• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.556-570
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• 2021

This study presents the data analysis results of groundwater chemistry and the occurrence of fluoride in groundwater obtained from the groundwater quality monitoring network of Korea. The groundwater data were collected from the National Groundwater Information Center and censored for erratic values and charge balance (±10%). From the geochemical graphs and various ionic ratios, it was observed that the Ca-HCO₃ type was predominant in Korean groundwater. In addition, water-rock interaction was identified as a key chemical process controlling groundwater chemistry, while precipitation and evaporation were found to be less important. According to a non-parametric trend test, at p=0.05, the concentration of fluoride in groundwater did not increase significantly and only 4.3% of the total groundwater exceeded the Korean drinking water standard of 1.5 mg/L. However, student t-tests revealed that the fluoride concentrations were closely associated with the lithologies of tuff, granite porphyry, and metamorphic rocks showing distinctively high levels. This study enhances our understanding of groundwater chemical composition and major controlling factors of fluoride occurrence and distribution in Korean groundwater.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2013

Groundwater development and use have been increasing in Korea causing frequent occurrences of related hazards such as groundwater level decline, land subsidence, and groundwater contamination. To tackle these groundwater problems, central and local governments have set-up and maintained many groundwater monitoring programs such as the National Groundwater Monitoring Network and the Groundwater Quality Monitoring Network, which collect very valuable data on the overall status of domestic groundwater to aid proper groundwater management. However, several problems mainly related to the remediation of contaminated groundwater remain unresolved. Recently, there have been some incidents related to the contamination of groundwater, and these have drawn the concern of the Korean people. Although groundwater contamination has been investigated in detail, actual groundwater remediation work has not yet been implemented. The remediation of the contaminated groundwater must begin immediately in order to sustain the eco-system service of clean groundwater and enhance the welfare of the Korean people.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.112-120
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• 2015

Statistical trend analysis using the data from the National Groundwater Quality Monitoring Network (NGQMN) of Korea was conducted to establish a new groundwater quality management framework. Sen’s test, a non-parametric statistical method for trend analysis, was used to determine the linear trend of the groundwater quality data. The analysis was conducted at different confidence levels (i.e., at 70, 80, 90, 95, and 99% confidence levels) for three of groundwater quality parameters, i.e., nitrate-nitrogen, chloride, and pH, which have sufficient time series of the NGQMN data between 2007 and 2013. The results showed that different trends can be determined for different depths even for the same monitoring site and the numbers of wells having significant trends vary with different confidence levels. The wells with increasing or decreasing trends were far less than the wells with no trend. Chloride had more wells with increasing trend than other parameters. On the other hand, nitrate-nitrogen had the most wells with increasing trend and concentration exceeding 75% of the threshold values (TVs). Based on the methodology used for this study, we suggest including groundwater TVs and trend analysis to evaluate groundwater quality and to establish an advanced groundwater quality management framework.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2013

This study developed the classification of National Soil Quality Monitoring Network (NSQM) and its site selection criteria to meet the recently established purposes of the NSQM. The NSQM were suggested by this study to classify into the six-purposes site groups from the current classification of land uses. The six purposes site groups were 1) intensive observation sites, 2) contaminant loading sites, 3) human activity sites, 4) background sites, 5) river soil sites, and 6) sites near the groundwater quality monitoring wells. Furthermore, this study developed the site selection criteria of NSQM utilizing the accumulated NSQM data, road traffic data, chemical emission data, census, soil information, and the literature related to soil quality variation due to contaminant loads. For selecting suitable sites for NSQM, this study used road traffic, chemical emission, the distance from the contaminant sources, and population information as specific criteria. The suggested site classification and criteria were appled for the current 100 NSQM sites for evaluation. Forty sites were met to the criteria suggested by this study, but sixty sites were not met to the criteria. However, some of the sixty sites also included the obscure sites that their addresses were not apparent to find them.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.38-47
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• 2011

Groundwater monitoring data from the National Groundwater Monitoring Stations, a total of 320 stations, were analyzed to identify the response of water level and quality to the Odaesan earthquake (M4.9) occurred in January 2007. Among the total of eight stations responded to the earthquake, five wells showed water-level decline, and in three wells, water level rose. In terms of recovery, water levels in four stations had recovered to the original level in five days, but not in the rest four wells. The magnitude of water-level change shows weak relations to the distance between the earthquake epicenter and the groundwater monitoring station. However, the relations to the transmissivities of monitored aquifer in the station with the groundwater change were not significant. To implement the earthquake monitoring system through the groundwater monitoring network, we still need to accumulate the long-term monitoring data and geostatistically analyze those with hydrogeological and tectonic factors.

• 청정기술
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.39-54
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 경상남도 지역의 지하수 수질 특성을 파악하고 효과적인 지하수 관리를 위한 기초적인 자료를 제공하기 위하여 지하수수질측정망 자료를 이용하여 심도와 지질별로 분석하였다. 토양지하수정보시스템의 배경수질전용측정망을 통하여 2013년부터 2017년까지 5년 동안의 503 세트 자료를 수집하였다. 총대장균군과 몇 극소량 존재하는 항목 즉 수은, 페놀 등을 제외한 수질매개변수는 심도와 지질에 따라 유의하거나 아주 유의하였다. 심도가 깊어짐에 따라 pH와 전기전도도는 증가하였고, 수온, 용존산소 산화물 환원 전위, 비소, 총대장균군 그리고 탁도는 감소하였고, 먹는물 수질 부적합율은 낮아졌다. 양이온과 음이온의 농도 합은 쇄설성퇴적암에서 가장 높았고 변성암에서 가장 낮았다. 먹는물 수질 부적합율은 변성암에서 가장 높았고 쇄설성퇴적암, 미고결퇴적물, 그리고 관입화성암 순이었다. 상층관정과 쇄설성퇴적암의 일부 지점에서 외부 오염물질에 의한 오염의 가능성을 의미하는 Na-Cl 수질특성을 보였다.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.685-694
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• 1998

지하수질 감시를 위한 관측은 지하수를 사용하는 주변 인구의 보건은 물론이고 궁극적으로는 지하수자원 보전이라는 측면에서 매우 중요하다. 그러나 지하수 수질관측망은 설계부터 운영에 이르기까지 임의적이고, 체계적이기보다는 경험에 의존하거나 과학적이지 못한 방식으로 시행되고 있는 것이 사실이다. 본 연구는 지하수질 관측망의 효율적 배치를 위한 방법론의 현장적용성을 검토하기 위하여 대표적인 설계방법론을 대상으로 비교연구 하였다. 그 결과, 지하수질 관측망의 설계 시에는 관측망 설치의 목적을 명확히 설정하는 것이 중요하며, 현장정보의 확보수준에 따라 선택될 방법론이 달라져야 함을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 범용관측망 설계기법의 하나인 Integer Programming에 의한 방법과 지하수 정화 목적 관측망 설계기법의 하나인 Cost-to-go 함수 비교법을 동일한 대수층을 대상으로 적용한 결과, 각기 다른 관측정 위치를 얻었으나 요구되는 정보의 양은 비슷하였다. 두 방법 모두 지하수 오염을 모의할 정도의 정보만 확보되면 현장적용이 가능하며, 이를 통해 보다 객관적 근거에 이해 관측망 설계가 이루어질 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제21권10호
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• pp.1957-1963
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• 2017

본 논문은 지하수 수질을 모니터링하기 위한 다중센서기반의 센서 디바이스를 제작 및 성능을 제시하고자 한다. 신규로 제작된 시스템은 데이터 수집을 위하여 원격 제어기반의 다중센서 디바이스를 채택하였으며 원격모니터링 관리를 위하여 윈도우 모바일을 사용하였습니다. 지하 수질 센서장치와 모니터링 시스템 간의 통신 인터페이스로 직렬 포트 CAN 및 RS485를 채택하였고 신규 제작된 직렬 연결형 다중 센서 장치를 사용하여 지하수의 깊이에 따른 기존 센서와의 성능 비교 분석(온도계 오차범위 ${\pm}0.2^{\circ}C$, 수소이온농도(pH) < 0.85unit ) 결과를 제시하였다. 무선 연결된 센서 네트워크를 기반으로 한 지하수 모니터링 시스템을 위한 설계 및 통신방법을 제시하여 장치의 성능을 비교 분석하였다.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.67-79
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• 2016

Gaussian process regression (GPR) is proposed as a tool of long-term groundwater quality predictions. The major advantage of GPR is that both prediction and the prediction related uncertainty are provided simultaneously. To demonstrate the applicability of the proposed tool, GPR and a conventional non-parametric trend analysis tool are comparatively applied to synthetic examples. From the application, it has been found that GPR shows better performance compared to the conventional method, especially when the groundwater quality data shows typical non-linear trend. The GPR model is further employed to the long-term groundwater quality predictions based on the data from two domestically operated groundwater monitoring stations. From the applications, it has been shown that the model can make reasonable predictions for the majority of the linear trend cases with a few exceptions of severely non-Gaussian data. Furthermore, for the data shows non-linear trend, GPR with mean of second order equation is successfully applied.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.67-76
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• 2020

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are organic compounds that tend to persist in environmental media for a long period of time. This work presents a 2-year monitoring study of occurrence of three PAHs (benzo(a)pyrene, naphthalene, and fluoranthene) in groundwater. The groundwater samples were collected from 106 sites of nation's groundwater quality monitoring network and analyzed by simultaneous analysis method to quantify the concentrations of the PAHs. Benzo(a)pyrene was not detected in all samples. Naphthalene and fluoranthene concentrations ranged from not detected to 12.8 ng/L and not detected to 10.5 ng/L with their detection frequency being 57.8 and 4.2%, respectively. The concentrations of PAHs in ground- and drinking waters are not currently regulated in Korea, but the concentration levels of naphthalene and fluoranthene found in this work were lower than the regulatory limits of other countries (naphthalene 0.001~0.07 mg/L, fluoranthene 0.001~1.4 mg/L). The monitoring result of this study revealed that PAHs exist as trace amounts in domestic groundwater, however continuos monitoring is necessary to protect groundwater from PAHs contamination with growing industrialization and urbanization.