List of top Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Questions on Well Hydraulics

A fully-penetrating well of 20 cm diameter is provided in an unconfined aquifer. The height of the ground water table is 30 m from the bottom of the aquifer. After a long period of pumping at a rate of 63 m\(^3\)/s, the drawdown in the observation wells at 10 m and 100 m from the pumped well is 12 m and 11 m, respectively. The transmissibility (in m\(^2\)/s) of the aquifer is (rounded off to one decimal place).

A 60 cm diameter well completely penetrates a confined aquifer of permeability \( 5 \times 10^{-4} \, {m/s} \). The length of the strainer (spanning the entire thickness of the aquifer) is 10 m. The drawdown at the well under steady state pumping is 1.0 m. Assume that the radius of influence for this pumping is 300 m.
The discharge from the well (in litres per minute) is ......... (round off to the nearest integer).

A 60 cm diameter well completely penetrates a confined aquifer of permeability \( 5 \times 10^{-4} \, {m/s} \). The length of the strainer (spanning the entire thickness of the aquifer) is 10 m. The drawdown at the well under steady state pumping is 1.0 m. Assume that the radius of influence for this pumping is 300 m.
The discharge from the well (in litres per minute) is ......... (round off to the nearest integer).