1) A confined aquifer has a storativity of 0.0036. The aquifer is 64 m thick and...
Question 5: (25 marks) A fully penetrating pumping well is located in a confined aquifer that can be considered to have an infinite extent in all directions. There is no recharge to the aquifer and no other pumping wells in the area. There are two observation wells located at 100 and 500 m, respectively, from the pumping wells. The aquifer and the pumping well have the following properties: Depth to top of aquifer: 50 m Aquifer thickness: 5 m Aquifer...
1) In a leaky confined aquifer, estimate how far from a well pumping at 175 m3/day a steady state drawdown of 0.4 m will be observed. Assume the aquifer is 10 m thick with a horizontal hydraulic conductivity of 7 m/day, the K' is 1 m/day and the b' is 1 m thick, the storativity of the aquifer, S, is 0.02. 2) For the conditions in problem 1, estimate the drawdown at this location after 15 minutes. 3) At the...
1. (2 points) A well in a uniform, homogeneous, isotropic confined aquifer is pumped at a rate of 815 L/min. After 3 days it looks as if the water levels have stabilized in observation wells at distances of 20 m and 200 m from the pumping well. The drawdown in the well at 20 m is 6.5 m and the drawdown in the well at 200 m is 3.5 m. a) Use the Thiem solution to determine the aquifer transmissivity....
A well is pumping near a barrier boundary at a rate of 0.05 m3/s from a confined aquifer 20 m thick. The hydraulic conductivity of the aquifer is 5 x 10-4 m/s, and its storativity is 4 x 10-5. Determine the drawdown in the observation well after 30 hours of continuous pumping. What is the fraction of the drawdown attributable to the barrier boundary? River fi Гр-240 m 30° 300 m 300 m River fi Гр-240 m 30° 300 m...
A confined aquifer is 3 m thick. The potentiometric surface drops 17 cm between two wells that are 240 m apart. If the hydraulic conductivity of the aquifer is 6.4 m/day and the effective porosity is 0.17, (a) determine the volume of water flowing per day through a strip of the aquifer that is 3 m wide; (b) determine the groundwater flow velocity; (c) calculate the velocity of a contaminant in this aquifer if dry bulk density of aquifer material...
Question. A 50 m thick homogeneous confined aquifer is shortened length wide by two parallel impermeable boundaries as shown below. The well is pumped at 0.3 mº/s for 3 days. Before pumping started, the real well (R) and observation well (A) are positioned at 300 m and 200 m from the barrier of the right hand side aquifer. Calculate the drawdown at a point A at the end of the last day (t = 3 days). Assume T = 0.01...
Watch your significant figures! Example 2. A confined aquifer 32.0 m thick has two monitoring wells spaced 420.0 m apart along the direction of groundwater flow. The difference in water level in the wells is 3.5 m (the difference in piezometric head). The hydraulic conductivity is 22.0 m/day. Estimate the rate of flow per meter of distance perpendicular to the flow (i.e., Q in m'/day per meter of aquifer width). 420.0 m 3.5 m Flow 32.0 m Confined aquifer 22.0...