Some issues of uneven movement of groundwater in artesian strata

Abstract

Hydraulic engineering urgently requires the most complete and in-depth development of certain scientific and technical problems for the purpose of a correct quantitative and qualitative assessment of the movement of groundwater both in natural conditions and in conditions created as a result of an artificial change in the movement regime. Of these problems, the question of the movement of groundwater in artesian strata is of significant interest. Note that while the theory of the movement of underground gravity flows and its practical application have been developed in great detail and were set out with sufficient completeness by Academician N. N. Pavlovskii in his well-known work "Uneven Movement of Groundwater", movement in artesian strata has been studied extremely poorly and very little attention has been and is being paid to this issue. When designing hydraulic structures and reservoirs, when analyzing the regime of groundwater, as well as in many other cases, it is often necessary to give a technical assessment of the movement in artesian strata.