• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.303-314
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• 2019

Surface permeability and shallow geological structures play significant roles in shaping the groundwater recharge of shallow aquifers. Surface permeability can be characterized by two concepts, intrinsic permeability and hydraulic conductivity, with the latter obtained from previous near-surface geological investigations. Here we propose a hydraulic equation via the cross-correlation analysis of the rainfall-groundwater levels using a regression equation that is based on the cross-correlation between the grain size distribution curve for unconsolidated sediments and the rainfall-groundwater levels measured in the Gyeongju area, Korea, and discuss its application by comparing these results to field-based aquifer test results. The maximum cross-correlation equation between the hydraulic conductivity derived from Zunker's observation equation in a sandy alluvial aquifer and the rainfall-groundwater levels increases as a natural logarithmic function with high correlation coefficients (0.95). A 2.83% difference between the field-based aquifer test and root mean square error is observed when this regression equation is applied to the other observation wells. Therefore, rainfall-groundwater level monitoring data as well as aquifer test are very useful in estimating hydraulic conductivity.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.17-27
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• 2011

Recently, a physically based model of water-table fluctuation due to precipitation is developed based on aquifer water balance model. In the model, it was assumed that the water infiltration into ground surface is advection dominant and immediately reaches to water-table. The assumption may be suited for the sites where the water-table is shallow and/or the permeability of the unsaturated zone is high. However, there are more cases where the model is not directly applicable due to thick and low permeable unsaturated zone. For the low permeability unsaturated zone, the pattern of water flux passing through unsaturated zone is diffusive as well as advective. In this study, to improve the previously developed water-table fluctuation model, we combined the delayed drainage model, which has long been used in well hydraulics, to the water-table fluctuation model. To test the validity of the development, we apply the developed model to 5 different domestic sites. The model parameters are calibrated based on the groundwater hydrograph and the precipitation time series, and the correlation analyses among the parameters are pursued. The overall analyses on the delineated model parameters indicate that the delayed drainage parameters or delay index used in the developed model are able to reveal drainage information in the unsaturated zones.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.94-103
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• 2017

Surface soil is one of the most important resources that have many functions for human needs such as conservation of water resource, purification of contaminated materials, and productivity of food or energy. However, the surface soil is a limited resource that cannot be recovered readily for a long time once it is lost by erosion. In Korea, the Ministry of Environment enacted the notification on the investigation of surface soil erosion and corresponding countermeasures. As the results, database of soil quality assess criteria (biomass, groundwater recharge, habitat, carbon storage, buffer, and soil loss) was established, and the web-based system that can evaluate surface soil conditions was developed. However, non-experts have difficulties in using the system because the system requires in-depth knowledge about soil qualities. In this study, the Web Geographic Information System (GIS) watershed-based surface soil information system was developed to improve usability of the system and accessibility of soil quaility database. The system provides the current condition of surface soil characteristics and GIS-based soil data at selected locations. The users are able to download soil quality data in different districts, watersheds, and special regions allocated by TauDEM module. The system developed in this study would valuable surface soil information for studies of soil quality and its environmental effects, and thereby contributing to establishing more appropriate and robust soil conservation laws.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.17-23
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• 1995

To assess preliminarily the contamination potential of water resources including groundwater owing to the hydrogeological characteristics of landfill site and the potential impact to humans and animals through contamination of water resources by leachate, "Landfill Site Preliminary Assessment Model(LASPAS)" was contrived. LASPAS could help them proritization of remediation of landfil sites by the convenient and relatively simple evaluation method of landfill site features. LASPAS was designd to aliot numerical ratings to landfill site related factors undermentioned; 1) hydrogeological factors such as hydraulic conductivity of aquifer, thickness of confining layer over aquifer, topographical slope, net recharge, and subsurface containment 2) water resources contamination factors of impacts on receptors such as proximity to drinking water supply, substitutability of drinking water supply, type of use of water resources, known impact on drinking water supply, and flood potential.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.703-710
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• 2003

In the sub-surface environments, detection of the movement of contaminant substances and recharge of groundwater by rainfall are very important factors which contain porosity and effective porosity of porous media. In this paper, the applicability of permittivity methods and proposed dielectric mixing models (DDMs) are discussed. This study showed that the ratio of effective porosity to porosity of Toyoura and River sands were 0.856 and 0.843. From the relationships between the relative porosity and effective porosity, all measured values can be confirmed to outside the range to about 0.800 for Toyoura and River sands under all experiments by FDR and FDR-V systems. In the study, this permittivity equipment can be considered to be good enough to measure determining the physical parameters of saturated soils. Consequently, this permittivity method can be contributed to estimate a porosity and effective porosity of saturated porous media because it is easy and instantaneous than previous in-situ methods.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.523-531
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• 2013

In this study, a method of simulating ephemeral stream runoff characteristics in Jeju watershed is newly suggested. The process based conceptual-physical scheme is established based on the SWAT-K and applied to Cheonmi-cheon watershed which shows the typical pattern of ephemeral stream runoff characteristics. For the proper simulation of this runoff, the intermediate flow and baseflow are controlled to make downward percolation should be dominant. The result showed that surface runoff simulated by using the modified scheme showed good agreement with observed runoff data. In addition, it was found that the estimated runoff directly affected the groundwater recharge rate. This conceptual model should be continuously progressed including rainfall interception, spatially estimated evapotranspiration and so forth for the reasonable simulation of the hydrologic characteristics in Jeju island.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1925-1928
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• 2007

Water cycle analysis was performed for Gunja basin located in metropolitan Seoul using Aquacycle model in order to assess the problems of urban water cycle. From the water cycle analysis of Gunja basin, it was found that 75% of total rainfall occurred in the form of surface runoff, and groundwater recharge only accounted for about 7%. This suggests serious distortion of water cycle which can be attributed to urbanization. Feasibility analysis of reuse scenarios such as rainwater use and wastewater reuse was then performed to examine their influences on improving the water cycle. From the analysis of water reuse options, it was shown that imported water supply savings of 13% can be achieved through rainwater use, and water supply savings of 31% through wastewater reuse.

• Proceedings of the KSEG Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.275-284
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• 2002

서울 북부지역에 위치하는 북한산 일대의 지역단위 지하수 함양량 산정에 대하여 물수지 분석법과 SCS-CN방법을 이용하였다. 물수지분석법에는 Coutagne 공식과 Turc 공식을, SCS-CN방법에는 직접유출율과 누가침투율을 계산하여 평균 지하수 함양량을 산정하였다. 물수지분석법인 Coutagne 공식과 Turc 공식에서 평균 21.36%가 지하수 함양량으로 산출되었다. SCS-CN 방법에서는 직접유출율과 침투율을 계산하여 산정한 결과 지하수함양량은 30.07%로 추정되었다. 여기서 북한산 일대의 기반암을 경계로 상당량이 기저유출(baseflow)의 형태로 유출되기 때문에, 기저유출량 10.9%을 제외한 19.17%를 순수 지하수함양량으로 결정하였다. 누가침투율을 이용한 지하수함양량은 약22.0%로 산정되었다. 물수지분석법과 SCS-CN 방법들을 이용하여, 북한산 지역의 지하수 함양량을 산출한 결과 평균 약 20.84%로 산정되었다.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.313-316
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• 2007

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is an effectiveness tool for imaging spatial distribution of hydrogeologic parameters. An artificial groundwater recharge test has been conducted in Nagaoka City in Japan, and time-lapse crosshole GPR data were collected to monitor infiltration processes in a vadose zone. Since radiowave velocities in a vadose zone are largely controlled by variations in water content, the increase in traveltimes is interpreted as an increase in saturation in the test zone. We use a finite-difference time-domain method in two-dimensional cylindrical coordinates to simulate field results. Numerical modeling successfully reproduces the major feature of velocity changes in the filtration process.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.428-432
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• 2012

SWAT모형을 이용하여 악근천, 호근천, 동흥천을 대표 3개 유역으로 구분하여 1990년 토지이용상태에 1980년부터 1999년까지의 기상자료를 사용하였고 2000년 토지이용상태에 2000년부터 2010년까지의 기상자료를 적용하여 분석한 결과, 적용 기간 평균 지하수 함양률은 30%로 분석되었다. 이러한 연구결과는 기존의 제주지역 지하수 함양량 분석연구에서 나타난 40-50%보다 훨씬 적은 값으로 나타나고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이 결과는 투수성 다공질 지층이 제주지역의 지질특성을 고려하더라도 개발형태가 비투수성 포장형태이고, 개발된다면 육지지역과 같은 지하수함양특성과 비슷할 수 밖에 없음을 알 수 있었다. 또한 Markov-chain을 이용하여 장래토지이용상태를 분석한 결과 장래의 토지이용은 2000년 현재에 비해 산림 3.4%감소, 농경지 0.2% 증가, 수계 1.0% 증가, 도심지 0.5%증가 하는 것으로 나타났다. 토지이용상태에 따른 SWAT모형 분석을 비교한 결과 현재에 비해 유출량은 평균 22mm 증가하였으며, 증발산량은 평균 5mm감소, 함양량은 평균15mm감소하여 0.7% 정도 감소하는 것으로 토지이용상태가 함양량에 영향을 미치는 것으로 분석되었다.