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Consider the sketch below. The lake is 10 metres deep, followed by a clayey formation 20 metres thick with an hydraulic conductivity (coefficient of permeability) of 510-9ms. The clay is underlain by a horizontal sand "aquifer" 5m thick for which the permeability is 710-6ms. Assume the water level in the sand aquifer is the same as the water level in the lake.
a) What is the vertical hydraulic gradient between the lake bed and the top of the aquifer. How much flow moves between the lake and the aquifer? In what direction?
b) If the water level in the aquifer (i.e. the elevation of the triangle symbol on the standpipe) were lower by 5 metres of elevation, how much flow of water would there be between the lake and the aquifer? In which direction is the flow moving?
c) If the water level in the standpipe is 6 metres higher than the elevation of the water level of the lake, how much flow would there be and in what direction?
d) Imagine that you have two piezometers in the lake bottom and they are 400 metres apart in the horizontal direction. To the north, the piezometer water level is 1m below the water surface of the lake and to the south, the piezometer reads 5m below the lake. How much water (per unit width of aquifer) moves horizontally through the aquifer and in what direction does it move?
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