Syllabus of Hydrology and Water Resource, Spring 2008
GEO-407

Instructor: Dr. Hongbing Sun

Office and Message: S323C, 609-896-5185

Office Hour: Mon. 10:20-11:20 AM,Tue & Thurs:10:15-11:15 AM.. Other times by appointment.

HomePage: http://www.rider.edu/~hsun/

E-mail: hsun@rider.edu

Class Time: Mon.& Wed., 1:10 to 2:40 PM.

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Objectives:

Students will be expected to acquire a basic understanding of:

(1)  The hydrological cylce: where does the water come and where does it go?

(2) The use of simple probability and statistics to describe geohydrologic phenomena.

(3) The process of interception, evaporation and transpiration, whereby water is transferred from geosphere to atmosphere. The generation of runoff, factors controlling storage and transfer of water within the channels.

(4) Flow through porous media and treatment of saturated flow with Darcy's law.

(5) Well hydraulics, estimation of hydraulic conductivity from slug test.

(6) Principles governing the flow in a unsaturated condition.

(7) Contaminant migration in underground aquifer.

(8) Water quality issues.

Course Topics:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Delineation of watershed, hydrological cycle, water as a resource, water supply in New Jersey.

Chapter 2.  Atmospheric aspects of hydrological cycle

            Weather and climate, humidity, latent heat of condensation, fusion and sublimation, and evapotranspiration

Chapter 3. Precipitation and runoff

Cloud, formation of precipitation, rise of the air mass, temporal and spatial distribution of precipitation, method of measuring the precipitation amount and effective precipitation depth in a watershed.

Chapter 4. Stream flow

Runoff, infiltration, effluent and influence streams, runoff, baseflow separation , stream flow velocity profile hydrograph  and routing (rating) curves,  stream ordering and bifurcation ratio.

Chapter 5. Flood analysis

Flood frequency duration, recurrence interval, flood attenuation and translation, hydraulic jump, Reynolds number and its relationship to turbulent and laminar, steady and uniform flow.

First MidTerm  Test (Feb 25?, Monday)

Chapter 6. Groundwater Basics

1).Primary and secondary porosity, specific yield,  perched water table, aquifer types.  Hydraulic head  and potential. Homogeneous, heterogeneous aquifers, intrinsic permeability and hydraulic conductivity.

2). Darcy’s law, groundwater discharge (Q=Kdh/L*A), Validity of Darcy’s law

3). Storativity, specific storage (Ss) specific yield (Sy) and storativity (S)

4)  Major aquifers in NJ.
Chapter 7. Principles of Groundwater-Flow

            1). Flow nets and conductivity ellipse, tangent law, steady  and transient flow

            2). Dupuit assumption.

Chapter  8 (14,15,-16,17 in the text). Well Hydraulics.

1) Pumping test and Theis type curve analysis, Well drawdown, cone of depression in confined and unconfined aquifers, step-drawdown and its purpose,

2)Jacob method, distance drawdown method of conductivity and storativity

Second Midterm Test (April 2, Wed.?)

Chapter 9. Leakly confined aquifer and slug test

1). Leaky confined aquifer,  well screen, partial penetrating well.

2).Rising and falling head slug test, conductivity estimate from slug tests.

Chapter 10. Multiple wells.

1) Multiple wells and superposition principles

2). Image wells for barrier boundaries

3) Image wells for recharge boundaries

Chapter 11.  Groundwater modeling

1). Model types and popular modeling programs. Finite difference and finite elements

2). Boundary conditions

Chapter 12. Unsaturated flow

1). Capillary rise, soil characterisitic curve, hysteresis

2). Infiltration rate and tests, perc tests

Chapter 13. Mass transport of solutes

1). Advection, dispersion and diffusion concepts

2). Types of common contaminants: Organic and Inorganic

3). Remediation

Chapter 14. Water Law

1). Common laws and Legislative laws

2). Riparian Doctrine and Prior appropriate doctrine

3). Water Regulations.

Final Exam: April 29 (Tuesday), 1:30 to 3:30 PM

Grading:

-Final grades are determined by the average of three equally weighted exams (~60%), combined with lab grades (~30%), homework (5%) and attendance (5%). General grade averages are: A range >90,  B range 80-89, C range 70-79, D range 60-69, F range <60. Unless instructed otherwise, all late assignments will be penalized 10% per day.  All work turned in is to be your own. 

Attendance is mandatory. Unexcused absences and late for either lab/class will result in penalty. Students may lose 5 more penalty points in total. (More than 3 time unexcused, half letter grade loss, more than five unexcused full letter grade loss). Instructor’s permission for withdrawal will be given only for exceptional circumstances.  The same applies for permission to take a make-up exam.

Text:  Fetter, 2003: Applied Hydrogeology, Prentice Hall.

References:

Periodicals:

Water Resources Research, Ground Water, Journal Of Hydrology, Groundwater Monitoring And Remediation, Journal Of Contaminant Hydrology, Journal Of Stochastic Hydrology, Water Resources Research Bulletin

Books:

Watson and Burnett, 1995: Hydrology and Environmental Approach, CRC Lewis Publisher.

Dingman, S.L. 2002. Physical Hydrology (2nd ed.). Prentice Hall.

Dunne and Leopold: Water in Environmental Planning

Freeze, R.A. and J.A. Cherry. 1979. Groundwater. Prentice-Hall.

Bear, J., 1972. Dynamics of Fluids in Porous Media. McGraw-Hill.

Bear, J. and Verruijt, A., 1992: Modeling groundwater flow and pollution. D. Reidel Publishing Company.

Domenico, P.A. and Schartz, F.W, 1990: Physical and chemical Hydrogeology. Wiley.

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