Software for the evaluation of groundwater and surface water interactions: Numerical model tool available

The available document reports the results of the numerical model developed to identify links between MAR and water related systems and to evaluate the impact of Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) in general, and Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) in particular, on identified ecosystem services.

The numerical model has two main objectives: to evaluate the interactions between groundwater and surface water media and to become a tool to show the benefits of this technology to implementers. The first objective is approached simulating a typical deltaic aquifer and evaluating the results of different MAR configurations. The latter is done through a web page with the results of the transient simulation in video format.

The actual deliverable D22.5 is a model (software) and its results have been synthetized at Amphos 21 web page. The specific results of the different MAR configurations can be visualized in an interactive way by clicking in preselected injection wells location and observing the video with the saline plume movement. Furthermore, the files to run this model in other computers can also be downloaded from this webpage.

The report is considered supporting material to provide background information about development and application of this software deliverable and can be downloaded here.