UNISA 2020

WSE3701
ASSIGNMENT 1 MEMO

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA

WATER & SANITATION ENGINEERING (WSE3701)
ASSIGNMENT 1: PROBLEM SOLVING

QUESTION 1

Confined aquifer; thickness = 32 m ; wide =6.5 km : observation wells-located

= 1.25 km apart
Well1 (h)=95.5 m
Well2 (h)=85.0 m
Hydraulic conductivity= 1.125 m/d
dh
Q   kb  Width
dl

dh 95 .9  85

dl 1250
 0.0084

Q  1.125  32  0.0084  6500

 1965 .6 m 3 / day
 1966 m 3 / day

QUESTION 2
Q=0.035 m3/s
Thickness, D= 20 m
h2=112.6 m; 52 m
=114.5 m ; 18 m

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2.1.
2KD ( h2  h1 )
Q
ln( R / rw )
2K ( 20 )(112 .6  114 .5)
0.035 
ln(52 / 18)
125 .71( 1.9)
0.035 
106
0.0371  125 .71K ( 1.9)
0.0371
K 
238 .849
 0.00015 m / s
OR
K  12 .77 m / d

Note: There is a typing error in this question as the hydraulic conductivity cannot
be negative (However the values have been maintained as in the question).

2.2 Transmissivity, T
T  KD
T  0.00015  20
T  0.003 m 2 /s
OR
 12.77  20
T  255 .29 m 2 /s

2.3 At the well,

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2KD ( h2  h1 )
Q
ln( R / rw )
2  255 .29 (114 .5  h )
0.035 (86400 ) 
ln(18 / 0.25)
12932 .64
114 .5  h 
1603 .22
h  114 .5  8.07
h  106 .43m

QUESTION 3
K=14.9m/d S=0.0051 b=20.5
Q=2855 m3/day
Drawdown at 10 m from the well after 1 day of pumping;
Theis function:
Q
h  h0  W (u )
4T

T  Kb  14 .9  20 .5  305 .45 m 2 / day

r 2 S 10 2  0.0051
u   0.00042
4Tt 4  305 .45  1

FromTable :
u  4.2  10  4 ; W (u )  7.25
Q 2855
S W (u )  (7.25)  5.36 m
4T 4 (305 .45)

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QUESTION 4

N  0.83 A 0.2
N  0.83  385 0.2
N  2.73days  65 .5hr

Time(hrs) Discharge Baseflow Direct Surface runoff

0 10 0 10
6 14 10,5 3,5
12 26 11 15
18 69 11,5 57,5
24 115 12 103
30 105 12,5 92,5
36 95 13 82
42 86 14 72
48 73 15 58
54 55 15,5 39,5
60 48 16 32
66 36 16,5 19,5
72 27 17 10
78 24 17,5 6,5
84 18 18 0

Discharge
1000

100

10

1
0 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 54 60 66 72 78 84 90

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QUESTION 5
Timestep= 4hours

t  0.0144  10 6 s

Elevation(m)
109,00

108,50

108,00

107,50

107,00

106,50

106,00

105,50

105,00
6,5 7 7,5 8 8,5 9 9,5

Outflow discharge (m3/s)

160

140

120

100

80

60

40

20

0
104,50 105,00 105,50 106,00 106,50 107,00 107,50 108,00 108,50 109,00

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I(ave) x
Time(hrs) Q(Inflow) I(ave) t S-Qt/2 S+Qt/2 Elevation Q(outflow)
0 14 105,5 18
16,5 0,2376 6,9454 7,183
4 19 105,4 16
31 0,4464 7,0678 7,291
8 43 105,8 24
59,5 0,8568 7,1182 7,5466
12 76 106,4 40
63 0,9072 7,2586 7,7122
16 50 106,8 48
48 0,6912 7,3666 7,7122
20 1/2 Mark for each
46entry in the table 106,8 48
43 0,6192 7,3666 7,6762
24 40 106,7 45
38,5 0,5544 7,3522 7,6294
28 37 106,6 44
34,5 0,4968 7,3126 7,561
32 32 106,5 40
29,5 0,4248 7,273 7,4854
36 27 106,4 40
26 0,3744 7,1974 7,3846
40 25 106,2 36
23,5 0,3384 7,0966 7,2658
44 22 106 32
20,5 0,2952 7,0354 7,183
48 19 105,8 24
18 0,2592 7,0102 7,1398
52 17 105,5 18
16 0,2304 7,0102 7,1254
56 15 105,5 18
13,5 0,1944 6,9958 7,093
60 12 105,5 18

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0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

Q(Inflow) Q(outflow)

Elevation
107

106,8

106,6

106,4

106,2

106

105,8

105,6

105,4

105,2
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

Attenuation: 4hrs-lag and 28 Mm3/s

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 RESULTS
Total = 105 / 105 (100%)

Finalize