Performance Evaluation of Pumping Test in Heterogeneous Environment Using Tracer Test

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Pumping test is the most reliable method for determining the hydraulic conductivity and tracer test is the most reliable way to determine the hydraulic connection. Pumping test involves imposing a perturbation such as pumping in a well and measuring the response of the aquifer, for example in terms of head variations (Renard et al. 2009). Those data are then interpreted with the help of analytical or numerical models in order to infer the hydraulic properties (hydraulic conductivity, transmissivity and storage coefficient) of the aquifer (Renard et al. 2009).
Tracer tests are frequently used at the regional scale to delineate the difference between the hydrogeologic and topographic watersheds. Watersheds with very distinct and permanent boundaries are rare in karst. For this reason, tracer tests in different hydrological stages are strongly recommended (Milanović 2011). For regional tracer tests, the most commonly used dyes are fluorescein and Rhodamin B, lycopodium spores, inorganic salts, and radioactive salts (Milanović 2011). Longitudinal and transverse dispersivity and the ratio of hydraulic conductivity and effective porosity can be determined by tracer tests.
Concomitant use of these two methods, the first time by Laguna (1970) reported that two jugate sandy aquifers were pumped simultaneously, and a forced gradient tracer tests was used to determine what proportion of the pumped water was coming from each sandy aquifer. Then, the results of pumping and tracer tests have been compared for hydraulic conductivity (Niemann and Rovey 2000; Rovey and Niemann 2005; Thorbjarnarson et al. 1998).
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In most studies, tracer tests are considered to be more accurate because they would better implement the hete...

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...racteristics of the fractured aquifer system (Lee and Lee 1999).
The geometric mean of the hydraulic conductivity is 30.50 m/day for pumping test and 106.339 m/day for tracer test in dam sit of Salman Farsi. The geometric mean of the hydraulic conductivity based on the tracer test is more than the geometric mean of the hydraulic conductivity based on pumping test. Because, in this area, conduit routes is abundant (Refrence ????) and in tracer test transmission is done mainly from conduit routes. But, in pumping test transmission is done from conduit and matrix routes.
In dam site of Salman Farsi with abundant conduit routes, observed tracers following high conductivity conduits and noted that using an average K value from an aquifer pump test to predict solute transport would result in considerable underestimation of transport distances for a given time period.

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