Wells - Objectives

Areas

Slug testing

Upon completion, students will be able to:

• • Plan and conduct a slug test to estimate aquifer conductivity.
  • Analyze a slug test using both graphical methods and software (Aqtesolv).
  • Conduct slug tests in an open hole, a screened well, and with packers to test a single fracture.
  • Understand the advantages and disadvantages of the test.
  • Describe the uncertainty in your measurements

Pumping test in fractured bedrock

Upon completion, students will be able to:

• Plan, conduct and analyze a pumping test in a confined aquifer.
• Characterize well efficiency and specific capacity.
• Use software to analyze pumping test results.
• Explore potential sources of uncertainty in your results.
• Assess your data for evidence of interactions with hydrologic boundaries.

Pumping test in a confined aquifer

Upon completion, students will be able to:

• Plan, conduct and analyze a pumping test in a confined aquifer.
• Characterize well efficiency and specific capacity.
• Use software to analyze pumping test results.
• Explore potential sources of uncertainty in your results.
• Assess your data for evidence of interactions with hydrologic boundaries.

Well-drilling and installation

Upon completion, students will be able to:

• Learn how to prepare documents for a well permit.
• Oversee drilling, completing, and developing a new well in the field.
• Create a log of the well boring during drilling.
• Describe the well construction and completion.

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  Ken Pimienta explaining the drilling process

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  Ken showing how a split spoon sampler works

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  Students describing split spoon sample

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  Ken and Jeff installing well casing

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  Completed well with augers still in hole

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  Trevor Slack explaining the process of a drilling a new well, May 2019