Assessing the Impact of Fractured Zones Imaged by ERT on Groundwater Model Prediction: A Case Study in a Chalk Aquifer in Voort (Belgium)

Fractured and karst aquifers are important groundwater reservoirs and are widely used to provide drinking water to the population. Because of the presence of the fractures with varying geometry and properties providing preferential flow paths, fractured aquifers are highly heterogeneous and difficult to characterize and model. In this context, geophysical methods can provide relevant spatially distributed data about the presence of fractures, that can be further integrated in hydrological and groundwater models. In this contribution, we present a case study of a groundwater extraction site in... Mehr ...