Groundwater recharge of carbonate aquifers of the Silesian-Cracow Triassic (southern Poland) under human impact |
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| Authors: | Andrzej Kowalczyk Andrzej J Witkowski |
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| Institution: | (1) Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia, ul. Będzińska 60, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland |
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| Abstract: | A Triassic carbonate unit has been intensively drained by zinc and lead ore mines and numerous borehole fields since the nineteenth
century. Its groundwater recharge has increased due to: pumping of water from boreholes, mining activity, and urbanization.
An approach to determine the amounts of the recharge at a variety of spatial scales is presented in the paper. Different methods
were used to identify and quantify recharge components on a regional and local scale: mathematical modelling was performed
for four aquifers included in an aquifer system, an analytical estimation based on the assumption that an average recharge
is equal to the average discharge of the hydrogeological system—for six man-made drainage centres, and the method of water
level fluctuation (WLF) was applied in one observation borehole. Results of modelling have been supplemented by observation
of environmental tracers (δ18O, δ2H, 3H), noble gases temperatures, and 4Heexc in groundwater. The regional aquifer’s current recharge according to estimations performed by means of modelling varies from
39 to 101 mm/year on average. Depending on the aquifer site the average precipitation ranges from 779 to 864 mm/year. In the
confined part of the aquifer average recharge ranges from 26 to 61 mm/year. Within outcrops average recharge varies from 96
to 370 mm/year. Current recharge estimated by the analytical method for man-made drainage centres varies from 158 up to 440 mm/year.
High values are caused by different recharge sources like precipitation, induced leakage from shallow aquifers, and water
losses from streams, water mains and sewer systems. Pumping of water, mining and municipal activities constitute additional
factors accounting for the intensified recharge. |
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| Keywords: | Poland Triassic aquifer Groundwater Recharge estimations Flow system |
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