Groundwater Monitoring in the Gneisso-Basaltic Fractured Rock Aquiferous Formations of Kumba , Southwest Region Cameroon : Seasonal Variations in the Aqueous Geochemistry and Water Quality

The objective was to determine and monitor seasonal changes during four hydrological seasons: Wet season (September), Wetdry season (December), Dry season (March) and Drywet season (June) in the groundwater aqueous geochemistry and its domestic-agro-industrial quality using physicochemical parameters and hydrogeochemical tools: Temperature, Electrical Conductivity EC, pH, Total dissolved solids TDS, Ionic ratios, Gibbs diagrams, Piper diagrams Durov diagrams, total hardness HT, Water quality index WQI, Sodium adsorption ratio SAR, Percent Sodium %Na, Kelly’s Ratio KR, permeability index PI, Magnesium adsorption ratio MAR, Residual sodium carbonate RSC and Wilcox diagram. Field physicochemical parameters ranged from: Wet season; pH 3.9 6.9; Temperature, 23.3 ̊C 29.1 ̊C; EC, 10 1900 μS/cm; TDS, 6.7 1273 mg/L; Wetdry, pH, 5.7 11.7; Temperature, 23.6 ̊C 28.3 ̊C; EC, 1 1099 μS/cm, TDS, 0.67 736.33 mg/L; Dry pH, 5.7 13.1; Temperature, 26.3 ̊C 30.2 ̊C; EC, 12 770 μS/cm, TDS, 8.04 515.9 mg/L and Drywet, pH, 4 7.4; Temperature, 25.8 ̊C 30.7 ̊C; EC, 10 1220 μS/cm, TDS, 6.7 817.4 mg/L. Seventy-two groundwater samples, 18 per season were analysed. All ionic concentrations fell below acceptable World Health Organization guidelines in all seasons. The sequence of abundance of major ions are; Wet, Ca > Mg > Na = K > 4 NH + , 3 HCO − > Cl > 3 NO − > 4 SO − > 2 4 HPO − ; Wetdry Ca > K > Mg > Na > 4 NH + , 3 HCO − > Cl > 4 SO − > 3 NO − > 4 HPO − ; Dry Ca > K > Mg > Na > 4 NH + , 3 HCO − > Cl > How to cite this paper: Akoachere, R. A., Ngwese, Y. M., Egbe, S. E., Eyong, T. A., Edimo, S. N., & Tambe, D. B. (2018). Groundwater Monitoring in the Gneisso-Basaltic Fractured Rock Aquiferous Formations of Kumba, Southwest Region Cameroon: Seasonal Variations in the Aqueous Geochemistry and Water Quality. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 6, 18-50. https://doi.org/10.4236/gep.2018.611003 Received: October 7, 2018 Accepted: November 13, 2018 Published: November 16, 2018 Copyright © 2018 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access R. A. Akoachere et al. DOI: 10.4236/gep.2018.611003 19 Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection 3 NO − > 4 SO − > 4 HPO − ; Drywet 4 NH + > Ca > K > Mg > Na; Cl > 3 HCO − > 3 NO − > 4 SO − > 4 HPO − . Groundwater ionic content was due to rock weathering and ion exchange reactions. CaSO4 is the dominant water type in Wet and Wetdry seasons; followed by CaHCO3, Na + K-Cl Wet, CaSO4 and CaHCO3 Wetdry; MgCl Dry and Drywet followed by CaCl, CaHCO3 Dry and CaSO4, CaHCO3 Dry-Wet. The dominant hydrogeochemical facies are Ca-Mg-Cl-SO4 followed by Na-K-SO4 Wet and Ca-Mg3 HCO − in all other seasons. Ion exchange, Simple dissolution and uncommon dissolution are the processes determining groundwater character. The water quality indices; WQI, HT, SAR, %Na, KR, PI, MAR,RSC and Wilcox diagrams, indicate that groundwater in Kumba is 80% 100% excellent during the Drywet &Wet seasons, 5% 10% unsuitable during the Wetdry & Dry seasons for domestic use while being excellent-good for Agro-Industrial uses in all other seasons. Physicochemical parameters in some areas exceeded permissible limits for drinking. All hydrogeochemical parameters vary with seasons and these variations show the impact of annual cycles of seasonal changes on the aqueous geochemistry of groundwater in Kumba.


Introduction
Kumba is situated between longitudes 9.39 -9.49E and latitudes 4.605 -4.675N Figure 1; is the administrative headquarters of Meme Division and economic capital of Southwest Region of Cameroon.It is at the center of one of the largest cocoa cash crop producing areas in the country.

Population
The population of Kumba is about 144,268 mostly farmers and business people from almost every ethnic group in Cameroon including: the Hausas (at Hausa Quarters), the Bamilekes (at Bamileke Quarters), the Bakossis (around Krammar and Anglican), the Metasat Meta quarters) and foreign nationals (especially neighboring Nigerians, like the Igbos at Igbo Quarters).The indigenes are the Bafawsat Kumba Town and the Balondos at Kake.The indigenous tribes constitute only a small percentage of the entire population.The main languages spoken are English; French with pidgin and dialects amongst the various ethnic groups (Akoachere & Ngwese, 2016).

Climate
Kumba generally has a hot and humid equatorial climate with two seasons: a short Dryseason of about 4 months (December to March) and a long rainy season Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection (April to November).Annual rainfall ranges from 2298 mm to 3400 mm.The average annual air temperature is 27˚C (Akoachere & Ngwese, 2016).

Vegetation
Kumba is located in the tropical rainforest with vegetation that varies from savannah to forest (around Lake Barombi Mbo).The evergreen and semi-deciduous forests contain economically important tree species (iroko, mahogany, obeche, ebony, padouk, tiama, framire, sapelline, makore and bobinga, etc.).The herbaceous layer is dominated by Pennisetumpurpureum and Imperatacylindrica with a ligneous cover that is heavily affected by human activity.The river valleys are covered with Indian bamboo (Bambousa species) whose stems are used for handicraft activities (Akoachere & Ngwese, 2016).Deforestation is the main cause of environmental degradation in Kumba.It arises from human activities, especially inappropriate farming practices (shifting cultivation), overgrazing, bush fires, poaching and illegal logging (Akoachere & Ngwese, 2016).

Soils
A wide variety of soils exist in Kumba including: clayey soils (earthy) around Kake, Mbonge Road, Kumba Town, Krammer and Anglican; gravelly soils (brick red) around Buea Road; sandy soils (pale yellow to earthy) around Kossala; and laterites (brick red) in almost every part of the town.Soils' grain-sizes range from coarsegrained to fine grained, poorly sorted to moderately well-sorted.

Surface Water
Kumba has numerous streams of small discharges (Kumba water, Kake water, Mbanga water), springs (including Cold spring and Mother Spring) and lake Barombi Mbo which constitutes a huge freshwater reserve.

Geology
Kumba is situate in the Kumba Plain, a grabben intercalated between the strato-volcanoes of Mt Cameroon and MtsRumpi (Sehar et al., 2011), at the northwestern edge of the Douala Basin Figure 2. The Cameroon Line (CL) is an alignment of Tertiary-to-Recent alkaline volcanoes, plutons and grabbens extending over more than 1600 km stretching from the Atlantic oceanic island of Annobon through the Gulf of Guinea and within the African continent (Parihar et al., 2012).
The Douala basin probably formed from a Precambrian cratonisation, granitisation and sedimentation phase followed by the Pan-African orogenesis, the Afro-Brazilian depression (the site of the future Cameroon Atlantic basin) with epi-continental sedimentation which may have begun during the lower Cretaceous discordant Cretaceous to Pliocene sediments on the Precambrian Pan-African basement and covered in some areas by Miocene sedimentation and volcanism (Loko et al., 2013).The geology of the Kumba Plain (Kumba Volcanic Field) is controlled by three main volcanic activities (which probably occurred between the Eocene and 1Ma ago).These include: old basaltic lavas covering the entire plain; cinder cones and phreatomagmatic units; and short vesicular basaltic lava flow (Prasad et al., 2014).There are 4 maars in the Kumba Plain.These include: the Barombi Mbo, Barombi Koto, Mbwadong and Dissoni Maars, with the first two occupied by Lakes Barombi Mbo and Lake Barombi Koto.Based on the composite fragments contained in the Barombi Mbo Maar (BMM) pyroclastic deposits, it is likely that the maar cuts through a geological succession composed by granite gneissic formations, sandstones, and basaltic lava flows; the same formations that make up the Kumba Volcanic Field (Al-Khatib & Arafat, 2009) (Figure 2).
Volcanic formations of the plain have been emplaced over Panafrican metamorphic formations intruded by granitoids and locally covered by Cretaceous continental sandstones.They commonly enclose mantle peridotite xenoliths (Nagarnaik & Patil, 2012).Conglomerates outcrop at the Buea Road area.They are poorly sorted; containing grains ranging from clays to boulders, with intense weathering.Fine grained sandstones (pale yellow to earthy in color) outcrop around Kossala.Pyroclastic materials from ash to bombs (mostly ash) outcrop at the BMM.Lava flow structures outcrop at some parts of Kake water and Kumba Water (at Buea Road) river beds, and rounded basaltic boulders (both massive and phorphyritic) along the banks of Kumba Water (up to several meters away from the river in some places) at Up-station to Ntchako Street and around Kake Water at Ekoka Falls.Gneisses outcrop at Fomenky Street (Buea Road), Osheami quarter, three corners, Farm road and Solar quarters (Fiango).

Methods
A detailed field program of bore well data acquisition; field hydrogeological measurement/tests, sampling and laboratory analysis of collected groundwater samples was conducted in Kumba using appropriate equipment and softwares Table 1, ISO 5667 1 (International Organization for Standardization, 2006), ISO 5667-11 (International Organization for Standardization, 2009), ISO 5667-3 (International Organization for Standardization, 2003) and Barcelona et al. (1985).
Determination of indices for suitability of groundwater for Agro-Industrial uses was done using formulae in Table 2.
1) Ionic ratio for indicative elements is a useful hydrogeochemical tool to identify source rock of ions and formation contribution to solute hydrogeochemistry (Hounslow, 1995).These were useful in this study.Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection  (Doneen, 1962) Water Quality Index Gibbs Diagram is a plot of Na + /Na + + 3 HCO − Ca 2+ ) and Cl − /(Cl + 3 HCO − ) as a function of TDS are widely employed to determine the sources of dissolved geochemical constituents (Gibbs, 1970).These plots revealed the relationships Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection between water composition and the three main hydrogeochemical processes involved in ions acquisition; Atmospheric precipitation, rock weathering or evaporation crystallisation over the four seasons.
2) Pipers Diagram is a graphical representation of the chemistry of water sample on three fields; the cation ternary field with Ca, Mg and Na + K es ,the anion ternary field with HCO 3 , SO 4 and Cl − apices.These two fields are projected onto a third diamond field (Piper, 1944).The diamond field is a matrix transformation of the graph of the anions [sulphate + chloride]/Ʃ anions and cations [Na + K]/Ʃ cations.This plot is a useful hydrogeochemical tool to compare water samples, determine water type and hydrogeochemical facies (Langguth, 1966).This has been used here for these purposes in the four seasons.
3) Durov diagram is a composite plot consisting of two ternary diagrams where the milliequivalent percentages of cations are plotted perpendicularly against those of anions; the sides of the triangles form a central rectangular binary plot of total cation vs. total anion concentrations (Durov, 1948).These are divided into nine classes which give the hydrogeochemical processes determining the character of the water types in the aquiferous formation (Lloyd & Heathcoat, 1985;Langguth, 1966).
For Agro-industrial suitability, the following parameters were used; sodium adsorption ratio SAR, permeability index PI, Magnesium adsorption ratio MAR, percent sodium %Na, Kelly's ratio KR and Residual sodium carbonate RSC and Wilcox diagram.
The following Softwares; Surfer 12, Global mapper 11 and AqQA 1.5 AGIS 10.3 were used as platforms for data presentation, data interpretation and data analysis.

Procedures
A field visit was done using hydrogeological traverse field mapping to determine appropriate hand-dug wells, boreholes, springs and streams.Kumba was divided into zones and work was carried out in four hydrogeological seasons; Wet season, September; Wetdry season, December; Dry season, March and DryWet season, June.GIS platforms were used to analyze field data for the creation of sample location, drainage and water level contour maps.All equipment used were calibrated according to manufacturer's specifications.
Temperature, pH, Electrical conductivity Temperature, pH and electrical conductivity were measured onsite for 450 representative hand-dug wells during the four seasons: 1800 measurements for each of the four parameters.At each hand-dug well, a sample was collected and the Temperature, EC, pH and TDS meters were measured.18 spatially representative groundwater samples were collected for four seasons: 72 water samples from; Kake 1, Mbongo Str., 3 Corners, New Layout, Maduku Str., Park, Krammar, Lawyer Enow, Kossala, Pulletin Str., Alaska Str., Anglican, New Quarter, GBHS, Cameroon Str., CCAS, Cow Fence and Paradise Str were analyzed.
At each hand-dug well, a clean polyethylene bottle was rinsed thrice with well water and then filled to its brim.
The 73 (18 per season plus one rain) samples were collected in 500ml containers, sealed and sent to the Institute of Agricultural and one Research and Development-I.R.A. Dusing the standard methods (APHA, 1995) to analyze for: 1) Major cations in mg/L: Ca 2+ , Mg 2+ , Na + , K + and NH 4 + .
2) Major anions in mg/L: HPO − and 3 NO − .To fully understand the relationship between the geology of the area and groundwater, hydrogeochemical tools were used such as ionic ratios, Gibbs Diagrams, Piper diagrams and Durov diagrams.For domestic agro-industrial water quality; Percent Sodium %Na, Kelly's Ratio KR, permeability index PI, Magnesium adsorption ratio MAR, Residual sodium carbonate RSC and Wilcox diagram.These were done for four seasons to determine the seasonal variations in these aquiferous formations.

1) Physicochemical Parameters
The field measured physicochemical parameters of groundwater Kumba are, Temperature, pH, EC and TDS Table 3.
The individual parameters are discussed below.
2) Depth to Water Level Well diameters range from 0.6 -1.5 m, well depths from 1 -18 m.The wells have depth to water levels ranged from 0.02 m -11 m in Wet season, 0.6 m -11.66 m Wetdry season and 0.5 m -11.48 m Drywet season Figure 3.The depth to water varies with the seasons and the water table is lowest during the Dry season.Most wells with depths less than eight meters in most areas were dry with a few centimeters of water at during this period; a reason for the absence of Dry season depth to water and groundwater level contours.In some wells during the Wet season, the water table is at the surface with an exceedingly high pollution potential as run off fills the wells with all kinds of runoff loads.Especially so, since many wells are poorly constructed (Ayuk & Mesode, 2017).
3) Groundwater Level Contours From elevation and depth to water level, the groundwater contours were drawn with equipotential vectors simulating groundwater flow lines and flow direction

Chemical Properties of Groundwater
The sequence of abundance of major ions for four seasons are; Wet season Ca 2+ >   There is an increase of K + and Mg 2+ ions as seasons change from Wet to Drywet.

Ionic Ratios of Groundwater
The ionic ratios of groundwater have been used to determine formation contri-Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection bution to Kumba groundwater chemistry in Figure 9.The individual ionic ratios are analyzed per season and interpreted in Table 5.  6.This reveals the weathering of the aquifer matrix as the primary process in the acquisition of ions while atmospheric precipitation is the secondary process controlling the hydrogeochemistry in Kumba.In the Dry season as precipitation reduces the rock weathering dominance increases from Figure 9. Cluster histograms of Ionic ratios and basic statistics of major elements in groundwater for four seasons in Kumba.

Groundwater Types
The diamond field of Piper's diagram was divided into seven classes A -G classifying water types and designated with alphabets from A to G Figure 11, (Piper, 1944).Using this Classification, water from Kumba falls into A, B, C, E, G categories  Table 7. Classification of groundwater and hydrogeochemical facies based on Piper diagram (Langguth, 1966;Lloyd & Heathcoat, 1985).Classes; 2,3,7,8 and 9 in the Drywet season in Kumba.
In the Wet season, fresh recently recharging water from precipitation, exchanges ions with the weathered matrix of the aquiferous formations, while simple dissolution or mixing also goes on between the recently recharging ground-

Domestic Water Quality
From WHO guideline values (WHO, 2017) of ions present in the groundwater have been used to calculate Water Quality IndexWQI for domestic use for four seasons in Kumba (Pradhan et al., 1998;Asadi et al., 2007).The weighted arithmetic water quality index was calculated and recorded on Table 9. WQI values

Figure 1 .
Figure 1.Location of measurements, tests and sampled points during the study in Kumba.

Figure 2 .
Figure 2. The Geology of Kumba: Made up of six major geologic formations Basalt, Conglomerate, Basalt, Pyroclasites, sand and Clay.
Figure 4. Groundwater flows from the central slightly elevated Kumba plain to the surrounding areas radially outwards in a topography driven piston flow typical of phreatic aquiferous formations.4) Temperature The seasonal groundwater temperatures ˚C range from 23.3 -29.1 in the Wet; 23.6 -28.3 Wetdry; 26.3 -30.2 Dry and 25.8 -30.7 Drywet, Figure 5.There is a Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection general increase from Wet to Dry season in rhythm with air temperature variations typical of phreatic aquiferous formations.Groundwater temperatures varied over the seasons with a peak of 30.7˚C in the Drywet season.5) pH pH ranges from 3.9 -6.9 in the Wet season, 5.7 -11.7 Wetdry season, 5.7 -13.1 Dry season and 4 -7.4Drywet season.pH is strongly acidic to peralkaline in Wet and Drywet seasons and strongly acidic to strongly alkaline in Wetdry to Dry seasons Figure 6.Mean pH were slightly acidic in the Wet, neutral in the Wetdry, peralkaline in the Dry and slightly acidic in the Drywet seasons.

Figure 3 .
Figure 3. Groundwater level contours during four hydrogeological seasons Kumba.Most wells were dry in the Dry season as such there was no representative data for this season.

Figure 4 .
Figure 4. Spatial variation of Flow direction during four hydrogeological seasons, groundwater flows from the central slightly elevated Kumba plain to the surrounding areas radially outwards in a topography driven piston flow.

Figure 5 .
Figure 5. Spatial variation of Temperature values during four hydrogeological seasons.Highest Temperature was registered in Wetdry season.
Figure 7. Spatial variation of Electrical Conductivity EC values during four hydrogeological seasons.EC values change with peak in the Wetseason and maximumaround Maduku Str.Kumba for all seasons.

Figure 8 .
Figure 8. Spatial variation of Total Dissolved Solids during four hydrological seasons; TDS is maximum in the Wet season and peaks around Maduka Str. and Cameroon Str. in the center of Kumba for all seasons.

Figure 10 .
Figure 10.Gibbs Diagram Kumba indicating the interaction between aquifer formation and groundwater: Atmospheric precipitation was 4 samples 22.22% each, in the Wet, Wetdry and Drywet seasons and 3 samples 16.67% in Dry season.Rock-weathering was contributing 14 samples 77.78% each in the Wet, Wetdry and Drywet seasons and 15 samples 83.33% in Dry season.

Figure 11 .
Figure 11.Piper's diagram (Piper, 1944) for 4 water types and 3 groundwater hydrogeochemical facies in Kumba; Field I: Ca-Mg-Cl-SO 4 hydrogeochemical facies is most dominant, 17 samples 94.44% in the Wet season, 16 samples 88.89% in the Wetdry, Dry and Drywet seasons; Field II: Na + K-Cl, 5.56% in Wet season and Field IV: Ca -Mg -HCO 3 , 11.11% in the other seasons.CaSO 4 is the dominant water type followed by CaHCO 3 and Na + K-Cl in Wet season.CaSO 4 and CaHCO 3 in the Wetdry, Dryand Drywet seasons; Na + K-Cl indicates input of sea spray in precipitation from the Atlantic Ocean nearby.
From the Piper's diagram Figure 11; Table 7, There are three hydrogeochemical facies: Field I: Ca -Mg -Cl -SO 4 hydrogeochemical facies is the most dominant, 17 samples 94.44% in the Wet season, 16 samples 88.89% in the Wetdry, Dry and Drywet seasons.This facies is characteristic of recently recharged groundwater at some distance along its flow path; regional flow.Field II: Na -K -SO 4 hydrogeochemical facies has 1 samples, 5.56% in the Wet season indicating the influence of precipitation from the Atlantic Ocean.Field IV: Ca -Mg -HCO 3 hydrogeochemical facies has 2 samples, 11.11% in the Wetdry, Dry and Drywet season, characteristic of freshly recharged groundwater that has equilibrated with CO 2 and soluble carbonate minerals under an open system condition in the vadose zone typical of shallow groundwater flow systems in crystalline phreatic aquiferous formations.3.1.5.Hydrogeochemical Character of Kumba Groundwater Based on the Durov diagram Figure 12, the Lloyd and Heathcoat classification
water and the existing groundwater in the aquiferous formations.In the Wetdry season, recharging groundwater having spent more time in the aquifer continues to exchange ions to a lesser extent with the matrix of the formation.While in the Dry season precipitation is absent, increasingly simple dissolution and mixing goes on between the remnants of the recently recharging groundwater and the pre-existing groundwater in the formation.In the Drywet season, new recharging water from precipitation emerges, exchanges ions with the weathered matrix of the aquiferous formations, while increasingly, simple dissolution or mixing also goes on between the recently recharging groundwater and the existing groundwater in the aquiferous formations.The presence of Class-8 samples showing Na + /Cl − as dominant cation/anion, absence of Classes; 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9 in the Wet season; Classes; 6, 7, 8, 9 in the Dry season indicates that, the groundwater in Kumba has an input related to reverse or inverse ion exchange of Na-Cl in the Wet seasonprobably of precipitation from the Atlantic Ocean nearby.

Figure 15 .
Figure 15.Wilcox diagram showing the suitability for irrigation; All 18 samples 100% fall into the excellent to good category for all four hydrogeological seasons.This signifies that groundwater in Kumba is good for irrigation at all times during the year.

Figure 16 .
Figure 16.Spatial variation for Kelly Ratio during four hydrogeological seasons: KR values < 1 in all seasons, signify suitability of all groundwater for irrigation during all seasons.

Figure 17 .
Figure 17.Spatial variation for Residual Sodium Carbonate during four hydrogeological seasons; Values are highest in the Drywetseason.No values exceeded 1.25 meq/L in all four seasons indicating the groundwater in Kumba is good for irrigation all year round.

Figure 18 .
Figure 18.Spatial variation for Magnesium Adsorption Ratio during four hydrogeological seasons: 94.44% in the Wetdry and 61.11% Wet seasons of groundwater was suitable while 61.11% and 66.67% are unsuitable in the Dry and Drywet seasons respectively.

Figure 20 .
Figure 20.Spatial Variation of Sodium Adsorption Ratio during four hydrogeological seasons in Kumba.Peak values occur at Cameroon Str. for Wet seasons; 3 Corners for Drywet; Mbongo, Maduka Str. and Cameroon Str. for Dry and Maduka Str. for Drywet season.Groundwater is suitable for irrigation during all four seasons.

Figure 21 .
Figure 21.Groundwater FAO classification of groundwater using Permeability Indexduring: (a) Wet season (b) Dry seasons (c) Wet season and (d) Dry seasons.In the Dry season, one sample is in Class I; excellent for irrigation.Majority of groundwater samples fall in Class II in all four seasons.One sample in Wet and two samples in the Wetdry fell in Class III unsuitable for irrigation.

Table 1 .
Field Equipment, Softwares, their specifications and functions.

Table 2 .
Formulae for the determination for indices/parameters for water quality assessment Kumba.

Table 3 .
Seasonal variations and basic Statistics of physicochemical parameters of groundwater in Kumba.

Table 4 .
(a) Results of chemical Analysis and basic statistics of groundwater for Wet season Kumba.The values of rainwater and groundwater are similar indicating connectivity typical of phreatic aquifers in fractured rock aquifers; (b) Results of chemical Analysis and basic statistics of groundwater for Wetdry season Kumba; (c) Results of chemical Analysis and basic statistics of groundwater for Dry season Kumba; (d) Results of chemical Analysis and basic statistics of groundwater for Drywet season Kumba.
4NH + and Cl − are most abundant.
The ionic ratios indicate groundwater in Kumba is affected to a great extent by silicate weathering mostly Ca-silicates and Mg-silicates from the minerals found in basalts with little weathering of Na-feldspar and Na-silicates, no dominance for Wet, Wetdry and Drywet seasons and 83.33% in Dry season originate from atmospheric precipitation dominance during the four seasons Figure 10 and Table

Table 5 .
Summary of the ionic Ratios for Wet, Wetdry, Dry, and Drywet seasons with inferred formation source types Kumba.
the Dry season and a 5.55% increase in Atmospheric precipitation dominance in the rainy season.These variations in the aqueous geochemistry of the groundwater in Kumba are a direct consequence of hydrological changes.

Table 7 .
There is no Class D and F in all seasons and no Class A in Wet season; no Class E Wet, Wetdry and Dry seasons; and Class G Wetdry, Dry and Class C: 66.67% and Class E: 16.67%.From Table 7, CaSO 4 is the dominant water type in Wet and Wetdry seasons; this is followed by MgHCO 3 ; Na + K-Cl Wet season and MgCl; MgHCO 3 Wetdry.The dominant water types for Dry and Drywet seasons are CaSO 4 and CaHCO 3 .