TY - GEN
T1 - Optimal aquifer management for controlling land subsidence
AU - Cleveland, Theodore G.
AU - Chuang, Lu Chia
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - This paper discusses on-going research in optimal regional aquifer management that has a multiplicity of goals: water supply, subsidence control, and energy management. Current research is directed at simulation and optimization of the aquifer system using a variety of methods. The goal of the research is to identify pumping policies that control subsidence, yet meet current and projected groundwater demands and require minimal lift (a surrogate for energy). Two fundamentally different operational strategies are studied: (1) pumping (extraction) only; and (2) pumping combined with injection where net extraction meets demand. The simulation model uses the USGS modular three-dimensional finite difference groundwater flow code with the interbed storage package for modeling flow and subsidence. The current model is a four-layer model with spatial resolution of 2.5 miles in the horizontal dimensions and 0.1 miles in the vertical dimension.
AB - This paper discusses on-going research in optimal regional aquifer management that has a multiplicity of goals: water supply, subsidence control, and energy management. Current research is directed at simulation and optimization of the aquifer system using a variety of methods. The goal of the research is to identify pumping policies that control subsidence, yet meet current and projected groundwater demands and require minimal lift (a surrogate for energy). Two fundamentally different operational strategies are studied: (1) pumping (extraction) only; and (2) pumping combined with injection where net extraction meets demand. The simulation model uses the USGS modular three-dimensional finite difference groundwater flow code with the interbed storage package for modeling flow and subsidence. The current model is a four-layer model with spatial resolution of 2.5 miles in the horizontal dimensions and 0.1 miles in the vertical dimension.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0026980802
SN - 0872628760
T3 - Water Resources Planning and Management: Saving a Threatened Resource - In Search of Solutions, Proceedings of the Water Resources Sessions at Water Forum
SP - 872
EP - 877
BT - Water Resources Planning and Management
PB - Publ by ASCE
T2 - 1992 National Conference on Water Resources Planning and Management - Water Forum '92
Y2 - 2 August 1992 through 6 August 1992
ER -