Monitoring of Groundwater Quality With Cokriging of Geochemical and Geoelectrical Measurements

Abstract The study presents the possibility of using geostatistical methods for monitoring groundwater quality. Poland is one largest copper producers in world. However, extraction and production requires constant care natural environment. Reservoir Żelazny Most which situated South – Western was designed to store flotation tailings out nearby mines. It biggest industrial dumps reservoir stores huge amounts water. Water migrating from dump could be a potential source contamination with chlorides, sulphates, heavy metals, other hazardous substances used ore separation process mining industry, like detergent phenols. Monitoring system around dump, track harmful concentrations groundwater, contains measuring wells piezometers. They are collect samples chemical analyses. idea integrate information provided by analyses geoelectrical measurements cokriging method, utilizing correlation between electrical resistance soil solution total dissolved solids concentration groundwater. This enabled obtain spatial distribution at part eastern foreground dump.