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Journal Articles Science of the Total Environment Year : 2023

Identification of riverbank filtration sites at watershed scale: A geochemical and isotopic framework

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Identifying groundwater wells performing riverbank filtration (RBF) is crucial to ensure safe drinking water through vulnerability assessment plans adapted to these hybrid water sources. Nonetheless, RBF is often unintentional or insufficiently documented and official inventories are scarce. We developed a user-friendly geochemical and isotopic framework for the in-situ identification of RBF facilities. It includes an interpretation abacus for non-specialists. While most studies using tracers are site-specific and/or based on discrete samples, we propose a novel multi-site characterization where time-series of EC, δ2H and δ18O are directly used as proxies of surface water infiltration at the watershed-scale. The basic statement is that time varying signal of raw water from a groundwater pumping facility reveals a significant induced infiltration of surface water. The framework was applied on nearly 2000 samples from 40 pumping wells and 4 neighboring rivers.
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hal-04115902 , version 1 (02-06-2023)

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Laurence Labelle, Paul Baudron, Florent Barbecot, Françoise Bichai, Janie Masse-Dufresne. Identification of riverbank filtration sites at watershed scale: A geochemical and isotopic framework. Science of the Total Environment, 2023, 864, pp.160964. ⟨10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160964⟩. ⟨hal-04115902⟩
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