Abstract
 Assessment of Groundwater Pollution Risks in Production Wells with RESPOND Track: Water Resources Author(s): Bernard Raterman, Kees Vink, Gijsbert Cirkel Drinking water companies need insight into the future quality of abstracted groundwater. Activities on the surface level linked to land use mainly determine the quality of groundwater. There is fundamental uncertainty about the quality of groundwater that will be pumped in the future because measurements of groundwater quality at monitoring wells only cover a very small part of a capture zone. RESPOND (Risk Evaluation of Soil Pollution for ProductiON of Drinking water) is a recently developed modeling instrument by which risks of groundwater pollution can be assessed. This instrument can be applied efficiently within an ArcGIS ModelBuilder environment, coupled with groundwater flow and transport models in which dilution, retardation and attenuation are taken into account. RESPOND facilitates the identification of effective risk-reducing measures such as changing land use in the capture zone or selection of additional monitoring sites. Bernard Raterman Kiwa Water Research Groningenhaven 7 Nieuwegein , Utrecht 3430 BB NL Phone: +31 306069541 E-mail: Bernard.Raterman@kiwa.nl Kees Vink Kiwa Water Research Groningenhaven 7 Nieuwegein , Utrecht 3430 BB NL Phone: +31 306069556 E-mail: Kees.Vink@kiwa.nl Gijsbert Cirkel Kiwa Water Research Groningenhaven 7 Nieuwegein , Utrecht 3430 BB NL Phone: +31 306069733 E-mail: Gijsbert.Cirkel@kiwa.nl |
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