ENE 280 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Safe Drinking Water Act, Groundwater Remediation, Hydraulic Head
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Confined aquifer are sandwiched between two confining layers. The slope of the water table, measured in the direction of the steepest rate of change. V = k*(delta h/l), q = v*a, k, hydraulic conductivity, how easy it is to obtain flow of water through porous media. In the saturated zone all of the pore space is occupied by water. (no air) Porosity is defined to be the ratio of the volume of voids to the total volume of material. A groundwater plume is a body of groundwater containing contaminants that exceed federal and state drinking water levels or other risk-based levels: name two mechanisms that affect contaminant transport in groundwater. Diffusion movement of contaminant from regions of high concentration to regions of low concentration. As contaminants move through an aquifer, some are absorbed by solids along the way and some are adsorbed to the surface of particles.
