Bucharest city urban groundwater monitoring system

Găitănaru, Dragoș; Gogu, Constantin Radu; Boukhemacha, Mohamed Amine; Litescu, Liviu; Zaharia, Valentin; Moldovan, Alexandru; Mihailovici, Madalin J.

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2017.11.140

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“…The HORUS project is based on the experience of previous projects, were pieces of our urban underground space were analysed and assessed. An important role for the development of this project is represented by the Bucharest experience (since 2010www.simpa.utcb.ro, [16,[19][20][21]), COST TU1206 (http://sub-urban. squarespace.com/) and INXCES (https://inxces.eu/).…”

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Urban Underground Atlas – Horus Project

Găitănaru¹

2020

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This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License GJES.MS.ID.000645. cases easy to be identified: when we speak about climate change, we speak at country level, at ministry level, and therefore there is no ministry for cities. This administrative gap between certain administration levels can create major difficulties in addressing the urban resilience in future projects. Materials and MethodsNevertheless, in the last 10 years more and more scientific and technical papers, projects and committees address the issue of urban climatic resilience and sustainable development. In 2013 the Rockefeller Foundation created the 100 Resilient Cities framework.

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Urban Underground Atlas – Horus Project

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2020

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“…Rome municipality (Italy) has recently organized its irrigation wells as part of the city monitoring network (La Vigna et al 2015b) and detailed the monitoring activity in some heritage sites (Mastrorillo et al 2016). Other examples are the monitoring network of Cardiff (UK), which is monitoring the groundwater levels and temperature also to control groundwater thermal variations due to shallow open-loop ground-source heat pumps (Patton et al 2020), the network of the City of Bucharest (Romania) (Gaitanaru et al 2017), and that of Glasgow (UK). In general, Dutch and German cities have monitoring networks, with a significant development in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), with more than 2500 monitoring stations bimonthly measured (Bonsor et al 2017), and Munich (Germany), with almost 500 monitoring wells (Menberg et al 2013).…”

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Review: Urban groundwater issues and resource management, and their roles in the resilience of cities

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2022

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The relationships between cities and underlying groundwater are reviewed, with the aim to highlight the importance of urban groundwater resources in terms of city resilience value. Examples of more than 70 cities worldwide are cited along with details of their groundwater-related issues, specific experiences, and settings. The groundwater-related issues are summarized, and a first groundwater-city classification is proposed in order to facilitate a more effective city-to-city comparison with respect to, for example, the best practices and solutions that have been put in practice by similar cities in terms of local groundwater resources management. The interdependences between some groundwater services and the cascading effects on city life in cases of shock (e.g., drought, heavy rain, pollution, energy demand) and chronic stress (e.g., climate change) are analyzed, and the ideal groundwater-resilient-city characteristics are proposed. The paper concludes that groundwater is a crucial resource for planning sustainability in every city and for implementing city resilience strategies from the climate change perspective.

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“…A large dataset was available for 2015 by means of 15 measurement campaigns that were conducted during the entire year. All these boreholes are part of the Urban Groundwater Monitoring System (UGMS) of Bucharest city [31]. In the middle of Circului Park, where the artificial lake is located, the boreholes are distributed around it (Figure 6).…”

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“…FM1LC and FM2LC are placed in the same location, respectively monitoring the confined middle aquifer and the shallow aquifer. These two points are part of the Bucharest city groundwater monitoring system as reported by Gaitanaru et al (2017) [31]. A double tube monitoring well was designed to measure the hydraulic head for both the upper (unconfined) and middle (unconfined) aquifer strata.…”

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“…Bucharest is situated in the south-eastern part of Romania, in the central part of the Moesic platform [30]. It is crossed by two modified rivers: Dambovita River which was channelized in 1883 and further in the late 1970s, and Colentina River which was remodeled in a series of lakes connected with the shallow aquifer [31], as illustrated by Figure 1.…”

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Sentinel-1 Data for Underground Processes Recognition in Bucharest City, Romania

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Urban areas are strongly influenced by the different processes affecting the underground and implicitly the terrestrial surface. Land subsidence can be one of the effects of the urban processes. The identification of the vulnerable areas of the city, prone to subsidence, can be of great help for a sustainable urban planning. Using Sentinel-1 data, by the PSI (persistent scatterer interferometry) technique, a vertical displacements map of Bucharest city has been prepared. It covers the time interval 2014–2018. Based on this map, several subsidence areas have been identified. One of them, holding a thick layer of debris from urban constructions, was analyzed in detail, on the basis of an accurate local geological model and by correlating the local displacements with the urban groundwater system hydraulic heads. The properties of the anthropogenic layer have been characterized by complementary geotechnical and hydrogeological studies. A dynamic instability pattern, highlighted by PSI results, has been put into evidence when related to this type of anthropogenic layer. This thick anthropogenic layer and its connections to the urban aquifer system have to be further analyzed, when the procedures of urban planning and design invoke constructive operations modifying the aquifer dynamics.

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Bucharest city urban groundwater monitoring system

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Urban Underground Atlas – Horus Project

Urban Underground Atlas – Horus Project

Review: Urban groundwater issues and resource management, and their roles in the resilience of cities

Sentinel-1 Data for Underground Processes Recognition in Bucharest City, Romania

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