Lessons learned from the 2013 Calgary flood: Assessing risk of drinking water well contamination |
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Institution: | 1. Geology Dep., Faculty of Science, Sohag Univ., 82524 Sohag, Egypt;2. BGR Hannover, Stilleweg 2, 30655 Hannover, Germany;1. Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Deltares, Delft, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | A devastating flood occurred in southern Alberta on June 19, 2013, from greater than normal snowfalls in the Rocky Mountains and excess precipitation during the early spring that left soils saturated and unable to absorb any additional precipitation. This flood was Canada's most costly natural disaster, with five to six billion Canadian dollars in damages. The first objective of this study was to determine if the flood caused an increase in private drinking water well contamination in the Calgary Health Zone by comparing contamination rates to previous years. The second objective was to determine which environmental factors were associated with contamination during this flood event. Test results of total coliforms (TC) and Escherichia coli (EC) of private water wells were used to determine contamination. A geographically weighted Poisson regression analysis suggested that TC contamination was not associated with this flood. The EC contamination is positively associated with floodways, flood fringe, farms, and negatively associated with intermittent water (sloughs). These results suggest that for the 2013 flood, individual well characteristics are more important than surrounding geographic features. Thus, it is recommended that homeowners who live in a high-risk area ensure their wells are properly maintained to reduce risk of water well contamination. |
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Keywords: | Flood Water quality Water well Spatial analysis Geographically weighted regression Calgary Alberta TC"} {"#name":"keyword" "$":{"id":"kwrd0050"} "$$":[{"#name":"text" "_":"Total Coliforms EC"} {"#name":"keyword" "$":{"id":"kwrd0060"} "$$":[{"#name":"text" "$$":[{"#name":"italic" "_":"Escherichia coli PGLM"} {"#name":"keyword" "$":{"id":"kwrd0070"} "$$":[{"#name":"text" "_":"Poisson generalized linear model GW-PGLM"} {"#name":"keyword" "$":{"id":"kwrd0080"} "$$":[{"#name":"text" "_":"Geographically Weighted Poisson generalized linear model |
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