I am a civil engineer in Florida. My background is mostly in water resources, utilities, and roads. I also hold a contractor's license and have experience in wood-framed building construction. After a CAT 5 hurricane in my area, I started getting into small structural projects like additions...
Need help figuring headloss through a groundwater well filter pack. I'm thinking it would be something like headloss through a sand filter but I can't find a formula that quite fits.
I've been given a project to design a groundwater well with adjacent elevated tank. This will be my first so I have a few questions. Would the static head be the difference in the aquifer to the overflow of the elevated tank? Also, how do I figure what size the well should be? The tank will...
I've got a 20 foot drop from an existing 42" oulet pipe that needs to drain to a creek 78 feet away. I was initially thinking about a concrete lined open channel with step-downs to slow the velocity. I believe an open channel would cause a liability for the client. (That could be a heck of a...
