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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 54, 2018
25th Salt Water Intrusion Meeting (SWIM 2018)
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Article Number | 00009 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20185400009 | |
Published online | 17 September 2018 |
Long-time resistivity monitoring of a freshwater/saltwater transition zone using the vertical electrode system SAMOS
Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Hannover, Germany
Contact Information: Michael Grinat, Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Stilleweg 2, 30655 Hannover, Germany, Email: michael.grinat@liag-hannover.de
In September 2009 two newly developed vertical electrode systems were installed in boreholes in the water catchment areas Waterdelle and Ostland at the North Sea island Borkum to monitor possible changes of the transition zone between the freshwater lens and the underlying saltwater. The vertical electrode systems, which were both installed between 44 m and 65 m below ground level, are used for geoelectrical multi-electrode measurements carried out automatically several times per day; the measurements are still ongoing. The whole system consisting of a vertical electrode system in a borehole and the measuring unit at ground level is called SAMOS (Saltwater Monitoring System).
At both locations the data show a clear resistivity decrease that indicates the transition zone between freshwater and saltwater. The depth of the transition zone as well as the kind of resistivity decrease is very stable since 2010.
Temporal changes are visible if single depths are considered. In 2015 Miriam Ibenthal used a vertical 2D density-dependent groundwater flow model to explain the long-term resistivity measurements and showed that the temporal changes at CLIWAT 2 (Ostland) could be explained by variations of the groundwater level, changing groundwater recharge rates and changing pumping rates of the nearby located drinking water supply wells.
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