A model for slug tests conducted in vertically fractured media / by J.M. Markle, K.S. Novakowski, and R.K. Rowe.: En13-5/97-111E-PDF

"In many clay environments in southern Ontario, hazardous waste facilities are sited because the clay is assumed to offer some protection to underlying water supplies. Most clays in southern Ontario, however, are pervaded by vertical fractures that form either due to dessication or through neo-tectonic forces. These fractures may be limited to the upper horizons of the clay or they may penetrate the entire clay formation. To properly estimate the potential for groundwater movement and contaminant migration through these fractures, accurate estimates of the hydraulic properties of the fractures are necessary. This paper describes the development and use of a mathematical model for the interpretation of a hydraulic test conducted where the measuring device intersects a vertical fracture. Estimates of error indicate that by not using this model for interpretation, significant error in the estimate of contaminant movement could be incurred. Thus, the EC issue addressed by this study is toxics in groundwater"--Management perspective.

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Department/Agency Canada. Environment Canada.
National Water Research Institute (Canada)
Title A model for slug tests conducted in vertically fractured media / by J.M. Markle, K.S. Novakowski, and R.K. Rowe.
Series title NWRI contribution ; 97-111
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) "For submission to Water Resources Research".
"January 1997".
Digitized edition from print [produced by Environment and Climate Change Canada].
Includes bibliographical references.
Publishing information [Burlington, Ont.] : National Water Research Institute, [1997].
Author / Contributor Markle, J. M.
Novakowski, Kent S.
Rowe, R. K.
Description 32, [9 ] p. : ill.
Catalogue number
  • En13-5/97-111E-PDF
Subject terms Modelling
Sediments
Hydrogeology
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