French: Bassin d'Alimentation des Captages (BAC)English translation: groundwater/aquifer recharge catchment 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | Bassin d'Alimentation des Captages (BAC) | | English translation: | groundwater/aquifer recharge catchment | | Entered by: | French2English |
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Tech/Engineering - Environment & Ecology / water industry (drinking) | | French term or phrase: Bassin d'Alimentation des Captages (BAC) | French has a nice concise acronym for this, as shown above, but I don't think there is an English equivalent.
As far as I understand it, the BAC is the area (i.e. a basin) which feeds or supplies the 'catchment'.
Can anyone suggest a concise way of translating this term, as I have it appearing all through a document, so I need it to be as concise as possible. Here are a few examples of how it appears:
1. Etudes ***BAC (Bassin d’Alimentation des Captages)***
La connaissance des sources de pollution peut s’acquérir au travers des études ***BAC*** qui constituent une sorte de diagnostic constitué principalement :
o d’un état de la pollution des eaux ,
o de la recherche des causes (origine et mécanismes) de cette pollution.
Une étude ***BAC*** peut se présenter comme suit :
Caractérisation de la ressource et délimitation du ***bassin d’alimentation du captage***
o collecte et analyse des données (piézométrie, qualité de l’eau, caractéristiques du forage et de l’aquifère, pluviométrie) pour définir le ***BAC***.
o estimation des temps de transfert et de renouvellement.
o identification des sources de pollution.
At other times, it appears simply as 'bassin d'alimentation'.
I would be most grateful for useful suggestions.
Thanks.
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| | groundwater/aquifer recharge catchment | Explanation:
First off, it appears that the BAC is not a "basin" in the sense of a tank or reservoir, but "bassin" in the the sense of "catchment", i.e. what I have always known as "zone d'épandage" = Infiltration area, i.e. a protected (pollution free) area in which water is allowed to seep into the ground. Given that confusion with "plaine d'épandage" and, thence, "plaine d'inondation" (which CAN be a "zone d'épandage") is possible, it makes a great deal of sense to have invented a new term.
Hence terms like "infiltration basin" and "groundwater recharge basin", which do exist, are not appropriate since they (particularly the first) refer to "structures" or at the very least man-made depressions rather than the natural ground.
An infiltration basin is a shallow impoundment that is designed to infiltrate stormwater into the soil. Infiltration basins are believed to have a high ...
www.stormwatercenter.net/.../Tool6_Stormwater_Practices/Inf...
An infiltration basin is stormwater runoff impoundment designed to ... an off-line infiltration basin. Infiltration basins provide total peak discharge, ...
www.metrocouncil.org/Environment/Watershed/BMP/CH3_STInfilB...
There is a limited number of ghits for "groundwater recharge catchment" and "aquifer recharge catchment".
Responsible for modelling and experimental validation of the groundwater recharge catchment scale hydrological models). Contract number ENV4- CT95 - 0186 ...
www.watmed.com/Storage/Comities/Person_66/EnglishCV.doc
Area of mineralised groundwater recharge catchment (minus fen. and peatland areas). 2350000. Water Budget Available from Recharge catchment (m ...
n9-n10kilcullen-waterford.ie/eiswp/chapters/Appendix_13-1.pdf
information on land use in the groundwater recharge catchment (including pollution. inputs and flow alterations such as water diversion, ...
www.thegef.org/Documents/Medium-Sized_Project_Proposals/MSP...
course – ‘Dijon Bourgogne’ – located in the same aquifer recharge basin as the. commune’s springs. Quantitatively, the volume of water locally available ...
taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/3PCDDG2AK0042P98.pdf
These measurements principally reflect the isotopic variations in the rainfall on the aquifer's recharge basin. The rainfall's traverse time through the ...
www.mit.edu/~phuybers/General/
Collect flow and pollutant loads from a wetland and an aquifer recharge basin for model calibration and. verification. Model inputs are obtained from the ...
https://my.sfwmd.gov/pls/portal/url/item/1D764B0CEF6A1B9CE040E88D485267C1
This data set was created by digitizing the levees sorrounding the the aquifer recharge basins from a SPOT panchromatic images with a resolution of 10 meters or approximately +/- 33 feet.
[…] This data set is known as Hydrography Sub-surface Aquifer Recharge Basin abbreviated HYSUBAQR and contains the water recharge basin boundaries for the City of Bakersfield, CA.
http://www.bakersfieldcity.us/gis/notes/metadata/hysubaqr.tx...
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| Note from asker to answererWhilst 'Water Supply Catchment' sounded convincing, it could be ambiguous, so I decided upon this answer as the most technically accurate. Many thanks to all answerers, very helpful.
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| groundwater/aquifer recharge catchment
Explanation:
First off, it appears that the BAC is not a "basin" in the sense of a tank or reservoir, but "bassin" in the the sense of "catchment", i.e. what I have always known as "zone d'épandage" = Infiltration area, i.e. a protected (pollution free) area in which water is allowed to seep into the ground. Given that confusion with "plaine d'épandage" and, thence, "plaine d'inondation" (which CAN be a "zone d'épandage") is possible, it makes a great deal of sense to have invented a new term.
Hence terms like "infiltration basin" and "groundwater recharge basin", which do exist, are not appropriate since they (particularly the first) refer to "structures" or at the very least man-made depressions rather than the natural ground.
An infiltration basin is a shallow impoundment that is designed to infiltrate stormwater into the soil. Infiltration basins are believed to have a high ...
www.stormwatercenter.net/.../Tool6_Stormwater_Practices/Inf...
An infiltration basin is stormwater runoff impoundment designed to ... an off-line infiltration basin. Infiltration basins provide total peak discharge, ...
www.metrocouncil.org/Environment/Watershed/BMP/CH3_STInfilB...
There is a limited number of ghits for "groundwater recharge catchment" and "aquifer recharge catchment".
Responsible for modelling and experimental validation of the groundwater recharge catchment scale hydrological models). Contract number ENV4- CT95 - 0186 ...
www.watmed.com/Storage/Comities/Person_66/EnglishCV.doc
Area of mineralised groundwater recharge catchment (minus fen. and peatland areas). 2350000. Water Budget Available from Recharge catchment (m ...
n9-n10kilcullen-waterford.ie/eiswp/chapters/Appendix_13-1.pdf
information on land use in the groundwater recharge catchment (including pollution. inputs and flow alterations such as water diversion, ...
www.thegef.org/Documents/Medium-Sized_Project_Proposals/MSP...
course – ‘Dijon Bourgogne’ – located in the same aquifer recharge basin as the. commune’s springs. Quantitatively, the volume of water locally available ...
taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/3PCDDG2AK0042P98.pdf
These measurements principally reflect the isotopic variations in the rainfall on the aquifer's recharge basin. The rainfall's traverse time through the ...
www.mit.edu/~phuybers/General/
Collect flow and pollutant loads from a wetland and an aquifer recharge basin for model calibration and. verification. Model inputs are obtained from the ...
https://my.sfwmd.gov/pls/portal/url/item/1D764B0CEF6A1B9CE040E88D485267C1
This data set was created by digitizing the levees sorrounding the the aquifer recharge basins from a SPOT panchromatic images with a resolution of 10 meters or approximately +/- 33 feet.
[…] This data set is known as Hydrography Sub-surface Aquifer Recharge Basin abbreviated HYSUBAQR and contains the water recharge basin boundaries for the City of Bakersfield, CA.
http://www.bakersfieldcity.us/gis/notes/metadata/hysubaqr.tx...
| Bourth
France
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PRO pts in category: 161
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| Note from asker to answerer| Whilst 'Water Supply Catchment' sounded convincing, it could be ambiguous, so I decided upon this answer as the most technically accurate. Many thanks to all answerers, very helpful. |
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| water catchent area/ basin
Explanation:
water catchment area 74 400 gHits
water catchment basin 355 gHits
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Note added at 1 day8 hrs (2007-01-10 21:00:49 GMT)
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sorry for typo
That should read
"water catchment area"
| blavatsky
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