplies, underlining
its vulnerability and defining the required quality standards. Thus, schematic tools, able to characterise
the quality and quantity of groundwater systems, are of very great interest in any territorial planning
and/or water resource management activity.
This paper proposes a groundwater quality classification method which has been applied to a real
aquifer, starting from several studies published by the Italian National Hydrogeologic Catastrophe
Defence Group (GNDCI).
The methodology is based on the concentration values of several parameters used as indexes of the
natural hydro-chemical water condition and of potential man-induced modifications of groundwater
quality. The resulting maps, although representative of the quality, do not include any information
on its evolution in time. In this paper, this "stationary" classification method has been improved by
crossing the quality classes with three indexes of temporal behaviour during recent years. It was then
applied to data from monitoring campaigns, performed in spring and autumn, from 1990 to 1996,
in the plain of Modena aquifer (central Italy). The results are reported in the form of space-time
classification table and maps. |
| Source | Environmental monitoring and assessment (Print) 115 (1-3), pp. 95–117 |
| Keywords | groundwater qualitywater quality classificationspace-time classificationwater resource management |
| Journal | Environmental monitoring and assessment (Print) |
| Editor | Kluwer Academic Publishers, London, Paesi Bassi |
| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Articolo in rivista |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10661-006-6547-3 |
| Authors | PASSARELLA G., CAPUTO M.C. |
| Text | 42099 2006 10.1007/s10661 006 6547 3 ISI Web of Science WOS 000238973500007 Scopus 2 s2.0 33745957837 PubMed 16502022 groundwater quality water quality classification space time classification water resource management A METHODOLOGY FOR SPACE TIME CLASSIFICATION OF GROUNDWATER QUALITY PASSARELLA G., CAPUTO M.C. PASSARELLA G. Water Research Institute, IRSA CNR, via F. De Blasio, 5, Bari, Italy CAPUTO M.C. Water Research Institute, IRSA CNR, via F. De Blasio, 5, Bari, Italy Safeguarding groundwater from civil, agricultural and industrial contamination is matter of great interest in water resource management. During recent years, much legislation has been produced stating the importance of groundwater as a source for drinking water supplies, underlining its vulnerability and defining the required quality standards. Thus, schematic tools, able to characterise the quality and quantity of groundwater systems, are of very great interest in any territorial planning and/or water resource management activity. This paper proposes a groundwater quality classification method which has been applied to a real aquifer, starting from several studies published by the Italian National Hydrogeologic Catastrophe Defence Group GNDCI . The methodology is based on the concentration values of several parameters used as indexes of the natural hydro chemical water condition and of potential man induced modifications of groundwater quality. The resulting maps, although representative of the quality, do not include any information on its evolution in time. In this paper, this stationary classification method has been improved by crossing the quality classes with three indexes of temporal behaviour during recent years. It was then applied to data from monitoring campaigns, performed in spring and autumn, from 1990 to 1996, in the plain of Modena aquifer central Italy . The results are reported in the form of space time classification table and maps. 115 http //www.springerlink.com/content/r510670543g34658/ A METHODOLOGY FOR SPACE TIME CLASSIFICATION OF GROUNDWATER QUALITY Articolo su rivista internazionale con IF Received 9 November 2004; accepted 26 April 2005 author for correspondence, e mail passarella@area.ba.cnr.it Environ_Monit_Ass_2006_.pdf Articolo in rivista Kluwer Academic Publishers 0167 6369 Environmental monitoring and assessment Print Environmental monitoring and assessment Print Environ. monit. assess. Print Environmental monitoring and assessment. Print giuseppe.passarella PASSARELLA GIUSEPPE mariaclementina.caputo CAPUTO MARIA CLEMENTINA TA.P04.021.005 Tendenze evolutive della qualita dei corpi idrici superficiali e sotterranei correlazione causa effetto e caratterizzazione. TA.P04.005.008 Integrazione di metodologie per il monitoraggio e la modellizzazione per la gestione delle risorse idriche |
