A Risk-Based Approach To Identify Vulnerability Hotspots In Urban Aquifers Under Minimum Data Requirements

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Abstract

Sewer leakages lead to uncontrolled urban aquifer recharge and contamination of groundwater. Data about the structural conditions of urban drainage networks (UDN) and exfiltration probabilities of pipes is rarely available at city scale. In order to protect urban aquifers, to optimize monitoring systems and to improve sewer network assessment, new approaches to identify vulnerability hotspots regions in urban aquifers are needed. When scarce information is available, open-access data can be used to automatically generate UDN layouts. These layouts can be used to simulate runoff quantity and quality from UDNs and to predict regions affected by sewer-borne contaminants in urban aquifers. This can be valuable for preliminary studies to analyze plume evolution in urban aquifers and to facilitate prioritization of strategic interventions for sewer network assessments. The main objective of this study was to develop a semi-coupled modelling environment to automatically predict strategic locations for sewer network assessments considering spreading of pollutants in urban aquifers and hydraulic conditions of sewer networks.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelBook of Extended Abstracts of the 41st IAHR World Congress, 2025
Redakteure/-innenAdrian Wing-Keung Law, Jenn Wei Er
Herausgeber (Verlag)IAHR – International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research
Seiten496-499
Seitenumfang4
ISBN (elektronisch)978-90-835589-5-0
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2025
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Konferenz

Titel41st International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) World Congress
UntertitelInnovative Water Engineering for Sustainable Development
KurztitelIAHR 2025
Veranstaltungsnummer41
Dauer22 - 27 Juni 2025
Webseite
BekanntheitsgradInternationale Veranstaltung
OrtSingapore EXPO
StadtSingapore
LandSingapur

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-7097-7595/work/220701389
ORCID /0000-0002-8675-2304/work/220701695

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • contaminant transport, groundwater monitoring, risk area identification, sewer leakage, sewer network management