Author(s): Eduardo Chavarri; Cesar Tueros Giler

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Keywords: Water resources; Monitoring network

Abstract: The purpose of the research was to provide support to the Water Observatory of the Peruvian Water National Authority through a Plan for the Improvement of the Water Resources Monitoring Network in the Chillón, Rímac, Lurín and Alto Mantaro basins (PMRMRH –CHIRILU). The PMRMRH-CHIRILU methodology had as a vision a proposal that ensures data in sufficient quantity and quality to be used in studies such as future simulation of the behavior of water resources. In this sense, the PMRMRH-CHIRILU was validated and derived from the analysis of the lack of information and the specific proposals of the diagnosis of the situational state of the existing surface and underground water monitoring networks in the basins. The methodologies used to propose new monitoring stations were the Voronoi diagrams for climatological stations, the Karasiev method for hydrological stations, the geomorphology and geological fault location for piezometric monitoring wells and the water quality index for surface water quality monitoring stations. Three new climatological stations, four hydrological stations, eighty piezometric monitoring wells and four surface water quality monitoring stations were proposed. The PMRMRH-CHIRILU, was validated by the institutions related to the management of water resources in the basins of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín and Alto Mantaro – CHIRILU. Likewise, it considered the accessibility conditions and the feasibility of financing the installation and maintenance costs of the proposed stations.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3850/IAHR-39WC252171192022139

Year: 2022