Groundwater Throughflow and Seawater Intrusion in High Quality Coastal Aquifers.

ABSTRACT: High quality coastal aquifer systems provide vast quantities of potable groundwater for millions of people worldwide. Managing this setting has economic and environmental consequences. Specific knowledge of the dynamic relationship between fresh terrestrial groundwater discharging to the ocean and seawater intrusion is necessary. We present multi- disciplinary research that assesses the relationships between groundwater throughflow and seawater intrusion. This combines numerical simulation, geophysics, and analysis of more than 30 years of data from a seawater intrusion monitoring site. The monitoring wells are set in a shallow karstic aquifer system located along the southwest coast of Western Australia, where hundreds of gigalitres of fresh groundwater flow into the ocean annually. There

SUBMITTER: Costall AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7300005 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature