Fissured aquifer study reveals groundwater flow direction impacts water resources.
Understanding how water moves through a fissured aquifer is crucial for managing groundwater resources. By conducting pumping tests at a water source field and using mathematical models, researchers determined that the aquifer's hydraulic conductivity varies between vertical and parallel directions. The vertical flow direction has a higher conductivity of 25.81 m/d compared to 17.51 m/d in the parallel direction. Additionally, the aquifer's elastic storage coefficient is much smaller than the specific yield, indicating that the release of water from the aquifer can be ignored in water resource evaluations.