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10th International Congress on Advances in Civil Engineering (ACE 2012), Ankara, Turkey, 17 - 19 October 2012, pp.234
Surface water and ground water modeling studies play an important role in controlling water resources. Water resources control systems have to be developed because of the increase in water demand and water supply. In order to obtain more accurate results, surface water and ground water should be modeled as a unique system. Thus, surface water/ground water interactions should be taken into account in these modeling studies. There are many studies available treating ground water and surface water as a separate system but only a few of them incorporate the interactions between surface and ground water into the hydrological models. In this study, a hydrological model of the wetland site around the Büyükçekmece Lake in Büyükçekmece Watershed is developed by using Environmental Protection Agency Storm Water Management Model (EPA SWMM) incorporating surface water/ground water interactions. In this hydrologic model, the interaction effect on wetland hydrology is observed by defining different interaction levels. First, no interaction effect is considered; then two different interaction coefficients are employed into the model. With each model, analyses are conducted under different soil types and ground water level changes and surface water flow are calculated under these conditions. After simulations, it is observed that interactions result in different ground water levels and major aquifer parameters such as porosity and hydraulic conductivity affect the interactions.