Common Rock Properties

Extreme Likely Likely

Aquifer Material Kmin, ft/d Kmin, ft/d Kmax, ft/d
Gravel 90 300 3000
Sand and Gravel Mixes 1 30 300
Coarse Sand 50 70 300
Medium Sand 1 20 70
Fine Sand 0.05 3 20
Gulf Coast Aquifer Systems (6603 values) 2 30 200
Stream Terrace Deposit, Fort Worth, Texas (59 values) 0.01 1 100
Surficial Aquifer, central Florida (fine sand and silt, 55 values) 0.01 0.1 30
Silt, Loess 0.0003 0.001 0.1
Till 0.0000003 0.003 0.3
Clay soils (surface) 0.01 0.01 1
Clay 0.000001 0.00001 0.0001
Unweathered Marine Clay 0.0000002 0.0000002 0.0006
Karst 0.3 10 1000
Reef Limestone 0.3 10 1000
Limestone, Dolomite 0.0003 0.004 0.1
Fine-Grained Sandstone 0.0001 0.001 1
Medium-Grained Sandstone 0.001 1 10
Siltstone 0.000001 0.00001 0.005
Claystone 0.000000003 0.000001 0.00001
Anhydrite 0.0000001 0.0000001 0.006
Shale 0.00000001 0.0000001 0.0001
Permeable Basalt 0.1 1 100
Fractured Igneous and Metamorphic Rock 0.001 0.05 10
Weathered Granite 0.1 1 10
Weathered Gabbro 0.1 0.1 1
Basalt 0 0.03 0.1
Unfractured Igneous and Metamorphic Rock 0 0.000000009 0.00006
Unfractured Igneous and Metamorphic Rock 0 0.000000009 0.00006

1 Bouwer, 1978 (order of magnitude in meter/day)

2 Prudic, 1991
3 Sonia A. Jones, USGS, Written commun., 1998
4 Slug Test Results1998-2001, Orlando Subdistrict, USGS
5 Domenico and Schwartz, 1990
6 Morris and Johnson, 1967
7 Wolff, 1982
8 Reese and Cunningham, 2000
9 Kuniansky and Hamrick, 1998
10 Neuzil, 1994

Storage coefficients for confined aquifers typically range from 0.001-0.00001

Extreme
Kmax, ft/d Rock Type References
3000 Unconsolidated Sedimentary 1,5
300 Unconsolidated Sedimentary 1
300 Unconsolidated Sedimentary 1
200 Unconsolidated Sedimentary 1,5
20 Unconsolidated Sedimentary 1,5
800 Unconsolidated Sedimentary 2
300 Unconsolidated Sedimentary 3
50 Unconsolidated Sedimentary 4
6 Unconsolidated Sedimentary 5
0.6 Unconsolidated Sedimentary 1,5
1 Unconsolidated Sedimentary 1
0.001 Unconsolidated Sedimentary 5,7
0.0006 Carbonate Rocks 5
10000 Carbonate Rocks 4,5,8
6000 Carbonate Rocks 5
2 Carbonate Rocks 5
6 Indurated Sedimentary Rock 1,6
80 Indurated Sedimentary Rock 6,9
0.04 Indurated Sedimentary Rock 6
0.00003 Indurated Sedimentary Rock 6,7,10
0.006 Indurated Sedimentary Rock 5
1 Metamorphic or Volcanic Rock 7
6000 Metamorphic or Volcanic Rock 5
100 Metamorphic or Volcanic Rock 1
20 Metamorphic or Volcanic Rock 6
1 Metamorphic or Volcanic Rock 6
0.1 Metamorphic or Volcanic Rock 5
0.00006 Metamorphic or Volcanic Rock 1,5
0.00006
 Drawdown Prediction for Confined Aquifers, Theis(1935)

Input Data for prediction of drawdown

Equation used in prediction
Hydraulic conductivity, K, ft/day 15.13561
0.01 0.1 1 10 100 1000 Q(W (u )) 2
r S
Aquifer Thickness, b, ft 100
s= u=
4 Tt
Storage Coefficient, S
Pumping Rate, GPM
0.001175
30
4 πT
s is drawdown, W(u) is the well
Distance from well, ft 50 function
0.000001 0.00001 0.0001 0.001 0.01 0.1 1

PREDICTED DRAWDOWN
2.5

2
DRAWDOWN IN FEET

1.5

0.5

0
0:00:01 0:00:09 0:01:26 0:14:24 2:24:00 24:00:00
TIME IN HOUR:MINUTE:SECOND
2.5

2
DRAWDOWN IN FEET

1.5

0.5

0
0:00:00 3:00:00 6:00:00 9:00:00 12:00:00 15:00:00 18:00:00 21:00:00 24:00:00

TIME IN HOUR:MINUTE:SECOND
Transmissivity, ft2/day 1513.5612484
pumping rate ft3/day 5775.4010695

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Calculations for time drawdown graphs
time, hour drawdown u W(u)
0:00:04 0 11.64370675 0
0:00:07 0.0001996343 5.821853375 0.000657
0:00:11 0.0014975445 3.881235583 0.004932
0:00:14 0.0050012451 2.910926687 0.01647
0:00:18 0.0104014652 2.32874135 0.034255
0:00:22 0.0166117279 1.940617792 0.054707
0:00:25 0.0251240463 1.663386678 0.08274
0:00:29 0.0335831156 1.455463344 0.110598
0:00:32 0.0419762628 1.293745194 0.138239
0:00:36 0.0523960598 1.164370675 0.172555
0:01:12 0.1444166159 0.582185337 0.475603
0:01:48 0.2204915825 0.388123558 0.726139
0:02:24 0.2827551693 0.291092669 0.93119
0:03:00 0.3344550034 0.232874135 1.101452
0:03:36 0.3793536904 0.194061779 1.249315
0:04:12 0.4182051532 0.166338668 1.377264
0:04:48 0.4531154876 0.145546334 1.492233
0:05:24 0.4839085849 0.129374519 1.593643
0:06:00 0.5123541552 0.116437067 1.687322
0:12:00 0.7057833626 0.058218534 2.324337
0:18:00 0.8231231117 0.038812356 2.710769
0:24:00 0.9075279178 0.029109267 2.988737
0:30:00 0.9734385934 0.023287413 3.205799
0:36:00 1.0277101323 0.019406178 3.38453
0:42:00 1.0736061188 0.016633867 3.535678
0:48:00 1.1135808339 0.014554633 3.667326
0:54:00 1.1488410316 0.012937452 3.783447
1:00:00 1.1804141696 0.011643707 3.887426
2:00:00 1.3891257072 0.005821853 4.57477
3:00:00 1.5116606261 0.003881236 4.978311
4:00:00 1.5987138805 0.002910927 5.265001
5:00:00 1.6662924967 0.002328741 5.487556
6:00:00 1.7215392386 0.001940618 5.669498
7:00:00 1.7682587405 0.001663387 5.823359
8:00:00 1.8087431909 0.001455463 5.956685
9:00:00 1.8444597532 0.001293745 6.074309
10:00:00 1.8764093069 0.001164371 6.179528
11:00:00 1.9053192204 0.001058519 6.274736
12:00:00 1.9317147391 0.000970309 6.361664
13:00:00 1.9559962624 0.00089567 6.441629
14:00:00 1.9784774416 0.000831693 6.515666
15:00:00 1.9994104575 0.000776247 6.584604
16:00:00 2.0189940621 0.000727732 6.649098
17:00:00 2.037390031 0.000684924 6.709681
18:00:00 2.0547342117 0.000646873 6.7668
19:00:00 2.0711403993 0.000612827 6.82083
20:00:00 2.086704865 0.000582185 6.872088
21:00:00 2.1015123077 0.000554462 6.920853
22:00:00 2.1156311409 0.000529259 6.967351
23:00:00 2.1291222589 0.000506248 7.011781
24:00:00 2.1420391095 0.000485154 7.054319
 W(u)

1.4
log(1/u) w(u) DW / Dlog(1/u)
u -99 0 0
10 -1 3.6E-06 0.000646
7.142857 -0.853872 9.8E-05 0.0063
5.102041 -0.707744 0.001019 0.032947
3.644315 -0.561616 0.005833 0.109007
2.603082 -0.415488 0.021762 0.258295
1.859344 -0.26936 0.059506 0.480377
1.328103 -0.123232 0.129703 0.749937
0.948645 0.022896 0.23929 1.03204
0.677604 0.169024 0.3901 1.297193
0.484003 0.315152 0.579656 1.527813
0.345716 0.46128 0.802912 1.717507
0.24694 0.607408 1.053888 1.867407
0.176386 0.753536 1.326769 1.982504
0.12599 0.899664 1.616468 2.069077
0.089993 1.045792 1.918818 2.133242
0.064281 1.191921 2.230545 2.180301
0.045915 1.338049 2.549148 2.214555
0.032796 1.484177 2.872756 2.239354
0.023426 1.630305 3.199989 2.257239
0.016733 1.776433 3.529834 2.270102
0.011952 1.922561 3.86156 2.279336
0.008537 2.068689 4.194635 2.285954
0.006098 2.214817 4.528677 2.290693
0.004356 2.360945 4.863411 2.294085
0.003111 2.507073 5.198641 2.29651
0.002222 2.653201 5.534226 2.298244
0.001587 2.799329 5.870064 2.299484
0.001134 2.945457 6.206083 2.300369
0.00081 3.091585 6.542231 2.301002
0.000578 3.237713 6.878472 2.301454
0.000413 3.383841 7.214779 2.301777
0.000295 3.529969 7.551133 2.302008
0.000211 3.676097 7.887521 2.302173
0.000151 3.822225 8.223933 2.302291
0.000108 3.968353 8.560363 2.302375
7.68E-05 4.114481 8.896804 2.302435
5.49E-05 4.260609 9.233254 2.302478
3.92E-05 4.406737 9.569711 2.302508
2.8E-05 4.552865 9.906172 2.30253
2E-05 4.698993 10.24264 2.302546
1.43E-05 4.845121 10.5791 2.302557
1.02E-05 4.991249 10.91557 2.302565
7.29E-06 5.137377 11.25204 2.302571
5.21E-06 5.283506 11.58851 2.302575
3.72E-06 5.429634 11.92498 2.302578
2.66E-06 5.575762 12.26145 2.30258
1.9E-06 5.72189 12.59792 2.302581

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1.36E-06 5.868018 12.9344 2.302582

9.68E-07 6.014146 13.27087 2.302583
6.91E-07 6.160274 13.60734 2.302584
4.94E-07 6.306402 13.94381 2.302584
3.53E-07 6.45253 14.28028 2.302584
2.52E-07 6.598658 14.61676 2.302585
1.8E-07 6.744786 14.95323 2.302585
1.29E-07 6.890914 15.2897 2.302585
9.18E-08 7.037042 15.62617 2.302585
6.56E-08 7.18317 15.96264 2.302585
4.68E-08 7.329298 16.29912 2.302585
3.35E-08 7.475426 16.63559 2.302585
2.39E-08 7.621554 16.97206 2.302585
1.71E-08 7.767682 17.30853 2.302585
1.22E-08 7.91381 17.64501 2.302585
8.71E-09 8.059938 17.98148 2.302585
6.22E-09 8.206066 18.31795 2.302585
4.44E-09 8.352194 18.65442 2.302585
3.17E-09 8.498322 18.99089 2.302585
2.27E-09 8.64445 19.32737 2.302585
1.62E-09 8.790578 19.66384 2.302585
1.16E-09 8.936706 20.00031 2.302585
8.26E-10 9.082834 20.33678 2.302585
5.9E-10 9.228962 20.67326 2.302585
4.22E-10 9.375091 21.00973 2.302585
3.01E-10 9.521219 21.3462 2.302585
2.15E-10 9.667347 21.68267 2.302585
1.54E-10 9.813475 22.01914 2.302585
1.1E-10 9.959603 22.35562 2.302585
7.84E-11 10.10573 22.69209 2.302585
5.6E-11 10.25186 23.02856 2.302585
4E-11 10.39799 23.36503 2.302585
2.86E-11 10.54411 23.70151 2.302585
2.04E-11 10.69024 24.03798 2.302585
1.46E-11 10.83637 24.37445 2.302585
1.04E-11 10.9825 24.71092 2.302585
7.44E-12 11.12863 25.04739 2.302585
5.31E-12 11.27475 25.38387 2.302585
3.79E-12 11.42088 25.72034 2.302585
2.71E-12 11.56701 26.05681 2.302585
1.94E-12 11.71314 26.39328 2.302585
1.38E-12 11.85927 26.72976 2.302585
9.88E-13 12.0054 27.06623 2.302585
7.05E-13 12.15152 27.4027 2.302585
5.04E-13 12.29765 27.73917 2.302585
3.6E-13 12.44378 28.07564 2.302585
2.57E-13 12.58991 28.41212 2.302585
1.84E-13 12.73604 28.74859 2.302585
1.31E-13 12.88216 29.08506 2.302585
9.37E-14 13.02829 29.42153 2.302585

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6.69E-14 13.17442 29.75801 2.302585

4.78E-14 13.32055 30.09448 2.302585
3.41E-14 13.46668 30.43095 2.302585
2.44E-14 13.6128 30.76742 2.302585
1.74E-14 13.75893 31.10389 2.302585
1.24E-14 13.90506 31.44037 2.302585
8.89E-15 14.05119 31.77684 2.302585
6.35E-15 14.19732 32.11331 2.302585
4.53E-15 14.34344 32.44978 2.302585
3.24E-15 14.48957 32.78626 2.302585
2.31E-15 14.6357 33.12273 2.302585
1.65E-15 14.78183 33.4592 2.302585
1.18E-15 14.92796 33.79567 2.302585
8.43E-16 15.07408 34.13214 2.302585
6.02E-16 15.22021 34.46862 2.302585
4.3E-16 15.36634 34.80509 2.302585
3.07E-16 15.51247 35.14156 2.302585
2.19E-16 15.6586 35.47803

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