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The Phenomenological Comparison between Results from Single-hole and Cross-hole Hydraulic Test  

Kim, Tae-Hee (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Kim, Kue-Young (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Oh, Jun-Ho (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Hwang, Se-Ho (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
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Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment / v.12, no.5, 2007 , pp. 39-53 More about this Journal
Abstract
Generally, fractured medium can be described with some key parameters, such as hydraulic conductivities or random field of hydraulic conductivities (continuum model), spatial and statistical distribution of permeable fractures (discrete fracture network model). Investigating the practical applicability of the well-known conceptual models for the description of groundwater flow in fractured media, various types of hydraulic tests were applied to studies on the highly fractured media in Geumsan, Korea. Results from single-hole packer test show that the horizontal hydraulic conductivities in the permeable media are between $7.67{\times}10^{-10}{\sim}3.16{\times}10^{-6}$ m/sec, with $7.70{\times}10^{-7}$ m/sec arithmetic mean and $2.16{\times}10^{-7}$ m/sec geometric mean. Total number of test interval is 110 at 8 holes. The number of completely impermeable interval is 9, and the low permeable interval - below $1.0{\times}10^{-8}$ m/sec is 14. In other words, most of test intervals are permeable. The vertical distribution of hydraulic conductivities shows apparently the good correlation with the results of flowmeter test. But the results from the cross-hole test show some different features. The results from the cross-hole test are highly related to the connectivity and/or the binary properties of fractured media; permeable and impermeable. From the viewpoint of the connection, the application of the general stochastic approach with a single continuum model may not be appropriate even in the moderately or highly permeable fractured medium. Then, further studies on the investigation method and the analysis procedures should be required for the reasonable and practical design of the conceptual model, with which the binary properties, including permeable/impermeable features, can be described.
Keywords
Fracture media; Conceptual model; Multi-level hydraulic test; Single-hole test; Cross-hole test; Binary properties;
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