Modelling land subsidence due to groundwater pumping/recharging in the Las Vegas valley

A model for ground settlement and swelling occurring in Las Vegas Spring Preserve due to groundwater level changes has been developed. A FORTRAN code that uses the finite element method has been prepared. The computer code calculates the hydraulic head in the aquifer resulting from pumping and recharging of the Wells The settlement or swelling of the ground level at each node point is calculated based on hydraulic conditions. The computed hydraulic head and settlement resulted between January 1990 and December 1999 have been compared to the observed static heads and the measured settlement; The sensitivity of the settlement to each parameter used in the model was investigated. Predicted settlement values between January 2000 and December 2004 for different pumping and pumping-recharging cycles have been calculated.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Engineering (ME)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

2000

Author dc:creator

• Okuyan, Mehmet Necmi

Contributors dc:contributor

• James Cardle

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/1219

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-2218