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Ground Water Vulnerability Assessment : Predicting Relative Contamination Potential under Conditions of Uncertainty.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
National Academies Press,
1900.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""GROUND WATER VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""The Vulnerability Assessment Process""; ""MANAGEMENT""; ""APPROACHES TO VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT""; ""Uncertainty in Vulnerability Assessment""; ""Testing and Evaluation of Vulnerability Assessments""; ""Computing Environments for Vulnerability Assessments""; ""DATA AND DATABASES""; ""CASE STUDIES""; ""RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""REFERENCE""; ""1 Introduction ""; ""PROTECTING GROUND WATER FROM FUTURE CONTAMINATION""; ""Ground Water Vulnerability to Contamination""
- ""ASSESSING GROUND WATER VULNERABILITY""""Uncertainty in the Assessment Process""; ""Elements of Vulnerability Assessment""; ""Reference Location""; ""Specific and Intrinsic Vulnerability""; ""Contaminant Pathways""; ""Spatial Scales""; ""THE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT PROCESS""; ""Case Studies""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Considerations in the Selection and Use of Vulnerability Assessments""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""EXISTING AND POTENTIAL USES FOR VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS""; ""Policy Analysis and Development""; ""Program Management""; ""Land Use Decisions""; ""Zoning and Screening""
- ""Conditioning, Mitigating, and Compliance Monitoring""""Technical Assistance""; ""General Education and Awareness""; ""FACTORS AFFECTING SELECTION AND USE OF VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS""; ""Technical Considerations""; ""Type and Form of Output""; ""Size and Characteristics of Assessment Area""; ""Availability of Data""; ""Uncertainty of Results and Impact on Use""; ""Institutional Considerations""; ""Time Frame of a Vulnerability Assessment""; ""Cost and Commitment of Personnel and Physical Resources""; ""Coordination with Other Planning Programs and Needs""
- ""Coordination with Other Agencies and Institutions""""SUMMARY""; ""3 Approaches to Vulnerability Assessments""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""REVIEW OF CURRENT APPROACHES""; ""Overlay and Index Methods""; ""Depth to Ground Water""; ""Recharge""; ""Properties of the Unsaturated Zone and Aquifer Material""; ""Discussion""; ""Process-Based Simulation Models""; ""Discussion""; ""Statistical Techniques for Vulnerability Assessment""; ""Regionalization""; ""Vulnerability Assessment""; ""UNCERTAINTY IN VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT METHODS""; ""Sources of Errors""; ""Errors in Obtaining Data""
- ""Errors Due to Natural Spatial and Temporal Variability""""Errors in Computerization (Digitizing) and Storage of Data""; ""Data Processing Errors""; ""Models and Conceptualizations""; ""Output and Visualization Errors""; ""Uncertainty Analyses""; ""Applications of FOUA to Vulnerability Assessment""; ""Uncertainty of Uncertainty Analyses""; ""TESTING AND EVALUATION OF VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS""; ""Regional-Scale Testing and Evaluation""; ""Limitations of Ground Water Quality Sampling""; ""Difficulties in Characterizing the Mobile Fraction of Contaminants""; ""Sampling Near the Water Table""