Assessing and mapping groundwater vulnerability to contamination: The Italian "combined" approach
Early in the eighties the Italian scientific community, together with institutional decision-makers, realized the urgency of protecting environmental resources. The VAZAR' project was set up in 1984, as part of the GNDCI-CNR2 scientific context, Research Line, 4 "Aquifer Vulnerability Asse...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2004 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Geofísica Internacional |
| Idioma: | español inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistagi.geofisica.unam.mx:article/776 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://revistagi.geofisica.unam.mx/index.php/RGI/article/view/776 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Aguas subterráneas vulnerabilidad contaminación GIS SINTACS Groundwater vulnerability contamination |
| Sumario: | Early in the eighties the Italian scientific community, together with institutional decision-makers, realized the urgency of protecting environmental resources. The VAZAR' project was set up in 1984, as part of the GNDCI-CNR2 scientific context, Research Line, 4 "Aquifer Vulnerability Assessment". Groundwater contamination was examined in this project. The Italian approach to assessing and mapping groundwater vulnerability to contamination is based on: a) the GNDCI Basic Method, a HCS type approach that can be used for any type of Italian hydrogeologic situation, even where there is a limited number of data. A unified legend and symbols are also defined for each hydrogeologic level. b) The SINTACS method, a PCSM developed for use prevalently in areas with a good data base coverage. The methodological approach described in this paper now makes up the Italian standard in Italian Law (152/993) ratified in the national guide lines produced by ANPA, the Italian National Agency for Environment Protection. |
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