Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 3: River Basins, Reservoir Sedimentation and Water Resources

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Application of Bivariate Stochastic Methods in Evaluation of Response Time of Various Hydrological Components with Respect to Rainfall, A Case study, Doroudzan Earth Dam, Fars Province, Iran....Pages 3-7
Local-Scale Risk Analysis and Mitigation of Debris Flow Endangering a Densely Populated Urban Area: A Case Study from Tyrol, AT....Pages 9-12
An Investigation of the Piping Problems Causing Water-Level Drops in Mountain Lake, Giles County, Virginia, USA....Pages 13-17
Remote Sensing and Hydrogeological Methodologies for Irrigation Canal Water Losses Detection: The Naviglio di Bra Test Site (NW-Italy)....Pages 19-22
Comparison of Different Methods for Detecting Irrigation Canals Leakage....Pages 23-26
Sediment Problems and Consequences During Temporary Drawdown of a Large Flood Control Reservoir for Environmental Retrofitting....Pages 27-30
The Remains of the Dam: What Have We Learned from 15 Years of US Dam Removals?....Pages 31-35
The Sediment Budgets Evaluation in a Basin Using LiDAR DTMs....Pages 37-41
The Effects of Check Dams on Sediment Transport Dynamics on Steep Slopes....Pages 43-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Debris-Flow Monitoring and Geomorphic Change Detection Combining Laser Scanning and Fast Photogrammetric Surveys in the Moscardo Catchment (Eastern Italian Alps)....Pages 51-54
Approach for an Early Warning System for Debris Flow Based on Acoustic Signals....Pages 55-58
Advanced Debris-Flow Monitoring and Alarm System at Spreitgraben....Pages 59-62
Standardization of Methods and Procedures for Debris Flow Seismic Monitoring....Pages 63-67
One Year Use of High-Frequency RADAR Technology in Alpine Mass Movement Monitoring: Principles and Performance for Torrential Activities....Pages 69-72
Debris Flow Warning Through Radar Nowcasting and Critical Rainfall Thresholds: A Case Study in the Glarus Catchment (Switzerland)....Pages 73-77
3D Video Simulation of a Debris Flow....Pages 79-84
Monitoring Mud-Flows for Investigative and Warning Purposes: The Instrumented Catchment of Rio Marderello (North-Western Italy)....Pages 85-90
The Rotolon Catchment Early-Warning System....Pages 91-95
Spatial Variability of Channel Erosion by Debris-Flows (Field Observations in the French Alps)....Pages 97-101
Monitoring Debris Flow Propagation in Steep Erodible Channels....Pages 103-107
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
A Web-Based Decision Support System for Debris Flow Disaster Management in Taiwan....Pages 109-113
Comparison of Methods and Procedures for Debris-Flow Volume Estimation....Pages 115-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Large Wood Transport Influence on Flash Flood Risk in a Mountain Village in Central Spain....Pages 123-126
Determination of Large Wood Accumulation in a Steep Forested Torrent Using Laser Scanning....Pages 127-130
Large Wood and River Morphodynamics....Pages 131-134
Volume and Travel Distance of Wood Pieces in the Tagliamento River (Northeastern Italy)....Pages 135-138
On the Evaluation and Modelling of Wood Clogging Processes in Flood Related Hazards Estimation....Pages 139-142
Large Wood Mobility in Mountain Rivers, Chile....Pages 143-145
Morphodynamics and Large Wood Dispersal in Braided Rivers....Pages 147-150
Large Wood Dynamics Along the Tagliamento River, Italy: Insights from Field and Remote Sensing Investigations....Pages 151-154
Monitoring and Modeling Large Wood Recruitment and Transport in a Mountain Basin of North-Eastern Italy....Pages 155-158
Large Wood Recruitment and Transport During a Severe Flash Flood in North-Western Italy....Pages 159-162
Analysis of Wood Density to Improve Understanding of Wood Buoyancy in Rivers....Pages 163-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Modelling Flash Floods in a Karstic Watershed Using an Original Semi-distributed Radar-Gauge Merging Method....Pages 169-173
Assessing the Contribution of Karst to Flood Peaks of the Suze River, Potentially Affecting the City of Bienne (Switzerland)....Pages 175-180
The Generation of Runoff Through Ephemeral Streams....Pages 181-184
Notes on Morphological Characters of Ephemeral Streams in Apulia Region, South Italy....Pages 185-188
Influence of Karstic System on Surface Flooding in Mediterranean Climate....Pages 189-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Transport Mechanisms of Sodium in Sandy Soil from Column Leaching Test....Pages 197-200
Using Discharge-Electrical Conductivity Relationship in a Mediterranean Catchment: The T. Ciciriello in the Cilento, Vallo Diano and Alburni European Geopark (Southern Italy)....Pages 201-205
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
An Investigation of Hydraulic Connections and Origin of Water at a Well Field Near Chien-Shih Area, Shinchu, Taiwan by Using Stable Isotopes and Hydrographs....Pages 207-210
Numerical Flow and Transport Models for Simulating Current and Predicted Nitrate Contamination in Groundwater in the Bonifica Di Arborea Area (W. Sardinia, Italy)....Pages 211-214
Application of Oda’s Permeability Tensor for Determining Transport Properties in Fractured Sedimentary Rocks: A Case Study of Pliocene-Pleistocene Formation in TCDP....Pages 215-218
Numerical Modeling of Groundwater Flooding in Urban Area: The Case of Polustrovo (St. Petersburg, Russia)....Pages 219-222
Water Seepage Analysis of a Seabed Metal Mine....Pages 223-226
Groundwater Flow Modelling of the Aosta Plain in Northern Italy....Pages 227-230
Characterization and Availability of Toxic Metals in Solid Mine Tailing: Ribeira Valley (Brazil)....Pages 231-234
Difference and Relationship of Elements in the Issue of Seepage and Consolidation....Pages 235-239
Using Heat as a Tracer to Characterize Streambed Water Fluxes of the Brenta River (Italy)....Pages 241-244
Hydrogeological and Hydrochemical Study of Samalá River Basin, Quetzaltenango Area, South Western Guatemala....Pages 245-248
Modeling Saltwater Intrusion at an Agricultural Coastal Area Using Geophysical Methods and the FEFLOW Model....Pages 249-252
Distribution, Discharge, Geological and Physical–Chemical Features of the Springs in the Turin Province (Piedmont, NW Italy)....Pages 253-256
Effects of Preferential Flow Pathways on Groundwater Resources Rainfall Supply....Pages 257-260
Distributed Simulation of Daily Stream-Aquifer Exchanged Fluxes in the Seine River Basin at the Regional Scale....Pages 261-265
A Numerical Groundwater Model for the Construction of a Planned Pumped-Storage Plant in Blaubeuren, Germany....Pages 267-270
Drainage Network Definition for Low Resolution DEM Obtained from Drainage Network Extracted from High Resolution DEM Using Upscaling Processes....Pages 271-274
Monitoring Activity at the Middle Bussento Karst System (Cilento Geopark, Southern Italy)....Pages 275-279
Evolutionary Data-Driven Modelling of Salento Shallow Aquifer Response to Rainfall....Pages 281-285
Relationships Between Grain Size Distribution Indexes and Permeability of Sands....Pages 287-290
Assessment of Groundwater Risk of Agrochemicals Based on a Modified DRASTIC Method....Pages 291-294
Front Matter....Pages 295-295
The Magra River (Italy): Effects of the 25th October 2011 Flood Event and a Preliminary Application of the IDRAIM Framework....Pages 297-300
IDRAIM: A Methodological Framework for Hydromorphological Analysis and Integrated River Management of Italian Streams....Pages 301-304
Definition of Strategies for Promoting Sustainable Sediment Management: The Case of the Serchio River (Central Italy)....Pages 305-308
Trajectories of Channel Adjustments of the Toce River (Northern Italy)....Pages 309-311
Sediment Dynamics and Channel Adjustments Following Torrential Floods in an Upper Alpine Valley (Guil River, Southern French Alps)....Pages 313-317
On the Morphological Impacts of Gravel Mining: The Case of the Orco River....Pages 319-322
A Method for Characterizing the Stream Flow Regime in Europe....Pages 323-326
Conceptual and Numerical Models Applied on the River Pellice (North Western Italy)....Pages 327-330
Process-Based Topographic Analysis and Hydrological Properties in Temperate Mountainous Catchments....Pages 331-334
Monitoring Sediment Transport During Floods in Tuscany....Pages 335-337
Development and Application of a Multi-scale Process-Based Framework for the Hydromorphological Assessment of European Rivers....Pages 339-342
Bedload Management of Torrents—Practical Experiences, Simulation Models and Laboratory Investigations to Improve Protection Systems....Pages 343-345
The Application of the Erosion Potential Method to Alpine Areas: Methodological Improvements and Test Case....Pages 347-350
Monitoring Program of Reservoir Bank Erosion at Porto Primavera Dam, Parana River, SP/MS, Brazil....Pages 351-355
Habitat Indices for Rivers: Quantifying the Impact of Hydro-Morphological Alterations on the Fish Community....Pages 357-360
Buildup and Breakdown of Sand Dune Barriers in the Drainage Basins of the NW Negev Desert, Israel, During Late Pleistocene to Holocene Climate Changes....Pages 361-364
Analysis of Channel Morphology and Large Wood Characteristics Through Remote Images in the Blanco River After the Eruption of the Chaitén Volcano (Southern Chile)....Pages 365-369
Sediment Dynamics and Morphology of a Boulder-Bed Ephemeral Stream....Pages 371-375
Front Matter....Pages 377-377
Water Table Rising Consecutive to Surface Irrigation in Alluvial Aquifers: Predective Use of Numerical Modelling....Pages 379-382
Assessment of Contaminant Migration in Groundwater from an Industrial Development Area, Annaba District, NE Algeria....Pages 383-387
Front Matter....Pages 377-377
Areal and Vertical Distribution of Nitrate Concentration in Piedmont Plain Aquifers (North-Western Italy)....Pages 389-392
The Uprising of Deep Saline Paleo-Waters into the Oltrepò Pavese Aquifer (Northern Italy): Application of Hydro-Chemical and Shallow Geophysical Surveys....Pages 393-397
Assessment of Environmental Indexes in Alluvial Aquifer Systems....Pages 399-403
Urban Underground Space Management: An Approach by Indicators for Groundwater Protection....Pages 405-408
Front Matter....Pages 409-409
Erosion Processes and Water Quality in Caçula Stream Watershed (Ilha Solteira - SP, Brazil)....Pages 411-416
Remediation of Oil-Polluted Groundwater Aquifers at Karst Region....Pages 417-419
Environmental Problems Related to the Presence of Arsenic in the Anza Valley (Piedmont, North-Western Italy)....Pages 421-424
A Study About Hydrogeological Issues Affecting the Sizing of Hydraulic Barriers for Groundwater Remediation....Pages 425-428
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Natural Hazard Analysis in the Aspio Equipped Basin....Pages 431-435
Risk Management in Bavarian Alpine Torrents: A Framework for Flood Risk Quantification Accounting for Subscenarios....Pages 437-441
Flood Directive Implementation Methodology at Different Scales: Preliminary Results....Pages 443-448
Structural Residual Risk Due to Levee Failures in Flood Mapping....Pages 449-452
Combination of Hydrological Modelling and Gis for Runoff Hydrograph Prediction in Small Urban Catchment....Pages 453-458
Assessment of Flood Risk in Kniss Wadi Catchment in Urbain Area Algiers—Algeria....Pages 459-462
Evaluation and Management of the Risk of Flooding River Bank....Pages 463-466
Front Matter....Pages 467-467
A Mathematical Model of Reservoir and River Bank Deformations in Permafrost Regions Under Simultaneous Effect of the Waves and Warming....Pages 469-472
Assessment of Morphodynamical Reactions on Redynamisation Measures - Case Study Upper Rhine....Pages 473-476
Analysis of Sediment Transport from Recorded Signals of Sediments in a Gravel-Bed River: Role of Sediment Availability....Pages 477-481
Designing Flood Mitigation Alternatives in Coastal Northern California: Hydraulic Modeling and Geomorphic Analysis of Sedimentation and Fish Habitat....Pages 483-487
Scouring in the Po river Basin at the Upper Plain (Italy)....Pages 489-493
Front Matter....Pages 495-495
Efficiency of Sand Clay Liners in Controlling Subsurface Water Flow....Pages 497-499
Trend Analysis of Annual and Seasonal Air Temperature Time Series in Southern Italy....Pages 501-504
Shallow Groundwater Irrigation in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: Practices and Issues....Pages 505-509
Susceptibility of Rocky Desertification Based on Analytical Hierarchy Process and Certainty Factor (AHP-CF) Method: A Case from Changshun County, Guizhou Province, SW of China....Pages 511-517
Water and Soil Conservation for Improved Crop Productivity and Water Household in Sahelian Conditions....Pages 519-523
Base Cartography for Land and Water Management in Sub-Saharan Africa....Pages 525-528
Designing and Building Gabion Check Dams in Burkina Faso....Pages 529-533
A Semi-quantitative Model to Assess the Costeffectiveness of Soil and Water Conservation Measures....Pages 535-538
Monitoring Soil Erosion and Reservoir Sedimentation in Semi-arid Region Through Remote Sensed SAR Data: A Case Study in Yatenga Region, Burkina Faso....Pages 539-542
Sediment Yield Estimate of River Basin Using SWAT Model in Semi-arid Region of Peninsular India....Pages 543-546
Front Matter....Pages 547-547
Comparison of Resistive Hydraulic Properties of Granitoids, Metamorphic and Carbonate Rocks from Specific Discharge Data....Pages 549-556
Freshwater Submarine Springs: Role of a Dam in Submerged Karst—Investigations Measurement and Works in Subterranean Rivers of Cassis—France) from 1964 to 2013....Pages 557-562
Characterizing the Recharge of Fractured Aquifers: A Case Study in a Flysch Rock Mass of the Northern Apennines (Italy)....Pages 563-567
Assessing Karst Aquifers in Switzerland: The 2010/2013 Swisskarst Project....Pages 569-572
Water Resource Assessment in Karst and Fractured Aquifers of Termini Imerese-Trabia Mts. (Northern Central Sicily, Italy)....Pages 573-577
Groundwater Distribution and Fluoride Content in the West Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region (Ethiopia)....Pages 579-582
Impact of Vertical Geological Structure and Water Table Depletion on Indian Crystalline Aquifers....Pages 583-587
Characterization of a Heterogeneous Aquifer. (The Poitiers Hydrogeological Experimental Site, France)....Pages 589-593
Computing the Water Inflows Discharge and Assessing the Impacts of Tunnels Drilled in Hard Rocks: The A89 (France) Motorway Case Study....Pages 595-599
Front Matter....Pages 601-601
Hydraulic Model Calibration Using Remote-Sensing Data: The Usefulness of ERS-2 and ENVISAT Water Surface Levels....Pages 603-606
Front Matter....Pages 601-601
Integration of MODIS and Radar Altimetry Data for River Discharge Estimation from Space....Pages 607-610
Assessment of Shallow Interflow Velocities in Alpine Catchments for the Improvement of Hydrological Modelling....Pages 611-615
Continuous Discharge Monitoring Using Non-contact Methods for Velocity Measurements: Uncertainty Analysis....Pages 617-621
Comparison of Different Satellite Rainfall Products Over the Italian Territory....Pages 623-626
Topographic Threshold to Trigger Gully Erosion in a Tropical Region—Brazil....Pages 627-630
Integration of Optical and Passive Microwave Satellite Data for Flooded Area Detection and Monitoring....Pages 631-635
Modeled vs. SMOS L2 Soil Moisture in the Central Part of the Duero Basin (Spain)....Pages 637-640
An Entropy Based Velocity Profile for Steady Flows with Large-Scale Roughness....Pages 641-645
CatOne, Multitask Unmanned Surface Vessel for Hydro-Geological and Environment Surveys....Pages 647-652
Back Matter....Pages 653-657