Modeling and development of a groundwater management plan for Ulubey aquifer system, Uşak?Turkey

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Jeoloji Mühendisliği Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2008

Öğrenci: BURCU ÜNSAL ERDEMLİ

Danışman: HASAN YAZICIGİL

Özet:

The purpose of this study is the characterization and modeling of Ulubey aquifer system which serves as an important water supply for Uşak province located in inner parts of the Aegean Region in Turkey. In recent years, growing population, accelarating industrial activities and on the contrary decreasing rainfall and contamination of the surface water resources made groundwater indispensable to meet domestic, agricultural and industrial water demands of Uşak province. All these facts necessitate the development of a groundwater management plan, which this study aims to end up with. For this purpose, every single component of the recharge/discharge mechanisms of the groundwater budget of the aquifer system should conceptually be comprehended. However, due to lack of data, all of the components can not be precisely determined. Hence, a mathematical groundwater flow model successfully calibrated under steady state conditions, is utilized to calculate the missing components of the groundwater budget and also to test the effects of increased pumping rates for irrigational and domestic uses to supply the increasing demand in the future. For this purpose, three management scenarios are set up under transient conditions over a planning period of 20 years. Drawdown maps, groundwater budgets and groundwater level hydrographs are utilized to observe the effects. The results of these simulations proved that neither of the tested management scenarios creates significant drawdowns or change in groundwater reserve of the Ulubey aquifer system.