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Predicting water level rises and their effects on surrounding karst water in an abandoned mine in Shandong, China

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After a mine is closed, dewatering is discontinued, this may lead to a large increase in groundwater levels and deterioration in water quality, which will threaten the safety of surrounding water supplies. To address this problem, these effects were investigated using the Shanjialin Coal Mine, in Shandong Province, China, as a case study. Following the mine closure, five water quality monitoring points showed that sulfate and total hardness in the mine water were 529 and 685 mg/L, exceeding the allowable groundwater environmental quality standards by 2.1 times and 5.2 times, respectively. This will lead to pollution of the surrounding karst aquifer. A numerical groundwater model was established to simulate the water level rise after the mine closed. The simulation results showed that the mine water level will equal the karst aquifer water level seven years after closure. If the water level in the mine continues to rise above the level of the karst aquifer, it may lead to a deterioration in the karst water quality. Therefore, the mine water level should remain less than 15 m.

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grants (Young Scientists Fund) 51509064 and 51309071. We thank Paul Seward, PhD, from Liwen Bianji, Edanz Group China and Springer Nature Author Services for editing the English text of this manuscript. Data used to produce this paper are available on contact of the first author. The first author would like to thank the financial support by the Belt and Road Special Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering (2018nkms06). The authors would like to acknowledge the editor and four anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments for the improvement of this paper.

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    Peigui Liu, Yang Gao & Xingyuan Yi

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    Manting Shang

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Liu, P., Gao, Y., Shang, M. et al. Predicting water level rises and their effects on surrounding karst water in an abandoned mine in Shandong, China. Environ Earth Sci 79, 51 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-019-8798-7

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