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Department of Civil Engineering CE 431 Hydrology Laboratory Problem #11 Groundwater Pumping Test Water is pumped at the rate

of 1 gpm from a deep !ell drilled through an artesian a"uifer# $n observation !ell is % feet north of the pumped !ell# &oth !ells are presumed to terminate in the same !ater'bearing stratum# Details of dra!do!n throughout the pump test are tabulated belo!( Pump )est data' *uly 1 + 1%, -figures represent !ater levels in the observation !ell measured in feet belo! the ground surfa.e at the !ell(

TIME
0645 0700 0715 0730 0800 083 0900 1000 1100 1300 1500 1700 1900 2100

H20 LEVELS
40

REMARKS
Non-pumping equilibrium Pumping Started 0700 at

40.13 40.5 41.19 41.7 42.11 42.78 43.32 44.01 44.52 44.89 45.23 45.55 Pumping topped

Find: 1.

)he .oeffi.ient of transmissivity and .oeffi.ient of storage /average0 for the a"uifer using the )heis non'e"uilibrium method# )his .al.ulation !ill re"uire that you# a# Plot+ on log'log paper+ the 1type .urve2 /W/u0 vs# u0+ .oordinates for !hi.h are found atta.hed# *ust plot the shaded portion of the data# b# Plot the .urve of dra!do!n vs# r34t at the same s.ale# 5se a different sheet of transparent log'log paper of the same type as used in part 1a# .# 6at.h the t!o .urves to solve e"uation $ for ) and e"uation & for 7.#

Note: 8ou may !ant to use the .omputer !ith 6i.rosoft E9.el and Po!erPoint to do this method# :t may be more a..urate than the transparent paper be.ause you .an easily ma;e .hanges+ the graphs are not sub<e.t to errors and Po!erPoint .an save the position for future referen.e# 7ee appendi9 $# 2. 5sing the modified )heis /Cooper'*a.ob0 method+ plotting on semi'log graph paper and using e"uations C and D+ .al.ulate the storage .oeffi.ient and .oeffi.ient of transmissivity from the pump'test data# Compare !ith the results using the )heis method of :tem 1# =ind the effe.t on the !ater table /i#e# dra!do!n0 at the observation !ell+ of a proposed ne! !ell lo.ated 3> feet from the observation !ell+ pumped at a rate of $ gpm .ontinuously for 13 days# $ is t!i.e your age in months# )o .al.ulate this dra!do!n+ use the ) ? 7 . determined from the )heis method /method 1# above0#

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Write a report of your results#

Let u =

r 3 Sc then( 4Tt

/E"uation $0 Q e u Q Zr = du = W /u 0 u 4T u 4T Zr @ dra!do!n /ft0 Q @ flo! /ft34day0 T @ transmissivity /ft34day'ft0 /E"uation &0 r3 4Tu = t Sc r @ distan.e to !ell /ft0 t @ time /days0 Sc @ 7torage .oeffi.ient /E"uation C0

3#3Q t 3 T = log 4z t1
/E"uation D0

Sc =

3#3>Tt o r3

Table 6.3 values for W/u0 for various values of u


u !1 !10-1 !10-2 !10-3 !10-4 !10-5 !10-6 !10-7 !10-8 !10-9 !10-10 !10-11 !10-12 !10-13 !10-14 !10-15 1.0 0.219 1.82 4.04 6.33 8.63 10.95 13.24 15.54 17.84 20.15 22.45 24.75 27.05 29.36 31.66 33.96 2.0 0.049 1.22 3.35 5.64 7.94 10.24 12.55 14.85 17.15 19.45 21.76 24.06 26.36 28.66 30.97 33.27 3.0 0.013 0.91 2.96 5.23 7.53 9.84 12.14 14.44 16.74 19.05 21.35 23.65 25.95 28.26 30.56 32.86 4.0 0.0038 0.70 2.68 4.95 7.25 9.55 11.85 14.15 16.46 18.73 21.06 23.36 25.66 27.97 30.27 32.58 5.0 0.0011 4 0.56 2.48 4.73 7.02 9.33 11.63 13.93 16.23 18.54 20.84 23.14 25.44 27.75 .0.05 32.35 6.0 0.0003 6 0.45 2.30 4.54 6.84 9.14 11.45 13.75 16.05 18.35 20.66 22.95 25.26 27.56 29.87 32.17 7.0 0.00012 0.37 2.15 4.39 6.69 8.99 11.29 13.60 15.90 18.20 20.50 22.81 25.11 27.41 29.71 32.02 8.0 0.00003 8 0.31 2.03 4.26 6.55 8.86 11.16 13.46 15.76 18.07 20.37 22.67 24.97 27.28 29.58 31.88 9.0 0.0000 12 0.26 1.94 4.14 6.44 8.74 11.04 13.34 15.65 17.95 20.25 22.55 24.86 27.16 29.46 31.76

Source: $dapted from A31B APPEN !" A: 7teps for using Criginal )heis method via 6i.rosoft produ.ts# 1# Plot both sets of data in E9.el /D vs# r3t and W/u0 vs# u0 using 9y s.atter plot# Chose to have the plots 1$s ne! sheet2+ instead of 1$s an ob<e.t in2 to preserve s.ale# &e sure to ad<ust either the values or the a9es to logarithmi. s.ale# $d<ust other parameters of the plot to sho! t!o log .y.les# =urther+ get rid of the default gray ba.;ground by double'.li.;ing and sele.ting 1none2# =or e9ample(

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6i.rosoft Po!erPoint !ill be used to overlay and shift the graphs relatively !hile maintaining parallelism# a# Cpen Po!erPoint b# Copy one of the graphs .reated in step 1# .# :n Po!erPoint /on a blan; page0 point to Edit+ Paste 7pe.ial+ Pi.ture/Enhan.ed 6etafile0 i# )his !ill insert the graph as .olle.tion of lines and .urves .onveniently grouped# d# Eepeat for the se.ond graph and insert the 6etafile dire.tly on top of the first#

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:n Po!erPoint+ sele.t one of the graphs previously inserted and use the arro! ;eys to move it relative to the other graph# Foti.e ho! only one of the graphs moves# 7maller movements .an be obtained by holding Ctrl ;ey !hile using the arro! ;eysG this is good for fine turning the overlap# 6ove this graph to find the most ideal lo.ation that has the most amount of overlap bet!een the t!o graphs /remember to move both horiDontally and verti.ally0#

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Cbtain the un;no!n values from the region of overlap as instru.ted#

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