Hydraulic Anatomy of Guadiana Springs (I)
Guadiana River used to spring thanks to the Western Mancha Aquifer surplus flow, powering a set of sixteen watermills located along fifty kilometres of its upper reach. Such industrial hub lasted until the second half of last century, when drainage and drying-up works joined to aquifer overdraft, re...
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| description | Guadiana River used to spring thanks to the Western Mancha Aquifer surplus flow, powering a set of sixteen watermills located along fifty kilometres of its upper reach. Such industrial hub lasted until the second half of last century, when drainage and drying-up works joined to aquifer overdraft, resulted in a distressing parched and scorched land where water and life had been dominant for centuries. The first target of this independent research, developed at the wetlands section of the Regional Centre Water Research and Civil Engineering Faculty (UCLM), is to characterize this ancient hydraulic system through geo-historiography and field works integrated in a Geographic Information System, to model that pristine hydrodynamics in IBER under flooding conditions. The expected results would assess the pristine hydraulic carrying capacity and flooding events management capacity of the sixteen weirs and watermills operating by 16th century, baseline to analyse further scenarios influenced by the drainage works to come. These parameters are essential to draft any fluvial restoration project focused on recovering that Hydraulic Public Domain and to mitigate the climate change potential effects. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-562d2a2a2b9949809ebb72565037ee622025-01-02T15:05:57ZspaUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaIngeniería del Agua1134-21961886-49962020-07-0124316918110.4995/ia.2020.123878278Hydraulic Anatomy of Guadiana Springs (I)P. Doncel Fuentes0M. Florín Beltrán1Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Centro Regional de Estudios del AguaUniversidad de Castilla-La Mancha Centro Regional de Estudios del AguaGuadiana River used to spring thanks to the Western Mancha Aquifer surplus flow, powering a set of sixteen watermills located along fifty kilometres of its upper reach. Such industrial hub lasted until the second half of last century, when drainage and drying-up works joined to aquifer overdraft, resulted in a distressing parched and scorched land where water and life had been dominant for centuries. The first target of this independent research, developed at the wetlands section of the Regional Centre Water Research and Civil Engineering Faculty (UCLM), is to characterize this ancient hydraulic system through geo-historiography and field works integrated in a Geographic Information System, to model that pristine hydrodynamics in IBER under flooding conditions. The expected results would assess the pristine hydraulic carrying capacity and flooding events management capacity of the sixteen weirs and watermills operating by 16th century, baseline to analyse further scenarios influenced by the drainage works to come. These parameters are essential to draft any fluvial restoration project focused on recovering that Hydraulic Public Domain and to mitigate the climate change potential effects.https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/IA/article/view/12387geo-historiografíapatrimonioibermodelización de capacidad de carga hidráulica |
| spellingShingle | P. Doncel Fuentes M. Florín Beltrán Hydraulic Anatomy of Guadiana Springs (I) Ingeniería del Agua geo-historiografía patrimonio iber modelización de capacidad de carga hidráulica |
| title | Hydraulic Anatomy of Guadiana Springs (I) |
| title_full | Hydraulic Anatomy of Guadiana Springs (I) |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Hydraulic Anatomy of Guadiana Springs (I) |
| title_short | Hydraulic Anatomy of Guadiana Springs (I) |
| title_sort | hydraulic anatomy of guadiana springs i |
| topic | geo-historiografía patrimonio iber modelización de capacidad de carga hidráulica |
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