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In coastal aquifers, the seawater intrusion can mask the effects of salinity regional groundwater flows, connate waters mobilization or contaminant process. Therefore, to discriminate between all the processes that have taken place in the coastal aquifer, is a complex task. Normally, traditional hydrogeochemical methods (e.g., Piper and Durov) toge...
In coastal aquifers, the seawater intrusion can mask the effects of high salinity regional flows, connate waters mobilization or contaminant process. Therefore, to discriminate between all the processes that have taken place in the coastal aquifer, is a complex task. Normally, traditional hydrogeochemical methods (e.g., Piper and Durov) together wi...
The southern part of the Plana de Castellón aquifer (Spanish Mediterranean coast) has experienced persistent seawater intrusion over the last 50 years. The salinisation process is related to the lateral advance of the saline wedge and saline upconing as a result of intensive local groundwater pumping. In this context, managed artificial recharge (M...
In urban, industrial, and agricultural areas, a vast array of contaminants may be found because they are introduced into the aquifers by different recharge sources. The emerging contaminants (ECs) correspond to unregulated contaminants, which may be candidates for future regulation depending on the results of research into their potential effects o...
Over 40 years, the detrital aquifer of the Plana de Castellón (Spanish Mediterranean coast) has been subjected to seawater intrusion because of long dry periods combined with intensive groundwater exploitation. Against this backdrop, a managed artificial recharge (MAR) scheme was implemented to improve the groundwater quality. The large difference...
A large number of coastal aquifers worldwide are impacted by seawater intrusion. A major aim of European Directives 2000/60/EC and 2006/118/EC is to achieve good ecological status in groundwater bodies, including coastal aquifers. To this goal, information is needed about the current state of, and changes over time in, individual aquifers. This inf...
In this contribution, we describe the formation and evolution of the upconing process in a Mediterranean coastal aquifer. The study area has experienced severe salinization over the last 40 years because of intensive exploitation of groundwater. We used historical and current records of piezometric levels and chloride concentrations to trace the de...
Mercury was detected in the Plio-Quaternary detrital coastal aquifer of La Plana de Castellón in the second half of the 1990s in the area of Nules-Moncofar-Vall d'Uixó at concentrations of between 5 and 12 μg/L according to groundwater analysis. The most reliable hypothesis pointed originally to an anthropic origin, although no precise sources were...
The Pego-Oliva marshland, which was included in the Ramsar Convention (1971) as one wetland of international interest, constitutes a typical coastal aquatic ecosystem of the Western Mediterranean Sea. Currently, it is a Nature Reserve which coexists with traditional agricultural practises, like rice crop. It has a close relationship with groundwate...
The presence of mercury in certain sectors of the detritic Plioquaternary aquifer of La Plana de Castellón has been shown by several researches carried out in 1998 and 1999. Those researches did not argue enough the explanation of that fact, but point to an anthropic origin of the contamination with mercury. Nowadays, IGME is developing an specific...