Groundwater monitoring of an openpit limestone quarry
#0183;#32;The openpit limestone quarry in this study is located in the mountainous region of Chichibu city in Saitama prefecture, Japan ().The quarry mainly consists of three rock strata: (1) limestone as a covering rock layer, (2) an interbedded layer of limestone and slaty greenstone underlying the covering rock, and (3) slaty greenstone as basement rock (Fig. 2a).