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Geoscience ›› 2024, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (03): 734-743.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2024.039

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Quantitative Ecological Risk Assessment on the Groundwater in Landfills at Regional Scale Based on Multivariate Analysis Methods

GONG Li1(), SHI Zheming1(), ZHANG Zongwen2, DING Zhenyu2, HAN Linlin1, XIE Zixuan1, CHENG Tianwei1, ZHANG Yuan1   

  1. 1. School of Water Resources and Environment, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
    2. Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning, Beijing 100041, China
  • Online:2024-06-10 Published:2024-07-04

Abstract:

The produced municipal wastes have been increasing with the urbanization process and many cities currently have formed a large number of informal landfills at the early stage.Those landfills produced leachate that poses a potential risk of contamination to the groundwater and soils due to lacking impermeable processing devices.A scie.pngic assessment on their environmental risks of those landfills is urgent for the classification and management of landfills as well as prevention of groundwater pollution.In this study, DRASTIC model, hierarchical analysis, cluster analysis, and other methods are used to construct an index system of assessment on ecological environment risks.Totally, 14 landfills in the study area were investigated as the research object to eva-luate the ecological environment risk of groundwater.Four aspects, the current status of the landfill, the danger of the landfill, the a.pngouling capacity of the unsaturated zone, and the vulnerability of the aquifer, were included in the assessment.Twenty-one indicators, such as the selected size of the landfill, actual amount of landfill, and thickness of the clay layer in the unsaturated zone, were evaluated and graded.The results show that landfill No.2 has the lowest risk score of 4.13, and landfill No.5 has the highest risk score of 7.95.After the categorization of evaluation scores of the landfills, we reached that the risk index of three landfills is in low risk, the risk index of six landfills is in medium risk, and the risk index of five landfills is in high risk.The results are generally consistent with the previous evaluation results by expert scoring, and the method proposed in this study has significant implications in managing the risk of groundwater contamination.The results of this study is also of important reference for the quantitative evaluation on the risk of key sources of contamination.

Key words: landfill, groundwater pollution risk assessment, leachate, analytic hierarchy process

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