Structural Analysis
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Two monitoring wells are installed along the flow path with the following characteristics. If a chemical tracer with a retardation factor of 5 takes 50 days to arrive at well 2, what would be the hydraulic gradient (unitless)?
Porosity: 0.5
Hydraulic conductivity (K): 1000 m/day
Distance between two wells: 5000 feet
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