Groundwater Quality Sustainability

Description: Sustainable groundwater development requires knowledge of the appropriate recharge and transport-processes. This is a prerequisite to understanding: (i) groundwater resources and their availability, and (ii) the dependence between groundwater and the environment. Conceptual understanding of groundwater flow at both temporal and spatial scales (local and regional) is essential for management that will support engineering, industry, agriculture, ecology, and all environmentally related issues. This book has been prepared for scientists, researchers, students, engineers, water resources specialists, groundwater consultants, government administrators and teachers. It is of direct and applied interest to practitioners in hydrogeology and groundwater (resources, quality, pollution, protection and clean-up), geochemistry and hydrogeochemical modelling, and investigators into environmental hydrology, groundwater dependent ecosystems, and other practical environmental issues. Contents: Foreword About the editors List of all contributors Part 1 Groundwater quality 1 The role of the unsaturated zone in determining nitrate leaching to groundwater M. Matrocicco, N. Colombani, E. Salemi, F. Vincenzi & G. Castaldelli 2 Coupling an unsaturated model with a hydro-economic framework for deriving optimal fertilizer application to control nitrate pollution in groundwater S. Pena-Haro, F. Stauffer, C. Clementine & M. Pulido-Velazquez 3 Field tests for subsurface iron removal at a dairy farm in Saxony, Germany J.P. Ebermann, D. Eichhorn,W. Macheleidt, J.J. Ahrns & T. Grischek 4 DNA-microarrays for monitoring natural attenuation of emissions from abandoned landfill sites in contaminated groundwater plumes C. Charle, S. Kuhn & T. Struppe 5 Methodology for determining impacts on the chemical status of groundwater bodies: An application in a Mediterranean river basin (Southern Spain) D. Sanchez Garcia & F. Carrasco Cantos 6 Heavy metals removal from contaminated groundwater using permeable reactive barriers with immobilised membranes I. Zawierucha, C. Kozlowski & G. Malina 7 Event based monitoring and early warning system for groundwater resources in alpine karst aquifers H. Stadler, A. Leis,M. Plieschnegger, P. Skritek & A.H. Farnleitner 8 Cryopegs in theYakutian diamond-bearing province (Russia) S.V. Alexeev, L.P. Alexeeva & A.M. Kononov 9 Hydrogeological studies in diapiric-layering salt formation: The eastern part of the Catalonian Potassic Basin F. Ribera, H. Dorca, N. Otero, J. Palau & A. Soler 10 Hypogenic karst development in a hydrogeological context, Buda Thermal Karst, Budapest, Hungary A. Eross, J. Madl-Szonyi & A.E. Csoma 11 Geochemistry of thermal waters of the Sikhote-Alin ridge, Russia I.V. Bragin, G.A. Chelnokov & M.G. Blokhin 12 Arsenic in groundwater inWestern Anatolia,Turkey: A review O. Gunduz, A. Baba & H. Elpit Part 2 Groundwater management 13 Regional spatial-temporal assessment of the sustainability of groundwater exploitation in the south of Portugal T. Stigter, J.P. Monteiro, L. Nunes, L. Ribeiro & R. Hugman 14 Quality and quantity status and risk assessment of groundwater bodies in the karst areas of Croatia R. Biondic, B. Biondic, J. Rubinic & H. Measki 15 WEAP-MODFLOW as a Decision Support System (DSS) for integrated water resources management: Design of the coupled model and results from a pilot study in Syria J. Massmann, J.Wolfer, M. Huber, K. Schelkes,V. Hennings, A. Droubi & M. Al-Sibai 16 Groundwater recharge evaluation based on the infiltration method S. Stasko, R. Tarka & T. Olichwer 17 Seawater intrusion control by means of a reclaimed water injection barrier in the Llobregat delta, near Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain F. Ortuno, E. Custodio, J. Molinero, I. Juarez,T. Garrido & J. Fraile Part 3 Groundwater - surface water interaction 18 Sustainability of river bank filtration - examples from Germany T. Grischek, D. Schoenheinz, P. Eckert & C. Ray 19 Comparison of established methods to determine infiltration rates in river banks and lake shore sediments M. Soares, G. Gunkel & T. Grischek 20 Estimation of ratio of interception by shelterbelts from the saturated zone to evaporative loss A. Kedziora & D. Kayzer Part 4 Regional groundwater problems 21 Hydrogeological characterisation of the heterogeneity of aquitards from a multilayered system O. Cabaret, A. Dupuy & F. Larroque 22 Hydrogeological characterisation of two karst springs in Southern Spain by hydrodynamical data and intrinsic natural fluorescence J.A. Barbera & B. Andreo Part 5 Data processing & modelling 23 Integration of environmental tracer information with groundwater modelling F. Stauffer & W. Kinzelbach 24 Optimising groundwater monitoring networks using the particle swarm algorithm N. Ganji Khorramdel, S. Javadi, K. Mohammadi, K. Howard & M.J. Monem 25 A novel approach to groundwater model development T.D. Krom & R. Lane 26 Determining natural background values with probability plots T.Walter, A. Beer, D. Brose, D. Budziak, P. Clos,T. Dreher, H.-G. Fritsche, M. Hubschmann, S. Marczinek,A. Peters, H. Poeser, H.-J. Schuster, B.Wagner, F.Wagner, G. Wirsing & R.Wolter Author index Subject index SERIES IAH-Selected Papers Author Biography: Piotr Maloszewski (PhD, DSc) at HMGU-Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Neuherberg, Germany, served as associate editor for the Journal of Hydrology for 3 years and 5 years as associate editor in Hydrological Science Journal. He is reviewer for several journals in the field of hydrology and author/co-author of 160 publications and one book. Prof. Stanislaw Witczak (PhD, DSc) at AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, Krakow, Poland is author and co-author of more than 160 publications and reviewer for Applied Geochemistry and Hydrogeology Journal. Prof. Dr Grzegorz Malina (PhD, DSc, EurIng) at AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, Krakow, Poland is Co-editor of "Soil and Sediment Remediation: Mechanisms, technologies and applications", editor of 3 books (in Polish), author/co-author of 4 books (in Polish), reviewer for several journals and author/co-author of more than 150 papers and technical notes.