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| Dato | Valore |
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| Title | Combined Discharge and Thermo-Salinity Measurements for the Characterization of a Karst Spring System in Southern Italy |
| Abstract | The hydrological monitoring of springs is an auxiliary and indispensable tool that goes alongside investigations in wells to reconstruct a conceptual phenomenological model of an aquifer-groundwater system and its interactions with surface waters. There are manifold ways to carry out this monitoring, but the choice of which way is significant for a correct qualitative and quantitative knowledge of spring systems. The present work focuses on the characterization of the thermo-saline and flow regimes of the Tara spring system along the northern coast of Taranto (southern Italy), where a karst groundwater basin is the major source of the Tara River and the surrounding coastal wetland. A series of measurements was carried out on the spring system to support a technical feasibility study on the possible use of the brackish water of this river to feed a future desalination plant. To estimate the flow rate, a comparison was made between different flow measurement methods in a derivation channel. Through an analysis of the available dataset, the response of the aquifer to the autumn-winter recharge, for which updated hydrologic measurements were not available, is highlighted. |
| Source | Sustainability (Basel) |
| Keywords | Tara spring systemdischarge measurementelectrical conductivity |
| Journal | Sustainability (Basel) |
| Editor | MDPI, Basel, |
| Year | 2020 |
| Type | Articolo in rivista |
| DOI | 10.3390/su12083311 |
| Authors | Ivan Portoghese, Rita Masciale, Maria C. Caputo, Lorenzo De Carlo and Daniela Malcangio |
| Text | 420849 2020 10.3390/su12083311 Tara spring system discharge measurement electrical conductivity Combined Discharge and Thermo Salinity Measurements for the Characterization of a Karst Spring System in Southern Italy Ivan Portoghese, Rita Masciale, Maria C. Caputo, Lorenzo De Carlo and Daniela Malcangio 1 Water Research Institute, National Research Council of Italy, 70132 Bari, Italy; ivan.portoghese@cnr.it I.P. ; rita.masciale@cnr.it R.M. ; maria.caputo@ba.irsa.cnr.it M.C.C. ; lorenzo.decarlo@cnr.it L.D.C. 2 DICATECH, Polytechnic University of Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy The hydrological monitoring of springs is an auxiliary and indispensable tool that goes alongside investigations in wells to reconstruct a conceptual phenomenological model of an aquifer groundwater system and its interactions with surface waters. There are manifold ways to carry out this monitoring, but the choice of which way is significant for a correct qualitative and quantitative knowledge of spring systems. The present work focuses on the characterization of the thermo saline and flow regimes of the Tara spring system along the northern coast of Taranto southern Italy , where a karst groundwater basin is the major source of the Tara River and the surrounding coastal wetland. A series of measurements was carried out on the spring system to support a technical feasibility study on the possible use of the brackish water of this river to feed a future desalination plant. To estimate the flow rate, a comparison was made between different flow measurement methods in a derivation channel. Through an analysis of the available dataset, the response of the aquifer to the autumn winter recharge, for which updated hydrologic measurements were not available, is highlighted. Published version https //doi.org/10.3390/su12083311 Articolo in rivista MDPI 2071 1050 Sustainability Basel Sustainability Basel Sustainability Basel Sustainability. Basel rita.masciale MASCIALE RITA mariaclementina.caputo CAPUTO MARIA CLEMENTINA ivan.portoghese PORTOGHESE IVAN lorenzo.decarlo DE CARLO LORENZO |