دورية أكاديمية
Developing managed aquifer recharge (MAR) to augment irrigation water resources in the sand and gravel (Crag) aquifer of coastal Suffolk, UK.
| العنوان: | Developing managed aquifer recharge (MAR) to augment irrigation water resources in the sand and gravel (Crag) aquifer of coastal Suffolk, UK. |
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| المؤلفون: | Hiscock KM; School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK. Electronic address: k.hiscock@uea.ac.uk., Balashova N; School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK., Cooper RJ; School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK., Bradford P; Felixstowe Hydrocycle Ltd, Unit 3b, Tuddenham Road Business Centre, Tuddenham Road, Grange Farm, Ipswich, IP4 3QN, UK., Patrick J; Felixstowe Hydrocycle Ltd, Unit 3b, Tuddenham Road Business Centre, Tuddenham Road, Grange Farm, Ipswich, IP4 3QN, UK., Hullis M; Growth, Highways and Infrastructure, Suffolk County Council, Endeavour House, Russell Road, Ipswich, IP1 2BX, UK. |
| المصدر: | Journal of environmental management [J Environ Manage] 2024 Feb; Vol. 351, pp. 119639. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 05. |
| نوع المنشور: | Journal Article |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Academic Press Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 0401664 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1095-8630 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 03014797 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Environ Manage Subsets: MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Original Publication: London ; New York, Academic Press. |
| مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Water Resources* , Groundwater*, Sand ; Water Supply ; United Kingdom |
| مستخلص: | Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) offers a potential innovative solution for addressing groundwater resource issues, enabling excess surface water to be stored underground for later abstraction. Given its favourable hydrogeological properties, the Pliocene sand and gravel (Crag) aquifer in Suffolk, UK, was selected for a demonstration MAR scheme, with the goal of supplying additional summer irrigation water. The recharge source was a 4.6 km drainage channel that discharges to the River Deben estuary. Trialling the scheme in June 2022, 12,262 m 3 of source water were recharged to the aquifer over 12 days via a lagoon and an array of 565 m of buried slotted pipes. Groundwater levels were raised by 0.3 m at the centre of the recharge mound with an approximate radius of 250 m, with no detrimental impact on local water features observed. The source water quality remained stable during the trial with a mean chloride concentration (133 mg L -1 ) below the regulatory requirement (165 mg L -1 ). The fraction of recharge water mixing with the groundwater ranged from 69% close to the centre and 5% at the boundary of the recharge mound, leading to a reduction in nitrate-N concentration of 23.6 mg L -1 at the centre of the mound. During July-September 2022, 12,301 m 3 of recharge water were abstracted from two, 18 m boreholes to supplement surface irrigation reservoirs during drought conditions. However, the hydraulic conductivity of the Crag aquifer (∼10 m day -1 ) restricted the yield and thereby reduced the economic viability of the scheme. Construction costs for the MAR system were comparatively low but the high costs of data collection and securing regulatory permits brought the overall capital costs to within 18% of an equivalent surface storage reservoir, demonstrating that market-based mechanisms and more streamlined regulatory processes are required to incentivise similar MAR schemes. Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. (Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.) |
| فهرسة مساهمة: | Keywords: Conjunctive water resources management; Crag aquifer; Groundwater; Irrigation water resources; Managed aquifer recharge |
| المشرفين على المادة: | 0 (Sand) |
| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20231206 Date Completed: 20240115 Latest Revision: 20240115 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20240115 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119639 |
| PMID: | 38056326 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 1095-8630 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119639 |