• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.13-22
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• 2017

Accurate assessment of agricultural groundwater usage is an essential task to cope with drought that occurs irregularly in time and location. In this study, the agricultural groundwater usage was calculated in nationwide public wells (1,386 bedrock wells) during 5-year period (2010-2014) by using electric power consumption and well specification data. National average of agricultural groundwater usage per each well was estimated as $66.2m^3/day$, corresponding to 21.6% of total permitted volume of groundwater in each well. Chungcheong Nam-do had the highest usage with 38-55.6%. The value increased to 58.1% when the total permitted volume was based upon the supply standard against drought, and the value reached 100% in Chungcheong Nam-do. In Ganghwa distirct that suffered from severe drought in recent years, the average groundwater usage was 61.4%. In 2014, when the drought was the most severe with 45% precipitation of the average annual rainfall, the nationwide usage was turned out to be 25.6%, indicating about 4% higher than average agricultural groundwater usage 21.6%. Therefore, the quantitative assessment of groundwater usage in this study signifies that adequate use of groundwater is crucial to cope with agricultural drought.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.17-30
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• 2019

Intensive agricultural development in Mexicali valley, Baja-California, Mexico, has induced tremendous strain on the limited water resources. Agricultural water consumption in the valley mainly relies on diversions of the Colorado River, but their water supply is far less than the demand. Hence, the use of groundwater for irrigation purposes has gained considerable attention. To account for these changes, it is important to evaluate surface water and groundwater conditions based on historical water use. This study identified the effects of agricultural activities on groundwater levels and groundwater recharge in the Mexicali valley (in irrigation unit 16) by a comprehensive MODFLOW Farm process (MF-FMP) numerical modeling. The MF-FMP modeling results showed that the water table in the study area is drawn downed, more in eastern areas. The inflow-outflow analysis demonstrated that recharge to the aquifer occurs in response to agricultural supplies. In general, the model provides MF-FMP simulations of natural and anthropogenic components of the hydrologic cycle, the distribution and dynamics of supply and demand in the study area.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.779-785
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• 2010

To solve a problem of water supply on urban areas, groundwater recharge has to be assessed not only for evaluating the possibility of groundwater development but also for identifying a sustainable aquifer system for water resource development. The assessment of groundwater recharge has been challenged since the land use has been changed constantly. In this study, the groundwater recharge and its ratio were assessed from 1961 to 2007 in Su-yeong-gu, Busan, South Korea by analyzing precipitation, land use, and soil characteristics. For land use analysis, the urbanization change was considered. The land use areas for the residential, agricultural, forest, pasture, bare soil, and water in 1975 occupy 18.6 %, 30.0%, 48.8%, 0.1%, 2.0%, and 0.5% of total area, respectively. The land use ratios were sharply changed from 1980 to 1985; the agricultural area was decreased to 18.3%, and the residential area was increased to 15.0%. From 1995 to 2000, the agricultural area was decreased to 5.5%, and the residential area was increased to 5.4%. The annual averages of precipitation, groundwater recharge, and its ratio were 1509.3 mm, 216.0 mm, and 14.3% respectively. The largest amount of the groundwater recharge showed in 1970 as 408.9 mm, comparing to 2138.1 mm of annual rainfall. Also, the greatest ratio of the groundwater recharge was 19.8% in 1984 with 1492.6 mm of annual rainfall. The lowest amount and ratio of the groundwater recharge were 71.9 mm and 8.0% in 1988, relative to 901.5 mm of annual precipitation. As a result, it is concluded that rainfall has increased, whereas groundwater recharge has decreased between 1961 and 2007.

• 지질공학
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.417-425
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• 2019

농업용 지하수 이용은 국내 지하수 이용량의 51.8%를 차지하고 있어 정확한 이용량 산정은 지하수의 효율적 정책 추진을 위하여 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 370개 관정의 이용량 실측 자료를 토대로 회귀나무 모형을 적용한 농업용(전작 및 답작용) 관정의 지하수 이용량의 산정 기법을 개발하고자 하였다. 모델의 입력 변수는 우물의 심도, 토출관 구경, 양수능력 등 3개가 유의한 것으로 평가되었으며, 모델에서의 각 변수의 중요도는 우물의 심도가 75%, 토출관 구경이 17%, 양수능력이 8%로 나타났다. 회귀나무 모형에 의한 농업용(전작 및 답작용) 관정의 일 이용량은 실측 이용량과 매우 유사한 것으로 평가되었으며, 기존의 국토교통부에서 제시한 추정식에 비하여 실측 이용량에 보다 근사한 것으로 나타났다. 향후 추가적인 실측 표본 자료를 확보하여 본 방법을 보완, 적용한다면 지하수 이용량 통계의 신뢰도가 크게 향상될 것으로 기대된다.

• 지질공학
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.297-309
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• 1994

전국 210개 시군을 대상으로 지역별 지하수 이용량을 예측하는 기법을 개발하였다. 우선 210개 대상지역은 각 지역 지하수 이용 특성에 따라 생활형, 공업형, 농업형 지역으로 대분하고, 이들로부터 각 지역별 특성을 잘 나타내는 표본(생활형 22개 : 공업형 8개 : 농업형 32개)지역을 선정하였다. 이 지역에서 지하수 이용에 연관 가능한 인자들로 1) 농지면적, 2) 공업부지 면적, 3) 행정단위 면적, 4) 인구, 5) 지하수원 상수도 시설용량, 6) 1인 1일 평균수량, 7) 농업용수 사용량, 8) 공업용수 사용량, 9) 생활용수 사용량, 10) 상수도 보급률 등을 선정하고 이들의 자료를 수집 분석하였다. 이들과 지역별 지하수 이용량과의 관계를 분석한 결과 얻어진 상관계수를 t-test 방법으로 신뢰도 95%와 99%에서 그 관계의 중요성을 검증하였고, 이로부터 영향인자를 도출하였다. 이와 같이 도출된 영향인자들을 사용하여, 다중 회기분석법으로 생공형 지역과 농업형 지역에서의 지하수 이용량을 추정하는 관계식을 두출하였고, 이 식으로부터 얻어진 예측치를 실제 이용량과 비교하여 그 오차의 RMS를 최소화하도록 보정하였다. 이 모델은 미래 자료에 의하여 타당성이 검증된 후, 지역별 지하수자원의 개발 계획 수립시 최대 수요량의 예측에 사용될 수 있다.

• 지구물리
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.145-152
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• 2005

울산 도시지역 지하수의 수질 특성을 파악하기 위하여 216개의 일반 수질분석과 168개의 VOCs 분석이 이루어졌으며, 이를 주거․상업지역, 공업지역, 농업지역, 산림지역으로 구분하여 토지이용과 지하수 수질과의 관계를 분석하였다. 전반적으로 보아서 남구 태화강 저지대 일대 주거․상업지역 지하수에서 과거 해수의 영향에 의해서 Na와 Cl의 함량이 높다. NO3는 농업지역, VOCs는 공업지역 지하수에서 높은 함량을 보이기도 하지만, 토지용도별 지하수의 수질오염 특성 구분은 어렵다. 아직까지 연구지역 지하수의 오염은 우려할만한 수준은 아니나, 도시화가 계속 진행되고 있기 때문에 계속적인 관찰이 요구된다.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.27-43
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• 2021

Since climate factors, such as precipitation, temperature, etc., show repeated patterns every year, it can be said that future changes can be predicted by analyzing past climate data. As with groundwater, seasonal variations predominate. Therefore, when a drought occurs, the groundwater level is also lowered. Thus, a change in the groundwater level can represent a drought. Like precipitation, groundwater level changes also have a high correlation with drought, so many researchers use Standard Groundwater Level Index (SGI) to which the Standard Precipitation Index (SPI) method is applied to evaluate the severity of droughts and predict drought trends. However, due to the strong interferences caused by the recent increase in groundwater use, it is difficult to represent the droughts of regions or entire watersheds by only using groundwater level change data using the SPI or SGI methods, which analyze data from one representative observation station. Therefore, if the long-term groundwater level changes of all the provinces of a watershed are analyzed, the overall trend can be shown even if there is use interference. Thus, future groundwater level changes and droughts can be more accurately predicted. Therefore, in this study, it was confirmed that the groundwater level changes in the last 5 years compared with the monthly average groundwater level changes of the monitoring wells installed before 2015 appeared similar to the drought occurrence pattern. As a result of analyzing the correlation with the water storage yields of 3,423 agricultural reservoirs that do not immediately open their sluice gates in the cases of droughts or floods, it was confirmed that the correlation was higher than 56% in the natural state. Therefore, it was concluded that it is possible to re-evaluate agricultural droughts through long-term groundwater level change analyses.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.61-75
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• 2022

This study evaluated the potential threat of agricultural and human activities to groundwater in the Noseong stream watershed, a typical agricultural area, through hydrogeochemical characteristics and microbial community analyses. The groundwater in the study area was Ca-SO₄ and Ca-HCO₃ types alluvial aquifer mainly used for agricultural and living purposes, and contained high levels of NO₃^- and Cl^- ions generated from anthropogenic sources such as fertilizer, livestock wastewater, and domestic sewage. Proteobacteria was most abundant in all samples with an average of 46.1% while Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, and Cyanobacteria were dominant on an occasional basis. The prevalence of aerobic bacteria such as the genus Mycobacterium, Flavobacterium, and Sphingomonas suggests that groundwater was well connected with the surface layer. The potential pathogen Mycobacterium was detected in most samples, and other pathogenic bacteria were also widely distributed, indicating the vulnerability to contamination. Therefore, an integrated management system is required to secure the sustainable use of groundwater in agricultural areas with high groundwater dependence.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.14-24
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• 2021

Aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) system uses groundwater thermal energy for cooling and heating of buildings, and it is also often utilized to provide warm water to crops and plants for the purpose of enhancing agricultural yields. This study investigated the potential influences of a ATES system on the geochemical properties of groundwater by simulating the variation of hydrochemistry and saturation index of groundwater during ATES operation. The test bed was installed at an agricultural field, which is mainly composed of an groundwater-rich alluvial plain. The simulation results showed no significant precipitation of mineral phases such as manganese-iron oxide, carbonate and sulfate around the ATES test bed, as well as no debasement of other important water quality parameters. The implementation of ATES system in the study area was appropriate and effective for utilizing the thermal energy of groundwater for agricultural use.

• 농촌계획
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.47-58
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• 2018

Protected horticultural complexes would increase crop productivity but would adversely affect the groundwater recharge function in the area because the impervious area would increase. Further, they would limit the movement of living beings, affecting biodiversity. Therefore, this study evaluated the groundwater ecosystem services provided by protected horticultural complexes in terms of consistent utilization of water. The estimated amounts of groundwater loss obtained through quantitative assessment of groundwater infiltration showed that a higher impervious area results in higher losses. We, therefore, predict a much higher loss if similar changes in land use are realized on a nationwide scale. A plan to promote groundwater recharge in impervious areas is actively being discussed for urban areas; however, this plan is not yet applicable to farming areas. We consider it is essential to develop groundwater infiltration facilities for horticultural complexes, infiltration trenches, permeable pavements, surface water storage facilities, water purification facilities, etc. Further research and development of groundwater infiltration facilities is important for consistent utilization of water and the improvement of ecosystem services.