WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING
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ISBN: 9781119490579
Author: Mays
Publisher: WILEY
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An unconfined aquifer is 10 m thick and is being pumped so that one observation well placed at a distance 76 m shows a drawdown of 0.5 m. On the opposite side of the extraction well is another observation well 100 m from the extraction well, shows a drawdown of 0.3 m. Assume the coefficient of permeability of 50 m/day.
a.) What is the discharge f the extraction well?
b.) Suppose the well at 100 m from the extraction well is now pumped. Show with a sketch what this will do to the drawdown.
c.) Suppose the aquifer sits on an aquaclude that has a slope of 1/100. Show with a sketch what this will do to the drawdown.
Kindly give me right solution with step by step.
The thickness of a horizontal, confined, homogeneous, isotropic aquifer of infinite areal
extent is 30m. A well fully penetrating the aquifer was continuously pumped at a
constant rate of 0.1 m³/s for a period of 1 day. The drawdowns given in the table below
were observed in a fully penetrating well 90 m from the pumping well.
Compute the transmissivity and the storativity by using:
a) the Theis method of log-log matching.
b) the Cooper-Jacob method of semi-log plotting.
[For Part a), you have to first use attached Table to plot the values of W(u) versus 1/u on
a log-log graph in the range of 10-9
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