Cardiff Bay barrage: management of groundwater issues
Cardiff Bay barrage: management of groundwater issues
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卡迪夫湾拦河坝:地下水问题的管理
DOI:
10.1680/wama.2008.161.6.313
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发表时间:
2008
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影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
B. Williams
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作者:
B. Williams
The Cardiff Bay barrage, a 1·1 km long structure across the mouth of Cardiff Bay impounding a 200 ha freshwater lake, was central to the UK government's urban development programme to regenerate the docklands area of Cardiff. The Cardiff Bay Barrage Act 1993 included a groundwater protection scheme for buildings, providing owner/occupiers with recourse to remedial works or compensation should circumstances prove that construction of the barrage caused or probably caused groundwater damage. To allow a comparison of pre- and post-impoundment groundwater levels underlying south Cardiff, a groundwater monitoring system comprising 236 automated data loggers covering an urban area of 15 km2 was established between 1995 and 1999. To mitigate the possibility of a rise in groundwater levels in certain identified areas, various types of groundwater control systems were installed prior to impoundment in November 1999. Management (including collection and interpretation of data) and maintenance of such an extensive s...