{"id":101,"date":"2019-11-27T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/?p=101"},"modified":"2019-11-28T02:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T02:58:00","slug":"steady-state-pumping-thiem-equation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/steady-state-pumping-thiem-equation\/","title":{"rendered":"Steady State Pumping: Thiem Equation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Theim_eqs-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Theim_eqs-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Theim_eqs-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Theim_eqs-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Theim_eqs-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Objectives: Determine drawdown around a pumping well under\nsteady state conditions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. The following confined aquifer has four wells that fully\npenetrating the confined aquifer.&nbsp; The\ncenter pumping well has been pumping at a constant rate of 400 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/day\nfor the last four years resulting in a steady state potentiometric\nsurface.&nbsp; The water level in MW-1 was\nmeasured at 350 meters above sea level.&nbsp;\nUsing the foldable aquifer answer the following questions: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A. Before making any sort of quantitative analysis explain\nthe general trend in water levels between MW-1, MW-2 and MW-3.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B.&nbsp; Determine the\nwater level in MW-2, MW-3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C.&nbsp; Describe how the\ncone of depression would change if the hydraulic conductivity changed to 10<sup>2<\/sup>\ncm\/sec (Coarse Gravel) from 10<sup>-5<\/sup> cm\/sec (Sandstone).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"362\" height=\"549\" src=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Thiem_Four_Well_Problem.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Thiem_Four_Well_Problem.png 362w, https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Thiem_Four_Well_Problem-198x300.png 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Thiem_Four_Well_Problem.pdf\">Foldable Aquifer Model<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Thiem_Four_Well_Problem.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc\/4.0\/88x31.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This work is licensed under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objectives: Determine drawdown around a pumping well under steady state conditions. 1. The following confined aquifer has four wells that fully penetrating the confined aquifer.&nbsp; The center pumping well has been pumping at a constant rate of 400 m3\/day for the last four years resulting in a steady state potentiometric surface.&nbsp; The water level in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/steady-state-pumping-thiem-equation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steady State Pumping: Thiem Equation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well-hydraulics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}