The Effect of Borehole Sealing on the Southern Lincolnshire Limestone Catchment

In: Water and environment journal, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 37-46

Abstract

ABSTRACTThe Southern Lincolnshire Limestone is an important groundwater resource; however, for many years water has been lost from the aquifer system through uncontrolled artesian flow from wild‐bores in the Fenland area. During 1991–92, there was an extensive programme of sealing or controlling the wild‐bores, and compensation flows for ecological and farming purposes were provided at some sites.This paper describes a field study which was designed to identify the important features of part of the catchment; this was followed by the development of an existing groundwater model to provide an improved representation of the uncontrolled and controlled wild‐bores. The model is used to assess the consequences of controlling or sealing the wild‐bores.