Journal
GEOCHEMISTRY
Volume 80, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemer.2020.125609
Keywords
Groundwater environment; Water pollution; Groundwater quality; Hydrochemistry; Human activity
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Funding
- Open fund of the Key Laboratory of Subsurface Hydrology and Ecological Effects in Arid Region of the Ministry of Education [300102299505]
- youth science and technology fund of Hebei GEO University [QN201508]
- Natural Science Foundation of Education Department in Heibei Province [D2019403194]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41602238, 41761144059]
- Special Funds for Basic Scientific Research of Central Colleges [300102299301]
- Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation [161098]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2015M580804, 2016M590911, 2016T090878, 2017T100719]
- Shaanxi Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2015BSHTDZZ09, 2016BSHTDZZ03]
- Ten Thousand Talent Program [W03070125]
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Xinle City is located in the upper reaches of the Daqing River basin, north China. Influenced by intense and extensive industrial and agricultural activities, sodium and nitrate pollution of the groundwater is becoming more and more serious in the study area. With an effort to quantitatively describe the present situation of groundwater and analyze the specific sources of the main ingredients, 32 well samples were collected and analyzed for understanding the hydrochemical characteristics and the suitability for drinking and irrigation purposes. Gibbs diagrams, Piper diagrams, solubility diagram, and ionic correlation analysis were used to assess the groundwater formation process. Drinking water quality index (DWQI) based on TDS, pH, K+, Ca2+, Na+, Mg2+, Cl-, HCO3-, SO42- and NO3- was used to evaluate the quality for drinking, while irrigation water quality index (IWQI) based on EC, Na%, permeability index (PI), sodium adsorption ratio (SAR), residual sodium bicarbonate (RSBC) and magnesium (MH) were used to assess the water quality for irrigation. The results demonstrated that the groundwater hydrochemical type in Xinle City is mainly dominated by the typical Ca center dot NaHCO3 and Ca-HCO3. Groundwater in the study area was found to be suitable for long-term drinking and irrigation. The abundances of ions are Ca2+> Na+> Mg2+> K+ for cations, and HCO3-> SO42-> NO3-> Cl-> F- for anions. The concentrations of Na+ and NO3- in groundwater are high in the study area. Particularly, the value of NO3- in some water samples far exceeds the WHO and Chinese standard limits. Na+ and NO3- are mainly of anthropogenic source, and they are from industrial pollution and agricultural pollution, respectively. Therefore, reducing the concentrations of Na+ and NO3- in groundwater is essential for the sustainable utilization of groundwater resources in the study area. The recommendations suggested in this research may provide insights for decision makers to make sound groundwater quality policies, and thus could be helpful to prevent further groundwater pollution in the study area.
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