Groundwater Recharge

M.L. Sharma, CSIRO, Division of Water Resources, Wembley, Australia.

• Preface Estimating and enhancing groundwater recharge; Use of applied tracers in studies of natural groundwater recharge; Using geophysics to define recharge and discharge areas associated with saline seeps in south-western Australia; Tritium as an indicator of groundwater recharge to the Gnangara groundwater mound on the Swan Coastal Plain, Perth, Western Australia; Hydraulic scaling theory in recharge estimation; The implications of spatial averaging in estimating net recharge for regional aquifer flow Models; The development of a process model for determining groundwater accessions; Prediction of groundwater recharge to a sandy aquifer using a simulation model; A daily model for water table variations on a hillslope; Calibration and validation of a model of groundwater recharge from an ephemeral stream; Estimation of vertical recharge via mathematical models of groundwater flow; An information system for implementing groundwater recharge models; Comparative recharge rates beneath banksia woodland and two pine plantations on the Gnangara mound, Western Australia; Water and chloride balances of banksia woodland on coastal deep sands of south western Australia; Evaluation of natural groundwater recharge of a tertiary aquifer system Barwon Downs Graben, Otway Basin, Victoria; The relative impact of three recharge sources on the operation of Sherwood Borefield, New South Wales; Areal recharge estimation in the Riverine Plain of south-eastern Australia; Natural and induced recharge in the Lower Namoi Valley, New South Wales; The location of recharge areas responsible for valley salinity in the Lake Toolibin catchment, Western Australia; Groundwater recharge and management for the Alstonville Plateau, New South Wales; Groundwater accessions in the coleambally irrigation area of N.S.W.; Artificial groundwater recharge at Newman, Western Australia - An evaluation of the first five Years; Summary of symposium on groundwater recharge.