The article discusses the problems of optimizing and exploiting ground water intakes during times of natural water resource deficits, which are critical sources for the operational resources needed. A deposit of underground water in Rudno in the Lviv region of Ukraine is used for the investigation. To optimize the withdrawal of water for the population in the given district, given the limited natural water resources, and on the bases of a detailed geological, hydrogeological and the hydrological analysis of the area and a review of the literature, a permanent mathematical model for filtration of the chosen deposit was created to evaluate the operational groundwater resources for a long-term period. The model allows for the simulation of water intake exploitation in different operating regimes in order to solve the problems of regulating and optimizing water withdrawal under different conditions of change in the water intakes, expanding productivity depending on the economic needs in the region, and solving problems related to the quality of the drinking water by predicting the possible pollution and depletion of major aquifers during their operation. The model of the Rudno water deposit can be used as a reference when selecting promising sites for new water intakes to reduce material and energy resources during construction.
Use of deep water-bearing horizons on an industrial scale is an expensive undertaking, mainly in the first phase of the project which is the well construction stage. Also, emergencies occur during the well operation, with the most frequent including yield reduction caused by the poor technical condition of the well. These 17 frequently lead to the total decommissioning of the well, caused, for example, by backfill, filter damage or casing pipe damage. After conducting the proper diagnostics, a decision is most often made in such cases to reconstruct a well, and much less seldom to drill a new well hole. Reconstruction of water intake wells usually encompasses replacement of the entire filter column with the well filter damaged as a result of ageing. As new technologies and materials become available on the market, it is possible to use new generation filters in the well construction, with better technical parameters (in terms of strength, hydraulics and corrosion resistance). In many cases, it allows for maintaining or achieving similar operational parameters in the reconstructed well. The determination of resources for a reconstructed well should, however, take into account modified filtration conditions in the aquifer’s zone adjacent to the filter because of the zone siltation during previous use of the well. The paper includes an evaluation of the impact of the reconstruction of two wells extracting water from the Lower Cretaceous level on improvement of their yields.
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