Abstract
A growing national interest in ground-water problems has underscored a need for undergraduate field instruction in hydrogeology and, consequently, the value of a hydrogeologic field laboratory. Such a laboratory can replicate the physical and chemical conditions commonly encountered in assessments of ground-water supply and faced in ground-water monitoring. A field laboratory can be employed to represent features such as test wells for a water supply project, a wellhead protection area, a waste-disposal site, or a leaking underground storage tank. Students can learn how to measure ground-water levels, conduct pumping and slug tests, collect water samples, and monitor water quality. Further, the information obtained during application of investigative methods can provide initial data for subsequent analysis of hydraulic gradient, direction and rate of ground-water flow, hydraulic properties of aquifers (such as hydraulic conductivity, transmissivity, and storativity), chemical characteristics of ground wat...
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