Pumping test for the identification of groundwater potential as water resources in mitigating peatfires

Abstract

The peat fires disaster occurrences can be mitigated and distinguished by spraying abundant water which is extracted from the groundwater resources under beneath peat soil layers. The potential of groundwater can be identified by the pumping test. The pumping test may determine the aquifer characteristics in the form of storage capacity (storativity), transmissivity coefficient, and the level of groundwater depletion rates in the observation well. This article identified and calculated the potential groundwater resources in Desa Rimbo Panjang, Kampar District, Riau Province, Indonesia. Based on the Cooper and Jacob method it was calculated that the potential availability of groundwater (by the method trial and error) in this location was 1066.17 m3/day which is enough to extinguish approximately 5 hectares of peatland fires.