Aquifer Tests

The Design, Performance, and Analysis of Slug Tests


by James J. Butler Jr.
Lewis Publishers

Slug tests are very useful for providing transmissivity and storage properties of aquifers. This book provides sound slug test procedures and theories. The author provides flow charts for selecting the appropriate applications. Butler explains all the prevalent slug test methods including: the Bouwer and Rice, Cooper et al., Hvorslev, Dagan, Peres, Ferris and Knowles, Dax, McElwee et al., and the Kansas Geological Survey model (KGS). This is a superb reference on slug tests.

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1997/ Catalog #T846/ 252 pages. Member $59; Nonmember $73.75

Water Well and Aquifer Test Analysis


by Phil Hall and Joe Chen
Water Resources Publication

A thorough text for conducting analyses of aquifer tests. The book covers design, field operation, data preparation and analysis, and bridges the gap between analyzing pumping test data on graph paper and analyzing on computer. The book contains chapters on confined aquifer conditions, analysis of recovery data, boundary conditions, and much more. Includes computer software: PUMPTEST.
Free Software!

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1996/ Catalog #T847/ 412 pages. Member $85.25; Nonmember $106.50

Analysis and Evaluation of Pumping Test Data, 3rd edition

by G.P. Kruseman and N.A. de Ridder
International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement

Pumping tests are the most suitable means for achieving reliable and representative values of the hydraulic characteristics in aquifers and layers of low permeability. This book was intended as a guidebook for analyzing and evaluating data from pumping tests.

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1994/ Catalog #T611/ 377 page Member: $45; Nonmember: $56.25

Aquifer Parameter Estimator: Problems and Solutions

by Michael Kasenow, Ph.D. and Paul Pare
Water Resources Publications

This new hydrogeologic software package is both an engineering and a teaching tool. Buy Aquifer Parameter Estimator "APE" and you get a textbook for the accompanying computer software package to really get a handle on aquifer testing. As you go through the book and software you work out example problems. The main menu for "APE".

Please select a method For Estimating Aquifer Parameters

  • Theis Solutions
  • Time-Drawdown Semi-Logarithmic
  • Distance-Drawdown Semi-Logarithmic
  • Pumping Well Solutions
  • Leaky Confined Aquifers
  • Steady State Solutions
  • Use Editor Option

Many data sets are included. Model pump tests, capture zones, and well efficiency with this user friendly computer program created by Dr. Kasenow, staff hydrogeologist at Eastern Michigan University. "Go APE."

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1995/ Catalog #T547/ 197 page Member: $119; Nonmember: $135 WITH FREE SOFTWARE!

Aquifer Test Analysis with Windows(tm)

by William Walton
CRC Press

This book and accompanying software will help environmental and engineering professionals accurately and easily perform aquifer test analyses in complicated aquifer and well conditions. Features include: displays test data and results quickly and easily with spreadsheets; supports on-screen interactive visual matching of type curves to aquifer test data; allows one to easily create drawdwon contour maps and to display aquifer test site features; introduces methods for calibrating aquifer test site models and much more.

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1996/ Catalog #T531/ 336 page Member: $60; Nonmember: $75 WITH FREE SOFTWARE!

Aquifer Testing: Design and Analysis

by Karen Dawson and Jonathan Istok
Lewis Publishers

Complete design and analysis references emphasizing practical solutions for engineers, scientists, consultants, and students knowledgeable in basic ground water theory are included in this publication. Discussions of models such as steady-state, transient flow with constant discharge, slug injection or withdrawal, and step discharge are also included.

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1992/ Catalog #T790/ 280 page Member: $88; Nonmember: $107

Determination of Aquifer Parameters Using Array and Regression Analysis (Diskette)

by Michael Kasenow, Ph.D. and Paul Pare
Water Resources Publications

This wonderful tool compiles pump test data. This computer program provides theory and application for the solution of pump test data using the Cooper-Jacob method along with array and regression analysis. Array analysis has been coupled with regression analysis in the computer program included with this book, to offer fast and easy solutions for the analysis of pump test data.

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1994/ Catalog #T466/ 41 pages. Member: $29; Nonmember: $36.25 WITH FREE SOFTWARE!

Leaky Confined Aquifers and the Hantush Inflection Point: Review, Application, and Computer Program

by Michael Kasenow, Ph.D. and Paul Pare
Water Resources Publications

This monograph provides a review and application of methods used to define aquifer parameters using leaky confined aquifer pump test data. It includes a shortcut method that solves leaky confined parameters using only three time-drawdown data points and the Hantush inflection point method. A step-by-step example is provided using historical data. The computer program solves for leaky confined parameters, and the limit of the transient cone of depression. Extensive output includes: storativity; r/B, inflection point; slope; aquitard hydraulic conductivity and the leakage factor.

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1994/ Catalog #T469/ 41 pages. Member: $29; Nonmember: $36.25 WITH FREE SOFTWARE!

Transparent Type Curve Package

This is a set of five acetate-type curves plotted at a scale compatible with K&E 3 x 5 log-log paper (#46 7520). The set includes:

  • A Theis-type curve for non-leaky confined conditions
  • A Hantush-Jacob type curve for leaky confined conditions with no storage in the confining layer
  • A Hantush type curve for leaky confined aquifers with storage in the confining layer
  • A Neuman type curve for unconfined aquifers with delayed gravity drainage
  • A Bessel function.

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Catalog #X659. Member: $14; Nonmember: $19