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Volume of Aquifer Tested for Permeability During a One‐Well Pumping Test
Author(s) -
Strausberg Sanford I.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
groundwater
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1745-6584
pISSN - 0017-467X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1969.tb01287.x
Subject(s) - aquifer , aquifer test , geology , permeability (electromagnetism) , water well , volume (thermodynamics) , wedge (geometry) , groundwater , aquifer properties , cone of depression , hydrology (agriculture) , geotechnical engineering , artesian aquifer , groundwater recharge , mathematics , geometry , physics , quantum mechanics , membrane , biology , genetics
Pumping test data from a single well were used to estimate aquifer volume affecting drawdown. After four days of pumping from a 240 feet thick welded tuff aquifer in southern Nevada, the volume of the wedge‐shaped mass tested was estimated to be about 15.6 billion cubic feet (440 million cubic meters). The field coefficient of permeability of the aquifer is 275 gallons per day per square foot.