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Groundwater Quality Evolution Under Urbanization in Beijing Urban Area, Northern China

https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2014.15855
Hong-Bin Yang
School of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chang'an University, Xi'an 710054, P.R. China
Ming-Zhu Liu
School of Water Resources and Environment, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, P.R. China
Hong-Han Chen
School of Water Resources and Environment, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, P.R. China
Guo-Ping He
Beijing Institute of Water, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Water Authority, Beijing 100044, P.R. China
Xunhong Chen
School of Nature Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE 68583-0996, USA
Dong-Hui Cheng
School of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chang'an University, Xi'an 710054, P.R. China

Corresponding Author(s) : Ming-Zhu Liu

liumz@cugb.edu.cn

Asian Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 26 No. 4 (2014): Vol 26 Issue 4

Abstract

Groundwater quality data from 1960 to 2008 were analyzed to determine hydrogeochemical evolution under urbanization in Beijing urban area in the North China Plain. The results demonstrated that urbanization had a significant impact on major groundwater chemistry composition of Ca2+, Mg2+, K+, Na+, HCO3–, Cl–, NO3– and SO42- in this aquifer. Cl– and NO3– primarily originate from urban activities. The changes of concentrate of Ca2+, Mg2+, HCO3– and SO42- were partially attributed to carbonate and sulfate mineral dissolution, as well as to the anthropogenic inputs and these ions were under the control of responding mineral dissolution equilibrium. Urbanization processes led to the different hydrogeochemical facies which correspond to three stages in urbanization process, respectively. The saturation indices of calcite, aragonite, dolomite, gypsum, anhydrite and halite exhibited a wave-shaped increase from natural groundwater to urban groundwater. Mineral dissolution could occur when SI > 0 and mineral precipitation could occur when SI < 0. The critical SI value controlling the transition between dissolution and precipitation for these minerals was not applicable to all hydrogeochemical conditions.

Keywords

Urban groundwater Temporal evolution Hydrochemistry Urbanization Beijing
Yang, H.-B., Liu, M.-Z., Chen, H.-H., He, G.-P., Chen, X., & Cheng, D.-H. (2014). Groundwater Quality Evolution Under Urbanization in Beijing Urban Area, Northern China. Asian Journal of Chemistry, 26(4), 1069–1076. https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2014.15855
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