Abstract
Though traditionally considered to be less vulnerable to pollution than surface water, the groundwater resources face multiple sources of contamination during the recent times. In this paper, we employed modified SINTACS (Normal and Severe) model over a region known for thick clusters of leather processing industries, and dependence of domestic and industrial water supply on groundwater resources. Several parameters including, depth to groundwater, effective infiltration, unsaturated zone attenuation capacity, soil attenuation capacity, hydrogeological characteristics of the aquifer, hydraulic conductivity and topographical slope were spatially evaluated and subjected to overlay analysis after assigning appropriate ratings and weights to identify the different vulnerability levels in the study area. The results show that, the groundwater vulnerability to pollution is very high on the eastern part of the study area, under the influences of gentle slope, alluvial soil and higher permeability. In addition, scattered occurrences of vulnerable zones aligned along the river course are also identified.
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