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Improvement of Well Efficiency through Well Development in a Pumping Well  

Kim, Gyoo-Bum (K-water Institute, Korea Water Resources Corporation)
Kim, Byung-Woo (K-water Institute, Korea Water Resources Corporation)
Kim, Sung-Yun (K-water Institute, Korea Water Resources Corporation)
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Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment / v.15, no.1, 2010 , pp. 39-49 More about this Journal
Abstract
Drilling at unconsolidated layer can make the aquifer disturbed and reduce a productivity of groundwater well. Surge block and air surging were applied to a pumping well located in Jeungsan-ri, Changnyung-gun, to improve a well efficiency by removing clogging and fine-grained slime. Two experimental log-linear equations, $y_1=-0.1769\;ln(x_1)+0.4960$ and $y_2=-84.3358\;ln(x_2)+512.8162$, were proposed in this site, in which $x_1$ and $x_2$ are the number of surging event, $y_1$ is the amount of slime, and $y_2$ is a recovery time of groundwater level after air surging. Well loss exponent (P) decreased after surging, from 3.422 to 1.439, and the groundwater inflow from aquifer happened in all directions around a well with gradually increasing the homogeneity in a local aquifer's hydraulic property. It was revealed that long-term well development should be done in the pumping well which is located in unconsolidated sediments to increase a well productivity.
Keywords
Well development; Well efficiency; Clogging; Slime; Unconsolidated layer;
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