Turbidity and suspended solids in the runoff susceptible of use for the artificial recharge of the deep granular aquifer subjacent to the town of San Luis de Potosí (Mexico)
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https://doi.org/10.21701/bolgeomin.120.2.005Keywords:
aquifer storage and recovery (ASR), artificial recharge, suspended solids, turbidityAbstract
This article presents an analysis of the turbidity and solid contents in suspension of the runoff that might be used for artificially recharging a deep granular aquifer located by San Luís de Potosí. The programmed artificial recharge operation corresponds to a type known as Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR). A series of equations to correlate the solids in suspension with turbidity and its validity are put forth. Reference is also made to the maximum content in suspended solids that operations of USR-type recharge can assume. Through this analysis, we were able to corroborate that turbidity varies over time according to an exponential function of the decreasing type, which accounts both for the deposition of particles that sediment exclusively due to the effect of gravity, and the action of certain mechanisms that favour coagulation and the natural flocculation of colloidal particles. Given that the operations of artificial recharge by means of USR require very rigorous conditions, in terms of the maximum contents of solids in suspension, the analysis has also been carried out for surface installations such as infiltration ponds.
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