ABSTRACT
Vulnerability models are important in the study of water contamination by different soil usage activities. This research’s goal is to evaluate the contamination risk by the presence of an urban solid waste disposal site (UWDS) within the surface water catchment basins (SWCB) used in the public water supply of Goiás, Brazil. Identification and characterization of SWCBs and UWDSs have been done in a geographical identification system using the QGis2.12.0 Lyon software. The information overlapping allowed the identification of SWCBs that had an UWDS within its limits, applying to them the Susceptibility Index (SI), composed by intrinsic and extrinsic SWCB characteristics. Calculating the average vulnerability, SWCBs, which presented the highest risk of water contamination, were selected and had their UWDSs analyzed by six technical parameters. This way, 204 SWCBs and 228 UWDSs were identified, out of which 93% were classified as irregular dumping sites. The SI was calculated for each SWCB that had the presence of UWDSs within their areas (43 SWCBs with 69 UWDSs), pointing the 9 most vulnerable ones, which had 18 UWDSs within its limits. The interdependence of the evaluated parameters allowed to calculate the risk in these UWDSs. In conclusion, the vulnerability evaluation has been proven effective and of great relevance in the identification of the SWCBs most susceptible to water contamination, and it can be applied to other studies. In Goiás, the analysis allowed the existing risk calculation for each of the 18 UWDSs, out of which 4 were found high-risk being in need of priority adequation and remediation.
Keywords:
leachate contamination; dump; water supply quality; environmental vulnerability
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