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22 nd Salt Water Intrusion Meeting: Salt Water Intrusion in Aquifers: Challenges and PerspectivesA PRECAUTIONARY NOTE ON THE INTERPRETATION OF COASTALAQUIFER WATER LEVEL TRENDS AND WATER BALANCESMORGAN, Leanne Kaye; WERNER, Adrian D.; SIMMONS, C. T.leanne.morgan@flinders.edu.auFLINDERS UNIVERSITYGPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA AUSTRALIA 5001, Rm 237 Earth Sciences BuildingAbstract. A precautionary note on the interpretation of coastal aquifer water level trends andwater balances Leanne K. Morgan1,2*, Adrian D. Werner1,2, Craig T. Simmons1,21National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, Flinders University, GPO Box2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia. 2School of the Environment, Flinders University,Adelaide, Australia. *Corresponding author Abstract In many cases, seawater intrusioninducedinterface movements and associated changes in seawater volume are not consideredin coastal aquifer management studies. The conditions under which this simplified approachmay result in incorrect estimates of freshwater volumes and flawed interpretations of waterlevel trend analyses are not well understood. We address this gap using a simple steady-state,sharp-interface, analytic modelling approach to generate idealised relationships betweenseawater volume, freshwater volume and water levels. The results demonstrate that seawatervolume changes impart significant influence on water level trends within coastal aquiferswhen compared to the corresponding non-coastal aquifer situation, particularly within deepaquifers with high hydraulic conductivity and low net recharge. Changes in seawater volume(over an assumed timescale) were found to be significant relative to freshwater discharge tothe sea for a number of cases, especially within deep aquifers with low hydraulic conductivity,low net recharge and low water levels, at least for the idealised conditions of the analysis.These results highlight the importance of considering changes in seawater volumes withincoastal aquifer water balances. The results also demonstrate that temporal trends in coastalaquifer water levels may not provide an adequate measure of freshwater storage trends, andrather, rapid assessment of coastal aquifer condition should consider groundwater levelsrelative to the hydraulic forcing of the ocean using an appropriate equivalent freshwater headfor the ocean boundary condition. The analytic solution used for this study involves anassumption of quasi-equilibrium conditions between the water table and interface. Thisassumption was evaluated using a selection of transient simulations, and preliminary resultswill be presented.Keywords: coastal aquifer; water balances; water level trends223

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