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Denudation refers to processes that are destructive and reshaping the surface of the Earth. Some of these processes causing removal of the rocks from the land masses are known as the chemical denudation. The results presented in this article focus on quantitative analysis of the chemical denudation using a new approach based on numerical models and evaluation of the computed rates. This evaluation...
Water quality along the Waratah Rivulet in the Woronora Lake Catchment, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, has been monitored during the last three years by the Sydney Catchment Authority. Water quality data shows changes in chemical composition due to cracking of streambeds and rockbars, and diversion of surface water into subsurface routes in the Hawkesbury Sandstone aquifer. Water quality upstream...
Mining-induced subsidence under surface waterways enhances surface water–groundwater interaction due to the enlargement of existing fractures, development of new fractures and the separation of bedding planes. Fracturing of streambeds and rockbars causes surface flow to divert to subsurface routes. The surface water–groundwater interaction in an undermined stream in the Southern Coalfield of New South...
The main goal of this research was to reverse, or at least stop the trend of a constant increase of nitrate ions (NO3–) concentrations in the recharge areas and water extracted by the water works in Łobodno using specifically designed water extraction regime. To find an effective extraction regime, fifteen operation variants with diverse overall and specific well discharge rates were designed and...
The article presents investigation of groundwater occurrence in the Ebba River catchment located in central Spitsbergen (Petuniabukta region). It was recognized that groundwater occurs there seasonally in the summer melting season when the melting of active layer take place and enable flow of groundwater. Using data from four groups of piezometers located in different parts of the valley the hydrogeological...
Denitrification is the only process leading to reduction of nitrate concentration in groundwater. In this paper the authors report the results of combined measurements of excess gaseous nitrogen and 18O and 15N isotope composition of dissolved nitrate in fissured-karstic Triassic aquifer located in southwestern Poland, in the vicinity of Opole. Generally, the wells located in the confined part of...
The marsh zone areas include about 2,440 km2 in Kampinos National Park, which amount nearly 30% of park and its buffer’s surface. The specific characteristic of the KNP marsh zones is presence of shallow groundwater; mean depth to groundwater table is formed from 0.16 do 2.30 m. Range and tendencies of groundwater level changes in marsh zones are related to the influence of geogenic and anthropogenic...
In the year 1966 a well field supplying the city of Zielona Góra with water was opened in the ice-marginal valley of the Odra River, near the village of Zawada. After three years of water pumping from 22 wells tapping the shallow valley aquifer, a significant deterioration of water quality, especially involving the increase of concentrations of iron, sulphates, manganese and water hardness, as a result...
A great deal of hydrogeological situations requires an extremely accurate calculation of the 3-dimensional groundwater discharge rates in the subsoil. Examples are: hydrology of wetlands, water balances of aquatic ecosystems depending on groundwater recharge, river-groundwater interaction, advective transport of pollution underneath waste disposal sites, particle trajectories in aquifer-aquitard systems...
The paper presents the author’s approach to the quantitative assessment of the river catchment available groundwater resources in case of the Łeba River catchment in Poland. A strong emphasis is put on the evaluation of the groundwater flow system renewability which should always precede the resources model simulations. After assessing the catchment recharge using river flow records and a big lysimeter...
Sulfidic coal mining wastes constitute one of the the major global bulk waste stream and are extensively reused in engineering constructions. Occurrence in the waste rock of geochemically instable sulfides results in A/NRD (Acid/Neutral Rock Drainage) that makes this material environmentally problematic. The paper is focused on the impact assessment of coal mining waste management practices exemplified...
This paper presents reclamation of post-mining lignite open pits by flooding in Poland. Besides, it provides some data on hydrogeological conditions of Polish lignite mines. Reclamation by flooding is presently used in post-mining voids in the Adamów Lignite Mine and the Konin Lignite Mine, and it is anticipated to be used in the future, in the case of large-space abandoned open pits in the Turów...
Karstified carbonates which outcrop in the Tatras, Inner Carpathians, southern Poland, and dip to the north under the flysch sediments of the Podhale Basin, represent the largest known renewable reservoir of thermal waters in the country, with temperatures up to about 80°C. Measurements of He excess, Ne and Ar unexpectedly revealed the existence of glacial age waters in the northeastern part of the...
The research aimed to present an application of the technique based on the Dempster-Shafer theory for the determination of the shallow unconfined aquifer extent in a nonparametric (probabilistic) scale. The geology of research area is predominantly composed of the Pleistocene postglacial sediments. Only unconfined aquifers were taken into account in the study described in these paper. The resulting...
Chloride waters in the Polish Flysch Carpathians are remnants of marine sedimentation water which was chemically and isotopically changed due to ultrafiltration and the release of dehydration water (diagenetic water) during the burial diagenesis of clay minerals. In the western part of the study area, the diagenetic end-member is characterized by δ18O and δ2H values of about +6.5 and –30.0‰, respectively,...
Fens are wetlands, which accumulate peat and have ground water as their dominant hydrologic input. Groundwater discharge to a fen is the critical factor controlling its ecology and an understanding of hydro-ecological links is critical in the assessment of likely impacts on a wetland, which typically could arise from groundwater abstraction, drainage or agricultural practice. The significance of groundwater...
The major groundwater resources in Poland come from Quaternary aquifers. Rich in groundwater are structures of contemporary river valleys and of buried valleys, that comprise sands and gravels of glaciofluvial origin. Groundwater aquifers cover water demands of ca. 2.1 km3 annually. 65% of drinking water in Poland comes from groundwater intakes. Recharge zones of these aquifers are usually located...
The authors have carried out their investigations at the karst carbonate massif of the Cracow–Częstochowa Upland (CCU) since the 1990s of the XX century. The Upper Jurassic aquifer, which is a Major Ground Water Basin (MGWB No 326), was delimited in this area. It is closely connected with surface waters including living biocenoses and other dependent from the state of water. At the area of the CCU...
Multilayered Muszyna regional model was constructed in the ArcGIS and the GMS environment. Among the several methods for implementing the model in the GMS system the LPF method was used to create a structure of the model. Conceptual model is a spatial arrangement of the fixed structure, which can be automatically divided in grid blocks of different densities. The studied area is located within an...
In this paper a methodology of assessment and optimization of groundwater quality monitoring network which takes into account the evaluation criteria derived from the Shannon information theory is presented. The fundamental criteria derived from this theory are: (1) the value of marginal information entropy, which is a measure of the amount of information containing in the data in a location of sampling...
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