Prerequisite: GY330
Course status: Option
Credit Rating: 8 credits
Total hours spent: 80 hours [30 hours lectures, 15 hours Practicals, 15 hours Assignments, and 20 hours independent study]
Course objective(s)
o To impart skills on field hydrogeological techniques for conducting groundwater investigations.
o To enable students apply field hydrogeological techniques, analysis of field data and use of numerical models in the investigation of groundwater problems.
o To impart knowledge on climate change impacts, adaption and mitigation on groundwater recharge.
o To impart skills on techniques of construction, design, and completion of groundwater boreholes.
o To enable students acquire knowledge on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) principles in groundwater resources management.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
o Synthesize and apply hydrological data in solving groundwater problems.
o Apply groundwater modeling techniques in groundwater management.
o Determine procedures involved in drilling, design and development of boreholes.
o Use hydraulic and chemical data in the assessment of groundwater flow dynamics.
Course Structure
Flow Net analysis; Concepts and application of Ground water modeling; The Geochemistry of groundwater resources including natural Isotopes; Contaminant Hydro-geology; Construction, design and development of deep boreholes; and IWRM concepts in Groundwater resources management.
Course Content
Hydrogeological data analysis in establishing groundwater availability potential, Flow net analysis, borehole construction, design, and well development, aquifer and well management strategies; Concepts of groundwater modeling: conceptual models, analogy models, numerical and mathematical models with examples. Multivariate and MODFLOW finite difference model, statistical models as applied in hydrogeology; Goechemistry of groundwater and pollution protection; and Climate change impacts analysis on groundwater quantity and quality intergraded water resources management (IWRM ) concept, Contaminant Hydrogeology.
Assessment
Coursework 40%, Final Examination 60%.
Key Textbooks:
1. Fetter C.W. (2018) Applied Hydrogeology, 4th Ed., Waveland Press Inc. USA.
2. Hudak P.F. (2004) Principles of Hydrogeology, 3rd Ed., CRC Press LLC. USA.
3. Freeze R.A. and Cherry J. (1979), Groundwater. Prentice Hall.
4. Appelo A.C. and Postma, D. (1993), Geochemistry of Groundwater and Pollution. Balkema Publishers.
5. Reynolds J.M. (1997) An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics. J. Wiley and Sons.