Water wells and boreholes / Bruce Misstear, David Banks, Lewis Clark.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title Page; Table of Contents; Preface to Second Edition; Legal disclaimer; Preface to First Edition; Lewis Clark (1937-2004): An Appreciation; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Wells and boreholes; 1.2 Groundwater occurrence; 1.3 Groundwater flow; 2 Groundwater Investigations for Locating Well Sites; 2.1 Desk studies; 2.2 Field reconnaissance; 2.3 Well survey; 2.4 Geophysical surveys; 2.5 Drilling investigations; 2.6 Groundwater resources assessment; 2.7 Groundwater quality; 2.8 Pollution risk assessment and prevention; 2.9 Planning the well scheme

3 An Introduction to Well and Borehole Design3.1 Drilled wells; 3.2 Hand?dug wells; 3.3 Infiltration galleries; 3.4 Radial collector wells; 3.5 Observation boreholes; 3.6 Exploration boreholes; 3.7 Pump selection; 4 Issues in Well Design and Specialist Applications; 4.1 Choice of construction materials; 4.2 Casing; 4.3 Screen; 4.4 Gravel pack design; 4.5 Hydraulic design; 4.6 Economic optimization of well design; 4.7 Groundwater and wells for heating and cooling; 4.8 Well doublets; 4.9 Recharge wells; 4.10 Aquifer storage and recovery; 5 Well and Borehole Construction

5.1 Percussion (cable?tool) drilling5.2 Rotary drilling; 5.3 Sonic drilling; 5.4 Auger drilling; 5.5 Jetting; 5.6 Direct push and drive sampling; 5.7 Driving of well?points; 5.8 Manual construction; 5.9 Well development; 5.10 Wellhead completion; 6 Formation Sampling and Identification; 6.1 Observing the drilling process; 6.2 Collecting formation samples; 6.3 Description and analysis of drilling samples; 6.4 Downhole geophysical logging; 6.5 Downhole geophysical imaging; 6.6 Distributed (fibre?optic) temperature sensing (DTS); 6.7 Preparing a composite well log; 7 Well and Borehole Testing

7.1 Objectives of test pumping7.2 Planning a well pumping test; 7.3 Types of pumping test; 7.4 Analysis of test pumping data from single wells; 7.5 Multiple wells; 7.6 The shape of the yield?drawdown curve: Deviations from the ideal response; 7.7 Interpretation of pumping and recovery test data in hard?rock aquifers; 7.8 Single borehole tests: slug tests; 7.9 Tracer tests; 7.10 Geophysical logging during pumping tests; 7.11 Test pumping a major well field: the Gatehampton case study; 7.12 Record?keeping; 8 Groundwater Sampling and Analysis; 8.1 Water quality parameters and sampling objectives

8.2 Field determinations8.3 Collecting water samples from production wells; 8.4 Collecting water samples from observation boreholes; 8.5 Sample filtration, preservation and packaging; 8.6 Packing and labelling samples; 8.7 Quality control and record keeping; 8.8 Sample chemical analysis; 8.9 Hydrochemical databases; 9 Well Monitoring and Maintenance; 9.1 Factors affecting well system performance; 9.2 Monitoring well system performance; 9.3 Well maintenance and rehabilitation measures; 9.4 Well decommissioning; 10 Well and Borehole Records; 10.1 Well archives; 10.2 Operational well databases

10.3 An example of a hydrogeological database -- Afghanistan

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