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Study on the Possibility of Seawater Intrusion in the Ulsan Area Using Br : Cl Weight Ratios of Groundwater  

Cho, Byung-Wook (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Lee, Byung-Dae (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Yoon, Wook (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Im, Hyun-Chul (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.36, no.5, 2003 , pp. 339-347 More about this Journal
Abstract
Using 171 groundwater chemistry data, seawater intrusion in the Ulsan area was studied. The area near the downstream area of the Taehwa River shows the higher Cl concentrations(11,300 mg/L in maximum), whereas the Cl concentrations are generally low in the eastern coastal area maybe due to the geology of the area. When Cl concentrations are very low, groundwater shows Br:Cl weight ratios significantly deviating from the Br:Cl ratio of seawater($34.7{\times}10^{-4}$). However, Br:Cl ratios are very close to the value of seawater when Cl concentrations are higher than 100 mg/L. Eleven groundwater samples having very high Cl concentrations(>500 mg/L) show that ionic ratios for Ca, Mg, $SO_4$, $HCO_3$ and $SiO_2$ are considerably different from those of seawater. This indicates that the origin of the high Cl groundwaters occurring along the Taehwa River are likely to be the residual salines from the salterns previously located on the alluviums rather than the seawaters intruded recently. These waters seem to be accumulated in the sediments before the drastic expansion of the city. Considering the characteristics of the urban groundwater system where the inflow exceeds the outflow, it is anticipated that the high Cl concentration in the groundwater show a decreasing trend in the future.
Keywords
groundwater; seawater intrusion; Br; Cl; concentration;
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