Risk Assessment for the Protection from and the Prevention of Groundwater Contamination

摘要

A methodological framework is presented for dealing with uncertainty associated with sources of groundwater contamination. The framework describes how risks (due to groundwater contamination and resulting from these uncertainties) can be assessed for any given prevention and/or correction management policy. The process of risk assessment, was followed. The aim in developing appropriate statistical models that would describe major sources of contamination (such as waste disposal) was not achieved due to inadequate availability of empirical data. A general framework for assessing risk of ground water contamination was developed to guide the research, but only exploratory investigation of ideas to implement each step in the framework was possible.