Spatial Assessment of Impacts on Water Quality due to Highway Development Project

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Abstract

Assessment of impacts on water quality attributes is an essential component of environmental impact assessment (EIA) required for the planning of all major road projects. Most of the parameters involved for assessing impact on water quality attributes are spatial in nature and for a rational assessment it is necessary to quantify the impacts on individual attributes considering their spatial variations. In this paper a methodology is demonstrated with reference to a case study of highway development project in India, for the quantification of impact on individual water quality attributes. The spatial variation of impacts is captured with the help of Geographic Information System
(GIS).

Keywords

Spatial assessment

water quality

highway project

quantification of impacts

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The authors declare they have no competing interests.

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