WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING
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ISBN: 9781119490579
Author: Mays
Publisher: WILEY
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The specific storage of a 45 m thick confined aquifer is 3. 0 x
10-5 m-1. How much water would the aquifer produce if the
piezometric surface is lowered by 10 m over an area of 1
km2?
The specific yield of an unconfined aquifer is Sy = 0.15. How much, on average, would heads have to be lowered in an area of 2.5 km2 to release 650,000 m3 of water from storage in this aquifer?
A confined aquifer of 15 m constant thickness is sandwiched between two aquicludes as shown in the figure
(not drawn to scale)
55.2 m
Peizometer P
Aquiclude
Piezometric Surface
Aquiclude
Peizometer Q
L = 2500 m
S
34.1 m
AUSM
Reference Datum
The heads indicated by two piezometers P and Q are 55.2 m and 34.1 m, respectively. The aquifer has a hydrau-
lic conductivity of 80 m/day and its effective porosity is 0.25. If the distance between the piezometers is 2500
m, the time taken by the water to travel through the aquifer from piezometer location P to Q (in days, round off
to 1 decimal place) is
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