Development of Vulnerability through the DRASTIC Method and Geographic Information System ( GIS ) ( Case Groundwater of Berrchid ) , Morocco

The vulnerability map is a fondamental document for the development of territory. It basically allows you to guide the siting of development projects that may have a negative impact on the quality of groundwater resources. The Geographic Information Systems are powerful tools of choice for the development of vulnerability maps of aquifers, they facilitate multicriteria analysis and updated models developed. Given the strategic role of the underground water Berrechid in the economic and social development of the region of Bouregreg-chaouia, development, we proceeded to develop the vulnerability map of this area by exploiting the features offered by the GIS Arc GIS 9.3 extensions Spatial Analysis Tools and Geostatistical Analyst allowed us to calculate the indices of seven parameters of the DRASTIC method, these indices were classified into five categories: Extreme, High, Medium, Low, Very Low. Developed the card can be used as a tool for decision support in planning and helps to preserve the groundwater in the area Berrechid and surrounding areas.


Introduction
The groundwater is an important resource exploited for human consumption and for use in agricultural and industrial fields.These waters are often threatened by contamination with a various kind of pollutants: biological, chemical or physical.The Prevention against the groundwater pollution is an important step, which scientists agree more effort, including exploring the vulnerability of groundwater.
Our studies made on the Groundwater of Berrechid This one is located in a plain mainly exploited for agriculture, with a consumption of ever increasing use of chemical fertilizers.Thus, this work was carried out in order to check the validity of the method of standard DRASTIC vulnerability [1].It takes into account the intrinsic characteristics of the aquifer by exposing his predisposition or vulnerability to pollution-related activity from the soil surface.
The DRASTIC method only takes into account the hydrogeological factors influencing vulnerability.
These physical properties that play a role in the migration and attenuation of contaminants in the soil complex ventilated area aquifer.Seven parameters are considered: the depth of the water, the annual effective aquifer recharge, aquifer lithology, soil type, topography, impact of the vadose zone and hydraulic conductivity the aquifer.
Seven parameters are considered: the depth of the water, the annual effective aquifer recharge, aquifer lithology, soil type, topography, impact of the vadose zone and hydraulic conductivity the aquifer.

Drastic Method
There is no absolute method for assessing the vulnerability of groundwater groundwater, but several methods for estimating the sensitivity of aquifers to pollution have been developed [2] as part of this study.
The DRASTIC method, which belongs to the group of weighted classes, is a system that was developed by [3] as a means to evaluate the intrinsic vertical groundwater vulnerability to pollution by parametric systems, the common principle of these systems is to first select the parameters on which to base the assessment of vulnerability.Each parameter is divided into intervals of signifycant value and is assigned a numerical rating increasing, according to its importance in vulnerability.
In practice, each parameter was divided into intervals of significant values and has been assigned a numerical rating increasing, according to its importance in vulnerability.The acronym DRASTIC stands for the initials of seven factors determining the value of the vulnerability index [4]: the water depth (D), the effective charge (R) materials of the aquifer (A), the type of ground (S), the topography or the slope (T), the impact area vadose zone or aerated (I) and the permeability or hydraulic conductivity of the aquifer (C).Each parameter is assigned a scale comprising intervals where a rating is assigned according to the peculiarity of the environment.Each parameter has been classified into classes associated with scores ranging from 1 to 10. Table 2 For example, the deeper the water, the greater the odds are low.Each of the seven parameters was then multiplied by a scaling factor (Dp) sets 1 to 5 which increases with the importance of the parameter in the estimation of vulnerability Table 1.
The DRASTIC vulnerability index denoted ID Equation (1) was determined.It describes the degree of vulnerability of each hydrogeological unit.The ID was calculated by summing the products of the weight measured from the corresponding parameters according to Equation (1): where D, R, A, S, T, I and C are the seven parameters of the DRASTIC method, Table 1."p" is the weight of Parameter and "c" the rating associated.
D: Depth to Groundwater The depth from the ground surface to the water table in unconfined aquifer and to the bottom of the confining layer in confined aquifer.
R: Net Recharge The total quantity of water is applied to the ground surface and infiltrates to reach the aquifer.
A: Aquifer Media, Consolidated or unconsolidated rock which serves as an aquifer (such as sand, gravel, and limestone).
S: Soil Media, The uppermost portion of the vadose The ability of the aquifer materials to transmit water The values of the weight parameters of the DRASTIC method used are those defined by [3].These values are shown in Table 1.
As the values of the DRASTIC index used, they are provided by [4] and represent the extent of the hydrogeological aquifer vulnerability.This index spans the whole range from 23 to 230 [5].
These values represent the extent of the hydrogeological aquifer vulnerability and are within the range of theoreti cal values according to the classification of Engel et al. (1996) as mentioned in Table 2.
The other classification can set limits intervals calculated indices and match classes of vulnerability to these indices.

Overview of the Study Area
The Plain of Berrechid, a nearby total area of 1500 km², is located on south of Casablanca.It takes the form of a large bowl, limited to the south and south east by the  board Settat, east and north east by the Wadi Mellah, West and northwest by Primary outcrops and the North by Coast chaouia [6].
The basement of the plain Berrechid contains the largest water recognized across the zone of action of ABHBC.Soil fertility in the entire plain, easy access to the water and its proximity near the largest city in Morocco, and the relative mild climate of the region are all factors that are cause accelerated groundwater exploitation of the plain.
On the hydrogeological plan, the Berrechid groundwater flows in primary training, Tertiary and Plio-Quaternary (Figure 1).However, and in light of the results of previous studies, the Pliocene terrain remains by far the main asquifer.
The limits of Berrechid groundwater are as follows: -In the South and South-east: the groundwater limited by the salver of Settat which plunges under the plain through flexures and faults and forming the Eocene substratum; -In the north-east: the valley of Oued El Mellah (Figure 1) notched in the red clay of Permo-Trias (Figure 2), marks clearly the limit of the hydrogeological grounwater; -In the north: the plain of chaouia low (Figure 1) which is the natural extension of Berrechid plain make a limit of groundwater of Berrechid; -To the west and north-west, the primary outcrops (Figure 1) form a free boundary of the groundwater [7].

Materiel and Method
The geographic information systems are all hardware, software, methods and users can acquire, store, analyze, and display geographic intéroger information or we exclude the architecture and functionality of a GIS (System Information Geographic) architecture GIS: methods, materials, software, data and users GIS are designed to collect diverse spatial data to represent spatially variable phenomena by applying a series of overlay analysis of data layers that are in spatial register [8].
In this study of vulnerability in the plain of Berrechid we used: A Landsat satellite image taken: 2012 (Enhanced Thematic map sensor ETM+).
A DEM SRTM (Shuttle Radar Thematic Mapper).The MNT was georeferenced in a Geographic Information System (GIS) and the UTM WGS 84 (World Geodetic System 1984).
Ancillary data include topographic map and geological map of the plain of Berrechid This approach is outlined in Figure 2.
For each DRASTIC parameter is assigned a score on a whole (most important) scale ranging from 1 (least important) to 10.For a given parameter, a low score means that the water in question is not vulnerable to pollution and vice versa.
The scale is full (discrete), so it is natural that the values obtained for each of the parameters are grouped into classes, each with a unique number.

Figure 1. Geological presentation of the Berrechid groundwater [6].
When the DRASTIC score is displayed via a GIS, the spatial relationship between land management practices and groundwater vulnerability is illustrated.All DRAS-TIC data elements are incorporated, manipulated, interpreted, and displayed using a GIS.The resulting output is a spatially oriented dataset showing the hydrogeologic setting and areas of groundwater vulnerability to contamination.The particular GIS software tool used in this analysis is the ArcView software package.
The following tables show typical scores for each of the seven parameters:
Tested the validity of vulnerability assessment methods to pollution based on chemical data of groundwater.

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The validity of the assessment of vulnerability to pollution by DRASTIC methods in the case of this study, was tested by the nitrate pollution in water.This activity was carried out by a comparison between the distribution of nitrate in ground water and the distribution of vulnerability classes.
The Validation of vulnerability maps obtained focused on the analysis of nitrate levels.
Content in groundwater in the Berrechid area.

Discussion
The analysis of the vulnerability map, determined by using the DRASTIC method allowed us to distinguish five classes of different levels of vulnerability, between 32 and 126.These classes are mainly divided as follows: -The first high-risk area and extreme vulnerability lies mainly in the municipalities of Berrchid, LAHSASNA, SIDI EL MEKKI and OULAD SALAH.These areas are characterized by a weak gradient of sloop (0% to 3%, 02%), a high aquifers permeability, shallow depth which also promotes better penetration of pollutants into the groundwater.Not to mention the impact of the unsaturated zone (UZ), which has a fine texture (silt, marl, clay) and saturated zone (SZ) (sandstone, conglomerates...) that minimizes trapping pollutant in favor of its percolation.
-The second area includes medium risk vulnerability includes common such as Kasbat BEN Mchich, OULAD Zidane and JAQMA where each parameter studied has an average value.
-The third area of low and very low risk of vulnerability that corresponds to the areas to a thickness of the relatively high unsaturated zone (HUZ), a relatively low permeability (LAMBARKIYINE, OULAD CEBBAH, Moualine EL OUAD, SIDI HAJJAJ OUAD HASSAR).

Conclusions
Overall, this study showed the wrong and improper use of ground water from the plain of Berrechid and the existence of an anthropic pollution resulting in high values of nitrates due to the discharge of solid and liquid waste from industry and domestic and also by the use of large amounts of fertilizers in agriculture.
Numerical modeling of the aquifer Berrechid allowed us to delineate the extent of groundwater pollution by nitrates and to highlight the most affected by local pollution sites.
Several phenomena contribute to the contamination of the aquifer by nitrates, namely the presence in the region of uncontrolled landfill and wastewater discharges (domestic and industrial), in addition to the use of nitrogen fertilizers.

Table 2 .
(a) Classes and notes used for Depth of water (D); (b) Classes and notes used for net recharge (R); (c) Classes and notes used for aquifer lithology (A); (d) Classes and notes used for soil (S); (e) Classes and notes used for topography (T); (f) Classes and notes used for insaturated zone (I); (g) Classes and notes used for permeability (C).
Figures 10-16 for each of parameters Figures 3-9, it is then possible to calculate the DRASTIC index Figure 17.The index, I, is the sum of the scores obtained for each DRASTIC seven parameters, weighted

Figure 4 .
Figure 4. Map of ground water net recharge (R).

Figure 10 .
Figure 10.Map of ground water depth after reclass.

Figure 11 .
Figure 11.Map of ground water net recharge after reclass.

Figure 12 .
Figure 12.Map of ground water insaturated zone after reclass.

Figure 13 .
Figure 13.Map of ground water pedology after reclass.

Figure 14 .
Figure 14.Map of ground water permeability after reclass.

Table 1 . The weight of DRASTIC parameters.
1IInsaturated zoneIts impact is determined from the texture of land that constitute it.The percolation of the pollutant to the water table is much larger than the texture is favorable (gravel, coarse sand...).

Table 1
by the respective coefficients of these.The formula is as fol-

Table 1 .
NI are notes or class of DRASTIC parameters Figures 10-16.I is the vulnerability of Berrechid aquifer Figure 17.