Capture Zone

Two views of the "capture zone" around a pumping well in an area where there is a sloping water table (or piezometric surface) can be determined by superposition of the sloping water table together with the calculated cone of depression for the well.

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You can also download a MicroSoft Excel (v. 4) Chart of this well, allowing you to rotate and view the image from other directions (configure your Web Browser to recognize MIME type "application/excel," using MicroSoft Excel as the "helper" application).

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Last Modified April 8, 1997
Copyright © 1997 by Timothy T. Allen