GATE ES · 2022 · ES
Question 57: Groundwater Resources
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Question 57
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Two reservoirs having a difference of 20 m in their water surface elevations are connected through a confined aquifer (thickness = 5 m, length = 2 km, hydraulic conductivity
m/s, and porosity
) as shown in the following figure (drawn not to scale). 
If the Reservoir 1 is contaminated by a pollutant then the time (in days, rounded off to one decimal place) taken by the pollutant to reach to the Reservoir 2 under advection will be __________.
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GATE ES 2022 · Paper 1
Environmental Science and Engineering · Original paper archive
- Section
- Environmental Science and Engineering
- Question type
- Numerical answer (NAT)
- Marks
- 2 marks
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