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Multi-tracer tests to evaluate the hydraulic setting of a complex aquifer system (Brévilles spring catchment, France)

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For good management of groundwater resources, and to comply with European and national regulations, a detailed understanding of an aquifer's hydraulic setting is required. In order to better characterize a sandy aquifer that is affected by diffuse pollution (Brévilles spring catchment, Val d'Oise, France), and to quantify the transfer time in the saturated zone, a multi-tracer test involving a new technique, the ‘finite volume point dilution method', has been performed in natural flow conditions. In November 2005, injections of four different tracers took place in four piezometers involving different locations and depths in the aquifer. Recovery of the tracers was observed at two different places near the aquifer outlet. A particularly long and unusual monitoring exercise (27months) demonstrated the existence of several different velocities within the sandy layer, which seems to be linked to the decrease of hydraulic conductivity with depth. The new insight and parameter quantification brought by interpretation of these tests contribute to a better characterization of the saturated zone. The particularly long-term monitoring exercise also gives new information to understand and forecast the trend and persistence of groundwater contamination by pesticides in the catchment.

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hal-00556720 , version 1 (17-01-2011)

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Pascal Goderniaux, Serge Brouyere, Alexis Gutierrez, Nicole Baran. Multi-tracer tests to evaluate the hydraulic setting of a complex aquifer system (Brévilles spring catchment, France). Hydrogeology Journal, 2010, 18, p. 1729-1740. ⟨10.1007/s10040-010-0633-x⟩. ⟨hal-00556720⟩

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