Software Platform for pollution risk assesment in the case of soil
and groundwater based on GIS technology and in-situ electrokinetic
bioremediation technologies – BIOREGIS

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Objectives

The project intends to develop an ensemble of software modules, integrated in a single platform, suitable for oil products based pollution risk management through processes of identification, analysis, monitoring/systematic reporting of soil and groundwater pollution risk factors, through execution of plans to reduce pollution by means of involvement of some innovative in-situ technologies based on electrokinetic bioremediation associated with their efficiency evaluation during the entire life cycle of the project.

Software implementation will use modalities that are similar to those met in the specific reference European methodology, integrating the application of geographical information systems (GIS) through specialized modules and the involvement of imagistic controlling that will provide significant information on the health state of a specific area towards an interested authority and will contribute to take strategical and tactical decisions in order to prevent and to act by means of planning, budgeting and monitoring of the economical/social performance. The obtained values of the indicators of soil and groundwater oil pollution will be represented at territorial scale, so that digital maps will be obtained; on their basis critical areas will be evidenced in the case of pollution and the information maintenance/updating will be kept in a spatial database, a history of these interest values being able to be built.

Innovative accelerated in-situ remediation technologies will be provided to decontaminate (based on bacterial innoculus and electrokinetic dispersion) soil and groundwater. Through integration of the information provided by software tools and remediation technologies, elaboration of an assesment methodology of cost-profit ratio and risk are in view, that are significant for interested stakeholders (scientific, industrial, public/administrative ones) to build a definition framework for a best practice in the field.

The present project thus deals with the following general objectives:
    • building the structure of relational, standardized databases, in order to store information characteristic to soil pollution
       risk analysis and its remediation;
    • improvement of the risk pollution assessment methodology for Romania and its informatical implementation;
    • development of software platform for evaluation and pollution risk management, based on GIS technologies,
       that leads to the achievement of the following measurable objectives correlated with the project Work Plan:
            • relational, standardized, databases structures compatible with GIS format;
            • research reports regarding the improvements added to pollution risk assessment methodology;
            • hazard-vulnerability-risk software modules based on the improved pollution risk assessment methodology;
            • a functional pollution risk assessment software platform.

Due to the complexity of the analysis, the deep approach of each distinct component is necessary, so that it is to be able to optimally contribute within the entire ensemble towards application of a hazard-vulnerability-risk assessment methodology at the impact level of soil and groundwater pollution for the specific pilot area selected for the analysis.