Groundwater recharge over the past 100 years: Regional spatiotemporal assessment and climate change impact over the Saguenay‐Lac‐Saint‐Jean region, Canada

L Boumaiza, J Walter, R Chesnaux… - Hydrological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Proper knowledge of potential groundwater recharge (PGR) and its spatiotemporal
distribution are essential for sustainable groundwater management, especially within the …

An operational methodology for determining relevant DRASTIC factors and their relative weights in the assessment of aquifer vulnerability to contamination

L Boumaiza, J Walter, R Chesnaux, K Brindha… - Environmental Earth …, 2021 - Springer
The DRASTIC index used to assess the vulnerability of aquifers to contamination, has been
subject to various adjustments to improve its reliability. These adjustments include adding …

Chloride-salinity as indicator of the chemical composition of groundwater: empirical predictive model based on aquifers in Southern Quebec, Canada

L Boumaiza, J Walter, R Chesnaux, RL Stotler… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
The present study first describes the variations in concentrations of 12 chemical elements in
groundwater relative to salinity levels in Southern Quebec (Canada) groundwater systems …

Comparing various approaches for assessing groundwater recharge at a regional scale in the Canadian Shield

M Huet, R Chesnaux, MA Boucher… - Hydrological Sciences …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Estimating groundwater recharge is crucial to ensuring the proper management of aquifers.
In this study, net regional recharge and spatial potential recharge are estimated at four …

Characterization of general and singular features of major aquifer systems in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region

J Walter, A Rouleau, R Chesnaux… - Canadian Water …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The hydrogeology of the municipalized territory (13,210 km2) of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-
Jean (SLSJ) region has been studied as part of the groundwater knowledge acquisition …

[HTML][HTML] Aquifer-scale mapping of injection capacity for potential aquifer storage and recovery sites: Methodology development and case studies in Minnesota, USA

RN Shandilya, E Bresciani, AC Runkel… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Study Region. Two areas in Minnesota, USA: Buffalo aquifer in Clay County and
Jordan aquifer in Olmsted County. There are concerns about the long-term sustainability of …

Results from the Quebec groundwater knowledge acquisition program

M Larocque, V Cloutier, J Levison… - … Water Resources Journal …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Groundwater is a crucial supply of freshwater worldwide. It is estimated that groundwater
represents more than one third of water withdrawals used for irrigation, domestic, and …

Influence of hydrogeological and operational parameters on well pumping capacity

RN Shandilya, E Bresciani, PK Kang, S Lee - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Numerous studies have analyzed how groundwater levels respond to pumping depending
on aquifer and well characteristics. This study investigates how, conversely, the pumping …

Benefits and limitations of using isotope-derived groundwater travel times and major ion chemistry to validate a regional groundwater flow model: example from the …

S Gagné, M Larocque, DL Pinti, M Saby… - Canadian water …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Understanding groundwater dynamics at the regional scale (> 100 km) is essential to the
development of sustainable water management regulations. Groundwater flow models are …

Increasing knowledge of the transmissivity field of a detrital aquifer by geostatistical merging of different sources of information

E Pardo-Igúzquiza, PA Dowd, JA Luque-Espinar… - Hydrogeology …, 2023 - Springer
Transmissivity is a significant hydrogeological parameter that affects the reliability of
groundwater flow and transport models. This study demonstrates the improvement in the …