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Detecting Inter-Aquifer Leakage in Areas with Limited Data Using Hydraulics and Multiple Environmental Tracers, Including 4He, 36Cl/Cl, 14Cand87sr/86Sr Hydrogeol J DOI 10.1007/s10040-017-1609-x REPORT Detecting inter-aquifer leakage in areas with limited data using hydraulics and multiple environmental tracers, including 4He, 36Cl/Cl, 14Cand87Sr/86Sr Stacey C. Priestley 1 & Daniel L. Wohling2 & Mark N. Keppel2 & Vincent E. A. Post 1 & Andrew J. Love1 & Paul Shand 1,3 & Lina Tyroller4 & Rolf Kipfer4,5 Received: 6 December 2016 /Accepted: 19 May 2017 # The Author(s) 2017. This article is an open access publication Abstract The investigation of regionally extensive ground- controlled by diffuse inter-aquifer leakage, but the coarse spa- water systems in remote areas is hindered by a shortage of data tial resolution means that the presence of additional enhanced due to a sparse observation network, which limits our under- inter-aquifer leakage sites cannot be excluded. This study standing of the hydrogeological processes in arid regions. The makes the case that a multi-tracer approach along with study used a multidisciplinary approach to determine hydrau- groundwater hydraulics and geology provides a tool-set to lic connectivity between the Great Artesian Basin (GAB) and investigate enhanced inter-aquifer leakage even in a ground- the underlying Arckaringa Basin in the desert region of water basin with a paucity of data. A particular problem en- Central Australia. In order to manage the impacts of ground- countered in this study was the ambiguous interpretation of water abstraction from the Arckaringa Basin, it is vital to different age tracers, which is attributed to diffusive transport understand its connectivity with the GAB (upper aquifer), as across flow paths caused by low recharge rates. the latter supports local pastoral stations and groundwater- dependent springs with unique endemic flora and fauna. The Keywords Australia . Aquitard . Arid regions . study is based on the collation of available geological infor- Hydrochemistry . Inter-aquifer leakage/cross formational flow mation, a detailed analysis of hydraulic data, and data on en- vironmental tracers. Enhanced inter-aquifer leakage in the centre of the study area was identified, as well as recharge to Introduction the GAB from ephemeral rivers and waterholes. Throughout the rest of the study area, inter-aquifer leakage is likely The sustainable management of groundwater resources re- quires understanding of the water flows between aquifers Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (Alley et al. 2002; Hiscock et al. 2002). Failing to take into (doi:10.1007/s10040-017-1609-x) contains supplementary material, account inter-aquifer leakage in the analysis of regional-scale which is available to authorized users. flow systems can lead to significant errors in the estimation of flow rates in aquifers (Freeze and Witherspoon 1967; Love * Stacey C. Priestley et al. 1996;Tóth2009). There has been increased interest in [email protected] inter-aquifer leakage mechanisms in recent times because of the exploration for and development of coal seam and shale 1 School of the Environment, Earth Sciences Building, Flinders gas resources and the associated risk of groundwater contam- University, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia ination (Myers 2012; Vidic et al. 2013; Brantley et al. 2014; 2 Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, Field et al. 2014). Government of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia Laterally extensive aquitards that have no preferential flow 3 CSIRO Land and Water, Urrbrae, SA 5064, Australia pathways are the major control to separate aquifers (Cherry 4 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), and Parker 2004), but even in tight aquitards there is always a 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland small amount of diffuse leakage through the aquitard pore 5 Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, Swiss Federal Institute of spaces (Cherry and Parker 2004). The volumetric flow across Technology (ETH), 8092 Zurich, Switzerland the aquitard from diffuse leakage can be a significant Hydrogeol J component of the water balance over large areas (Cherry and while accumulating tracers such as 4He, increase along the Parker 2004; Konikow and Neuzil 2007). The presence of flow path. Such regular patterns can be disrupted by the local- preferential pathways enhances the rate of water movement ised introduction of different age water. Age tracers used in through an aquitard causing enhanced inter-aquifer leakage combination with major and trace elements (Herczeg et al. (Neuzil 1994; Hendry et al. 2004; Hart et al. 2006; Myers 1996), stable isotopes of water (Love et al. 1993), as well as 2012). Such preferential pathways can be faults, intercalations 87Sr/86Sr ratios and δ13C (Cartwright et al. 2012)haveprovid- of higher permeability sediments, or thinner aquitard sections ed evidence for locations of inter-aquifer leakage and (Cherry and Parker 2004). Zones of enhanced inter-aquifer hydrochemical evolution within the Otway Basin and the leakage can have a disproportional contribution to the water Murray Basin, Australia. balance relative to their size. Bredehoeft et al. (1983)found Due to their conservative nature, noble gases are also useful that 25% of groundwater discharged from the Dakota ground- tracers to analyse for inter-aquifer leakage (Kipfer et al. 2002). water system is enhanced inter-aquifer leakage through faults Measurements of noble gases, stable isotopes of water, Cl and from the aquifer below. The difficulty to quantify inter-aquifer 14C provided evidence for localised downward leakage of leakage at a regional scale is that diffuse inter-aquifer leakage shallow groundwater in the Upper Floridan aquifer system, rates are often so small that they are very hard to detect and USA (Clark et al. 1997). 3H/3He ratios in combination with quantify, although they can result in a large volumetric flow. major ion geochemical reaction modelling were used to deter- Localised enhanced inter-aquifer leakage with high fluxes can mine downward leakage into the Memphis aquifer, USA easily be missed at the spatial resolution of regional surveys. (Larsen et al. 2003). Upward inter-aquifer leakage in the vi- The direction of inter-aquifer leakage can be determined by cinity of faults has been identified by radiogenic 4He in the hydraulic head differences between aquifers (Dogramaci et al. Lower Rhine Embayment, Germany (Gumm et al. 2016)and 2001;Arslanetal.2015), but this can be complicated when by 3He/4He ratios in the Kazan Basin, Turkey (Arslan et al. groundwater flow is affected by variations in water density 2015). For the Paris Basin, Marty et al. (2003)demonstrated (Postetal.2007). The rates of diffuse leakage through with 3He concentrations that diffusive mass transfer across a aquitards can in principle be calculated if an appropriate ver- major aquitard was negligible, implying that groundwater tical hydraulic conductivity is known (KV). Generally, KV moves along a major fault. values measured from aquitard core samples are used, al- This study focusses on the connectivity between the Great though they have been found to be consistently lower than Artesian Basin (GAB) and underlying Arckaringa Basin, lo- regional-scale KV values, as the latter incorporate both diffuse cated in central Australia (Fig. 1b). The GAB is one of the and preferential leakage (van der Kamp 2001; Smerdon et al. largest aquifer systems in the world, and has been the subject 2014; Batlle-Aguilar et al. 2016). of numerous investigations, which focused largely on the east- Environmental tracers can be used as indicators for en- ern artesian and north-western sections of the basin hanced inter-aquifer leakage and mixing in regional ground- (Habermehl 1980; Herczeg et al. 1991; Love et al. water investigations (Glynn and Plummer 2005; Sanford et al. 2000, 2013;Maharaetal.2009; IESC 2014; Moya et al. 2011). Clear contrasts in the environmental tracer concentra- 2015). Few studies focused on the unconfined south-western tions (or ratios expressing the relative abundance of isotopes) part of the GAB, but some have highlighted the potential between aquifers indicate where there is little vertical flow, connectivity between the GAB and the Arckaringa Basin whereas similar environmental tracer concentrations may be (Smerdon et al. 2012;Keppeletal.2015). There are currently an indication of mixing or enhanced inter-aquifer leakage. For numerous proposals for exploration and mining of coal and example, major and trace element concentration data were gas in the Arckaringa Basin (Wohling et al. 2013). Because of used to demonstrate enhanced inter-aquifer leakage within the associated risk of groundwater contamination from coal the Galilee Basin, Australia (Moya et al. 2015)andthe seam and shale gas extraction via fracking, it is vital to inves- Yarkon-Taninim basin, Israel (Zilberbrand et al. 2014). tigate potential inter-aquifer leakage mechanisms (Myers Vertical leakage between the Continental and Djeffara aquifer 2012; Vidic et al. 2013); however, the scarcity of observation system in Tunisia through a fault was identified and quantified points hampers an understanding of inter-aquifer leakage pro- using stable isotopes of water (Trabelsi et al. 2009). cesses, and the groundwater system more generally. Additionally, groundwater mixing and locations of enhanced A major challenge encountered in hydrogeological inves- inter-aquifer leakage have been identified by 87Sr/86Sr ratios tigations in sparsely developed areas such as the Arckaringa 34 18 13 and other tracers such as δ Sandδ
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