Pump location used in the GIS-groundwater model
Pump location used in the GIS-groundwater model.

GROUNDWATER MODEL

  • A hydrogeologic model was developed specifically for this project.

  • The hydrogeologic model is a finite difference model of the two-dimensional diffusion equation of transient flow in porous media.

  • The boundary conditions are either Dirichlet (head specified) or Neumann (flux specified).

  • The computational cell is a square of 100 m, for a total of 5,386 cells.

  • The model calculates the variation of the water table when it is presented with the appropriate initial and boundary conditions.

  • The model was calibrated with hydrogeologic data corresponding to the period November 1995 - February 1997, obtained from Mexico's Comision Nacional del Agua (National Water Commission).


Results of the GIS-groundwater simulation
Results of the GIS-groundwater simulation.

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