Discharge and travel-time determinations in the Royal Spring groundwater basin, Kentucky. Research report July 1983-August 1984
Groundwater flow in many karst regions, including the Inner Bluegrass Karst Region of central Kentucky in which the study area was located, is unlike groundwater flow in granular aquifers. At least the major flows are turbulent and often with a free surface in large conduits, and applying concepts based on Darcy's Law to describe and model these flows is inappropriate. Parameters such as linear velocity, channel geometry, and conveyance used to describe surface stream flows are more applicable, and the primary objective of the project was to estimate these in a groundwater basin using the travel time of dye slugs and discharges obtained by dye dilution. These data were also needed to determine the travel time-discharge relationship required to manage contaminant spills and evaluate methods of enhancing low flows in the basin, the second and third objective of the project. These latter two objectives are of importance because the flow in the Royal Spring groundwater basin that was investigated is used as a municipal water supply.
- Research Organization:
- Kentucky Water Resources Research Inst., Lexington (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5099371
- Report Number(s):
- PB-85-214765/XAB; RR-149
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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