Avgränsning av tillrinningsområden till grundvattenmagasin
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TillrinningsområdeGrundvattenmagasinInterpolering av berggrundens överytaJorddjupDelavrinningsområdeSVARArcHydro Tools
Delineation of recharge areas for aquifers is performed in the groundwater mapping process at the Swedish geological survey, SGU. This work is time consuming and performed manually. It is therefore desirable to develop a more general and repeatable method for defining recharge areas for aquifers.The purpose of this study was to investigate two other possible methods to delineate recharge areas for aquifers. The first method was to examine the possibility of using the topography of the bedrock to define the recharge areas for aquifers. To enable this, a method for generating the topography of the bedrock was developed. The recharge area could then be defined by using the Arc Hydro Tools in ArcMap. The second method was to examine whether topographic water divides delimited from the ground surface topography could be used to delineate recharge areas for aquifers. For this purpose, topographic water divides from Svenskt Vatten ARkiv (SVAR) were used.The results show that it is possible to generate the topography of the bedrock by using information about the soil depth from the databases at SGU for small areas with a lot of data. In order to do the same over a larger area, for example the whole of Sweden, more data and perhaps other methods are needed. The topography of the bedrock gives a lot of new information in areas where the topography of the groundwater surface does not follow the topography of the ground surface, for example where deep soils with high hydraulic conductivity occur. In the outer part of the recharge areas thin layers of soil and outcrops often occur. This means that the topography of the bedrock is very similar to the topography of the ground surface and therefore does not give much new information.Recharge areas delineated from the bedrock topography are very large. This method is not complex enough to calculate the delineation of recharge areas using only the bedrock topography as an input. However, the bedrock topography can be used together with other information, especially the topography of the groundwater surface but also information about soil types and bedrock. The bedrock topography can also serve as background information in the work with delimiting recharge areas as it is done today.It is further shown that the topographic sub-catchments from SVAR are not suitable for defining recharge areas for aquifers. This is partly because the areas of the sub-catchments are entirely dependent on which point they are defined from and these points are chosen arbitrarily along the streams, and partly because the drainage direction of the sub-catchments is difficult to take into account when using this method.