Description
Geologic and hydrologic factors controlling the occurrence, movement, storage, and chemical quality of surface water and ground water in addition to the exploration, evaluation, development and management of water resources.
Course objectives
The objectives of this course are:
1. To examine hydrogeological processes that are contributing to environmental problems and the resultant societal impacts, and
2. To give students an appreciation for the need of scientific theory and scientific methods of investigation and analysis.
Prerequisite
Prereq: EarthSci 1121 (EarthSci 121) or GeolSci 121; and Math 1152 (153) or above.
Topical Outline
The following is a tentative, chronological outline of course lecture and associated group or individual
project and exercise topics:
• Hydrologic cycle/budget
• Groundwater Flow and Environmental Problems
◦ A Conceptual Model
◦ Darcy’s Law
• Groundwater Flow in Natural Formations
◦ Natural Formations
◦ Steady Groundwater Flow
◦ Well Design
◦ Flow Nets
• Regional Groundwater Hydrology
◦ Flow Nets and Natural Basin
◦ The effect of water-table topography and geological heterogeneity
◦ Flow System Delineation and Regional Ground Water Flow
• Quantitative Treatment of Ground-Water Flow
◦ Governing Equation of Ground-Water Flow
◦ Boundary and Initial Conditions
◦ Steps in Developing a Mathematical Model
• Ground Water Resource Evaluation
◦ Injection of ground water through wells
◦ Water Release Mechanisms
◦ Cones of Depression
◦ Theis Transient Pumping Test Method
◦ Jacob-Cooper semi-log Time-Drawdown method
◦ Slug Injection/Withdrawal Tests
• Contaminant Hydrogeology
◦ “A Civil Action” – Woburn Hydrogeology
◦ Contaminant Migration in Ground Water
◦ Advection
◦ Hydrodynamic Dispersion
◦ Reactive Contaminant Transport