Review of Groundwater Management and Land Subsidence in Bangkok, Thailand

Lorphensri, Oranuj; Ladawadee, Anirut; Dhammasarn, Surapol

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“…At present, the subsidence rate was stabilized and a certain uplift was recorded in some areas. The overall area subsidence rate was 1 cm/ year (Lorphensri et al, 2011) (Fig. 12).…”

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Advances and Practices on the Research, Prevention and Control of Land Subsidence in Coastal Cities

Yan

Yang

et al. 2020

Acta Geologica Sinica (Eng)

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Land subsidence severely threatens most of the coastal plains around the world where high productive industrial and agricultural activities and urban centers are concentrated. Coastal subsidence damages infrastructures and exacerbates the effect of the sea‐level rise at regional scale. Although it is a well‐known process, there is still much more to be improved on the monitoring, mapping and modeling of ground movements, as well as the understanding of controlling mechanisms. The International Geoscience Programme recently approved an international project (IGCP 663) aiming to bring together worldwide researchers to share expertise on subsidence processes typically occurring in coastal areas and cities, including basic research, monitoring and observation, modelling and management. In this paper, we provide the research communities and potential stakeholders with the basic information to join the participating teams in developing this project. Specifically, major advances on coastal subsidence studies and information on well‐known and new case studies of land subsidence in China, Italy, The Netherlands, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand are highlighted and summarized. Meanwhile, the networking, dissemination, annual meeting and field trip are briefly introduced.

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“…At present, the subsidence rate was stabilized and a certain uplift was recorded in some areas. The overall area subsidence rate was 1 cm/ year (Lorphensri et al, 2011) (Fig. 12).…”

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Advances and Practices on the Research, Prevention and Control of Land Subsidence in Coastal Cities

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Yang

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Acta Geologica Sinica (Eng)

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“…Thus, higher values of k may be distributed in areas where the river channel was shifting in response to sea level fluctuations. Also, groundwater extraction first began (about 50 years ago) and caused the largest cumulative subsidence near the center of Bangkok city, that is, in the northwest part of the observed uplift area, where the value of k is comparatively large [ Whiteley et al ., ; Phien‐wej et al ., ; Lorphensri et al ., ]. Greater total subsidence indicates longer and greater compression of the aquitard, which could account for the larger values of k .…”

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“…2009], followed after 1997 by recovery of the groundwater level [Giao, 2010;Giao et al, 2012] (Figures 1b and 2) as a result of government measures to regulate and reduce groundwater use [Lorphensri et al, 2011]. We first obtained the spatiotemporal pattern of the surface rebound in this area by carrying out a PSI analysis of images acquired by the Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) onboard the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) from November 2007 to December 2010.…”

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“…We focused on Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand, which is situated on a flat lowland (Figure a) and underlain by several confined aquifers and aquitards [ Sinsakul , ]. In this region, previous studies have reported ground subsidence due to excessive groundwater pumping [ Phien‐wej et al ., ; Taniguchi et al ., ], followed after 1997 by recovery of the groundwater level [ Giao , ; Giao et al ., ] (Figures b and ) as a result of government measures to regulate and reduce groundwater use [ Lorphensri et al ., ]. We first obtained the spatiotemporal pattern of the surface rebound in this area by carrying out a PSI analysis of images acquired by the Phased Array type L‐band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) onboard the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) from November 2007 to December 2010.…”

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Natural surface rebound of the Bangkok plain and aquifer characterization by persistent scatterer interferometry

Ishitsuka

Fukushima

Tsuji

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Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.

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We estimated recent surface displacements around Bangkok by means of persistent scatterer interferometry with ALOS/PALSAR images acquired from November 2007 to December 2010. Land subsidence due to excessive groundwater pumping has been reported in this region. However, we detected ground surface uplift around the mega-city, along with seasonal surface displacement, with high spatial resolution. We then discriminated long-term natural rebound and seasonal displacement by fitting exponential and sinusoidal functions to displacement time-series, and mapped their spatial distributions. This mapping allowed us to infer that the second and third shallowest aquifers are laterally continuous, whereas the shallowest aquifer has lateral discontinuities. The temporal decay rate of the long-term rebound might reflect spatial changes of the Chao Phraya River watershed or the magnitude of the preceding groundwater extraction. We demonstrated that our method of decomposing the displacement time series into different spatial and temporal patterns is useful for understanding aquifer connectivity and the elastic response pattern in an aquifer system.

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“…Artificial recharge backed up by a groundwater tax was the main policy tool in Orange County Water District, California, USA (hereafter referred to as OCWD) (Orange County Water District, 2009). A groundwater tax was also introduced in Bangkok, Thailand, but artificial recharge has not been done (Babel et al, 2006;Lorphensri et al, 2011). Pumping in the Edwards Aquifer, Texas, USA, was controlled mainly by tradable permits and artificial recharge (Colby, 2000;Charbeneau & Kreitler, 2011).…”

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Groundwater management: a search for better policy combinations

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2014

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Excessive groundwater pumping is now a global concern. There is no panacea for this problem, which needs to be addressed through continual policy improvements based on case studies. Good examples of the diversity of groundwater management are demonstrated by the Tokyo (Japan) and Orange County Water District (OCWD, California, USA) experiences. In Tokyo, excessive groundwater pumping was addressed through technological restrictions, including restrictions on the diameter and depth of wells, and construction of industrial waterworks. On the other hand, in Orange County, OCWD introduced a pump tax to purchase external water for artificial groundwater recharge. These two strategies are in striking contrast, from two perspectives. First, while OCWD's main policy tools were tax and artificial recharge, Tokyo depended on technological restrictions and construction of waterworks. Second, OCWD uses a combination of surface water and groundwater, but water supply in Tokyo has shifted almost completely from groundwater to surface water. What are the strong and weak points of each strategy? What causes such diversity? In this paper, a comparative case study was conducted to clarify (1) the institutional contexts causing the diversity of groundwater management and (2) the advantages and disadvantages of each policy combination.

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Review of Groundwater Management and Land Subsidence in Bangkok, Thailand

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Advances and Practices on the Research, Prevention and Control of Land Subsidence in Coastal Cities

Advances and Practices on the Research, Prevention and Control of Land Subsidence in Coastal Cities

Natural surface rebound of the Bangkok plain and aquifer characterization by persistent scatterer interferometry

Groundwater management: a search for better policy combinations

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