Wadi Khairat
Sousse governorate, Tunisia
- Climate
- Semi-arid, episodic floods
- Aquifer
- Shallow fractured and alluvial system
- MAR system
- Check dams, recharge basins and injection wells
- Source water
- Releases from the Wadi Khairat hill dam
- Expected contaminants
- Pesticides, Trace metals
- Partners
- National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia
Since 2002, water released from the hill dam infiltrates behind seven check dams and through three recharge basins with injection wells, feeding the aquifer that supplies irrigation and drinking water around Enfidha. AQUICIRC asks how much extra water it stores and how it changes groundwater quality.
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References
- Chekirbane et al., 2022. doi:10.1007/s12517-022-09484-7