Intensive exploitation effects on alluvial aquifer of the Catania plain, eastern Sicily, Italy
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| contents | Intensive exploitation effects on alluvial aquifer of the Catania plain, eastern Sicily, Italy V. Ferrara G. Pappalardo Ciencias de la Tierra Alluvial plain multilayered aquifer industrial settlement groundwater pollution Industrialization in the eastern part of the Catania plain has caused an intensive exploitation of groundwater, with negativeconsequences on its hydrodynamic equilibrium and water quality degradation. Lithological characteristics from boreholes andresistivity data have permitted the reconstruction of the geometrical relations within the deposit and its thickness varations. Thegranulometric variability of the alluvial deposits (sand, silt and gravel) and its relative permeability are characteristics of a typicalmultilayered aquifer system that is unconfined in the upper part and partially confined in its lower portion. It rests on a clayeymarine substratum whose morphology is affected by buried tectonic structures controlling the aquifer thickness. The piezometricsurface shows a pronounced depression caused by the falling of the groundwater level by about 2 m year1 since 1962 due topumping from industrial wells. This has also induced infiltration of poor quality water from the overlying polluted aquifer, whiledeep test holes have caused further pollution of the aquifer owing to chloride water contained in sandy lenses within the underlyingmarine clays. 2004 artículo científico 0016-7169 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=56843416 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=568 Geofísica Internacional application/pdf Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Geofísica Internacional (México) Num.4 Vol.43 |
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| spellingShingle | Intensive exploitation effects on alluvial aquifer of the Catania plain, eastern Sicily, Italy V. Ferrara Ciencias de la Tierra Alluvial plain multilayered aquifer industrial settlement groundwater pollution Intensive exploitation effects on alluvial aquifer of the Catania plain, eastern Sicily, Italy V. Ferrara G. Pappalardo Ciencias de la Tierra Alluvial plain multilayered aquifer industrial settlement groundwater pollution Industrialization in the eastern part of the Catania plain has caused an intensive exploitation of groundwater, with negativeconsequences on its hydrodynamic equilibrium and water quality degradation. Lithological characteristics from boreholes andresistivity data have permitted the reconstruction of the geometrical relations within the deposit and its thickness varations. Thegranulometric variability of the alluvial deposits (sand, silt and gravel) and its relative permeability are characteristics of a typicalmultilayered aquifer system that is unconfined in the upper part and partially confined in its lower portion. It rests on a clayeymarine substratum whose morphology is affected by buried tectonic structures controlling the aquifer thickness. The piezometricsurface shows a pronounced depression caused by the falling of the groundwater level by about 2 m year1 since 1962 due topumping from industrial wells. This has also induced infiltration of poor quality water from the overlying polluted aquifer, whiledeep test holes have caused further pollution of the aquifer owing to chloride water contained in sandy lenses within the underlyingmarine clays. 2004 artículo científico 0016-7169 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=56843416 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=568 Geofísica Internacional application/pdf Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Geofísica Internacional (México) Num.4 Vol.43 |
| title | Intensive exploitation effects on alluvial aquifer of the Catania plain, eastern Sicily, Italy |
| topic | Ciencias de la Tierra Alluvial plain multilayered aquifer industrial settlement groundwater pollution |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=56843416 |