Need for Control Agencies to Update Today's Conceptual Basis for Groundwater Quality Requirements and Subsurface Evaluation Guidelines.

摘要

This paper proposes that: (1) the implicit assumptions forming the conceptual basis of today's subsurface water quality control requirements and evaluation guidelines are too simple, (2) such unrealistic simplicity means the present conceptual basis is incomplete, (3) the bottom-line result is incomplete, which leads to poor quality technical evaluations. Also, because of the simplified and incomplete conceptual basis, there are a continuing proliferation of control regulations and an ever growing stream of more complicated guidelines. Each guideline inacted to clarify the earlier flawed position. Such a Band-Aid over Band-Aid upon Band-Aid approach for covering the incomplete and too simplistic basis is doomed from the outset. The real solution lies in changing the incomplete basis and starting afresh with realistic regulations and key meaningful fundamental technical guidelines. 2 refs.