Effective Groundwater Monitoring Using Dedicated Pumping Tubes

 This article describes a groundwater monitoring procedure that does not require decontamination of pumping equipment, eliminates the chance of cross contamination between wells, and uses a surface pump. Two surface pumps are described, one for water level depths less than 25 feet and one for water level depths greater than 25 feet.  ●   Install Dedicated Pumping Tubes   A dedicated pumping tube (1/2” black irrigation hose) with a...

Constant Rate Aquifer Tests Using Wellhead Mounted Pumps

This article describes how to conduct drawdown and buildup tests for the determination of aquifer transmissivity using surface pumps whose design permits the flow rate to be precisely controlled....

Eight-Well Groundwater Purging and Sampling Record

Page two of this article is a groundwater well purging and sampling form that can be used to record indicator parameters pH, conductivity, temperature, etc., taken during purging of a groundwater...

Low Flow Groundwater Sampling Using Rotapump Inertial Lift Pump

This article tells you how to perform low flow groundwater sampling using a portable, surface-mounted pump with no decontamination required before each use and no chance of cross contamination...

Are Lead-Filled Clouds Altering Precipitation?

Get the Lead Out   We’ve all heard of lead balloons, but now there are also lead clouds – and these lead clouds are going over about as well as lead balloons with scientists. The problem,...

The Alarming Forecast for Freshwater

The Looming Water Shortage   A quiet but daunting water crisis has already begun around the globe, according to water experts Mike Hightower and Suzanne Pierce at the U.S. Department of...

Dehydrated Mountains, Dehydrated People: A Century of Snowpack Decline

Slipping and Sliding Away   By the year 2100, the Andes in South America will have less than half their current winter snowpack, mountain ranges in Europe and the U.S. West will have lost...

Polluted Snow Hastens Runoff on the Cascade & Rocky Mountains

Soot Melts Snow and Creates Chaotic Chain Reaction   Soot from pollution causes winter snow to repeatedly warm and shrink. This continuous cycle sends snowmelt rushing down mountains as much as...

In Hydrology, It All Begins with the Tech

American Institute of Hydrology (AIH) In 2007 the AIH in Carbondale, Illinois, rolled out its new certification program for hydrologic technicians throughout the US and abroad. It was discovered...