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The Groundwater Vulnerability map outlines how susceptible areas are to groundwater contamination. |
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The Groundwater Vulnerability map outlines how susceptible areas are to groundwater contamination. |
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Contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN>Groundwater is most at risk where the subsoils are absent or thin and, in areas of karstic limestone, where surface streams sink underground at swallow holes.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Groundwater vulnerability maps are based on the type and thicknesses of subsoils (sands, gravels, glacial tills (or boulder clays), peat, lake and alluvial silts and clays), and the presence of karst features.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>All land area is assigned one of the following groundwater vulnerability categories: Rock near surface or karst (X) Extreme (E) High (H) Moderate (M) Low (L). </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>The Groundwater Vulnerability map indicates:</SPAN></SPAN></P><UL STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;padding:0 0 0 0;"><LI><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>The likelihood of groundwater contamination.</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI><LI><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Aids land-use management. </SPAN></SPAN></P></LI><LI><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Helps in the choice of preventative measures and enables developments, which have a significant potential to contaminate, to be located in areas of lower vulnerability. </SPAN></SPAN></P></LI><LI><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Helps to ensure that a groundwater protection scheme is not unnecessarily restrictive on human economic activity.</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI></UL><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>Data that is produced directly by the Geological Survey Ireland (GSI) is free for use under the conditions of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. </SPAN></P><P /><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode</SPAN></SPAN></P><P /><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Under the CC-BY Licence, users must acknowledge the source of the Information in their product or application. </SPAN></SPAN></P><P /><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Please use this specific attribution statement: "Contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence". </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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