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You Are Attempting to Calculate the Discharge of Groundwater in the Marshak

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You are attempting to calculate the discharge of groundwater in the Marshak Aquifer.The measured the height of the water table in Well A is 300 m and 175 m in Well B,and the wells are 15,000 m apart.The Marshak Aquifer is composed of fine-grained sandstone with a hydraulic conductivity of 3 ´ 10-⁵ m/s,and a cross-sectional area of 2 m².Calculate the discharge of the Marshak Aquifer.


A) 0.5 ´ 10-7 m/s
B) 6.0 ´ 105 m/s
C) 5.0 ´ 105 m/s
D) 5.0 ´ 10-7 m/s

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