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The characterisation of the extent and severity of groundwater contamination in monitoring wells is an expensive and time-consuming practice. An alternative approach to the traditional site characterisation methodology is represented by a “probabilistic approach”, because it explicitly recognises the uncertainty associated with decision that a site is contaminated or not with respect to a regulatory threshold.
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Castrignanò, A., Bragato, G., Lopez, N. (2001). Probabilistic Assessment of Groundwater Contamination by Nitrate. In: Monestiez, P., Allard, D., Froidevaux, R. (eds) geoENV III — Geostatistics for Environmental Applications. Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0810-5_47
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