Establishing indices for groundwater contamination risk assessment in the vicinity of hazardous waste landfills in China

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 165, Issue , 2012, Pages 77-90

  Li, Ying ^a   Li, Jinhui ^a   Chen, Shusheng ^b   Diao, Weihua ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Dongjiang Environmental Company Limited   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental risk assessment (ERA); Groundwater contamination; Hazardous waste; Indices system; Landfill

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT INDEX; ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; HAZARDOUS WASTE LANDFILLS; HAZARDOUS WASTES; INDICES SYSTEM; INPUT DATAS; LANDFILL MANAGEMENT; LEACHATES; MANAGEMENT METHOD; MULTIMEDIA MODELS; SOURCE TERMS;

CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; LAND FILL; LEACHATE TREATMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

GROUND WATER;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HAZARDOUS WASTE; LANDFILL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CHINA; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HAZARDOUS WASTE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANDFILL LEACHATE; POLLUTION CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CHINA; GROUNDWATER; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA;

EID: 84862802130     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.12.042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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