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Vol. 8  No. 2

BOUWER AND RICE SLUG-TEST METHOD
&
SINGLE WELL SOLUTIONS

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Bouwer and Rice Slug-Test Method

Bouwer and Rice (1976) developed a method of determining the hydraulic conductivity of an unconfined aquifer.  This method can be used for both fully and partially penetrating wells.  While originally developed for unconfined aquifers, it has been found that it can also be used in confined aquifers, provided the top of the well screen is some distance below the bottom of the upper confining layer.

The equations used to determine the hydraulic conductivity with the Bouwer and Rice method are as follows:


There are many programs available for analyzing slug tests results, including Single Well Solutions


Bouwer and Rice Slug Test

Calculating conductivity using the Bouwer and Rice slug test method


Graphical Display of Inputs

h1 (head at time t=t1): 

h2 (head at time t=t2): 

t1 (time at head h1): 

t2 (time at head h2): 

How to get this data

Well Type:  

b (Aquifer saturated thickness):  

H (distance from water table to bottom of pack):

L (length of the screened interval):

rc (radius of casing):

rw (radius of well):

**KEEP UNITS CONSISTENT**

Results

Conductivity:   

References

Batu, V. (1998). Aquifer Hydraulics; A Comprehensive Guide to Hydrogeologic Data Analysis. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, NY.

Fetter, C.W. (1994). Applied Hydrogeology; Third Edition.  Published by Prentice-Hall, Inc. , Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

Schwartz, F.W. and Zhang, H. (2003). Fundamentals of Groundwater. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, NY.

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Single Well Solution

Single Well Solutions is a powerful Windows software product that contains a collection of the most popular analytical solutions from "Analysis and Evaluation of Pumping Test Date," by G.P. Kruseman and N.A. deRidder, second edition (1990), for determining aquifer hydraulic conductivity and pumping well efficiency from single well test data

 

Wide selection of analysis methods

Single Well Solutions is capable of analyzing single well test data with a variety of methods.  These methods include:

Slug Tests:

  • Bouwer and Rice (1976)

  • Cooper et al. (1967)

Constant Discharge

  • Hurr and Worthington (1981)

  • Hantush (1964)

Variable Discharge

  • Bisroy and Summers (1980) (both Intermittent and Uninterrupted Pumping)

Step Drawdown

  • Hantush and Bierschenk (1964)

Constant Discharge Recovery

  • Theis (1935)

For more info click here:  Single Well Solutions
To demo software click here: Demo

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