Study to delineate arsenic safe and unsafe aquifers by hydrogeological microbiological and numerical methods

Abstract

Arsenic contaminated groundwater aquifers viz lt 70 m in the alluvial floodplain of Brahmaputra have recently been reported as serious health concern since last one decade Deposition of suspended sediments carried by numerous tributaries over a flat terrain of BFP and Ganga Meghana flood plain i e West Bengal India and Bangladesh have the manifest equal potential of the source Geogenic source of arsenic and the cause for mobilization in shallow aquifers of Brahmaputra flood plain BFP...