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First International Colloquium REZAS12Morocco, 14-16 November, 2012
MSc. Hasan SirhanGeohydraulic and Engineering Hydrology 1
Authors
Hasan Sirhan* and Manfred Koch*
* Department of Geohydraulics and Engineering Hydrology,Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Kassel University, Germany
Calibration and Validation of a 3D- Groundwater Model for the
Gaza Coastal Aquifer, South Palestine
First International Colloquium REZAS12: " Water resources in the arid and semi-arid regions-challenges and prospects. Case of the African continent"
Beni Mellal, Morocco, November 14-16, 2012
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Introduction
Hydraulically, according to the Ghyben-Herzberg relation (hs = 40 hf ) the drop of
Water level can give an indication of the occurrence of salinity on groundwater.
Numerical ground water level modeling is an important task over the long run for:
• Management of the groundwater resources to maintain the ground water equilibrium system.
•To control ground water level fluctuations.
Calibration is an important step in groundwater modeling:
•To check if the model can reasonably well mimic the groundwater flow system.
• To fit the observed and calculated hydraulic heads with an acceptable error.
• Based on an iterative approach.
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Saltwater intrusion can be defined as the invaded of seawater inland into
fresh groundwater aquifers as a results of:
• Steeply overexploitation of the aquifer to meet the municipal water
demand as well as extended irrigation activities.
• Destruction of natural barriers had led to reduction or reversal of a
groundwater gradient under unsteady-state conditions, where denser
saline water displace fresh water.
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• High chloride concentration is used as an indicator that seawater intrusion is occurring.
Terms describing degree of salinity as used by USGS
Description TDS (mg/l)Fresh < 1000Slightly saline 1000 – 3000Moderately saline 3000 – 10000Very saline 10000 – 35000Brine > 35000
The increase of salinity in water causes:
� An increase in blood pressure for people,
� Extreme damage to the soil and reduced crops yield,
� Corrosion of water metal pipes.
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The simplest analyses of seawater intrusion adopt the Ghyben-Herzberg relationship,
which is based on the sharp interface method, assumes that:
� The saltwater and freshwater are immiscible and no mixing between the two fluids.
� Attributed to a hydrostatic equilibrium existing between the two fluids.
hs = 40 hf
hs = hf � �� ��−�� �
Ghyben-Herzberg theory, Hydrostatic equilibrium bet ween freshwater/seawater interface
(Ghyben, 1989; Herzberg, 1901)�Salt water occurred
underground at a depth
‘‘hs’’ below sea level about
40 times the height of the
fresh water above sea level
‘‘hf ’’.
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Presence of salinity in coastal aquifers can be detected by:
� Geophysical Techniques : by using the profiling technique of frequency domain
electromagnetics (FDEM ).
� Geochemical Analysis (Isotops)
� Numerical Models
Most popular models for seawater intrusion
� Visual MODFLOW Pro 4.2 integrates SEAWAT
� SUTRA
� FEFLOW
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• Not PREVENTING seawater intrusion
• But CONTROLING seawater intrusion
Once the groundwater is contaminated by saline water, it is very difficult to
bring it back to its original quality, thus the clean-up of salinity-polluted aquifers
will be a major challenge for the future.
Does proper management prevent salinization of aquifers?
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The Study Area
Gaza Strip
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The Study AreaGaza StripGeography
Palestine is composed of two-separated
areas, the Gaza strip and the West Bank.
The Gaza Strip is a very small area
located at the eastern coast of the
Mediterranean sea in the southwest of
Palestine.
Its length 40 km while its width varies
between 6 km in the north to 12 km in
the south, with an avg. area of 365Km2.
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Population change in the Gaza Strip within the period 1947-2035
1,865,317
2,215,411
2,631,213
3,125,056
3,711,586
1,570,547
1,517,436
1,466,122
1,416,543
1,023,000
963,000
747,200
449,600
454,900
280,0000
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
3,000,000
3,500,000
4,000,000
1947-1
9481948
-1967
1968-1
9801980
-1992
1994-1
996 1997200720082009201020152020202520302035
Years
Pop
ulat
ion
•The population density in the Gaza
Strip is the highest in the world of
almost 2,802 persons/Km2.
•The average annual growth rate is
3.2%.
• More than 1.5 Million inhabitants
are living now within the area of
365 km2,. By year 2020 the
population will be around 2.3
Million
Demography
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• The Coastal Aquifer extends from Gaza in the south to Mount Carmel in the north along some 120 km of Mediterranean coastline, and it is the only source of water supply.
• The Gaza coastal aquifer represents part of the whole coastal aquifer.
• The width of the aquifer varies from 3-10 km in the north to about 20 km in the south.
• Under natural conditions, the groundwater flow in the Gaza Strip is towards the Mediterranean Sea.
Hydrogeology
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Geology
•The Upper Sub-Aquifer
The uppermost aquifer
(classified as unconfined A-
aquifer).
•The Middle Sub-Aquifer
This aquifer classified as
confined/unconfined B1/B2-
aquifer.
The Lower Sub-Aquifer
The lower aquifer (classified
as confined/unconfined
C-aquifer).
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Under steady state condition the overall aquifer balance of the Gaza Strip can
be represented as:
Balance = Sum (Inflows) – Sum (Outflows).
Inflows
• Effective recharge (rainfall)
• Lateral inflow
• Total return flow and
• seawater intrusion
Outflows
• Domestic abstraction
• Agricultural abstraction
• Groundwater discharge
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Lateral InflowLateral InflowSeawater IntrusionSeawater Intrusion
Recharge (Rain)Recharge (Rain)
Municipal & IrrigationAbstractionMunicipal & IrrigationAbstraction
Return Flow:Irrigation,W ater Pipe Leakage &Wastewater
Return Flow:Irrigation,W ater Pipe Leakage &Wastewater
Groundwater Discharge
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• The coastal aquifer holds approximately
5000×106 m3 of different groundwater
quality.
• Only 1400×106 m3 of this is freshwater,
with Chloride (Cl-) content of less than
250 mg/l.
• That means approximately 70%of the
aquifer are brackish or saline with a
chloride concentration exceeding 250
mg/l.Only 30%are fresh water found
mainly in the Northern area.
Groundwater quality
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This figure represents the chloride concentration at some specified monitoring wells in
the Gaza Strip. It is clear that most of the wells have a chloride concentration more than
the WHO (250 mg/l), where the seawater intrusion had occurred.
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The Numerical model
Visual MODFLOW model:
Visual MODFLOW package is a coupled three -
dimensional groundwater flow and
contaminant transport model based on the
finite-difference method and give the most
complete and powerful graphical interface. The
linkage used MODFLOW-2000 (Harbaugh and
McDonald, 1996) and MT3DMS (Zheng and
Wang, 1999).
SEAWAT 2000 package has now been included in Visual MODFLOW, allowing modeling of variable density flow such as seawater intrusion modeling.
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Model Setup
The finite-difference grid method in
Visual MODFLOW is formulated as
such:
• The model domain grid contains of
157 rows, 50 columns, and 7 layers.
• The model of Gaza coastal aquifer
has uniform cell sizes of 300 m by
300 m in the horizontal plane.
The model domain with the grid origin and boundaries
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Boundary Assigned
Neumann boundary condition
• A Neumann influx-boundary condition was assigned at the top of the aquifer at the land surface representing groundwater recharge (infiltration).
Lateral no-flow boundariesA zero flux imposed on parts of the northern boundary with Israel border, and southern boundary with Egypt.
b) Horizontal boundary conditions
• A Neumann-type of no-flux boundary conditions: It represents the base of the model boundary
2) Dirichlet boundary conditionAssigned to the residual parts of the left and right boundariesConstant flux boundaryconstant flux representing the lateral inflow to the domainConstant-head boundaryh = 0 m ASL along the coastline.
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Neumann influx
boundary
Neumann influx
boundary
Dirichlet BC.
Constant head
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Dirichlet BC.
Constant head
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Neumann no-
flow boundary
Neumann no-
flow boundary
Dirichlet BC.
Constant flux
boundary
Dirichlet BC.
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Spatial distribution of the pumping wells across the Gaza Strip
Wells abstraction
More than 3850 active water wells
have been used in the model as
internal hydrologic stress and
distributed between agricultural,
municipal, and domestic wells in
year 2000
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Model Simulation
The groundwater flow of the aquifer system was simulation in two steps.
� Firstly, steady- state water levels for the year 2000 were taken for the steady-
state calibration of
• Horizontal hydraulic conductivity.
• Vertical hydraulic conductivity (10% of Kh)
� In the second step transient conditions between years 2001-2007, were
used to calibrate the storage coefficients, the specific yields and Porosity .
Calibrated ParametersThe calibrated are based on trial and error approach,
• It is carried out to check that the model can reasonably well emulate the groundwater
flow system to fit the observed hydraulic heads with an acceptable error.
• The results show the calibrated parameters are well-calibrated.
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Results of St-St. Calibration
The calculated versus observed
heads and the summary of steady
state calibration statistics are
graphed and presented in the
following Figures
(A)
(B)
(A) Observed initial heads for year 2000, (B) Resul ting heads for steady state simulation for year 2000.
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Calculated vs. observed heads and summary of steady state calibration statistics
The results indicate that the
model represent the behavior
of the aquifer quite well under
the existing conditions as such
as:
� R = 90.4 %
� SEE = 0.084 m
� RMS = 1.105 m
� Normalised RMS = 6.124 %
< 10 % (preferable by many
modeler.
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Water Balance
The steady state mass balance was prepared and the total aquifer system inputs and outputs were
calculated and summarized in the table below:
Net Inflows Quantity (Mm3/y)Percent of
Total (%)
Recharge 46.62 44
Lateral inflow 23.88 22.56
Sea intruded 35.39 33.43
Total 105.89 100
Net Outflows (M m3/y) Quantity (Mm3/y)
Wells 104.93 99.09
Discharge to the sea 0.96 0.9
Total 105.89 100
Net balance =In - Out %Discrepancy = 0.00
Summary of year 2000 water balance from model calib ration .
Percentage volumetric water balance components
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Calibration has been carried out for the year 2001-2005, while validation is applied
between the period 2005-2007, since this step is important. The purpose of model
validation is to establish greater confidence in the model by using the set of calibrated
parameter values and stresses .
Observed and calculated heads versus time for well A53.
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Cont.
Observed and calculated heads versus time for well E45.
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Cont.
Observed and calculated heads versus time for well L47
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Model sensitivity analysis
A sensitivity analysis is performed in order to;
• Establish the effect of uncertainty resulting in inaccurate estimation or definition of
boundary conditions, aquifer parameters and stresses on the calibrated model.
The main type of prediction uncertainties is Parameter uncertainties, where it
Can be quantified relatively well for both the hydraulic conductivity and recharge.
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Conclusion
The results showed that the simulated groundwater model obtained good
agreements between modelled and observed hydraulic heads for both the
calibration and validation periods. So, that the behavior of the aquifer is
represented quite well under the existing conditions.
The calibrated groundwater model will be used for the study of groundwater
management strategies of the Gaza aquifer.