Urban Subsurface Hydrology: Quantitative Analysis of Interaction between Urban Infrastructure and Groundwater (The Urban Book Series)

As cities expand massively downward and underground space replaces the urban sub-surface, accurate urban water balances are systematically overlooked.The results are truncated water balance analyses with unforeseen consequences, sometimes costly and tragic.Focusing on this underappreciated but important area, this book presents a fully integrated approach to the conceptualisation and analysis of urban hydrogeology and engineering. Management of below-ground urban areas involves both groundwater and infrastructure elements, so it is crucial to understand both elements individually and how they interact.Assistive models can provide accurate results only if they correctly reproduce hydrogeological processes and hydraulic and mechanic interactions between groundwater and infrastructure.These tools must incorporate quantitative and qualitative urban groundwater stresses and delineate critical levels of urban groundwater mismanagement as well as corresponding threshold principles.Understandi