Hydrodynamic relationships between gravel pit lakes and aquifers: brief review and insights from numerical investigations

Supply of aggregate materials for every construction requires mining of sand and gravel, which leads to the formation of a myriad of freshwater lakes, a now common feature of the landscape in the valleys of large rivers. Typically small in size and shallow, they are filled with waters from the adjac...

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Main Authors: Jost, Anne, Wang, Shuaitao, Verbeke, Thomas, Colleoni, François, Flipo, Nicolas
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Published: Académie des sciences 2023-01-01
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Online Access:https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/geoscience/articles/10.5802/crgeos.181/
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Wang, Shuaitao
Verbeke, Thomas
Colleoni, François
Flipo, Nicolas
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description Supply of aggregate materials for every construction requires mining of sand and gravel, which leads to the formation of a myriad of freshwater lakes, a now common feature of the landscape in the valleys of large rivers. Typically small in size and shallow, they are filled with waters from the adjacent aquifers and directly exposed to the atmosphere. The creation of gravel pit lakes has various and contrasting effects on their immediate environment. This article first provides a review of these impacts from the hydrodynamic point of view, and illustrates them on simple numerical test cases. It also introduces the gravel pit lake module developed for the occasion within the integrated modelling platform CaWaQS, which formulation was tested on the same test cases against the Lak package, its Modflow counterpart. By accurately simulating gravel pit lake interactions with groundwater in different configurations, this modelling exercise also aims to identify the preponderant factors leading water level fluctuations of those artificial lakes, whose temporal monitoring will soon be accessible to satellite observation.
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spelling doaj-art-8881fe0f87494a36b79ea8998b57bf402025-02-07T10:40:14ZengAcadémie des sciencesComptes Rendus. Géoscience1778-70252023-01-01355S124526910.5802/crgeos.18110.5802/crgeos.181Hydrodynamic relationships between gravel pit lakes and aquifers: brief review and insights from numerical investigationsJost, Anne0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0925-3376Wang, Shuaitao1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1145-5938Verbeke, Thomas2Colleoni, François3Flipo, Nicolas4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8099-2104Sorbonne Université, CNRS, EPHE, Metis, F-75005 Paris, FranceSorbonne Université, CNRS, EPHE, Metis, F-75005 Paris, FranceEcole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Mécanique Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, FranceINRAE-AMU, Aix-en-Provence, FranceGeosciences Department, Mines Paris, PSL University, Paris, FranceSupply of aggregate materials for every construction requires mining of sand and gravel, which leads to the formation of a myriad of freshwater lakes, a now common feature of the landscape in the valleys of large rivers. Typically small in size and shallow, they are filled with waters from the adjacent aquifers and directly exposed to the atmosphere. The creation of gravel pit lakes has various and contrasting effects on their immediate environment. This article first provides a review of these impacts from the hydrodynamic point of view, and illustrates them on simple numerical test cases. It also introduces the gravel pit lake module developed for the occasion within the integrated modelling platform CaWaQS, which formulation was tested on the same test cases against the Lak package, its Modflow counterpart. By accurately simulating gravel pit lake interactions with groundwater in different configurations, this modelling exercise also aims to identify the preponderant factors leading water level fluctuations of those artificial lakes, whose temporal monitoring will soon be accessible to satellite observation.https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/geoscience/articles/10.5802/crgeos.181/Gravel pit lakeGroundwater–lake interactionNumerical modellingIn silico experimentsNatural resources
spellingShingle Jost, Anne
Wang, Shuaitao
Verbeke, Thomas
Colleoni, François
Flipo, Nicolas
Hydrodynamic relationships between gravel pit lakes and aquifers: brief review and insights from numerical investigations
Comptes Rendus. Géoscience
Gravel pit lake
Groundwater–lake interaction
Numerical modelling
In silico experiments
Natural resources
title Hydrodynamic relationships between gravel pit lakes and aquifers: brief review and insights from numerical investigations
title_full Hydrodynamic relationships between gravel pit lakes and aquifers: brief review and insights from numerical investigations
title_fullStr Hydrodynamic relationships between gravel pit lakes and aquifers: brief review and insights from numerical investigations
title_full_unstemmed Hydrodynamic relationships between gravel pit lakes and aquifers: brief review and insights from numerical investigations
title_short Hydrodynamic relationships between gravel pit lakes and aquifers: brief review and insights from numerical investigations
title_sort hydrodynamic relationships between gravel pit lakes and aquifers brief review and insights from numerical investigations
topic Gravel pit lake
Groundwater–lake interaction
Numerical modelling
In silico experiments
Natural resources
url https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/geoscience/articles/10.5802/crgeos.181/
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