Comparative study for assessing vulnerability to pollution in El Asnam plain, North of Algeria

Abstract

Assessment of the groundwater contamination is an efficient means to discover and carry out the demarcation of the more vulnerable zones to pollution from human activities. This study is focused on the plain of El Asnam (Northern Algeria) characterized by intensive agricultural activities. To protect the groundwater from pollution, it is necessary to determine vulnerable areas. This paper aims to generate groundwater vulnerability map using two models: DRASTIC and Susceptibility Index (SI) associated with geographic information system (GIS) of El Asnam plain aquifer. The Validation of these models to pollution was performed by comparing the nitrate distribution across the area with the classes of vulnerability and has proved that the SI model is the more valid one with 50% of the study area. Considering these results, the SI model may serve as an effective means to help the protection of groundwater and can eventually be used by the decision makers and the groundwater managers.

Groundwater pollution risk in the region of Bouira (north center of Algeria): origin and consequences on health

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Groundwater vulnerability assessment using a GIS-based DRASTIC method in the Erbil Dumpsite area (Kani Qirzhala), Central Erbil Basin, North Iraq

“…Notable groundwater vulnerability assessment methods include DRASTIC (Aller et al 1987), GOD (Foster, 1987), AVI (Van Stempvoort et al 1993), SINTACS (Civita 1994) and SI (Ribeiro, 2000). Amongst these, DRASTIC stands out as the most popular and widely used empirical rank/scorebased index method for vulnerability evaluation, developed by Aller et al (1987) for the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (Boufekane et al 2021;Rezig et al 2022;El Yousfi et al 2023). DRASTIC method relies on seven hydrogeological parameters, namely depth to water table (D), net recharge (R), aquifer media (A), soil media (S), topography (T), impact of the vadose zone (I) and hydraulic conductivity (C) (Metwally et al 2023).…”

Groundwater vulnerability assessment using a GIS-based DRASTIC method in Erbil Dumpsite area (Kani Qirzhala), Central Erbil Basin, North Iraq

“…For this reason, researchers have developed various methodologies, which are more economic and easier to apply and do not require a lot of data and complex computations (Kumar et (Civita 1994) and SI (Ribeiro 2000). Amongst them, DRASTIC is the most popular and widely used empirical rank/score based index method for vulnerability evaluation, developed by Aller et al (1987) for the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (Boufekane et al 2021;Rezig et al 2022). This method is based on seven hydrogeological parameters, namely depth to water table (D), net recharge (R), aquifer media (A), soil media (S), topography (T), impact of the vadose zone (I) and hydraulic conductivity (C) (Metwally et al 2022).…”