Groundwater age rejuvenation caused by excessive urban pumping in Jakarta area,Indonesia |
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Authors: | Makoto Kagabu Jun Shimada Robert Delinom Toshio Nakamura Makoto Taniguchi |
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Affiliation: | 1. Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, , Kumamoto, 860‐8555 Japan;2. Research Center for Geotechnology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, , Bandung, 40135 Indonesia;3. Center for Chronological Research, Nagoya University, , Nagoya, 464‐8602 Japan;4. Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, , Kyoto, 603‐8047 Japan |
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Abstract: | Rapid urbanization in the Jakarta area has become a severe subsurface environmental issue as it entails groundwater level decline and land subsidence caused by excessive groundwater pumping. In this study, apparent groundwater age rejuvenation in the deep aquifer under DKI Jakarta was found by comparing 14C activities between 1985 and 2008. We discussed the use of a numerical groundwater flow model to evaluate the rejuvenation process in this urbanized area. When considering the deep aquifer in the DKI Jakarta area, we can assume six direction fluxes toward the aquifer: two vertical fluxes (downward and upward flux) and four horizontal fluxes (northern, southern, western, and eastern flux). Results of model calculations show that the greatest groundwater flux among six flux directions became ‘vertical downward flux’, which means that shallower groundwater intrudes into the deep one because of excessive groundwater pumping from the mid‐1980s. This flux grows about 50% during the 2000s. This result is consistent with the detection of CFC‐12 and SF6, which functions as an indicator of young groundwater even in the deep groundwater. The rejuvenation ratio ‘R’ was determined using 14C activity in the groundwater; R increases with the CFC‐12 concentration and both show good correlation. Furthermore, we estimated the ‘vertical downward flux’ at each well's screen depth using model estimation. Results show that this flux is greater in the urban groundwater depression area and especially at shallower parts of the deep aquifer, and that it affects the magnitude of the shallow groundwater intrusion. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Keywords: | urbanization excessive groundwater pumping groundwater age tracer numerical groundwater flow model rejuvenation Jakarta, Indonesia |
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