An Analysis of Allowable Groundwater Drawdown and Pumpage from a Karst Aquifer to Prevent Sinkhole Collapses in the Pearl River Delta, China

Meng, Y; Li, ZJ; Jia, L

Meng, Y (corresponding author), China Univ Geosci, Sch Environm Studies, Wuhan 430074, Peoples R China.; Meng, Y (corresponding author), CAGS, Lab Karst Collapse Prevent, Inst Karst Geol, Guilin 541004, Peoples R China.

WATER RESOURCES, 2020; 47 (4): 530

Abstract

In China's Pearl River Delta, numerous sinkholes caused by excessive groundwater pumping from a karst aquifer have opened. These sinkholes can cause w......

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