Weekly exercises

Weekly Exercise for Water Chronicles 6

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1. Calculate the porosity of a column of sediment below. If pore volume in sediment is 300 cm3, what is the porosity %?

2. If the elevation of h1 is 35 m and the elevation of h2 is 5 m, what is the hydraulic gradient if the distance (L) from h1 to h2 is 5.6 km?

3. Draw contour lines of water table and indicate the direction of groundwater flow.

4. Draw arrows to indicate the direction of groundwater flow when groundwater is pumped at a high rate from a well installed near a river.

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