Stratigraphic modeling and hydraulic characterization of a typical basaltic aquifer system in the Kadva river basin, Nashik, India

Author(s):  
Nitin Rane ◽  
Geetha K. Jayaraj
2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 637
Author(s):  
Olivar Antônio Lima de Lima

ABSTRACT. The Salitre River basin, which is located in the semi-arid land of northeastern Brazil, is annually faced with severe surface-water scarcity. Twomain aquifersystems, which are distributed in depth, can be exploited to supply the water needs of the population and its present agro-industrial development: (i) a fractured-karst,water-table component, totally developed within the upper carbonate sequence of the Salitre Formation; and (ii) a fractured-clastic, semi-confined component, mostlikely associating lower Salitre limestones with the meta-sandstones of the Morro do Chap´eu Formation. Geophysical efforts have been useful in developing a regional,three-dimensional characterization of these two aquifer components of the Salitre river aquifer system and in detailing a useful electric tomographic scheme to implementtheir exploration. The geophysical survey, which comprised 64 Schlumberger electrical soundings of resistivity and five tomographic sections, was combined with welldata to define the geometric and hydraulic characteristics of these aquifer components. The inversion of the resistivity data, under the control of the well data, was usefulto reduce electrical ambiguities and to better define the depth of the water table and that of the thick, impervious aquifer substrate. The lateral and depth boundaries of thefracture-karst aquifer zones were outlined, allowing the estimation of a total reserve of approximately 100 billion m3 of groundwater. Chemical analysis of water samplescollected at production wells was used to define a water quality zoning within the basin. These results are very important to define an optimum exploration regime for thegroundwater available in the basin.Keywords: electrical sounding, tomographic section, Salitre aquifer system. RESUMO. A bacia hidrogáafica do rio Salitre faz parte da região semiárida da Bahia e, por isso, apresenta severa escassez de água superficial. Dois principais componentes aquíferos, distribuídos em profundidade, podem ser explorados para suprir as necessidades hídricas da população humana e de seu incipiente desenvolvimento agroindustrial: (i) um componente cárstico-fraturado, de natureza livre, desenvolvido nas rochas carbonáticas superiores da Formação Salitre; e (ii) um componentefraturado, semi-confinado, combinando rocha basais da sequência Salitre e unidades meta-quartzíticas da Formação Morro do Chapéu. Foram executadas 64 sondagens elétricas verticais usando o arranjo Schlumberger de eletrodos, centradas em pontos selecionados da bacia, e cinco seções tomográficas de resistividade, para detalhara estrutura subsuperficial de locais selecionados. A inversão dos dados de resistividade aparente, com controle de informações de poços, foi útil para reduzir ambiguidades elétricas e melhor definir as profundidades do nível estático e do topo do espesso substrato impermeável do sistema aquífero Salitre. Esses estudos permitiramavaliar, regionalmente, os recursos hídricos subterrâneos da bacia, em termos de geometria e características hidráulicas, bem como propor um procedimento para efetuar tomografia elétrica bidimensional, visando sua efetiva exploração por meio de poços. Os limites laterais e em profundidade das zonas de maior carstificação e de densos fraturamentos foram delineados, possibilitando estimar uma reserva total de água no sistema do rio Salitre em cerca de 220 bilhões de m3. Análises físico-químicas deamostras de água coletadas em poços foram usadas para caracterizar a variabilidade na qualidade da água subterrânea na bacia. Tais resultados podem ser usados paraplanejar um regime de exploração eficiente e conservativo das reservas de água subterrânea disponíveis.Palavras-chave: sondagem elétrica, seção tomográfica, sistema aquífero Salitre.


Data in Brief ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 105491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hariri Arifin ◽  
John Kayode ◽  
Khairul Arifin ◽  
Zuhar Zahir ◽  
Manan Abdullah ◽  
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Author(s):  
S. Ye ◽  
Y. Wang ◽  
J. Wu ◽  
P. Teatini ◽  
J. Yu ◽  
...  

Abstract. The Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou (known as "Su-Xi-Chang") area, located in the southern part of Jiangsu Province, China, experienced serious land subsidence caused by overly exploitation of groundwater. The largest cumulative land subsidence has reached 3 m. With the rapid progress of land subsidence since the late 1980s, more than 20 earth fissures developed in Su-Xi-Chang area, although no pre-existing faults have been detected in the surroundings. The mechanisms of earth fissure generation associated with excessive groundwater pumping are: (i) differential land subsidence, (ii) differences in the thickness of the aquifer system, and (iii) bedrock ridges and cliffs at relatively shallow depths. In this study, the Guangming Village Earth Fissures in Wuxi area are selected as a case study to discuss in details the mechanisms of fissure generation. Aquifer exploitation resulted in a drop of groundwater head at a rate of 5–6 m yr−1 in the 1990s, with a cumulative drawdown of 40 m. The first earth fissure at Guangming Village was observed in 1998. The earth fissures, which developed in a zone characterized by a cumulative land subsidence of approximately 800 mm, are located at the flank of a main subsidence bowl with differential subsidence ranging from 0 to 1600 mm in 2001. The maximum differential subsidence rate amounts to 5 mm yr−1 between the two sides of the fissures. The fissure openings range from 30 to 80 mm, with a cumulative length of 1000 m. Depth of bed rock changes from 60 to 140 m across the earth fissure. The causes of earth fissure generation at Guangming Village includes a decrease in groundwater levels, differences in the thickness of aquifer system, shallow depths of bedrock ridges and cliffs, and subsequent differential land subsidence.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mesud Adžemović ◽  
Mirjana Bartula ◽  
Jordan Aleksić

Economic analysis is the key requirement of EU Water Framework Directive. On a level of river basin area, economic analysis includes three dimensions: 1. economic characterization of water use: current and future projected economic importance of capacities and potentials of water resources; 2. program of measures for achieving good water status: cost-benefit analyses, cost efficiency analyses, cost scale and influence: and 3. water services price policies: evaluation of institutional alternatives for recovery of water services costs, including analysis of cost distribution. The analysis includes leveling of current and projected water resources data with costs and benefits of water services on the level of river basin area within local communities and integrated on sub-region level.


2019 ◽  
Vol 127 ◽  
pp. 420-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikiforos A. Alygizakis ◽  
Harrie Besselink ◽  
Gabriela K. Paulus ◽  
Peter Oswald ◽  
Luc M. Hornstra ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 905-919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy England ◽  
April L. James ◽  
Krystopher J. Chutko ◽  
Richard S. Pyrce ◽  
Huaxia Yao

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