Fall, 2004

Bruce M. Thomson

505-277-4729

bthomson@unm.edu

CE 441/541

Groundwater Engineering

Course Outline

 

Week

Topic

Reading

1

Introduction, definitions, properties of aquifers & vadose zones

Ch. 1 & 2

2

Darcy's Law & groundwater flow

Ch. 3

3

Development of regional flow equations

Ch. 4 & 5

4

Well hydraulics - steady flow

9.1-9.3

5

Well hydraulics - transient flow

9.3-9.8

6

Exam 1 - Measurement of aquifer properties - pump tests

Ch. 10

7

Pump tests & slug tests - PUMPz

Ch. 12, Ch. 14

8

Water well drilling & construction

Ch. 7

9

Well development, screens & pumps

 

10

Vadose zone & soil moisture

Ch. 6

11

Regional flow & finite difference methods

8.1-8.3

12

Ground water modeling – WHAEM, FLOWNETz

8.4-8.5, Ch. 13

13

Examination No. 2 – Modeling continued

 

14

Ground water development & management

Ch. 15

15

Ground water contamination, monitoring & restoration

Ch. 16

 

Text:  Schwartz, F.W., Zhang, H., (2003).  Fundamentals of Ground Water, Wiley, ISBN 0-471-13785-5

 

Grading:            Homework       - 15 %

                        Midterm Exams            - 50 %

                        Final Exam    - 35 %

References - Books

Bear, J., Hydraulics of Groundwater, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, NY, 569 p., (1979).

Bedient, P.B., Rifai, H.S., Newell, C.J., (1999).  Ground Water Contamination, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 604 p.

Bouwer, H., Groundwater Hydrology, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, NY, 480 p., (1978).

Butler, J. J. Jr., The Design, Performance, and Analysis of Slug Tests, Lewis Pubs., Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 288 p., (1997).

Carnahan, B., Luther, H.A., Wilkes, J.O., Applied Numerical Methods, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 604 p., (1969).

Chapelle, F.H., Ground-Water Microbiology & Geochemistry, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 424 p., (1992).

Charbeneau, R.J., (2000).  Groundwater Hydraulics and Pollutant Transport, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 593 p.

de Marsily, G., Quantitative Hydrogeology, Groundwater Hydrology for Engineers, Academic Press, Inc., Orlando, FL, 440 p., (1986).

Domenico, P.A., Schwartz, F.W., Physical and Chemical Hydrogeology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 824 p., (1990).

Driscoll, F.G., Groundwater and Wells, 2nd ed., Johnson Division, St. Paul, MN, 1089 p., (1986).

Fetter, C.W., Jr., (2001). Applied Hydrogeology, 4th ed., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 598 p.

Fetter, C.W., Jr., (1999).  Contaminant Hydrogeology, 2nd ed., Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 500 p.

Freeze, R.A., Cherry, J.A., Groundwater, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 604 p., (1979).

Groundwater Contamination, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 179 p., (1984).

Guymon, G.L., (1994).  Unsaturated Zone Hydrology, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 210 p.

Heath, R.C., Basic Ground-Water Hydrology, U.S. Geol. Survey Water-Supply Paper 2220, USGPO, 84 p., (1983).

Hermance, J.F., A Mathematical Primer on Groundwater Flow, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 230 p. (1998).

Hillel, D., Introduction to Soil Physics, Academic Press, Inc., New York, NY, 365 p., (1982).

Istok, J.D., Groundwater Flow and Solute Transport Modeling by the Finite Element Method,  Am. Geophys. Union, Water Resources Monograph 13,  Washington, D.C., 495 p., (1989).

Javandel, I., Doughty, C., Tsang, C., Groundwater Transport:  Handbook of Mathematical Models, Am. Geophys. Union, Washington, D.C., 228 p., (1984).

Jury, W.A., Gardner, W.R., Gardner, W.H., (1991).  Soil Physics, 5th ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 328 p.

Keys, W.S., Borehole Geophysics Applied to Ground-Water Investigations, Natl. Water Well Assoc., Dublin, OH, 313 p., (1989).

Keys, W.S., A Practical Guide to Borehole Geophysics in Environmental Investigations, Lewis Pubs., Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 192 p. (1997).

Kruseman, G.P., deRidder, N.A., Analysis and Evaluation of Pumping Test Data, 2nd ed., ILRI Pub. 47, Intl. Inst. for Land Recl. and Improvement, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 377 p., (1990).

Luckner, L., Schestakow, W.M., Migration Processes in the Soil and Groundwater Zone, Lewis Pubs., Chelsea, MI, 485 p., (1991).

National Research Council, (1993), In Situ Bioremediation:  When Does It Work?, Natl. Acad. Press, Washington, D.C., 207 p.

National Research Council, (1993), Ground Water Vulnerability Assessment:  Predicting Relative Contamination Potential Under Conditions of Uncertainty, Natl. Acad. Press, Washington, D.C., 204 p.

National Research Council, (1994), Alternatives for Ground Water Cleanup, Natl. Acad. Press, Washington, D.C., 314 p.

Pinder, G.F., Gray, W.G., Finite Element Simulation in Surface and Subsurface Hydrology, Academic Press, New York, NY, 295 p., (1977).

Schwartz, F.W., Zhang, H., (2003).  Fundamentals of Ground Water, Wiley, NY, 583 p.

Stephens, D.B., (1995).  Vadose Zone Hydrology, Lewis Pubs., Boca Raton, FL, 339 p.

Strack, O.D.L., Groundwater Mechanics, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 732 p., (1989).

Todd, D.K., Groundwater Hydrology, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 535 p., (1980).

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Handbook:  Groundwater, EPA/625/6-87/-016.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Handbook:  Remedial Action at Waste Disposal Sites (Revised), EPA/625/6-85/-006.

U.S. Geological Survey, (1995).  Ground Water Atlas of the United States, Segment 2: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Hydrol. Invest. Atlas 730-C, Reston, VA. 32 p.

Wang, H.F., Anderson, M.P., Introduction to Groundwater Modeling:  Finite Difference and Finite Element Methods, W.H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, CA, 237 p., (1982).

Willis, R., Yeh, W. W-G., Groundwater Systems Planning & Management, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 416 p., (1987).

 

Journals

TD 1 E55            Environmental Science and Technology (Am. Chem. Soc.)

TD 1 A32            Jour. of Envi. Engr. (Am. Soc. of Civil Engrs.)

TD 403 G7            Ground Water (Natl. Water Well Assoc.)

GB 1001 G76            Groundwater Monitoring Review (Natl. Water Well Assoc.)

TD 201 A512            Jour. of the American Water Works Association

TD 420 W3            Water Research

TC 1 W3            Water Resources Research (Am. Geophys. Union)

TD 511 S4            Jour. of the Water Pollution Control Federation

TD 172 C5            CRC Crit. Rev. in Envi. Control

S 1 J78            Jour. of Environmental Quality