Urban Groundwater, Meeting the Challenge : IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology 8

ISBN-13: 9780415407458 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 307 str.

Ken W. F. Howard

Opis

Broadly divided into five sections, this book covers recharge mechanisms and the urban water balance, urban recharge management, sewer exfiltraion, assessment of contaminant impacts, and urban aquifer management. It explores the scientific and technical progress made in areas such as the urban water balance, contaminant source characterization and transport, aquifer vulnerability mapping, artificial recharge and the control of groundwater in deep excavations, roads, and tunnels. The book goes on to discuss how to integrate these advances into effective, holistic, plans for pro-active, sustainable urban groundwater management.

Spis treści

Introduction

Preface: Matthias Eiswirth Memorial

RECHARGE MECHANISMS AND THE URBAN WATER BALANCE

1. Urban-enhanced groundwater recharge: review and case study of Austin, Texas, USA

2. Flow and solute transport monitoring at an urban lysimeter at Union Brewery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

3. Urban infrastructure and its impact on groundwater contamination

4. Urban groundwater problems in Cork city, southwest Ireland

SEWER EXFILTRATION

5. Impact on urban groundwater by wastewater infiltration into soils

6. Direct measurements of exfiltration in a sewer test site in a medium-sized city in southwest Germany

7. Upscaling of laboratory results on sewer leakage and the associated uncertainty

 ASSESSMENT OF CONTAMINANT IMPACTS

8. Groundwater flow velocities indicated by anthropogenic contaminants in urban sandstone aquifers

9. Development of a GIS model for assessing groundwater pollution from small scale petrol spills

10. Assessment of groundwater contaminant vulnerability in an urban watershed in southeast Michigan, USA

11. Xenobiotics in urban areas - investigation and estimation of chemical fluxes

URBAN RECHARGE MANAGEMENT

12. Conjunctive use of urban surface water and groundwater for improved urban water security

13. Stormwater infiltration technologies for augmenting groundwater recharge in urban areas

14. Aspects of urban groundwater management and use in India

URBAN AQUIFER MANAGEMENT

15. Evaluating groundwater allocation alternatives in an urban setting using a geographic information system data model

16. Can urban groundwater problems be transformed into new water resources?

17. Hydraulic Interactions between aquifers in the Viterbo area (Central Italy)

18. Alarming rise in groundwater levels beneath the city of Jodphur: an example of ground and surface water interaction in the Thar Desert of western India

19. Groundwater modelling to evaluate the risk of aquifer depletion due to a construction site in an urban area in Basel, Switzerland

20. Urban groundwater resources: a case study of Porto city in northwest Portugal

21. Water resources management in Taiz, Yemen: a comprehensive overview

Index

O autorze

Ken F. W. Howard is Vice-President of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH), Chair of the IAH Commission on Groundwater in Urban Areas, and Professor of Hydrogeology at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada.