Conceptual Integrated Science
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ISBN: 9780135197394
Author: Hewitt, Paul G., LYONS, Suzanne, (science Teacher), Suchocki, John, Yeh, Jennifer (jennifer Jean)
Publisher: PEARSON EDUCATION (COLLEGE)
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Chapter 24, Problem 74TE
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Whether groundwater is a renewable or nonrenewable resource.
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1. If a well is drilled into a confined aquifer, the water can rise above its level in the aquifer because of the extra hydrostatic (fluid) pressure; which is called an artesian system. The water in an artesian system will rise all the way to the ground surface.
2. In areas suffered from surface subsidence, solutions such as pumping water back underground are likely to work.
A non-artesian well is drilled in an aquifer with a fairly horizontal water table. The well (φ = 25 cm) has a discharge of 408 m3 /hr, creating a 250 m wide cone of depression. If the height/depth of the water table is 60 m and the aquifer permeability is 8 m/day, determine the drawdown. Include also diagram or drawing.
2) Given:
Saturated hydraulic conductivity – 1.42 m/day
Depth of unconfined aquifer -42 m
a) What is the transmissivity of the aquifer? (m?/day)
3) What is the difference between the depth to groundwater
in a monitoring well and the potentiometric surface?
4) From the equipotential grid below, draw in the flow lines
starting at 1,2,3,and 4.
Water table
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