Risk assessment of water resources pollution from transporting of oil hazardous materials (Sanandaj-Marivan road, Kurdis
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Risk assessment of water resources pollution from transporting of oil hazardous materials (Sanandaj-Marivan road, Kurdistan Province, Iran) Baha Ebrahimi 1
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Salman Ahmadi 1 & Kamran Chapi 2 & Hazhir Amjadi 1
Received: 18 January 2020 / Accepted: 25 June 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Water pollution is one of the most important environmental challenges and also one of the main causes of death in the world. Transporting oil products on roads by trucks and their accidents lead to the release of these chemicals into the environment, resulting in water resources pollution. Thus, the main goal of this study is to evaluate the risk assessment of the water resources pollution in the road of Sanandaj to Marivan, Kurdistan province, Iran. Six scenarios for four types of hazardous materials in two seasons of the years were considered. The road was then segmented, and the probability of accidents in each segment was calculated by the Poisson regression method. Two scenarios were selected for analysis since truck accidents had happened mainly in spring (scenario 1) and winter (scenario 4). According to the results, the total risk of water contamination path is 20%very low, 19% low, 29% moderate, 28% high, and 4% very high. Also, according to scenario 1, 14% of the total area of the study area is very low risk, 23% low risk, 15% medium risk, 6% high risk, and 42% are very high risk. Based on scenario 4, 39% of the total area of the study area has a very low risk, 44% low risk, 13% medium risk, 4% high risk. This simply means that this road is not very suitable for transporting hazardous oil products. Keywords HazMat . Truck accident . Risk assessment . Water resources pollution . Poisson regression . Sanandaj-Marivan road . Responsible
Introduction One of the most critical global environmental challenges is the pollution of surface water and groundwater, which is due mainly to human activities. These activities include a large variety of Responsible Editor: Philippe Garrigues * Salman Ahmadi [email protected] Baha Ebrahimi [email protected] Kamran Chapi [email protected] Hazhir Amjadi [email protected] 1
Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran
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Department of Rangeland and Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran
actions, each of which can potentially be harmful to the environmental elements. They have increasingly been intensified during the past three decades, threatening most natural resources, including water, soil, and air all over the world. One of these anthropogenic activities is the transportation of hazardous materials (HazMat) that are inherently very dangerous. Nowadays, in most countries of the world, particularly in industrialized countries, the transport of HazMat shows an increasing trend, and road accidents have become one of the most deleterious challenges of transportation today (Paltrinieri et al. 2009). Truck accident
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