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The geothermal hot water reservoir below the small town of Waiwera in New Zealand has been known to the indigenous MÄori for many centuries. Overproduction by European immigrants led to a water level decrease and consequently artesian flow from the wells and the seeps on the beach ceased. The Te Kau...

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Published inAdvances in geosciences Vol. 58; pp. 31 - 61
Main Authors Kühn, Michael, Präg, Melissa, Becker, Ivy, Hilgers, Christoph, Grafe, Andreas, Kempka, Thomas
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Copernicus GmbH 08.11.2022
Subjects
Analysis
Geographic information systems
Management
Planning
Water
Water, Underground
New Zealand
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Summary:The geothermal hot water reservoir below the small town of Waiwera in New Zealand has been known to the indigenous MÄori for many centuries. Overproduction by European immigrants led to a water level decrease and consequently artesian flow from the wells and the seeps on the beach ceased. The Te Kaunihera o TÄmaki Makaurau Auckland Council established the Waiwera Thermal Groundwater Allocation and Management Plan to allow the geothermal system to recover. For a sustainable operation, the management regime can be informed by hydrogeological models based on monitoring data. The underlying geological model has been revised according to field observations and an existing numerical model transferred to the newly developed software package TRANSPORTSE. Monitoring and digitally derived data have been integrated in a geographic information system (GIS).
ISSN:1680-7340
1680-7359