Some problems associated with tube well programmes in Sri Lanka

The groundwater circulation is limited in Sri Lanka because nine tenth area of the island is underlain by metamorphic hard rocks which are generally very impermeable. Therefore to satisfy the water demand some other possibilities of water resources should be explored before starting a groundwater investigation programme for a given area. Preliminary data collection is very important to assess groundwater storage. But the required data are not freely available for any river basin. Geological informations and groundwater levels obtained from dug wells are necessary to get a general idea on its occurrence. The present construction methods of the dug wells do not facilitate to flow water freely. Sources of contaminations and errors in geophysical measurements are the other important problems arising during investigations. The design and construction of each well should be individually done to suit the heterogeneous nature of each location. But it would be difficult to conduct individual analysis because of the lack of laboratory facilities closer to the well sites. There are no acceptable scientific programmes for the future developments of groundwater in Sri Lanka. The main aim of the existing projects is to construct a certain number of tube wells (irrespective of the demand) for each area. The geoscientists have no choice to construct a tube well at the appropriate location due to the interference of some sociological problems in some areas. Therefore it is necessary to establish a Groundwater Research Institute in Sri Lanka.     

熵权集对分析法在新疆塔里木盆地地下水水质评价中的应用

对于干旱地区来说,地下水水质评价是一项重要而必要的工作,其评价结果为当地的地下水资源开发利用保护提供科学依据。本文通过对新疆塔里木盆地162个地下水水样测试结果的分析,应用5元联系度的熵权集对分析法对研究区地下水水质进行评价。通过不同评价方法的比较分析发现,熵权集对分析法评价结果客观,计算简单、方便等优点,是一种有效的地下水水质评价方法。评价结果表明,巴州地区、塔里木河流域、开孔河流域的地下水水质较其他地区和流域差,阿克苏地区、阿克苏河流域、渭干河流域的地下水水质总体水平较好。     

西南喀斯特小流域地下水数值模拟

本文以位于西南典型喀斯特地区的贵州普定后寨河流域为研究对象,采用等效连续导水介质体概化方法建立喀斯特流域地下水数值计算模型.运用MODFLOW中的排水沟渠子程序包以及河流子程序包,构建考虑地表河与地下河系统与含水层地下水流交换水动力过程模拟方法,分析后寨河流域地下水流运动特征,估算含水层补排水量.模型计算的地下水位动态...     

Regionalization of water quality in the upper fraser river basin, British Columbia

Uniformity of water quality in the Upper Fraser River basin was examined using cluster analysis. Substantial variations in water quality exist within the basin. These differences are largely related to the geology of the watersheds. Differences in water quality were more pronounced among the tributaries than along the mainstem of the Fraser River. The mainstem of the river could be considered to have three distinct reaches where water quality properties were relatively constant. Cluster analysis was a useful technique for establishing similarities and differences for both the tributaries and the mainstem stations. Some limitations of water quality data and the methods used are discussed. The diversity of water quality found to exist within this basin suggests that uniform criteria or objectives cannot be applied to the basin as a whole, but may be applied to smaller units.     

Distribution of 7Be, 210Pb and 137Cs in watersheds of different scales in the Seine River basin: inventories and residence times

The activity of environmental radionuclides ((7)Be, (210)Pb and (137)Cs) was monitored in nested catchments, inside the Seine River basin. Suspended matter data was collected at 8 different watersheds, ranging from order 1 to order 7, and ranging in size over 4 orders of magnitude. Suspended matter was analyzed for (210)Pb, (137)Cs and (7)Be, and used to calculate the flux of sediments out of each watershed. Monthly atmospheric flux data of (210)Pb and (7)Be was analyzed to assess the input flux of each into the watersheds, taking into account the rainfall during sampling periods. Taking advantage of the different half-lives of (7)Be (53 days) and (210)Pb (22 years), a two-box model was built for each of the catchments following a methodology previously developed by Dominik et al. [Dominik J, Burrus D, Vernet JP. Transport of the environmental radionuclides in alpine watershed. Earth Planet Sci Letters 1987; 84: 165-180.]. The model divides the watershed into a soil box and a rapid reservoir and provides insight into the removal rate of suspended matter from the surrounding watershed. The model enables the assessment of the surface area and the residence time of slow and rapid reservoirs to describe the fate of contaminants of atmospheric origin inside the river basin. The model was improved by considering the dissolved fraction in the total flux and adding the (137)Cs inventory as an additional constraint. The effects of these changes are discussed. Residence times in the soil box, characterized by low transport velocity, range between 4800 years at Melarchez (order 1) to about 30000 years at Andresy and Poses (order 7). They remain constant in each watershed over a large range of variation of atmospheric fluxes of (7)Be and (210)Pb during the whole study, but are sensitive to SM variations. The residence time in the rapid box, which includes the surface of the river and immediate surroundings, is less than one year, while its surface area is in the range 0.6% to 2.2% of the total catchment area. They are sensitive to (7)Be atmospheric flux variations. The two-box model was used to estimate the amount of the radionuclides in each reservoir. Inventories appear to be constant from one watershed to the next. The (7)Be inventory ratio in the rapid and slow boxes expresses the rate of particle-reactive atmospheric pollutants that will be rapidly delivered to the river.     

三工河流域地下水资源与可持续利用

三工河流域地处新疆天山北坡经济带,流域发源于天山博格达峰,是独立的小流域。而流域的自然景观和地貌单元的完整性,具有大流域的分布规律。目前流域供水水源以河道来水和开采地下水为主,由于长期的超采地下水,已经造成该流域地下水位持续下降。本文在系统地阐述流域地质条件以及含水层组特征的基础上,利用流域多年基础资料,采用水均衡方法,对现状进行水资源平衡分析、地下水平衡分析、耗水量平衡分析,构建出合理地下水数值模型,并进行了地下水水位、水量远景预报,确定出合理的地下水资源量以及合理的地下水可开采量。根据流域的不同地貌单元,制定出不同的地下水开发利用模式与保护区,按照限制开采、调蓄开采、调控开采和禁止开采等四个区域确定地下水利用模式。     

大连地下石油储备库洞室群围岩稳定性及渗流场分析

为分析水封式大连地下石油储备库洞室群围岩稳定性及渗流场特征,首先基于现场地应力实测结果的回归分析,利用Fish语言编写函数,反演初始地应力场。其次,采用三维离散元程序3DEC生成三维节理网络模型,反演库区初始渗流场的各向异性特征。最后,利用应力与渗流耦合模块实施开挖仿真计算,获取围岩应力场、位移场变化特征。考虑平行、垂直层理面不同材料特性,基于带有抗拉的Mohr-Coulomb强度储备型点安全系数,定量评价洞室群的稳定性。借鉴国外水封效果评价标准,分别从地下水位线和垂直水力坡降2个方面,分析渗流场变化特征。研究表明:在洞室周边平行层理面点安全系数为1.02～1.25,垂直层理面点安全系数为1.95～2.00。在补水隧道及注水孔组成的人工水幕系统作用下,建设期内地下水位下降3～5 m,地下水位距洞室顶55 m。开挖洞室附近平均垂直水力坡降大于1.0,满足设计规范及密封性要求。     

Nitrogen-alkalinity interactions in the highly polluted Scheldt basin (Belgium)

We present results of one year observations in highly heterotrophic and oxygen-depleted rivers of the polluted Scheldt basin. Monthly measurements revealed a high variability for dissolved inorganic carbon and nitrogen, with the following strong parallelism: highest alkalinity and NH4+ were associated with lowest NO3- and oxygen and vice-versa. In river water incubations, nitrification lowered the alkalinity whereas denitrification raised it; in an anoxic, NO3(-)-free incubation an increase of alkalinity was observed, partially due to ammonification. A stoichiometric analysis, taking into account the amount of protons produced or consumed by each process involving nitrogen, revealed that monthly variations of NO3- and NH4+ with ammonification, nitrification and denitrification could explain the 28 and 62% alkalinity variations at all stations, except one. The remaining part of the alkalinity variations was attributed to other anaerobic processes (Mn-, Fe- and SO4-reductions). This trend seems to be the result of the whole catchment metabolism (riverine waters and sediments, sewage networks and agricultural soils). The observed HCO3- concentrations in the Scheldt basin were 2-10 times higher than the representative concentrations reported in pristine basins and used in chemical weathering models. This suggests the existence of an anthropogenic source, originating from organic matter decomposition. We conclude that in highly polluted basins, nitrogen transformations strongly influence the acid-base properties of water.     

Variations in water quality during winter in two Yukon rivers with emphasis on dissolved oxygen concentration

Winter variations in water quality were investigated in an arctic and a sub-arctic river basin in the Yukon Territory. In both cases dissolved oxygen depressions were observed during the winter, a phenomenon which occurred at all stations where water was sampled under ice. Lowest values were measured in late winter when ice cover was most extensive and when concentrations of basic cations reached highest annual values. No direct relationship was observed between oxygen levels, ice thickness and ice type. It appears that as winter progresses the stream water consists more and more of groundwater which usually contains low oxygen levels. Because of ice cover during that period little opportunity exists for reaeration and, although river sections with open water showed slightly higher oxygen concentrations than under ice samples, such open areas were not sufficiently large for reaeration. Oxygen concentrations in groundwater thus have a profound influence on oxygen concentration in the streams, but groundwater is not the only cause as other factors such as oxygen uptake by suspended material and biota possibly contribute to the low overall values. Some of the data from this study are corroborated by similar findings in Alaska suggesting that natural oxygen depressions in late winter are a widespread phenomenon in northern environments.     

高水压岩质盾构隧道施工期结构内力分析

 在使用大型跨江海盾构法进行水下隧道施工时,主要存在的流固耦合问题是：掘进过程中引起的流固耦合效应对管片结构内力的改变。结合重庆主城排水过长江盾构隧道工程,选取典型断面,按连续介质理论,采用有限元数值模拟手段进行分析。对该典型断面采取水土合算和考虑耦合效应2种方式来计算管片结构内力分布,并和现场实测数据进行验证。研究结果表明,在水下盾构法施工期间,管片截面最大内力出现在刚拼装完时,长期地下水渗流会减小管片截面内力。从流固耦合角度来研究管片结构受力特征,可为类似的工程设计及施工提供有益的参考。     

The potential of pesticides to contaminate the groundwater resources of the Axios river basin. Part II. Monitoring study in the south part of the basin

A monitoring study was conducted during 1992-1994 in the south part of the Axios river basin, which constitutes one of the main rice-cultivated basins of Greece. The potential of pesticides to contaminate groundwater resources was assessed under realistic agricultural conditions using suction lysimeters. Pesticide residues were also measured in local drainage canals, the phreatic horizon and Axios river. Carbofuran, atrazine, alachlor, prometryne and propanil were regularly detected at concentrations exceeding 1 microg/l in the soil water of deeper soil layers and in the phreatic horizon of the fields. Residues of those pesticides were measured in the soil water and the phreatic horizon of all the studied fields even though they had only been applied in certain fields. This almost uniform distribution of pesticide residues across the whole of the studied area was attributed to rice cultivation. Soil water and its pesticidal content was horizontally transported from saturated soil conditions beneath rice paddies to adjacent corn or cotton-cultivated fields with lower soil moisture contents. The presence of high pesticide concentrations in the water of the Axios river, which was used for the irrigation of the studied area, had probably contributed to the generalized pesticide contamination of the soil water in the studied area. These results suggest that there is a high risk for groundwater contamination in the basin.     

Agriculture and groundwater nitrate contamination in the Seine basin. The STICS-MODCOU modelling chain

A software package is presented here to predict the fate of nitrogen fertilizers and the transport of nitrate from the rooting zone of agricultural areas to surface water and groundwater in the Seine basin, taking into account the long residence times of water and nitrate in the unsaturated and aquifer systems. Information on pedological characteristics, land use and farming practices is used to determine the spatial units to be considered. These data are converted into input data for the crop model STICS which simulates the water and nitrogen balances in the soil-plant system with a daily time-step. A spatial application of STICS has been derived at the catchment scale which computes the water and nitrate fluxes at the bottom of the rooting zone. These fluxes are integrated into a surface and groundwater coupled model MODCOU which calculates the daily water balance in the hydrological system, the flow in the rivers and the piezometric variations in the aquifers, using standard climatic data (rainfall, PET). The transport of nitrate and the evolution of nitrate contamination in groundwater and to rivers is computed by the model NEWSAM. This modelling chain is a valuable tool to predict the evolution of crop productivity and nitrate contamination according to various scenarios modifying farming practices and/or climatic changes. Data for the period 1970-2000 are used to simulate the past evolution of nitrogen contamination. The method has been validated using available data bases of nitrate concentrations in the three main aquifers of the Paris basin (Oligocene, Eocene and chalk). The approach has then been used to predict the future evolution of nitrogen contamination up to 2015. A statistical approach allowed estimating the probability of transgression of different concentration thresholds in various areas in the basin. The model is also used to evaluate the cost of the damage resulting of the treatment of drinking water at the scale of a groundwater management unit in the Seine river basin.     

Distribution of 1,4-dioxane in relation to possible sources in the water environment

The distribution of 1,4-dioxane was investigated in surface and groundwater in relation to possible sources. Water samples from river, coastal sea, and groundwater were collected and examined in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, from 1995 to 1998. Almost all samples were contaminated by 1,4-dioxane. On annual changes, the concentrations did not vary significantly in river water. However, some samples were still heavily polluted in groundwater. The highest correlation was between the concentration of 1,4-dioxane and 1,1,1-trichloroethane in the polluted groundwater samples. Soil and groundwater that was polluted by 1,1,1-trichloroethane in the past is still a possible source of 1,4-dioxane. In regard to a survey of other sources, effluents from the combined collection treatment from apartment houses, river basin sewage systems, and chemical plants were examined. The load unit of 1,4-dioxane from the treated effluent of domestic wastewater was assumed to be approximately 0.25 mg/person/day. This was derived from commonly used household chemicals, which contained 1,4-dioxane as a by-product. In river basin sewage systems, the concentrations in effluents varied significantly. High concentration inflows were probably not degraded and released. Although 50-60% of removal was recognized in acclimatized activated sludge from a chemical plant, 1,4-dioxane was easily desorbed with water from sludge.     

Use of continuous water quality records for hydrograph separation and to assess short-term variability and extremes in acidity and dissolved carbon dioxide for the River Dee, Scotland

A combination of continuous (15-min) pH, conductivity and temperature measurements and fortnightly spot-sampled water quality data were used to examine temporal variability and extremes in river water quality in an upland Scottish river: the River Dee at Mar Lodge. An empirical relationship was established for Gran-alkalinity by multiple regression against flow and conductivity for the fortnightly data. Applying this relationship to the continuous data, an estimate of continuous Gran-alkalinity was calculated. The continuous Gran-alkalinity record was used as (1) a conservative tracer in a simple two-component mixing model to determine the relative proportions of near-surface runoff and deeper groundwater contributing to stream flow; (2) to deconvolute the contribution of weathering and sea-salt contributions to stream conductivity; and (3) to calculate the excess partial pressure of carbon dioxide in stream water. The episodic variations in pH, weathering and sea-salt conductivity and excess partial pressures of carbon dioxide (EpCO2) associated with high flow events in the River Dee suggest that hydrological pathways play an important role in determining stream chemistry. The results of the hydrograph separation indicate that groundwater provides an important contribution to stream flow, and that there are large and hydrologically active stores of groundwater within the upper River Dee catchment. Sea-salts have an important influence on stream conductivity, particularly with the onset of storm runoff following summer drought periods. This suggests that sea-salts are concentrated in the upper soil horizons by dry deposition and/or evapotranspiration. EpCO2 behaves non-conservatively and shows marked diurnal variability under low-flow conditions during summer, inducing diurnal pH variations, and indicating the importance of within-river biological processes. This study emphasises the very intermittent nature of water quality extremes with stream spates and the diurnal nature of biologically-induced responses. Fortnightly sampling programmes do not capture the range of high flow extremes, and with sampling undertaken during the working day, biological extremes occurring at night are also missed, introducing bias. This study shows the value of continuous measurements for infilling aspects of these intermittent extremes. However, it is also noted that the relatively simple patterns of response observed from the continuous measurements may well belie a much more varied response at the sub-catchment and hillslope scales, as local chemical and hydrological heterogeneities do occur. Thus, the two-component mixing model used is, in practice, based on catchment integrated values for a range of soil water and groundwater endmembers.     

A preliminary pressure–impact analysis applied in the Pinios river basin (Thessaly, Central Greece)

Greece has not yet undertaken one of the first and most important tasks required by the Water Framework Directive (WFD: the integrated review of the impact of human activity on the status of surface waters for each river basin – the IMPRESS analysis. Owing to the lack of a national methodology, a preliminary analysis was carried out for the Pinios river basin, applying a combination of different methodologies refined to suit the particularities of the Greek freshwater environment and to accommodate the limited availability of data. Pressures caused by the main pollution sources, point and nonpoint, were quantified in terms of pollution loads with the use of emission factors. The existing limited biological and physicochemical monitoring data were used to assess impacts. Additionally, we identified pressures caused by alterations from land-use data; we carried out a River Habitat Survey (RHS) and estimated the hydromorphological impacts through the calculation of a Habitat Modification Score (HMS). Our results suggest that the probability of the Pinios river basin failing to achieve good ecological quality by 2015 due to pollution is high, and due to hydromorphological pressures is moderate.     

Zeitliche und räumliche Skalen der Fluss-Grundwasser-Interaktion: Ein multidimensionaler hydrogeologischer Untersuchungsansatz

River-groundwater interactions show strong scale-dependencies and are often strongly transient. In this regard, small-scale flow conditions in the hyporheic zone at the interface between surface- and groundwater can be important for process-understanding. This especially includes questions concerning flow conditions in salmonid redds of gravel-bed rivers. The Swiss subalpine river Enziwigger was chosen as an example for a small channelized river with artificial steps within the riverbed. Several methods were developed, tested and combined that capture the four dimensions (three spatial and one temporal) of the interactions between surface water, the hyporheic zone and groundwater, for individual river segments. The setup of a monitoring network as well as the realization of field-measurements provided data for groundwater flow models. Continuous time series of hydraulic data, temperature and electrical conductivity within the river and the riverbed, as well as within the riverine groundwater, allowed identifying zones with significant exchange of surface water and groundwater. Additionally, the data helped describe the transient character of groundwater flow-paths under various hydrological boundary conditions. Results of the field-measurements in combination with transient groundwater flow modeling and scenario analyses illustrate the relevance of dynamically changing infiltration and exfiltration patterns within the riverbed.     

Hydrological analysis as a technical tool to support strategic and economic development: A case study of Lake Navaisha,Kenya

Effective integrated water resources management requires reliable estimation of an overall basin water budget and of hydrologic fluctuations between groundwater and surface‐water resources. Seasonal variability of groundwater‐surface water exchange fluxes impacts on the water balance. The long term lake water balance was calculated by Modflow using the stage‐volume rating curve of Lake Package LAK3. The long term average storage volume change is 8.4 × 10⁸ m³/month. The lake water balances suggests that the lake is not in equilibrium with the inflow and outflow terms. Using field abstraction data analysis and model simulation, the combined volume of lake‐groundwater used for industrial abstraction since the last three decades was estimated. This requires an average abstraction amount of 7.0 × 10⁶ m³/month with a long term trend of abstraction ratio 30% (groundwater) and 70% (lake water) since 1980. The amount resulted in a lake which might have been 4.8 m higher than was observed in the last stress period (2010). A long term regional groundwater budget is calculated reflecting all water flow in to and out of the regional aquifer. The model water balance suggests that lake Navaisha basin is in equilibrium with a net outflow about 1% greater than the inflow over the calibrated period of time (1932–2010). The regional model is best used for broad‐scale predictions and can be used to provide a general sense of groundwater to surface water and groundwater to groundwater impacts in the basin. A basin wide water resource management strategy can be designed by integrating the lake/wetland within the regional groundwater model to increase the level of sustainable production and good stewardship in Lake Navaisha. Such hydrological analysis is crucial in making the model serve as simulator of the response of lake stage to hydraulic stresses applied to the aquifer and variation in climatic condition.     

Flow measurement with multi‐instrumentation in a tidal‐affected river

Flow measurements in a tidal‐affected river provide important information of cyclic flow pattern characteristics in temporal and spatial variations. Reliability and accuracy of measured flow data can provide for numerical model calibration and verification. In the present study, we measured tidally affected river flow in the Danshui River of northern Taiwan during the 2008 summer and fall. The measured flow data, produced by both state of the art and conventional instruments including particle tracking velocimetry (PTV), acoustic Doppler profiler (ADP), horizontal acoustic Doppler current profiler (H‐ADCP) and Price‐type current metre (PCM) were compared and correlated during several tidal cycles. The mean flows by ADP were similar to that by PCM and highly correlated with those by PTV and H‐ADCP. Index velocity rating between ADP and H‐ADCP separately computed during the flood and ebb tides shows good correlation for the ebb tide and poor correlation for the flood tide due to subsurface maximum velocity in the middle‐ to near‐bottom layers.     

The utility of multivariate statistical techniques in hydrogeochemical studies: an example from Karnataka,India

Quality of groundwater is controlled by many factors amongst which the interaction of river water with adjacent groundwater and mixing/non-mixing of different types of groundwater may be important. An attempt has been made to study these processes using multivariate statistical techniques such as factor and cluster analyses. The Nethravathi catchment (India) which is a tropical river basin draining the Precambrian crystalline province of peninsular India, has been selected for this study. Hydrogeochemical data for 56 groundwater samples were subjected to Q- and R- mode factor and cluster analysis. R-mode analysis reveals the inter-relations among the variables studied and the Q-mode analysis reveals the inter-relations among the samples studied. The R-mode factor analysis shows that Na and Cl with HCO3 account for most of the electrical conductivity and total dissolved solids of the groundwater. The 'single dominance' nature of the majority of the factors in the R-mode analysis indicates non-mixing or partial mixing of different types of groundwater. Both Q-mode factor and Q-mode cluster analyses shows that there is an exchange between the river water and the adjacent groundwater.