DRAWDOWN DUE TO PUMPING IN AN ANISOTROPIC AQUIFER1

ABSTRACT: A variable change is used to convert drawdown formulas for isotropic aquifers for use where the aquifer is anisotropic. Contours of the cone of depression assume an oval configuration with the major and minor axes oriented in the directions for which the permeability is greated and least. The case of a well pumped at a constant rate, the case of a well drawing water at a constant rate from an aquifer with a leaky roof and the flowing artesian well case are treated. In all cases the well is considered to completely penetrate the aquifer.     

EFFECTS OF WATER DRAWDOWN ON THE FAUNA IN SMALL COLD WATER RESERVOIRS1

ABSTRACT: Two small cold water reservoirs with stable water levels were compared with two reservoirs scheduled for complete drawdown to determine the effects of drawdown on invertebrate abundance and fish abundance and density. An extensive literature review supplemented the results with other applicable information. No conclusive evidence of effects of drawdown on invertebrates or fish was found. Characteristics of a reservoir and its drainage basin which obscure or lessen drawdown effects are discussed. Analysis and observation of drawdown procedures showed that duration and scheduling of draw-down periods are important in determining whether drawdown will be harmful to fauna in a given reservoir.     

NONLINEAR DUPUIT EQUATIONS FOR THE PHREATIC SURFACE OF A SEMI-INFINITE AQUIFER1

ABSTRACT. We present a new approach to the nonlinear equations for the phreatic surface of groundwater flow from or into a reservoir. The differential equation is converted into an equivalent integral equation, which is then solved by a method of iteration. We obtain exact results for both drawdown and infiltration, including the special case of groundwater penetration into dry soil.     

NONLINEAR SOLUTIONS OF THE BQUSSINESQ EQUATION AND COMPARISONS WITH FIELD OBSERVATIONS1

ABSTRACT: Two models based on variations of the one dimensional Boussinesq equation are presented. The models are formulated by treating each of the two nonlinearities appearing in the equation separately, and the resulting equations are solved by implicit finite difference techniques. The models have been used to predict drawdowns created from large scale pumping at an open coal mine pit dewatering project in Poland. The predictions were found to be in good agreement with data collected over a period of seven years.     

库水位下降和降雨影响下李家湾滑坡的稳定性计算

采用包辛涅斯克(Boussinesq)非稳定渗流微分方程,以巴东李家湾滑坡为例,求解库水位不同降速、不同降雨强度和降雨历时工况下地下水浸润线的位置,并采用传递系数法对各种工况下滑坡的稳定性进行计算,结果表明:在无降雨条件下,滑坡的稳定性随着库水位下降速度的增大逐渐变差;在有降雨条件下,随着降雨强度的增大、降雨持续时间的增长,滑坡的稳定性逐渐变差,尤其是遇到特大暴雨天气或降雨持续3 d以上,有可能发生整体失稳。     

城市河流消落带农产品中铅镉的污染初探

文章以内江市为例,采用石墨炉原子吸收分光光度法对流经内江市区的沱江消落带农产品中重金属铅(Pb)和镉(Cd)的含量进行了初步调查。结果表明,该研究区域农产品中Pb的含量范围为0～0.175 mg/kg,平均值为0.040 mg/kg;Cd的含量范围为0.007～0.077 mg/kg,平均值为0.023 mg/kg;根...     

Eutrophication and Sedimentation Patterns in Complete Exploitation of Water Resources Scenarios: An Example from Northwestern Semi-arid Mexico

Water requirements to supply human needs lead water stakeholders to store more water during surplus periods to fulfil the demand during – not only – scarcity periods. At the reservoirs, mostly those in semi-arid regions, water level then fluctuates extremely between rises and downward during one single year. Besides of water management implications, changes on physical, chemical and biological dynamics of these drawdown and refilling are little known yet. This paper shows the results, throughout a year, on solids, nutrients (N and P), chlorophyll-a, and sedimentation changes on the dynamics, when the former policy was applied in a reservoir from the semi-arid Northwestern Mexico. Water level sinusoidal trend impinged changes on thermal stratification and mixing, modifying nutrient cycling and primary producer responses. According to nitrogen and phosphorus concentration as well as chlorophyll-a, reservoir was mesotrophic, becoming hypertrophic during drawdown. Nutrient concentrations were high (1.22 ± 0.70 and 0.14 ± 0.12 mg P l⁻¹), increasing phosphorus and lowering N:P significantly throughout the study period, although no intensive agricultural, no urban development, neither industrial activities take place in the watershed. This suggests nutrient recycling complex mechanisms, including nutrient release from the sediment–water interface as the main nutrient pathway when shallowness, at the same time as mineralization, increases. Outflows controlled nitrogen and phosphorus availability on the ecosystem while organic matter depended on river inflows. As on other subtropical aquatic ecosystems, nitrogen limited primary productivity (Spearman correlation R = 0.75) but chlorophyll-a seasonal pattern showed an irregular trend, prompting other no-nutrient related limitants. Shallowness induced a homogeneous temporal pattern on water quality. This observed temporal variability was mainly explained statistically by changes on solids (mineral and organic), chlorophyll-a and flows (62.3%). Annual sedimentation rates of total solids ranged from 11.73 to 16.29 kg m⁻² year⁻¹ with organic matter comprising around 30%. N:P ratio on sedimentation rates were as high as could be expected in a resuspension dominated ecosystem, and spatially inverse related with N:P ratio on bottom sediments. Distance from river inlet into the reservoir reveals a marked spatial heterogeneity on solid and nitrogen sedimentation, showing the system dependence on river inflows and supporting resuspension as the main phosphorus pathway. Accretion rates (2.19 ± 0.40 cm year⁻¹) were not related to hydrological variability but decreased with the distance to the river input. Total sediment accumulation (9,895 tons km⁻² year⁻¹) denotes siltation as other serious environmental problem in reservoirs but possibly not related with operational procedures.     

抽水对地壳形变观测影响的研究

抽水引起地面沉降问题早已引起世界各国的关注，是目前世界上许多取用地下水的国家共同面临的严重环境保护问题。我国地面沉降研究工作的开展已有10多年的历史，主要方法是利用沉降模型进行模拟推测，其弊端较多。由于缺少地下水水位和地面沉降的实际观测资料，难以进行细致的研究．蓟县地震台进行地形变监测已有十几年的历史，在长期的地形变观测中，不仅能监视到抽水引起地面倾角的地变化（经换算可得地面垂直方向的变化），还能监视地面因抽水引起地面水平方向的变化．为具体研究人工抽水与地壳形变的关系进行抽水实验。     

A Semianalytical Solution for Residual Drawdown at a Finite Diameter Well in a Confined Aquifer

After the end of pumping the water level in the observation well starts to recover and the reduced drawdown during the recovery period is named as the residual drawdown. Traditional approaches in analyzing the data of residual drawdown for estimating the aquifer hydraulic parameters are mostly based on the application of superposition principle and Theis equation. In addition, the effect of wellbore storage is commonly ignored in the evaluation even if the test well has a finite diameter. In this article, we develop a mathematical model for describing the residual drawdown with considering the wellbore storage effect and the existing drawdown distribution produced by the pumping part of the test. The Laplace‐domain solution of the model is derived using the Laplace transform technique and the time‐domain result is inverted based on the Stehfest algorithm. This new solution shows that the residual drawdown associated with the boundary and initial conditions are related to the well drawdown and the aquifer drawdown, respectively. The well residual drawdown will be overestimated by the Theis residual drawdown solution in the early recovery part if neglecting the wellbore storage. On the other hand, the Theis residual drawdown solution can be used to approximate the present residual drawdown solution in the late recovery part of the test.     

三峡库区消落带4种典型植物根际土壤养分与氮素赋存形态

三峡水库消落带土壤N循环受到植被覆盖和季节性淹水的影响,对三峡水库水质具有潜在的不利影响,进行消落带植被恢复和提高土壤N保持能力成为保护库区水环境的重要措施.选择三峡库区一级支流澎溪河消落带为研究对象,分别在冲积潮土、紫色土和水稻土分布区采集狗牙根、香附子、苍耳以及玉米这4种典型植物根际、非根际土壤,分析了根际与非根际土壤理化性质与N赋存形态特征,并比较了不同植物类型根际富集效果,初步探究不同植物根际效应对消落带土壤N循环的影响.结果表明,所有植物根际土壤p H均低于非根际,有机质、全氮、全磷、速效氮均高于非根际,且根际富集率表现为香附子狗牙根玉米苍耳;不同植物根际对土壤全钾、有效磷、速效钾影响作用不一致;植物根际土壤中可转化态氮TF-N及其不同赋存形态离子交换态氮(IEF-N)、碳酸盐结合态氮(CF-N)、铁锰氧化态氮(IMOF-N)和有机态和硫化物结合态氮(OSF-N)均高于非根际土壤,植物根际效应能够改变土壤N赋存形态及其对N循环的贡献率,但狗牙根和香附子根际土壤中TF-N占TN的比率低于非根际,而玉米和苍耳相反,表明消落带玉米和苍耳覆盖加快了N素向TF-N转化,不利于土壤N素保持;消落带土壤有机质、总磷和有效磷含量与可转化态N形态显著相关,是土壤N形态转化的主要因素.研究表明,消落带狗牙根和香附子覆盖对土壤N素的保持优于玉米和苍耳,植物根际效应对消落带土壤N循环的影响为消落带植被恢复中植物选择提供了参考.