Groundwater vulnerability to nitrate pollution of alluvial aquifers in Slovenia – Lower Savinja Valley case study
The article introduced an upgraded approach to assessing the groundwater vulnerability to nitrate pollution. By using the results of fild measurements and process-based models outputs, author takes into account effects of nitrogen biogeochemical processes, that were hitherto underestimated in the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Geological Survey of Slovenia
2017-06-01
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| Series: | Geologija |
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| Online Access: | http://www.geologija-revija.si/dokument.aspx?id=1296 |
| Summary: | The article introduced an upgraded approach to assessing the groundwater vulnerability to nitrate pollution.
By using the results of fild measurements and process-based models outputs, author takes into account effects of
nitrogen biogeochemical processes, that were hitherto underestimated in the evaluation schemes. The upgraded
methodological self-validated approach to vulnerability assessment in Lower Savinja Valley case study increases
reliability and thus effectiveness of decision-making in the water management. This was achieved by using
the process-based models outputs in the new pattern classifiation schemes with the predictions of pollution
phenomena. Spatial prediction of groundwater nitrate pollution probability and vulnerability classifiation of the
study area in Lower Savinja Valley was assessed by weights-of-evidence model (WofE). The increased degree of
probability for the groundwater contamination with nitrates was determined for 62.5 percent of the aquifer area
of the Lower Savinja Valley. About 27 percent of the most nitrate vulnerable areas in Lower Savinja Valley need
groundwater nitrate mitigation through land-use measures and public sewage system construction. |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7789 1854-620X |