Is GIS helpful in assessing the water quality of ground water?

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Lets discuss if is the GIS helpful in assessing the water quality of ground water? 

 

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  1. Because of my Civil Rights suit to get access to the list of contaminants that caused the IDNR to repeatedly condemn my farm's well, and my wanting to get the list of contaminants and warnings sent to Downstream (surrounding well users of the same Source Water), the IDNR has set up a 3D-GIS system with the data from Iowa's Hygienic Labs for one nearby county in Iowa for only one of the contaminants that Anhydrous Ammonia Nitrogen fertilizer pulls into our drinking water.  7000 Cerro Gordo county resident well owners received warnings in that one county about the Arsenic or As+3 levels in their drinking water.  This IDNR 3D-GIS system that shows which aquifer different wells use and the well test contaminant data from the H labs Big data bases needs to be accessible for all US residents and the well owners that have their wells condemned by the DNR.  

    The Dead Zones in the Gulf are the result of Non-Enforcement of Drainage Laws and the Clean Water Act, by the DNR and USDA-NRCS both the federal and state agencies that are supposed to protect our water and enforce those laws.  Go to www.IowaColdCases.org and read in Adam's cold case file, about my son Adam Michael Lack's RUSLE III equation that would have caused farmers breaking the drainage laws to get Legal Drainage Permits that would actually stop channeling to sinkholes (of Anhydrous Ammonia and CAFO Nitrogen fertilizers that draw Arsenic and Lead into our Source Water) of farmers draining their farm chemicals and Nitrogen fertilizers into our Source Waters.

  2. Well, obviously GIS can be used to visualise and/or perform some analysis (like interpolation) of GW quality given the availability of data, however, why use GIS when there are more specialised hydraulic models out there with wider functionality (compared to GIS) that may be used, not only for visualising, but for simulating flow of GW contamination in both 2D and 3D (based on physically proven mathematical models) and produce output in a form that is native to water experts.

  3. GIS helps in calculating Quality and Quantìty of Water

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    1. IDNR 3D-GIS mapping of one contaminant in one Iowa County was the only way I knew to test for Arsenic that may cause the neurological shake in my extremities and voice.  I also found out years too late by paying for thousands of dollars of well tests on the over 600 contaminants listed, about the Lead, Atrazine, Anhydrous Ammonia or Ammonia Nitrogen as N, and CAFO bacteria, and how Chlorinating our wells as we were directed by the IDNR while our wells had been testing high with Ammonia Nitrogen as N caused worse health issues as Trihalomethanes kill.  Information that could save lives and stop the Point Source Polluters from continuing to pollute our Source Waters is being hidden as our Iowa AG attorney says it's too POLITICAL to say BIG Oil Corps Anhydrous Ammonia Nitrogen fertilizer is building up in our Source Waters.