Identifying bounded aquifers in Mumbai
This refers to an informative article ‘Urban Info.Systems for Planning' in ‘Cordinates' June 2007. I was not aware that the system would include mapping by GPR. I wonder if Mumbai is included for the GPR input.
My particular interest is because I have suggested in my 2 part article ‘Water, Water Everywhere" (Feb.-March 2007 issues of Times Journal of Construction & Design) that the Municipal corporation in Mumbai could take up a pilot project in 1 or 2 wards of the city a rain water harvesting project based on identification of bounded aquifers which can be used to store water by creating percolation tanks in those wards . To that end the land use plans of these wards can be modified to create large open spaces by using the TDR to compensate the affected land owners.
Can such an idea work? Simple methods of percolation in a city like Mumbai can just drain off the underground water to the sea and hence it is necessary to identify such bounded aquifers by GPR.
Prakash M Apte