Groundwater Updates

Groundwater is essential to life and to maintaining Earth's water cycle. In the face of growing threats to this invaluable resource, recent advances in research and analysis - notably in numerical simulation and data processing with computers - are bringing rapid changes in dynamic methodology for groundwater management and modeling. This book contains the latest updates from the field of groundwater science and engineering, organized around five major topics: Optimization of groundwater resources in basins, Groundwater pollution and remediation technologies, Underground development and groundwater technologies, Interaction between surface and subsurface water, and Reliability of numerical methods and scaling in geohydraulics. This collection of more than 80 papers by leading specialists provides a valuable source of information for researchers, engineers, and students in the field of groundwater resources and management. Front Matter....Pages I-XVII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Soil and Groundwater Contamination and Remediation Technology in Europe....Pages 3-8 Current Trends in Groundwater Hydraulics....Pages 9-12 A New Control System of Groundwater Resource....Pages 13-16 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Groundwater Sources and the Urban Development—a Possible Coexistence....Pages 19-24 Modeling Density-Driven Groundwater Flow in Vertical Cross-Sections....Pages 25-30 Macroscopic Monitoring of Deep Underground Fluid Flow by Repeat Gravity Measurements....Pages 31-36 Investigation and Analysis on Changes of Discharge and Saline Concentration of Groundwater in an Alluvial Plain....Pages 37-42 Land-use Intensity as a Key Factor towards Unsustainability of Groundwater Resources: the case of Israel’s Coastal Aquifer....Pages 43-48 The Water Resources System and Water Utilization in the Arid Northwest of China....Pages 49-54 GIS Application for Monitoring Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh....Pages 55-60 Multivariate Classification Method in Groundwater Research....Pages 61-66 Challenges, Monitoring and Development of Groundwater in North India....Pages 67-72 Qanat as an Iranian Ancient Method for Using Groundwater....Pages 73-78 Land Subsidence Prediction and Its Visualization Using Geographical Information System (GIS)....Pages 79-84 Artificial Recharge for Sustainable Groundwater Development in Jinhe Water Source Field of Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, CHINA....Pages 85-89 The Use of Long-term Tritium Concentration Records to Estimate Recharge to Confined Aquifers in Metropolitan Tokyo....Pages 91-96 Modeling of a Karst Drainage Responses with Reservoirs in the Itxina Karstic Aquifer (Basque Country, Spain)....Pages 97-102 Front Matter....Pages 103-103 Correlation of Optimal Salinity as Function of Water/Oil Ratio in Brine/Surfactant/Alcohol/Oil System....Pages 105-110 Installation of a Permeable Groundwater Treatment Wall and Its Remedial Effects....Pages 111-116 Groundwater Quality Evaluation with Special Reference to Fluorosis and Nitrate Pollution — A Case Study....Pages 117-121 Front Matter....Pages 103-103 A designing method for in-situ bioremediation of groundwater with evaluation of transport characteristics in aquifers....Pages 123-128 Groundwater Contamination from Agro-chemicals in Irrigated Environment : Field Trials ....Pages 129-134 In-situ Electrokinetic Remediation of Soil and Water in Aquifer Contaminated by Heavy Metal....Pages 135-140 Use of Global Optimisation Technique in Groundwater Pumping Strategy for Plume Removal....Pages 141-146 Numerical Simulation of Nitrate Transport with Unsaturated Flow Condition in Volcanic Soils....Pages 147-152 The Effect of an Heterogeneous Hydraulic Conductivity Field on the Spread of a Contaminant Plume in a Porous Aquifer: A Case Study in Portugal....Pages 153-158 Significance of Pore-Scale Dispersion and Sorption Kinetics for Solute Flux in Heterogeneous Aquifers....Pages 159-164 Longitudinal Dispersivity of Partially Saturated Sand Packed into Air Suck Column....Pages 165-170 Geochemical Behavior of Trace Vanadium in the Spring, Groundwater and Lake Water at the Foot of Mt. Fuji, Central Japan....Pages 171-176 A case study using a soil gas extraction method for the remediation of a site contaminated by chloro-organic compounds....Pages 177-182 Estimation of Air-Water Interfacial Area in Unsaturated Porous Medium: A New Experimental Approach....Pages 183-188 The Lysimeter Experiments and Numerical Simulations on Behavior of DNAPL in the Unsaturated Zone....Pages 189-194 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 Experimental Study on Gas Seepage in Rock....Pages 197-202 An Investigation on Uplift Forces Acting on Water Structures’ Floors....Pages 203-208 The Long-Term Piping behind the Concrete Lining of a Tailrace Canal with High Diurnal Drawdown; Beresti Canal Case....Pages 209-214 Front Matter....Pages 215-215 Determination of Groundwater Seepage into a River by Radon-222 Concentration in Water....Pages 217-222 Interaction between Fresh Groundwater and Salt Sea Water in Heterogeneous Freshwater Coastal Aquifer....Pages 223-228 Hydraulic Analysis on Stream-Aquifer Interaction by Storage Function Models....Pages 229-234 Investigation of Saline Water Intrusion into Aquifer by Using Resistivity Method....Pages 235-240 Groundwater Flow Systems in Yoro River Basin Estimated from Stable Isotope, Subsurface Temperatures and MODFLOW....Pages 241-246 Front Matter....Pages 215-215 Climate Change Impacts in Regional-Scale Aquifers: Principles and Field Application....Pages 247-252 Simulation of Conservation of a Spring in Groundwater Recharge by Rainwater....Pages 253-258 Numerical Simulation of Groundwater Flow in Multi-layered Aquifers with a Distributed Hydrological Model....Pages 259-264 Study on Interaction between Surface and Subsurface Flows using Conjunctive Flow Model....Pages 265-270 Diurnal fluctuations of soil temperature, vapor pressure and evaporation in bare soils....Pages 271-276 Modeling Groundwater Flow in an Unconfined Aquifer in an Alluvial Fan....Pages 277-282 Extreme Capacity of Unconfined Aquifers with Accretion....Pages 283-288 Biological Treatment of Groundwater....Pages 289-294 Numerical Simulation of Water-Gas Flow and Transport Processes in Coastal Aquifers....Pages 295-300 Groundwater Recharge Study and Simulation — Kamphaeng Phet Case Study —....Pages 301-306 A Simulation Study on the Heat and Vapor Transfer at the Ground Surface....Pages 307-312 An Engineering Approach towards Appropriate Hydrological Water Cycle in Urban Areas: First Report....Pages 313-318 Planning for Renewal of the Hydrological Cycle in Hillside Developments....Pages 319-324 Front Matter....Pages 325-325 Integrating GIS Data with 3D Finite Element Groundwater Models....Pages 327-332 Numerical Simulation and Homogenization of Two-Phase Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media....Pages 333-338 Automatic Grid Adaptation for Multidimensional Coupled Processes in Subsurface Hydrosystems....Pages 339-344 Efficient Computational Algorithm in Groundwater Management....Pages 345-350 Groundwater Modeling by Layer Based Three-Dimensional Concept....Pages 351-356 Numerical modeling of volatile and slightly soluble contaminant flow in unsaturated and saturated zone....Pages 357-362 Boundary Conditions Effect on the Accuracy of Groundwater Head Evaluation....Pages 363-367 Front Matter....Pages 325-325 Hysteretic Unsaturated Flow in Porous Media Caused by Periodic Movement of the Phreatic Surface: Model and Experiment....Pages 369-374 Confidence Intervals of Hydraulic Properties Estimated by Highly Efficient Numerical Inversion with Pressure Change Rate Matching....Pages 375-380 Characterization of Hydraulic Properties of Fractured Rock Mass with Numerical Model....Pages 381-386 Evaluation of the Heterogeneous Hydrogeological Structure....Pages 387-392 Evaluation of In-situ Air Permeability Test for Designing of Soil Vapor Extraction....Pages 393-397 Parameter identification in discontinuous rock mass aquifers using thermal fluid logging method....Pages 399-404 Estimation of Hydrogeological Parameters in Groundwater Modeling by Genetic Algorithm....Pages 405-410 Mathematical Modeling of Groundwater Flow and Radionuclide Transport in Heterogeneous Aquifer....Pages 411-416 Investigation of the Accuracy of Numerical Modelling of Seepage through Variably Saturated Soils....Pages 417-420 Study on Breakwater Stability under Waves Induced Seepage Flow....Pages 423-426 Investigation of Groundwater Flow by Using Fiber-Optic Temperature Sensor....Pages 431-432 Subsidence in the Noubi plains....Pages 433-434 Analysis on Influence Factors of Sustainable Groundwater Development in Jining City, Shandong Province, CHINA....Pages 435-436 Construction of an Integral Monitoring System for Contaminated Groundwater Resources in the Municipal Area of Glauchau Using a Ground Water Model....Pages 439-440 Application of A Simple Method for the Convection Direction Estimation to the Groundwater Polluted by Volatile Chlorinated Hydrocarbons....Pages 441-442 Effect of injection mode on the spatial moments of a non-reactive solute plume....Pages 443-444 Flow path and material cycle for groundwater of floodplain in the Nagata district of the Tama River....Pages 445-446 Pollution Problems of the Groundwater Regimes in Calicut City, Kerala, due to Cannoly Canal....Pages 447-448 Relations between Behavior of Gaseous VOCs in Unsaturated Zone and Gas Adsorption to Soil....Pages 449-450 Study on Remediation of Oil Contaminated Soil....Pages 451-452 The Strategy and Development of Solid Waste Disposal in China....Pages 453-454 Survey of Soil and Groundwater Contamination due to Waste Disposal — A Study of ‘Contaminant Diagnosis Remediation System’-....Pages 455-456 Temporal Changes of Fluid Balance for Lake Stechlin and its Subsurface Watershed....Pages 459-460 The Effect of Soil Excavation on the Water Balance of a Small Lake in Northern Finland....Pages 461-462 Estimation of Vertical Recharge of Karst Aquifer by Surface Water in Tropical Monsoon Climate....Pages 463-464 Application of Multi-layer Dewatering and Vertical Recharge System in Dewatering for Underground Works....Pages 465-466 Parameter estimation methods to determine hydraulic properties of aquifers using genetic algorithms....Pages 469-470 Integration of well hydraulics formulae considering several conditions of pumping test and/or hydraulic boundaries....Pages 471-472 Arsenic Problem in Groundwater, a Growing Threat to Public Health in Bangladesh: An Overall Perspective and Management Modelling Approach....Pages 473-474 Modeling of Flow and Transport Processes in the Subsurface....Pages 477-480 Interaction between the Groundwater and Geomechanics....Pages 481-484 Groundwater flow and subsurface thermal regime....Pages 485-488 Back Matter....Pages 489-491