The writer performed well-water analyses (Aug.-Sept., 1968) for thirty two wells in an area of about 130 km
2 occupied by the alluvial fan and delta on the left side of the Shô-gawa, flowing northward through the western part of Toyama Pref. and pouring into the Bay of Toyama, and describes in this paper the state of variation of components dissolved in the groundwater, changing aspect of its quality with flowage, and the method of its flowing velocity measurement by means of the arbitrary time determination of argon dissolved in it.
(1) The fostering source of the groundwater in this plain is the surface running water of the Shô-gawa that infiltrates into the ground near the fan apex, about 100m in altitude. This infiltrating water flows down near to the fan margin, about 30m in altitude, as free-surface groundwater, but from this place the groundwater is divided into two parts by an aquifuge that is gradually developing, at a depth of 20-25m below the surface, toward the deltaic area, and the upper of them becomes a free-surface groundwater, and the lower a piestic surface groundwater, both extending to the deltaic area. From the fan margin to the delta there extends an area of artesian wells.
(2) Temperature of the groundwater is 12.5-14.5°C, but that of the well-water in the lower course of the Oyabe-gawa is as high as 17-18.8°C.
(3) Almost all of the well-water is of the Ca (HCO
3)
2 type of quality, and the increase of dissolved components and the ion-exchange reaction between Ca
2+, Mg
2+, etc. in the groundwater and Na
+in the sediments in the course of flowing are observed. Well-water in the lower course of the Oyabe-gawa show some effect of sea-water, with much dissolved components and an advanced state of reduction, while the other well-water has less dissolved components and maintains the state of oxidation. Thus, the latter case implies the presence of no plenty reducing substance in the sediments through which the groundwater is flowing, and its short-period passage.
(4) The writer discovered a method of estimating the flowing velocity of the groundwater by means of arbitrary time measurments of the dissolved argon in the well-water at several stations.
This method is briefly explained as faollows. The infiltrating position of the river-water, hydro-geologically detected, and the annual rariation of temperature of the river-water at that position are previously surveyed. Any well that is in the direction of the main subsurface flowing and belongs to the same aquifer and seems to be free from any other infiltrating water is selected through the examination of the well-water. From the amount of dissolved argon in it measured, the temperature of the river-water at the time of its infiltration is estimated. Then, that time is known from that temperature and the annual variation of the river-water temperature. From the time difference between the time of infiltration and the argon measurment, the flowing period of the groundwater from the infiltrating point to the observed well situation is obtained, and hence the flowing velocity (mts/day), the distance between them being known.
This method, however, postulates that the growndwater travels that distance within a year.
The mean flowing velocity in the course of about 15 km, from the fan apex (altitude of about 100m) to the delta (altitude of about 10m), obtained by this method is 45-60mts/day.
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