{"id":89,"date":"2019-11-27T15:26:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/?p=89"},"modified":"2019-11-28T02:59:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T02:59:12","slug":"groundwater-flow-between-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/groundwater-flow-between-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundwater Flow Between Wells"},"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\/TwoWells-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TwoWells-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TwoWells-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TwoWells-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TwoWells-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: Identify the direction of groundwater flow using wells and quantify groundwater discharge (Q) and travel times through a confined aquifer.  <br> 1. The following problem is based on confined gravel aquifer.&nbsp; In this case the confining unit is a low hydraulic conductivity shale, which acts as barrier to groundwater flow in the vertical direction.&nbsp; Within this aquifer there are two wells and the hydraulic head is shown as a solid line with a triangle on top.&nbsp; The hydraulic conductivity and effective porosity are labeled on the folable aquifer model along with the dimensions of the model.&nbsp; Please answer the following three questions. &nbsp;&nbsp; <br><br> A. Using the water levels in the two wells as your guide determine the direction of groundwater flow in the confined aquifer.&nbsp;  <br><br> B.&nbsp; Quantify the groundwater discharge through the confined aquifer in units of m<sup>3<\/sup>\/s and then convert this discharge into gallons per day.  <br><br> C.&nbsp; Quantify the groundwater travel time between wells in units of days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"745\" src=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FlowBetweenWells-1024x745.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FlowBetweenWells-1024x745.png 1024w, https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FlowBetweenWells-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FlowBetweenWells-768x559.png 768w, https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FlowBetweenWells.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FlowBetweenWells.pdf\">Foldable Aquifer Model<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FlowBetweenWells.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: Identify the direction of groundwater flow using wells and quantify groundwater discharge (Q) and travel times through a confined aquifer. 1. The following problem is based on confined gravel aquifer.&nbsp; In this case the confining unit is a low hydraulic conductivity shale, which acts as barrier to groundwater flow in the vertical direction.&nbsp; Within &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/groundwater-flow-between-wells\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Groundwater Flow Between Wells&#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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darcys-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquifer.geology.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}