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Optimal Groundwater Management Model for Coastal Regions Using Parallel Genetic Algorithm

  • Park, Nam Sik;Hong, Sung Hun;Shim, Myung Geun
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2004.05b
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    • pp.77-89
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    • 2004
  • A computer model is developed to assess optimal ground water pumping rates and optimal locations of wells in a coastal region. A sharp interface model is used to simulate the freshwater and salt water flows. Drawdown, upconing, saltwater intrusion and the contamination of well are considered in this model. A genetic algorithm with parallel processing is used to identify the optimal solution.

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Combination of engineering geological data and numerical modeling results to classify the tunnel route based on the groundwater seepage

  • Aalianvari, A.
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.671-683
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    • 2017
  • Groundwater control is a significant issue in most underground construction. An estimate of the inflow rate is required to size the pumping system, and treatment plant facilities for construction planning and cost assessment. An estimate of the excavation-induced drawdown of the initial groundwater level is required to evaluate potential environmental impacts. Analytical and empirical methods used in current engineering practice do not adequately account for the effect of the jointed-rock-mass anisotropy and heterogeneity. The impact of geostructural anisotropy of fractured rocks on tunnel inflows is addressed and the limitations of analytical solutions assuming isotropic hydraulic conductivity are discussed. In this paper the unexcavated Zagros tunnel route has been classified from groundwater flow point of view based on the combination of observed water inflow and numerical modeling results. Results show that, in this hard rock tunnel, flow usually concentrates in some areas, and much of the tunnel is dry. So the remaining unexcavated Zagros tunnel route has been categorized into three categories including high Risk, moderately risk and low risk. Results show that around 60 m of tunnel (3%) length can conduit the large amount of water into tunnel and categorized into high risk zone and about 45% of tunnel route has moderately risk. The reason is that, in this tunnel, most of the water flows in rock fractures and fractures typically occur in a clustered pattern rather than in a regular or random pattern.

Hydraulic and hydrological study on the change in groundwater level during tunnel construction (산악 터널시공에 따른 주변 지하수위 변화에 대한 수리 및 수문학적 해석)

  • Kim, Sun-Myung
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.97-114
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    • 2011
  • It is not uncommon that private wells and small streams are used for daily life in the regions where mountain tunnels are located. Then serious social problems such as well water level fall, being attributable to tunnel excavation can occur. In the design stage, firstly we evaluated that the quantity of leakage water into tunnels. And groundwater drawdown area was simulated using numerical modeling such as MODFLOW to reduce adverse effects on life environment around tunnel. In addition we also used hydrological method to evaluate the groundwater change of tunnel area.

Groundwater use management using existing wells to cope with drought

  • Amos, Agossou;Yang, Jeong-Seok
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2022.05a
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    • pp.450-450
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    • 2022
  • The study aims to develop scenarios for efficient groundwater use using existing wells in order to prepare for an eventual drought. In the recent decades, droughts are not only intensifying, but they are also spreading into territories where droughts used to be less intense and relatively infrequent. With the increasing disaster, efficient groundwater use is urgently needed not only to prevent the problem of groundwater depletion but also drought risk reduction. Thus, the research addressed the problem of efficient aquifer use as source of water during drought and emergencies. The research focused on well network system applied to Yanggok-ri in Korea using simulation models in visual MODFLOW. The approach consists to variate groundwater pumping rate in the most important wells used for irrigation across the study area and evaluate the pumping effect on water level fluctuation. From the evaluation, the pumping period, appropriate pumping rate of each well and the most vulnerable wells are determined for a better groundwater management. The project results divide the study area into two different regions (A and B), where the wells in the region A (western part of the region) show a crucial drop in water level from May to early July and in august as consequence of water pumping. While wells in region B are also showing a drawdown in groundwater level but relatively less compare to region A. The project suggests a scenarios of wells which should operate considering water demand, groundwater level depletion and daily pumping rate. Well Network System in relevant project, by pumping in another well where water is more abundant and keep the fixed storage in region A, is a measure to improve preparedness to reduce eventual disaster. The improving preparedness measure from the project, indicates its implication to better groundwater management.

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A Study on the Groundwater Effects in the Design of Tunilel Lining (배수형 터널내 과다유입수가 터널의 안정에 미치는 영향)

  • Cheon, Byeong-Sik;Choe, Song-Am;Nam, Sun-Seong
    • Geotechnical Engineering
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.125-140
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    • 1995
  • Generally, the groundwater pressure is not considered in the design of concrete lining of bottom drainage tunnel. This design method implies that the phreatic surface is drawdown to the bottom of tullnel. When tile groundwater is continually supplied without changing of groundwater table, there is a possibility at which the groundwater pressure acting on the tunnel lining after the completion of tunnel. Therefore, the safety of tunnel lining must be checked in this case. In this paper, the stability of bottom drainage tunnel which is affected by groundwater discharge is analzed by using of the Finite Element Method at the 2 sections of subway where the groundwater level has a tittle change during the construction. As the result of analysis, the grouting for the water tightness and the permanent monitoring system of tunnel are required for maintaining of long-term stability of bottom drainage tunnel for the case of groundwater plassure acting on the tunnel lining is greater than that of design stage.

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A General Solution of Determining Storage Coefficient From Multi-Step Pumping Test Recovery Data

  • Jin-Yong Lee;Kang-Kun Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Groundwater Environment
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.20-23
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    • 2000
  • A general solution for determining the storage coefficient from multi-step pumping test recovery data is suggested. This solution is essentially based on the method of Banton and Bangoy (1996), which used single-step pumping test recovery data. The suggested solution can be applied to any-step pumping test recovery data. We have demonstrated the applicability of the general solution to single-, double-, and triple-step pumping and/or step-drawdown test data partially described in Lee and Lee (1999). The estimates of storage coefficient as well as transmissivity are well consistent with the values from other methods for pumping phase data.

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Ground Deformation involving drawdown of the water table in deep excavation - Numerical Investigation (지하굴착시 지하수저하에 따른 지반침하 - 수치해석 연구)

  • Choi, Go-Ny;Yoo, Chung-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2010.09b
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    • pp.13-20
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    • 2010
  • This paper presents the results of a numerical investigation on the ground deformation in deep excavation with emphasis on the groundwater lowering. Using the stress-pore pressure coupled analysis Consideration to the effect of ground excavation and groundwater interaction were carried out and a series of two-dimensional finite element model was employed to perform a parametric study on a wide range of soil profile and initial ground water table condition.

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Evaluation of Groundwater Level Decline and Water Quality Due to Tunnel Excavation (터널굴착으로 인한 지하수위 저하 및 수질영향 평가)

  • Kim, Min Gyu;Kim, Minsoo;Jeong, Gyocheol;Lee, Jeongwoo;Chung, Il-Moon
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.113-122
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    • 2019
  • In this study, the flow analysis to evaluate the extent of groundwater decline and the effect of the small valleys caused by the decrease of groundwater level in the construction of road tunnel, and the pollutant movement analysis to evaluate pollution of nearby water source by pollutant discharge during tunnel construction, respectively. The decrease of the groundwater during the 30 month tunnel excavation period was maximum 27 m and it was found to be the largest within 50 m from the tunnel center. The flow of groundwater is shown in the form of flowing into the tunnels and the effects of groundwater level decline were observed up to a tunnel radius of 200 m. As a result of the numerical modeling of the contaminant transport to examine the influence of the polluted water discharge from the tunnel, the range of the turbid water generated at the end of the tunnel is up to 120 m and it is estimated that the risk of contamination of the small river is not large.

Application of the Artificial Recharge to Reduce the Ground-water Drawdown of the Riverbank Filtration (강변여과 취수시 과도한 지하수 하강을 저감시키기 위한 인공함양의 활용방안 연구)

  • Lee Dong-Kee;Park Jae-Hyeoun;Park Chang-Kun;Yang Jung-Suk;Nam Do-Hyun;Kim Dae-kun;Jeong Gyo-cheol;Choi Yong-sun;Boo Sung-an
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.14 no.4 s.41
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    • pp.391-400
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    • 2004
  • Excess pumping on the river bank filtration well causes the over drawdown in the protected area of bank, which may make many problems such as soil water contents, Pumping head in the irrigated land, and it needs more irrigation and development of the deeper irrigating well. In this study the installation of the artificial recharging well was suggested to reduce the excess draw down in the protected land. Artificial recharging wells were applied at the bank filtration site of Changwon city by using Visual-MODFLDW. The optimized conditions are calculated that the recharging well is located about loom apart from the pumping well, and the recharging rate is $5\%$ of the pumping yield.

The Correlation between Groundwater Level and Moving Average of Precipitation in Nakdong River Watershed (낙동강유역의 지하수위와 강우이동평균의 상관관계)

  • Yang, Jeong-Seok;Ahn, Tae-Yeon
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.507-510
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    • 2007
  • The correlation between groundwater level(GWL) and the moving average of precipitation was analyzed based on the observation data in Nakdong river watershed. The precipitation data was compared and analyzed with the GWL data from adjacent observation point to the precipitation gauge station. The correlation between the moving average of precipitation with several averaging periods and GWL were analyzed and we could choose the averaging period that produces maximum correlation. A severe drawdown was observed from December to April. The maximum correlations between GWL and the moving average of precipitation were occurred from 20-day to 80-day averaging period.