Effects of monitoring and pumping well pipe capacities during pumping tests in confined aquifers

Author:

Chapuis Robert P,Chenaf Djaouida

Abstract

This paper establishes how the water stored in the pipes of monitoring and pumping wells influences the drawdown curves of pumping tests in confined aquifers. Experimental and numerical results obtained with a physical model are first studied and then confirmed by field-test data. A large tank was used for fully controlled pumping tests. It contains a lower confined aquifer, an aquitard, and an upper unconfined aquifer. Pumping tests at a constant flow rate in the confined aquifer provided drawdowns that were analyzed for unsteady-state, steady-state, and recovery conditions. For a single monitoring well, the different interpretation methods provided similar values of transmissivity, T, and storativity, S. Drawdown curves gave much too high S values. These S values were equal to those resulting from water storage in the pipes of monitoring and pumping wells, according to the physical definition of storativity. The experimental T and S values were confirmed by two numerical analyses (finite elements) of the pumping test, one considering no water was stored in the pipes and the other considering stored water. Data of real pumping tests in confined aquifers confirmed that the S value calculated from drawdown curves can be influenced by water storage in monitoring and pumping wells for usual pipe diameters.Key words: pumping test, transmissivity, storativity, sandbox, in situ test, pipe capacity.

Publisher

Canadian Science Publishing

Subject

Civil and Structural Engineering,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

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