Use of Air-Pressurized Slug Tests to Estimate Hydraulic Conductivity at SelectedPiezometers Completed in the Santa Fe Group Aquifer System, Albuquerque, New Mexico

摘要

The City of Albuquerque Public Works Department, Water Resources Management(City), is interested in quantifying aquifer hydraulic properties in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, area to better understand and manage water resources in the Middle Rio Grande Basin. In 1998, the City and the U.S. Geological Survey entered into a cooperative program to determine hydraulic properties of aquifer material adjacent to screened intervals of piezometers in the Albuquerque area. Investigators conducted slug tests from March 8 through April 8, 1999, to estimate hydraulic conductivity of aquifer material adjacent to the screened interval of 25 piezometers from 11 nested-piezometer sites in the Albuquerque area.