Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
7-1-2001
Keywords
Groundwater, Northwest Arkansa, Neuro-Fuzzy
Abstract
Contamination of ground water has been a major concern in recent years of local, state and federal agencies involved with the management, quality, and quantity of water and their relationships with human health. The Springfield Plateau aquifer, which lies beneath the study area in northwest Arkansas, has been shown to have higher nitrate-N (NO3-N) concentrations than the national median. The dominant landuse (LULC) of this area is agriculture (primarily pasture/cattle and woodlands) and an encroaching urbanization. The major sources of nitrogen in the study area are poultry/cattle wastes, inorganic fertilizers (Peterson et. al., 1998) and septic filter fields. Many of the soils in the Ozark Region are highly permeable and well drained and the geology is karst. The probability of pollution occurring at a given location is a function not only of its hydrogeologic setting but also of anthropogenic pollution in the area (Evans, 1990).
Citation
Dixon, B.; Scott, H. D.; Brahana, J. V.; and Mauromoustakos, A.. 2001. Application of Neuro-Fuzzy Technique+2:9s to Predict Ground Water Vulnerability in Northwest Arkansas. Arkansas Water Resources Center, Fayetteville, AR. PUB 183. 66
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/awrctr/57
Report Number
PUB 183
Page
66
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