Assessment of groundwater quality around municipal solid waste landfill by using Water Quality Index for groundwater resources and multivariate statistical technique: a case study of the landfill site, Qaem Shahr City, Iran

Autor: Fazzel Amiri, Ali Mohammadi, Sima Valipoor, Amin Mousavi Khaneghah, Hossein Najafi Saleh, Sahar Ghalehaskar, Asma Zarei, Farzaneh Baghal Asghari, Mahmood Yousefi
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Environmental geochemistry and health. 42(5)
ISSN: 1573-2983
Popis: Groundwater is a precious natural water resource which can be considered as an available and safe source of water for domestic uses. In some cities in northern Iran, groundwater is being polluted due to various human activities. In this regard, the located municipal solid waste landfills close to these areas without the requested controls regarding the landfill leachate and gas emission are among the major sources of environmental pollution, which are deteriorating groundwater quality around landfill sites. In this context, the current study was aimed to assess the quality of collected groundwater samples around a landfill site using the modified Water Quality Index for groundwater resources (WQIG). Also, the water quality map has been prepared by using WQIG in GIS environment. Therefore, thirty-three groundwater samples were collected and analyzed around 11 water wells close to the landfill site. Variety of physicochemical parameters including nitrate (NO
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