Delineation of Groundwater Potential Zones of Coastal Groundwater Basin Using Multi-Criteria Decision Making Technique

Uday Mandal (), Satiprasad Sahoo (), Selva Balaji Munusamy (), Anirban Dhar (), Sudhindra N. Panda (), Amlanjyoti Kar () and Prasanta K. Mishra ()
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Uday Mandal: ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil & Water Conservation
Satiprasad Sahoo: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Selva Balaji Munusamy: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Anirban Dhar: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Sudhindra N. Panda: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Amlanjyoti Kar: CGWB
Prasanta K. Mishra: ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil & Water Conservation Dehradun

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2016, vol. 30, issue 12, No 15, 4293-4310

Abstract: Abstract Delineation of groundwater potential zones (GWPZ) has been performed for a coastal groundwater basin of eastern India. The groundwater potential zone index (GWPZI) map is generated by using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) from different influencing features, e.g., Land Use/Land Cover (LU/LC), soil (S), geomorphology (GM), hydrogeology (HG), surface geology (SG), recharge rate (RR), drainage density (DD), rainfall (RF), slope (Sl), surface water bodies (SW), lineament density (LD), and Normalized Difference Vegetative Index (NDVI). Recharge rate values are estimated from hydrological water balance model. Overlay weighted sum method is used to integrate all thematic feature maps to generate GWPZ map of the study area. Four zones have been identified for the coastal groundwater basin [very good: 36.39 % (273.53 km2, good: 43.57 % (327.47 km2), moderate: 18.27 % (137.30 km2), and poor: 1.77 % (13.27 km2)]. Areas in north to south-west and south-east direction show very good GWPZ due to the presence of low drainage density. GWPZ map and well yield values show good agreement. Sensitivity analysis reveals that exclusion/absence of rainfall and lineament density increases the poor groundwater potential zones. Omission of hydrogeology, soils, surface geology, and NDVI show maximum increase in good GWPZ. Obtained GWPZ map can be utilized effectively for planning of sustainable agriculture. This analysis demonstrates the potential applicability of the methodology for a general coastal groundwater basin.

Keywords: Coastal groundwater basin; Groundwater potential zone; Analytical hierarchy process (AHP); Remote sensing (RS); Geographic information system (GIS) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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