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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 54, 2018
25th Salt Water Intrusion Meeting (SWIM 2018)
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Article Number | 00002 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20185400002 | |
Published online | 17 September 2018 |
High frequency saltwater intrusion monitoring using borehole geophysical tools (SMD)
imaGeau, Montpellier, Hérault, FRANCE
In February 2016, two remote controlled geophysical monitoring tools (SMD) have been installed for the first time in the Reunion Island. Settled into two piezometers drilled into a basaltic coastal aquifer, between the ocean and a production well, they allow the record of groundwater electrical conductivity (ECw) logs on a 30 min basis. Thanks to those two tools, water operator continuously knows the shape and the position of the SWI as data are available online on a secured web application designed especially for SWI data management.
During the observation period a 5,15 m rise of SWI interface has been recorded. Knowing the average porosity, water table elevation and SWI interface position it is possible to estimate available fresh groundwater volume. Along a 1 km band between extraction well and the ocean, available fresh groundwater volume was found to be 1 259 000 m3 in June 2016. In June 2017, due to SWI progression this volume was found to be 777 000 m3, that to say a 480 000 m3 volume of freshwater replaced by brackish water.
SMD network will now be spread in the Reunion Island to improve coastal extraction well management knowing SWI shape and position on a high frequency basis.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018
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