| Abstract/Description or Keywords |
An extensive drilling and testing program was undertaken at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, to characterize the aquifer for the design of an aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) system. The substantial data base provides an excellent record of well yields and hydraulic responses to a series of aquifer tests in a faulted carbonate aquifer. Three different flow models, including vertical fracture and vertical dyke (linear), and Theis (radial), are used to interpret constant discharge test data from nine pumping wells and several observation wells. This paper demonstrates the influence of fault-induced heterogeneity on the hydraulic response of a carbonate aquifer and demonstrates the application and limitation of simple radial continuum models to aquifers of this type. |
