Managing groundwater rise: Experimental results and modelling of water pumping from a quarry lake in Milan urban area (Italy)

Null-Space Monte Carlo Particle Backtracking to Identify Groundwater Tetrachloroethylene Sources

“…The historical piezometric data collected for the two aquifers show that Aquifer A presents a hydraulic head, higher than in Aquifer B, of about 1 to 1.5 m, and there is therefore a natural downwelling of flow from the shallow aquifer where the clay aquitard shows discontinuities. More details about the conceptual model can be found in previous works (Cavallin et al, 1983;Beretta et al, 1992Beretta et al, , 2004Alberti et al, 2016;Colombo et al, 2019).…”

A 3D Geodatabase for Urban Underground Infrastructures: Implementation and Application to Groundwater Management in Milan Metropolitan Area

“…The maximum water depletion (i.e., minimum groundwater levels) was reached in the years from the 1960s until the early 1990s, with a groundwater table more than 30 m deep in the northern sector. During this period, some underground infrastructures (car parks, subway lines) were built, sometimes with no waterproofing works [40,50,51], neglecting the possibility of any future groundwater level rise. Since the early 1990s, because of the decommissioning of many industrial sites, groundwater levels have started to rise (i.e., with a maximum rise of about 10-15 m in the northern area), generating many problems for underground infrastructures.…”

“…The city of Milan experienced a strong groundwater table rise in the last few decades [40]. As numerical groundwater flow modelling is the primary tool for evaluating the interactions between groundwater and underground infrastructures [34], different 3D models have been realized for the urban area of Milan [41][42][43].…”

A methodology for extreme groundwater surge predetermination in carbonate aquifers: Groundwater flood frequency analysis

“…As a matter of fact, this special kind of flooding is recently admitted. Meanwhile, many floods due to groundwater actually occurred (e.g., López-Chicano et al, 2002;Marsh and Dale, 2002;Beretta et al, 2004;Pinault et al, 2005;Bonacci et al, 2006).…”