Risk assessment in engineering decision-making on ground water protection from pollution

Summary

Protecting ground waters from pollution often involves the evaluation of uncertainty effect. Investigating preferred options with an account of the uncertainty of initial parameters is most perspective. The decision-making pattern under uncertainty conditions demonstrated by the example of justifying the option of ground water protection from manganese pollution resulted from infiltration of polluted surface runoff coming from wastewater settling tanks is presented.

Key words

pollution , ground water protection , risk , criterion , confidence factor , option selection