Conducting and interpreting slug tests in monitoring wells with partially submerged screens

Ground Water

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 225-229

  Binkhorst, Gordon K ^a   Robbins, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SAND; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SCREENS (SIZING); WATER WELLS;

RESATURATION; SAND PACK DRAINAGE; SLUG TESTS;

GROUNDWATER;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 0032032010     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1998.tb01087.x     Document Type: Article

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