Literature Reviewed

Meles et al., 2024 Uncovering the gaps in manage aquifer recharge for sustainable groundwater: A focus on hillslopes and mountains

Key findings:

1. This paper recommends using mountain/hillslope managed aquifer recharge Hillslope-MAR and water chaptured by roadside channel networks as a potential new source and setting for MAR applications.
2. Suggests that road system-based managed aquifer recharge (Road-MAR) could have high potential for enhancing recharge through things like infiltrations channels.
3. Roads on mountain sides and hillslopes passing through areas with high concentrations of lineaments could be suitable areas

Keywords:

Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR); Attenuation Zone, Groundwater, Lineaments/Faults, Hillslope-MAR, Road-MAR

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Markovich et al., 2019 Mountain-Block Recharge: A Review of Current Understanding

Key findings:

1. Mountain-block recharge confirmed as important source of recharge to basin aquifers in a variety of climatic and geologic settings globally.
2. Recent work advanced the understanding of fundamental controls on mountain-block recharge ans somewhat improved methods for characterization.
3. Future research should aim to acquire subsurface data in mountain blocks and at the mountain front.

Keywords:

Mountain Front Recharge (MFR), Mountain Block Recharge (MBR), Aquifer Recharge, Review

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Wilson and Guan 2004 Mountain-block hydrology and mountain-front recharge

Key findings:

1. Explains the general processes at work in Mountain fronts and Mountain blocks
2. Provides practical advice for delineating the mountain front and the mountain block

Keywords:

Mountain Front Zone, Mountain Block

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Hanak et al., 2011 Managing California's Water: from conflict to reconciliation

Key findings:

Quotes:

"In California much recharge is a by-product of crop irrigation, although natural streams and precipitation also contribute. Increasingly, artificial recharge programs are employed. These programs spread surface water over dedicated recharge fields or inject it into wells. Conjunctive use programs, which manage surface water and aquifers jointly, make it possible to expand the system's overall capacity, by storing more water in aquifers during wet years for use in dry years. Although such programs are expanding, the ability to fully exploit the system's potential is limited by the lack of comprehensive aquifer management in many regions, cumbersome institutional rules regarding surface reservoir operations, and limited synthesis of technical information regarding the capacity and conditions of groundwater basins."

[in California] often management of groundwater recharge and conjunctive use is managed by Agricultural water agencies (irrigation districts, other special districts, mutual water companies).

"New flood management policy is needed that supplements reductions in the frequency of flooding with reductions in the vulnerability to damage when inundation occurs. Such a policy will lead to more differentiation in levels of required protection...As part of this strategy, flood management should also return to an approach that California used with success in the early 20th century--allowing greater flows onto flood plains with the use of bypasses and flood easements on agricultural lands (Kelley 1989). In addition to mitigating flood risk, such an approach can also improve aquatic and terrestrial habitat and in some cases enhance groundwater basin recharge. Although the state government can lead in effecting this shift, key federal agencies (notably the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) will need to participate. (p189)"

Case study ORE Flood MAR "the Yolo Bypass (Sommer et al., 2001). Initially designed to provide flood protection to Sacramento residents, the area supports seasonal agriculture, diverse habitat for fish and waterfowl, and recreational areas for bird-watchers, anglers, and hunters. Recently, interest has grown in expanding the aquatic ecosystem functions of the area, while also managing the floodplain for groundwater recharge.(p209)"

cost/af for conjunctive use and groundwater storage 10 - 600 $/Acre foot (table 6.2, p257)

[Water] Banking is relatively straightforward in the state's few special groundwater management districts, where a single agency is responsible for managing recharge and has authority to charge pump feeds to cover costs. In some other areas --notably Kern County--active groundwater banking systems have been established based on looser arrangements, which include careful monitoring and an agreements

[Integrating actions] "Many of these actions can be mutually reinforcing, providing multiple benefits. For example, flood bypasses can protect residents from floods, provide valuable habitat, and recharge groundwater basins...stormwater capture can reduce water pollution and recharge groundwater basins" (p421)

Keywords:

California, Water Resource Management