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Determination of the transient water table rise behind constructed underground dams

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The predicted relationship between water table rise and time behind a constructed underground dam is established in this paper based on a semi-physically based approach. This approach utilizes values of the most effective actual groundwater aquifer properties. Robustness of this approach was tested by applying it to a number of proposed underground dam sites in two real aquifers, in addition to a number of hypothetical cases. Results were compared with MODFLOW simulation outputs for these cases, and the comparison is found to be very encouraging.

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Acknowledgment

The author would like to express his sincere thanks to the Faculty of Earth Sciences at King Abdulaziz University for providing logistic support for the fieldwork. Also, special gratitude is articulated to Dr. M. Al-Ahmadi and Dr. N. Al-Amri for their help and support in the fieldwork carried out in Wadi Rabigh.

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  1. Department of Hydrogeology, Faculty of Earth Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, PO Box 109840, Jeddah, 21351, Saudi Arabia

    Ahmed S. El-Hames

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El-Hames, A.S. Determination of the transient water table rise behind constructed underground dams. Arab J Geosci 5, 1359–1366 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-011-0299-2

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