Isotopic tracing of leachate percolation from municipal solid waste dump sites to groundwater in diverse climatic zones of India.

Autor: Majee U; Centre for Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India. utpalmajee89@gmail.com., Kaushal R; Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan., Liang MC; Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan., Muguli T; National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, 247667, India., Ghosh P; Centre for Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Environmental science and pollution research international [Environ Sci Pollut Res Int] 2024 Mar; Vol. 31 (14), pp. 21829-21844. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Feb 24.
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-024-32551-3
Abstrakt: Groundwater resources in tropical regions are largely dependent on recharge by rainwater infiltration through soil layers with variable time. However, the rainwater infiltration through soil is a serious concern in urban tropics where it interacts with landfills at the dumpsites, potentially contaminating adjoining groundwater. In this study, the stable isotopic compositions of oxygen and hydrogen (δ 18 O and δ 2 H, respectively) in groundwater and leachates, adjoining municipal dumpsites in urban tropics (Bangalore, Kolkata and Durgapur located in diverse rainfall zonation of India), were analyzed to investigate their recharge sources and trace the possible mixing of leachate contaminants under three diverse climatology. The measured values of δ 18 O and δ 2 H suggested that the groundwater in these sites reflects higher recharge by rainwater. However, the d-excess values indicated secondary effects suggesting the groundwater has experienced significant modifications. The end member analysis using δ 18 O-d-excess relation pinpointed an additional leachate contribution from adjoining dumpsites. The critical fraction of leachate infiltration to groundwater quantified using two component mixing model ranged between (i) 1 and 33% in Bangalore, (ii) 5 and 13% in Kolkata and (iii) 18 and 76% in Durgapur, with its variability dependent on seasonality and aquifer connectivity. This information is crucial for groundwater management to secure water quality and to quantify potential hydrological contaminants particularly in drier seasons and drier regions, when and where the demand for groundwater is high, respectively.
(© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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