Groundwater resources in the Lagan Valley Sandstone aquifer, Northern Ireland

Robert Kalin; C. Roberts

doi:10.1111/j.1747-6593.1997.tb00104.x

Groundwater resources in the Lagan Valley Sandstone aquifer, Northern Ireland

Robert Kalin, C. Roberts

Civil And Environmental Engineering

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Abstract

Beneath Belfast and the Lagan Valley lies Northern Ireland's most important aquifer, the Triassic Sherwood Sandstone. Up to 300 m in thickness and with a total abstraction of around 31 000 m(3)/d, it is a modest aquifer by UK and world standards; nonetheless, it is an important local water source. The use of this aquifer system as a water supply will undoubtedly increase as growth of industry and population continues in the Belfast metropolitan area. Even with the mesic climate of Ireland, groundwater mining of this aquifer system is already occurring, and thus there is a need for detailed aquifer planning and protection to be implemented in order to preserve this resource for the future.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	133-139
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
Volume	11
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-6593.1997.tb00104.x
Publication status	Published - Apr 1997

Keywords

aquifer
groundwater
hydrogeology
water quality
water supply
well head protection

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