Coastal Aquifer Management-Monitoring, Modeling, and Case Studies

Alexander H.D. Cheng, Driss Ouazar

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN:
  9781566706056
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780203493496
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Approximately 70% of the world's population lives in coastal areas, and the majority of these people depend on coastal aquifers for freshwater. The fragility of these aquifers and their sensitivity to human activity demand informed, competent management to guarantee their survival. Significant knowledge and new technologies related to the subject have accumulated in the last two decades, and a need has emerged for a comprehensive reference that gathers and disseminates crucial information to engineering practitioners and policymakers.<BR><BR>Coastal Aquifer Management-Monitoring, Modeling, and Case Studies provides the most advanced and up-to-date methods and tools for the study and protection of coastal aquifers. This "how-to" volume presents a worldwide perspective with contributions from an international panel of experts. They address topics such as geohydrology, optimization, uncertainty analysis, and GIS as they relate to geographically-specific case studies; knowledge from these examples can be applied to aquifer issues in other regions. <BR><BR>Downloadable resources supplement the text with programs and graphics, making this overview an indispensable reference and tool for the analysis of critical freshwater resources. CD Disc content is now a downloadable resource available at www.routledge.com/9781566706056.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Preface
• Contents
• 1. Coastal Aquifer Planning Elements
• 2. Saltwater Intrusion in the Coastal Aquifers of Los Angeles County, California
• 3. MODFLOW-Based Tools for Simulation of Variable-Density Groundwater Flow
• 4. Modeling Three-Dimensional Density Dependent Groundwater Flow at the Island of Texel, The Netherlands
• 5. Leaky Coastal Margins: Examples of Enhanced Coastal Groundwater and Surface-Water Exchange from Tampa Bay and Crescent Beach Submarine Spring, Florida, USA
• 6. Tidal Dynamics of Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport in Coastal Aquifers
• 7. Determination of the Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Beach Face Seepage
• 8. Integrating Surface and Borehole Geophysics in the Characterization of Salinity in a Coastal Aquifer
• 9. Geographical Information Systems and Modeling of Saltwater Intrusion in the Capoterra Alluvial Plain
• 10. Uncertainty Analysis of Seawater Intrusion and Implications for Radionuclide Transport at Amchitka Island's Underground Nuclear Tests
• 11. Pumping Optimization in Saltwater-Intruded Aquifers
• 12. Hydrogeological Investigations and Numerical Simulation of Groundwater Flow in the Karstic Aquifer of Northwestern Yucatan, Mexico
• Index