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Enviro Measure

Environmental Measurement / Groundwater Measurement Equipment

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What is an Aquifer An Aquifer is a body of saturated rock through which water can easily move. Aquifers must be both permeable and porous and include such rock types as sandstone, conglomerate, fractured limestone and unconsolidated sand and gravel.
What is an Aquitard An Aquitard is a geological formation of layers comprised either of clay, with tiny connected pores, or on non-porous rock that restrict water flow from one aquifer to another.
What is a recharge zone Groundwater Recharge is a hydrologic process where water moves downward from surface water to groundwater.
What is a discharge zone Groundwater discharge is the movement of water out of an area of saturated soil.
Unconfined aquifers In unconfined aquifers, water has simply infiltrated from the surface and saturated the subsurface material. If people drill a well into an unconfined aquifer, they have to install a pump to push water to the surface.
Confined aquifers Confined aquifers have layers of rock above and below it that are not very permeable to water. Natural pressure in the aquifer can exist; pressure which can sometimes be enough to push water in a well above the land surface. Not all confined aquifers prod
Permeability Permeability is the property of rocks that is an indication of the ability for gases or fluids to flow through rocks. High permeability will allow fluids and gases to move rapidly through rocks
Porosity The percentage of pore volume or void space, or that volume within rock that can contain fluids.
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