Investigation of Scale-Dependent Groundwater/Surface-water Exchange in Rivers by Gradient Self-Potential Logging: Numerical Modeling and Field Experiments

Ikard, Scott J.; Briggs, Martin A.; Lane, John W.

doi:10.32389/jeeg20-066

Investigation of Scale-Dependent Groundwater/Surface-water Exchange in Rivers by Gradient Self-Potential Logging: Numerical Modeling and Field Experiments

Journal Article · Tue Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 2021 · Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.32389/jeeg20-066· OSTI ID:1852233

Ikard, Scott J. ^[1]; Briggs, Martin A. ^[2]; Lane, John W. ^[2]

U.S. Geological Survey, Texas Water Science Center, Austin, TX, USA 78754; OSTI
U.S. Geological Survey, Hydrogeophysics Branch, Storrs, CT, USA 06269

Exchanges of groundwater and surface-water are fundamental to a wide range of water-supply and water-quality management issues but challenging to map beyond the reach scale. Waterborne gradient self-potential (SP) measurements are directly sensitive to water flow through riverbed sediments and can be used to infer exchange locations, direction (gain versus loss), scale, and relative changes, but to date applications to river corridor hydrology are limited. Numerical modeling and field experiments were therefore performed herein, each emphasizing waterborne gradient SP logging for identifying and locating focused vertical groundwater discharge (surface-water gain) and recharge (surface-water loss) in a river. Two and three-dimensional numerical models were constructed to simulate the polarities, appearances, and peak amplitudes of streaming-potential and electric-field anomalies on a riverbed and in the surface-water that were attributable to steady-state vertical fluxes of groundwater through high-permeability conduits in the riverbed. Effects of varied hydraulic length-scale of exchange and surface-water depth were tested through numerical modeling. Modeling results aided in data acquisition and interpretation for three repeated field experiments performed along a 1.5–2.0 km reach of the Quashnet River in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where focused, meter-scale groundwater discharges occur at discrete locations within otherwise ubiquitous and more diffuse groundwater upwelling conditions. Strong gradient SP anomalies were repeatedly measured in the Quashnet River at previously confirmed locations of focused groundwater discharge, showing the efficacy of waterborne gradient SP logging in identifying and characterizing groundwater/surface water exchange dynamics at multiple river network scales.

Research Organization:: US Geological Survey, Boulder, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

DOE Contract Number:: SC0016412

OSTI ID:: 1852233

Journal Information:: Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, Journal Name: Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 26; ISSN 1083-1363

Publisher:: Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (57)

Self-potential investigations of a gravel bar in a restored river corridor Linde, N.; Doetsch, J.; Jougnot, D. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 15, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-15-729-2011	journal	January 2011
Dual-domain mass-transfer parameters from electrical hysteresis: Theory and analytical approach applied to laboratory, synthetic streambed, and groundwater experiments Briggs, Martin A.; Day-Lewis, Frederick D.; Ong, John B. Water Resources Research, Vol. 50, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1002/2014WR015880	journal	October 2014
Actively heated high-resolution fiber-optic-distributed temperature sensing to quantify streambed flow dynamics in zones of strong groundwater upwelling: ACTIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSING Briggs, Martin A.; Buckley, Sean F.; Bagtzoglou, Amvrossios C. Water Resources Research, Vol. 52, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR018219	journal	July 2016
Three-dimensional source inversion of self-potential data Minsley, Burke J.; Sogade, John; Morgan, Frank Dale Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 112, Issue B2 https://doi.org/10.1029/2006JB004262	journal	January 2007
A self-potential investigation of submarine massive sulfides: Palinuro Seamount, Tyrrhenian Sea Safipour, Roxana; Hölz, Sebastian; Halbach, Jesse GEOPHYSICS, Vol. 82, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2017-0237.1	journal	November 2017
Characterization of Focused Seepage Through an Earthfill Dam Using Geoelectrical Methods Ikard, S. J.; Revil, A.; Schmutz, M. Groundwater, Vol. 52, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.12151	journal	December 2013
A least-squares minimization approach to interpret gravity data due to 2D horizontal thin sheet of finite width Abdelrahman, E. . M.; Gobashy, M. M.; Essa, K. S. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Vol. 9, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-016-2537-0	journal	June 2016
Marine self potential exploration ^* Heinson, Graham; White, Antony; Constable, Steven Exploration Geophysics, Vol. 30, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1071/EG999001	journal	March 1999
Hyporheic flow and transport processes: Mechanisms, models, and biogeochemical implications: HYPORHEIC FLOW AND TRANSPORT PROCESSES Boano, F.; Harvey, J. W.; Marion, A. Reviews of Geophysics, Vol. 52, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1002/2012RG000417	journal	October 2014
The emergence of hydrogeophysics for improved understanding of subsurface processes over multiple scales: The Emergence of Hydrogeophysics Binley, Andrew; Hubbard, Susan S.; Huisman, Johan A. Water Resources Research, Vol. 51, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017016	journal	June 2015
Electric potential variations associated with periodic spring discharge in western Nepal Perrier, Frédéric; Trique, Michael; Aupiais, Jean Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science, Vol. 328, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/S1251-8050(99)80001-9	journal	January 1999
Self-potential mapping using an autonomous underwater vehicle for the Sunrise deposit, Izu-Ogasawara arc, southern Japan Kawada, Yoshifumi; Kasaya, Takafumi Earth, Planets and Space, Vol. 70, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-018-0913-6	journal	August 2018
Review: Some low-frequency electrical methods for subsurface characterization and monitoring in hydrogeology Revil, A.; Karaoulis, M.; Johnson, T. Hydrogeology Journal, Vol. 20, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-011-0819-x	journal	February 2012
Imaging hyporheic zone solute transport using electrical resistivity Ward, Adam S.; Gooseff, Michael N.; Singha, Kamini Hydrological Processes, Vol. 24, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.7672	journal	March 2010
On the use of rhodamine WT for the characterization of stream hydrodynamics and transient storage: USE OF RHODAMINE WT FOR HYDRODYNAMIC CHARACTERIZATION Runkel, Robert L. Water Resources Research, Vol. 51, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017201	journal	August 2015
A Laboratory Study of Streaming Potentials* Ahmad, Moid Uddin Geophysical Prospecting, Vol. 12, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2478.1964.tb01889.x	journal	March 1964
A new approach for the interpretation of self-potential data by 2-D inclined plate Essa, Khalid S.; Elhussein, Mahmoud Journal of Applied Geophysics, Vol. 136 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2016.11.019	journal	January 2017
Measuring methods for groundwater – surface water interactions: a review Kalbus, E.; Reinstorf, F.; Schirmer, M. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-10-873-2006	journal	January 2006
Tomography of the Darcy velocity from self-potential measurements Jardani, A.; Revil, A.; Bolève, A. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 34, Issue 24 https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GL031907	journal	January 2007
Self-potential: A Non-intrusive Ground Water Flow Sensor Revil, André; Ahmed, Abdellahi Soueid; Jardani, Abderrahim Journal of Environmental & Engineering Geophysics, Vol. 22, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.2113/JEEG22.3.235	journal	September 2017
Channel water balance and exchange with subsurface flow along a mountain headwater stream in Montana, United States: STREAM CHANNEL WATER BALANCE Payn, R. A.; Gooseff, M. N.; McGlynn, B. L. Water Resources Research, Vol. 45, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1029/2008WR007644	journal	November 2009
Thermal infrared video details multiscale groundwater discharge to surface water through macropores and peat pipes: Thermal Infrared Captures Groundwater Seepage Dynamics Briggs, Martin A.; Hare, Danielle K.; Boutt, David F. Hydrological Processes, Vol. 30, Issue 14 https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10722	journal	March 2016
Three-dimensional modelling of streaming potential Sheffer, M. R.; Oldenburg, D. W. Geophysical Journal International, Vol. 169, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03397.x	journal	June 2007
A comparison of thermal infrared to fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing for evaluation of groundwater discharge to surface water Hare, Danielle K.; Briggs, Martin A.; Rosenberry, Donald O. Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 530 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.09.059	journal	November 2015
The Electrical Resistivity Log as an Aid in Determining Some Reservoir Characteristics Archie, G. E. Transactions of the AIME, Vol. 146, Issue 01 https://doi.org/10.2118/942054-G	journal	December 1942
Marine self-potential gradient exploration of the continental margin Heinson, Graham; White, Antony; Robinson, David GEOPHYSICS, Vol. 70, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1190/1.2057981	journal	September 2005
Understanding Water Column and Streambed Thermal Refugia for Endangered Mussels in the Delaware River Briggs, Martin A.; Voytek, Emily B.; Day-Lewis, Frederick D. Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 47, Issue 20 https://doi.org/10.1021/es4018893	journal	September 2013
Self-potential Data Interpretation for Two Co-axial Structures Utilizing the RMS Parameter Essa, Khalid S.; Diab, Zein E.; Elhussein, Mahmoud Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, Vol. 25, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.2113/JEEG19-017	journal	March 2020
Influence of groundwater on distribution of dwarf wedgemussels (Alasmidonta heterodon) in the upper reaches of the Delaware River, northeastern USA Rosenberry, Donald O.; Briggs, Martin A.; Voytek, Emily B. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 20, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-4323-2016	journal	January 2016
Seasonal variations in groundwater upwelling zones in a Danish lowland stream analyzed using Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS): SEASONAL VARIATIONS IN GROUNDWATER UPWELLING ZONES USING DTS Matheswaran, Karthikeyan; Blemmer, Morten; Rosbjerg, Dan Hydrological Processes, Vol. 28, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9690	journal	January 2013
Explicit consideration of preferential groundwater discharges as surface water ecosystem control points Briggs, Martin A.; Hare, Danielle K. Hydrological Processes, Vol. 32, Issue 15 https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13178	journal	June 2018
Characterizing Stream-Aquifer Exchanges with Self-Potential Measurements: Groundwater xx, no. x: xx-xx Valois, Remi; Cousquer, Yohann; Schmutz, Myriam Groundwater, Vol. 56, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.12594	journal	October 2017
Offshore use of the Self-Potential Method* Corwin, R. F. Geophysical Prospecting, Vol. 24, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2478.1976.tb00386.x	journal	March 1976
Geophysical characterisation of the groundwater–surface water interface McLachlan, P. J.; Chambers, J. E.; Uhlemann, S. S. Advances in Water Resources, Vol. 109 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.09.016	journal	November 2017
A comparison of fibre-optic distributed temperature sensing to traditional methods of evaluating groundwater inflow to streams Briggs, Martin A.; Lautz, Laura K.; McKenzie, Jeffrey M. Hydrological Processes, Vol. 26, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.8200	journal	July 2011
Three-dimensional inversion of self-potential data used to constrain the pattern of groundwater flow in geothermal fields Jardani, A.; Revil, A.; Bolève, A. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 113, Issue B9 https://doi.org/10.1029/2007JB005302	journal	January 2008
Forward Modeling and validation of a new formulation to compute self-potential signals associated with ground water flow Bolève, A.; Revil, A.; Janod, F. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-11-1661-2007	journal	January 2007
Comparison of height-averaged and point-measured capillary pressure-saturation relations for sands using a modified Tempe cell: TECHNICAL NOTE Sakaki, Toshihiro; Illangasekare, Tissa H. Water Resources Research, Vol. 43, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1029/2006WR005814	journal	December 2007
New Insights on Scale-dependent Surface-Groundwater Exchange from a Floating Self-potential Dipole Ikard, Scott J.; Teeple, Andrew P.; Payne, Jason D. Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, Vol. 23, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.2113/JEEG23.2.261	journal	June 2018
Fiber optics opens window on stream dynamics Selker, John; van de Giesen, Nick; Westhoff, Martijn Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 33, Issue 24 https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL027979	journal	January 2006
A particle swarm optimization method for interpreting self-potential anomalies Essa, Khalid S. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, Vol. 16, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1093/jge/gxz024	journal	April 2019
Saline pulse test monitoring with the self-potential method to nonintrusively determine the velocity of the pore water in leaking areas of earth dams and embankments: MONITORING OF LEAKAGES IN DAM Ikard, S. J.; Revil, A.; Jardani, A. Water Resources Research, Vol. 48, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1029/2010WR010247	journal	April 2012
High-resolution distributed temperature sensing to detect seasonal groundwater discharge into Lake Vaeng, Denmark: SEASONAL DISCHARGE INTO LAKE VAENG Sebok, E.; Duque, C.; Kazmierczak, J. Water Resources Research, Vol. 49, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1002/wrcr.20436	journal	September 2013
Dynamics of hyporheic flow and heat transport across a bed-to-bank continuum in a large regulated river: HYPORHEIC FLOW AND HEAT TRANSPORT IN A LARGE RIVER Gerecht, Katelyn E.; Cardenas, M. Bayani; Guswa, Andrew J. Water Resources Research, Vol. 47, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1029/2010WR009794	journal	March 2011
River corridor science: Hydrologic exchange and ecological consequences from bedforms to basins: RIVER CORRIDORS FROM BEDFORMS TO BASINS Harvey, Jud; Gooseff, Michael Water Resources Research, Vol. 51, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017617	journal	September 2015
Detection and localization of hydromechanical disturbances in a sandbox using the self-potential method Crespy, A.; Revil, A.; Linde, N. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 113, Issue B1 https://doi.org/10.1029/2007JB005042	journal	January 2008
Hydrogeochemical controls on brook trout spawning habitats in a coastal stream Briggs, Martin A.; Harvey, Judson W.; Hurley, Stephen T. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 22, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-6383-2018	journal	January 2018
Use of electrical imaging and distributed temperature sensing methods to characterize surface water–groundwater exchange regulating uranium transport at the Hanford 300 Area, Washington Slater, Lee D.; Ntarlagiannis, Dimitrios; Day‐Lewis, Frederick D. Water Resources Research, Vol. 46, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1029/2010WR009110	journal	October 2010
Marine self-potential survey for exploring seafloor hydrothermal ore deposits Kawada, Yoshifumi; Kasaya, Takafumi Scientific Reports, Vol. 7, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13920-0	journal	October 2017
Self‐potential variations with time and their relation to hydrogeologic and meteorological parameters Ernstson, Kord; Scherer, H. Ulrich GEOPHYSICS, Vol. 51, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1190/1.1442052	journal	October 1986
Practical limitations on the use of diurnal temperature signals to quantify groundwater upwelling Briggs, Martin A.; Lautz, Laura K.; Buckley, Sean F. Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 519 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.09.030	journal	November 2014
Investigation of groundwater flow in karst areas using component separation of natural potential measurements Wanfang, Z.; Beck, Barry F.; Stephenson, J. Brad Environmental Geology, Vol. 37, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s002540050355	journal	January 1999
Surface self-potential patterns related to transmissive fracture trends during a water injection test DesRoches, A. J.; Butler, K. E.; MacQuarrie, K. Tb Geophysical Journal International, Vol. 212, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx528	journal	December 2017
Upscaling lacustrine groundwater discharge rates by fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing: Upscaling Lacustrine Groundwater Discharge Rates Blume, Theresa; Krause, Stefan; Meinikmann, Karin Water Resources Research, Vol. 49, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1002/2012WR013215	journal	December 2013
A Sandbox Experiment of Self-Potential Signals Associated with a Pumping Test Suski, B.; Rizzo, E.; Revil, A. Vadose Zone Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.2113/3.4.1193	journal	November 2004
Combined use of thermal methods and seepage meters to efficiently locate, quantify, and monitor focused groundwater discharge to a sand-bed stream: COMBINED METHODS TO QUANTIFY FOCUSED GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE Rosenberry, Donald O.; Briggs, Martin A.; Delin, Geoffrey Water Resources Research, Vol. 52, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR018808	journal	June 2016
Variations of self-potential and unsaturated water flow with time in sandy loam and clay loam soils Doussan, Claude; Jouniaux, Laurence; Thony, Jean-Louis Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 267, Issue 3-4 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1694(02)00148-8	journal	October 2002

Similar Records

Evaluation of riverbed magnetic susceptibility for mapping biogeochemical hot spots in groundwater‐impacted rivers

Journal Article · Thu May 20 20:00:00 EDT 2021 · Hydrological Processes · OSTI ID:1784356

Effects of river discharge on hyporheic exchange flows in salmon spawning areas of a large gravel-bed river

Journal Article · Mon Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2007 · Hydrological Processes, 22(1):127-141 · OSTI ID:984239

Related Subjects

Engineering
Geochemistry & Geophysics

Investigation of Scale-Dependent Groundwater/Surface-water Exchange in Rivers by Gradient Self-Potential Logging: Numerical Modeling and Field Experiments

Citation Formats

References (57)

Similar Records

Related Subjects