Minimum Requirements

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Minimum Requirements for Water Monitoring
at Waste Management Facilities
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Emphasis

• The departure point in this document is on what
  could reasonably be achieved, considering the
  uniqueness of the South African situation in the
  general and specific sense

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Approach

• Differentiated approach to protect groundwater
  quality

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Aquifer classification

• Sole source aquifer
• Major aquifer
• Minor aquifer
• Poor aquifer
• Special aquifer

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Requirement

• All future waste facilities should be sited on
  Poor Aquifer Regions. In the event that this is
  not possible, a risk assessment and extensive
  motivation should be submitted to the Department
  for consideration.

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•  MinMon Contents
• Background information
• Policy and strategy for groundwater quality
  management
• South African Aquifers
• Sequential steps for the design of a monitoring
  system
• Risk Assessment
• Facilities for monitoring
• Analytical Variables
• Data Storage, Processing, Interpretation and
  Reporting
• Implementation and Management
• Suggested reading matter
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• Appendix A Risk Assessment Procedures
•  Appendix B Borehole Water Sampling
•  Appendix C Sample Frequency and Preservation
• Appendix D Analytical Procedures
•  Appendix E Data Interpretation
• Appendix F Summary of Requirements  

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To do

• Technological advances and legislation in
  monitoring during the past five years
• World trends in monitoring
• Site-specific monitoring
• Borehole construction for site-specific needs
• Monitoring networks
• Evaluation of the quality of monitoring
  information from at licensed sites