Test of Hydrogeological model of infiltration in a fractured medium

The thesis starts with the aim of making a model capable of calculating the infiltration during a fractured medium as a operate of the quantity of fractures, their inclination, and the slope of the ground. The model was created with the Modflow software package that was believed to be the foremost appropriate for its ability to simulate the hydrogeology of the study area with larger precision. The area of the Coricancha mine in South American nation was used as the study area; the goal was to use the info of atmospherical precipitation and infiltration water, which the mine has, to calibrate the model once created. Unfortunately, the model did not prove to be sturdy and was thus unable to produce the specified results, despite this, even the success of some analyzed case studies leaves open the chance of continuous this path, albeit with a distinct approach and software. Additionally, to the creation of the model, an in-depth study was carried out on the role of the mining business within the Peruvian nation and its impact on the environment; particularly, the state within which the Peruvian water resource presently pours was studied and the waters of the Rimac river adjacent to the mine that is the protagonist of this thesis. The sharp economic process of South American nation is sadly combined neither with an adequate management of the water resource nor with its opportune safeguard. In fact, the expansion in demand for water resources is combined with a powerful decrease within the latter on the one hand because of global climate change conjointly related to the El nino phenomenon (also object of study) on the other hand to the serious pollution during which they pour the fewer and fewer resources available.