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RESULTS AND INTERPRETATION OF PRELIMINARY AQUIFER TESTS IN BOREHOLES UE-25c #1, UE-25C #2, AND UE-25c #3, YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA by Arthur L. Geldon U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4177 Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, NEVADA FIELD OFFICE, under Interagency Agreement DE-AI08-92NV10874 Denver, Colorado 1996
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RESULTS AND INTERPRETATION OF PRELIMINARY AQUIFER TESTS IN BOREHOLES UE-25c #1, UE-25C #2, AND UE-25c #3, YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA

by Arthur L. Geldon

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4177

Prepared in cooperation with the

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY,

NEVADA FIELD OFFICE, under

Interagency Agreement DE-AI08-92NV10874

Denver, Colorado 1996

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

BRUCE BABBITT, Secretary

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Gordon P. Eaton, Director

The use of trade, product, industry, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

For additional information write to: Copies of this report can be purchased from:Chief, Earth Science Investigations U.S. Geological SurveyProgram USGS Information ServicesYucca Mountain Project Branch Open-File Reports SectionU.S. Geological Survey Box 25286, MS 517Box 25046, MS 421 Denver Federal CenterDenver Federal Center Denver, CO 80225Denver, CO 80225

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CONTENTS

Abstract................................................................................................................................................................................. 1Introduction........................................................................................................................................................................... 1

Purpose and scope....................................................................................................................................................... 1Acknowledgments.................................................................................»^ 2

Physical setting ..................................................................................................................................................................... 2Borehole construction................................................................................................................................................. 2Site geology.....................................................................................................................................................^ 7

Site hydrology..................................................................................................................................................^ 9Matrix permeability..................................................................................................................................................... 9Heat-pulse flowmeter surveys..................................................................................................................................... 12Transmissive intervals................................................................................................................................................. 13

Calico Hills Aquifer.......................................................................................................................................... 13Prow Pass - Upper Bullfrog Aquifer................................................................................................................. 20Bullfrog Aquifer.....................................» 20TramAquifer.........................................^ 20

Fluid-injection tests............................................................................................................................................................... 20Falling-head tests ........................................................................................................................................................ 21Pressure-injection tests................................................................................................................................................ 24

Constant-flux tests.................................................................................................^^ 35Analytical methods..................................................................................................................................................... 39Pumping tests in borehole UE-25c #1......................................................................................................................... 42Pumping test in borehole UE-25c #2.......................................................................................................................... 43

Procedures and problems.................................................................................................................................. 43Test analyses..................................................................................................................................................... 44

First pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3.................................................................................................................. 48Procedures and problems.................................................................................................................................. 48Test analyses...................................................................................................................................................... 51

Injection test in borehole UE-25c #2.......................................................................................................................... 58Second pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3.............................................................................................................. 61

Procedures and problems.................................................................................................................................. 61Test analyses...................................................................................................................................................... 64

Summary and conclusions .................................................................................................................................................... 69Selected references......................................................................................................_^ 71Supplementary data............................................................................................................................................................... 73

PLATES

[In pocket]

1-3. Charts showing:1. Indicators of transmissive intervals in borehole UE-25c #1, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada2. Indicators of transmissive intervals in borehole UE-25c #2, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada3. Indicators of transmissive intervals in borehole UE-25c #3, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada

CONTENTS III

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FIGURES

1. Map showing location of Yucca Mountain, boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3, andnearby boreholes used for hydrologic investigations............................................................................................ 5

2. Map showing surface location and drift of boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3........................... 63. Diagram showing relation between fractures and borehole diameter in an enlarged, rugose interval

of borehole UE-25c #2.......................................................................................................................................... 74-6. Plots showing:

4. Frequency distribution of fracture orientations in boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3...... 105. Horizontal matrix permeability in the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills and Crater Flat Tuff, east-

central Yucca Mountain area, as a function of depth within geologic units............................................... 116. Relation of vertical to horizontal matrix permeability in core samples from the tuffs and lavas

of Calico Hills and Crater Flat Tuff in the c-holes and nearby boreholes.................................................. 127. Hydrogeologic section of the c-hole complex....................................................................................................... 188. Sketch showing design configuration of falling-head tests in borehole UE-25c #1, October 1983...................... 23

9-15. Plots showing:9. Analyses of falling-head tests in borehole UE-25c #1, October 1983, assuming an infinite,

homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer.................................................................................................. 2510. Falling-head tests and transmissivity values obtained in relation to geology, borehole UE-25c #1.......... 3311. Analyses of pressure-injection tests conducted in borehole UE-25c # 1, October 1983, assuming

an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer................................................................................ 3612. Transmissivity and hydraulic conductivity distributions within a small radius of borehole UE-25c #1,

estimated from falling-head and pressure-injection tests........................................................................... 3813. Drawdown as a function of time in borehole UE-25c #2 during the pumping test in borehole

UE-25c #2, March 1984............................................................................................................................. 4514. Drawdown as a function of time in boreholes UE-25c #1 and UE-25p #1 during the pumping test in

borehole UE-25c #2, March 1984.............................................................................................................. 4515. Atmospheric pressure at borehole USW H-4 during the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #2,

March 1984........................................................._ 4516-29. Plots showing:

16. Analytical solution for drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers assuming afissure-block aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #2, March 1984.................................................. 46

17. Analytical solutions for drawdown and recovery data from borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers assuming an infinite, homogeneous, anisotropic, unconfined aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25 c #1, March 1984............................................................................................................................ 48

18. Drawdown as a function of time during the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, May to June 1984:(A), borehole UE-25c #3; (B), borehole UE-25c #2 .................................................................................. 50

19. Drawdown as a function of time in borehole UE-25c #1 during the pumping test in boreholeUE-25c #3, May to June 1984: (A), above the packers; (B), between the packers................................... 51

20. Analytical solution for residual drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #3 assuming an infinite,homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, May to June 1984....... 52

21. Analytical solution for drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #3 assuming an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer with leakage from a confining unit without storage, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, May to June 1984..................................................................................................... 53

22. Analytical solution for drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #2 assuming a fissure-block aquifer,pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, May to June 1984........................................................................... 53

23. Analytical solution for drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #2 assuming an infinite, homogeneous,anisotropic, unconfined aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, May to June 1984 ....................... 56

24. Analytical solution for drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers assuming an infinite, homogeneous, anisotropic, unconfined aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, May to June 1984........................................................................................................................................ 57

25. Analytical solution for recovery data from borehole UE-25c #1 between the packers assuming an infinite, homogeneous, anisotropic, unconfined aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, May to June 1984........................................................................................................................................ 57

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26. Water-level changes in borehole UE-25c #2 during and after injection of water between packerson October 30,1984................................................................................................................................... 59

27. Water-level changes in boreholes UE-25c #1 and UE-25c #3 in response to injection of water intoborehole UE-25c #2, October 30,1984...................................................................................................... 60

28. Atmospheric pressure at borehole USW H-4 during the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3,October to December 1984......................................................................................................................... 62

29. Drawdown as a function of time in borehole UE-25c #3 during the pumping test in boreholeUE-25c #3, October to December 1984..................................................................................................... 62

30-35. Plots showing:30. Drawdown as a function of time in borehole UE-25c #1 during the pumping test in borehole

UE-25c #3, October to December 1984..................................................................................................... 6331. Drawdown as a function of time in borehole UE-25c #2 between the packers during the pumping

test in borehole UE-25c #3, October to December 1984, with residual drawdown from a preceding injection test subtracted.............................................................................................................................. 63

32. Analytical solution for drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers assuming an infinite, homogeneous, anisotropic, unconfined aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, October to December 1984......................................................................................................................... 65

33. Analytical solution for recovery data from borehole UE-25c #1 between the packers assuming an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, October to December 1984........................................................................................................................................... 67

34. Analytical solution for recovery data from borehole UE-25c #2 between the packers assuming an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, October to December 1984........................................................................................................................................... 68

35. Analytical solution for drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #1 below the packers assuming aninfinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer with leakage from a confining unit without storage, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, October to December 1984............................................................. 68

TABLES

1. Information collected at the c-hole complex for determination of rock hydrologic properties................................ 32. Distances between pumped wells and monitored intervals in observation wells during some pumping tests

conducted in 1984 in boreholes UE-25c #2 and UE-25c #3..................................................................................... 63. Stratigraphic column for the c-hole complex............................................................................................................ 84. Transmissive intervals in borehole UE-25c #1......................................................................................................... 145. Transmissive intervals in borehole UE-25c #2......................................................................................................... 156. Transmissive intervals in borehole UE-25c #3......................................................................................................... 167. Results of falling-head tests conducted in borehole UE-25c #1, October 6-12,1983............................................. 228. Results of pressure-injection tests conducted in borehole UE-25c #1, October 6-12,1983.................................... 349. Summary of analyses of 1984 constant-flux aquifer tests in boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3.... 70

10. Summary of information from lithologic, television, acoustic televiewer, caliper, and temperature logsfor borehole UE-25c#l..........................................^ 74

11. Summary of information from lithologic, television, acoustic televiewer, caliper, and temperature logsfor borehole UE-25c^..................................................^ 89

12. Summary of information from lithologic, television, acoustic televiewer, caliper, and temperature logsfor borehole UE-25c #3............................................................................................................................................. 108

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CONVERSION FACTORS AND VERTICAL DATUM

Multiply inch-pound unit By To obtain metric unit

cubic foot per day (ft3/d)foot

foot per day (ft/d)foot squared per day (ft2/d)

gallon (gal)gallon per minute (gal/min)

inch (in.)inch of mercury (in. of mercury)

milemillidarcy (mD)

minute per square foot (mm/ft2)pound per square inch (lb/in.2)

reciprocal foot (ft" 1 )square foot (ft2)

2.832 X lO'2.3048.3048

9.290 X 10-23.78546.309 X 10'22.54

.34531.60939.87 X 10' 12

10.766.8953.28089.290 X 10'2

cubic meter per daymetermeter per daymeter squared per dayliterliter per secondcentimetermeter of waterkilometersquare centimeterminute per square meterKilopascalreciprocal metersquare meter

Degree Fahrenheit (°F) may be converted to degree Celsius (°C) by using the following equation:°C = 5/9(°F-32).

Sea level: Altitudes in this report are referenced to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD of 1929), a geodetic datum derived from a general adjustment of the first-order level nets of the United States and Canada, formerly called the Sea Level Datum of 1929.

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Results and Interpretation of Preliminary Aquifer Tests in Boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada

By Arthur L. Geldon

Abstract

Pumping and injection tests conducted in 1983 and 1984 in boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3 (the c-holes) at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, were analyzed with respect to information obtained from lithologic and borehole geophysical logs, core permeameter tests, and borehole flow surveys. The three closely spaced c-holes, each of which is about 3,000 feet deep, are completed mainly in nonwelded to densely welded, ash-flow tuff of the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills and the Crater Flat Tuff of Miocene age. Below the water table, tectonic and cooling fractures pervade the tuffaceous rocks but are dis­ tributed mainly in 11 transmissive intervals, many of which also have matrix permeability. Although steep to vertical, south-striking (west dipping) fractures predominate in rocks penetrated by the c-holes, fractures in transmissive intervals gener­ ally are oriented diversely. From the water table, at depths between 1,312 and 1,320 feet, to a depth of 1,700 feet, transmissive intervals are uncon- fined; transmissive intervals between 1,800 and 2,700 feet respond to pumping as fissure-block or nonleaky, confined aquifers; below 2,700 feet, transmissive intervals are recharged by water released from faults that have offset and brecciated the rocks in these intervals. Miocene tuffaceous rocks and Paleozoic carbonate rocks at the c-hole complex appear to be connected hydraulically.

Heat-pulse flowmeter surveys indicate a change from generally small, downward to large, upward flow with depth, that is disrupted by pumping. Flow from unconfined to confined inter­ vals occurs in response to hydraulic gradients established during pumping tests. Diverse aquifer tests consistently indicate layered heterogeneity and the dependence of calculated hydrologic prop­ erties on the volume of aquifer being tested. For

the entire thickness of rocks penetrated by the test holes, cross-hole pumping and injection tests indicated transmissivity between 20,000 and 35,000 feet squared per day; storativity between 0.002 and 0.004; horizontal hydraulic conductivity between 30 and 40 feet per day; and vertical hydraulic conductivity between 2 and 5 feet per day.

INTRODUCTION

Information contained in this report is presented as part of ongoing investigations by the U.S. Geologi­ cal Survey (USGS) regarding the hydrologic and geo­ logic suitability of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as a potential site for the storage of high-level nuclear waste in an underground mined geologic repository. This investigation was conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy under Interagency Agree­ ment DE-AI08-78ET44802, as part of the Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project.

Purpose and Scope

This report presents previously unpublished syn­ theses of geologic and hydrologic data from boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3 (collectively called the c-holes) and descriptions, analyses, and interpretations of fluid-injection and withdrawal tests conducted in the c-holes. These tests were conducted between September 1983 and December 1984 to (1) help develop a conceptual model of the ground- water system at the c-hole complex; (2) provide a range in hydrologic properties for the rocks in tested intervals based on multiple analytical solutions applied to aqui­ fer test data; and (3) provide information for designing hydraulic-stress tests and tracer tests within constraints imposed by initial test analyses. Analysis and interpre­ tation of the preliminary aquifer tests at the c-holes were aided by published and unpublished data obtained between April 1985 and December 1992 that are listed

Abstract 1

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in table 1. Interpretations presented in this report should be considered tentative and subject to change, as optimally designed hydraulic-stress and tracer tests are conducted and analyzed. This report updates some hydrogeologic information and corrects some errone­ ous information about aquifer tests in U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 92-4016 (Geldon, 1993).

Acknowledgments

The author is indebted to many people currently or formerly with the USGS and Fenix and Scisson, Inc., who assisted with data collection, pro­ cessing, and analysis, including but not limited to: Richard K. Waddell, Jr., James R. Erickson, Devin L. Galloway, Michael P. Chornack, Charles T. Warren, David H. Lobmeyer, Robert W Craig, John B. Czarnecki, Brent Anderson, Jack Kume, William J. Oatfield, Charles S. Washington, and Geoffrey Miller (USGS); Robin L. Reed, Byron W. Cork, Sandy Waddell, Eric P. Eshom, Jennifer B. Warner, Daniel O. Blout, Kirstin A. Johnson, Lynn D. Panish, Heather Huckins, Thomas M. Howard, Eric Larsen, and Russell G. Lahoud (Fenix and Scisson, Inc.).

PHYSICAL SETTING

Boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3 are located in Nye County, Nevada, just east of the western boundary of the Nevada Test Site, approximately 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The c-holes are in the channel of an ephemeral stream that cuts through Bow Ridge parallel to and east of the main part of Yucca Mountain. The c-holes, other boreholes referred to in this report, and the potential high-level nuclear waste repository site are shown in figure 1. Yucca Mountain is situated in the arid Basin and Range physiographic province of the southwestern United States. Typical of the Basin and Range, the area around Yucca Mountain is characterized by narrow, predomi­ nantly northerly aligned mountain ranges separated by broad, alluvial basins (Frizzell and Shulters, 1990).

Borehole Construction

Boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3 are 100 to 251 ft apart at the land surface (fig. 2). Lines connecting the boreholes delineate a tri­ angle with an area of 11,050 ft2. Because of borehole drift during drilling (fig. 2), interborehole distances at

depth vary substantially from distances at the surface. For example, average horizontal distances between intervals monitored in some of the pumping tests con­ ducted in the c-holes range from 92 to 280 ft (table 2). Cumulative borehole drift in a vertical plane for each of the c-holes was less than a foot. As a result, measured depths to features within the c-holes did not require a true-depth correction for the purposes of this report.

Borehole UE-25c #1 was completed in September 1983 (Fenix and Scisson, Inc., 1986). The top of the borehole is at an altitude of 3,709.28 ft (Grady O'Brien, U.S. Geological Survey, written com- mun., 1993). As indicated by television (TV) and cal- iper logs listed in table 1, casing and concrete extend 1,371 ft below the top of the borehole. The open part of the borehole was rotary-drilled with a 14.75-in.- diameter bit through the bottom of the concrete to a depth of 1,511 ft and a 9.875-in.-diameter bit from 1,511 to 2,990 ft. The borehole was cored with an 8.75-in.-diameter bit from 2,990 to 3,000 ft. Caliper logs indicate that the borehole walls are very irregular (plate 1). TV and caliper logs indicate that the bottom of the borehole has collapsed substantially since the borehole was completed. The bottom of the borehole was at a depth of 2,994 ft in September 1983,2,962 ft in November 1983, and 2,945 ft in December 1990.

Borehole UE-25c #2 was completed in February 1984 (Fenix and Scisson, Inc., 1986). The top of the borehole is at an altitude of 3,715.25 ft (Grady O'Brien, U.S. Geological Survey, written com- mun., 1993). As indicated by TV and caliper logs listed in table 1, casing and concrete extend 1,365 ft below the top of the borehole. The open part of the borehole was rotary-drilled with a 14.75-in.-diameter bit through the bottom of the concrete to a depth of 1,515 ft and a 9.875-in.-diameter bit from 1,515 to 3,000 ft. Caliper logs indicate that the borehole walls are very irregular (pi. 2). In figure 3, a close relation­ ship is shown between the location of open, near verti­ cal to vertical (dip 70°-84°), southerly and northwesterly striking fractures and an enlarged, rug­ ose section of borehole UE-25c #2. TV and acoustic televiewer logs in the c-holes indicate that prominent fractures with other orientations, partings at contacts between geologic units, and drilling-induced slough­ ing, also, are associated with enlargement and rugosity in the c-holes. TV and caliper logs indicate that the bottom of borehole UE-25c #2 has collapsed slightly since completion. The bottom of the borehole was at a depth of 2,999 ft in February 1984,2,990 ft in August 1984, and 2,986 ft in June 1992.

Borehole UE-25c #3 was completed in April 1984 (Fenix and Scisson, Inc., 1986). The top of the borehole is at an altitude of 3,715.25 ft

Results and Interpretation of Preliminary Aquifer Tests in Boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada

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Table 1. Information collected at the c-hole complex for determination of rock hydrologic properties1

Information Source Dates obtained

Caliper logs

Gyroscopic (borehole deviation) surveyResistivity logsTemperature logs (nonpumping)

Miscellaneous geophysical logsTracejector survey (pumping)Television logsAcoustic televiewer logLithologic logCore permeability analyses (9)Pumping tests (2)Falling-head (slug) tests (16)Pressure-injection tests (9)Heat-pulse flowmeter survey (nonpumping)Static water levels, atmospheric pressure, andbarometric efficiencyBorehole history

Caliper logs

Gyroscopic (borehole deviation) surveyResistivity logsTemperature logs (nonpumping)

Miscellaneous geophysical logs Tracejector survey (pumping) Television logs

Acoustic televiewer logs

Lithologic logCore permeability analyses (3)Pumping testConstant-flux injection testHeat-pulse flowmeter survey (nonpumping)Static water levels, atmospheric pressure and barometric efficiency Borehole history

Borehole UE-25c #1BirdwellAtlas Wireline ServicesUSGSEastmanBirdwellBirdwellUSGSNelson and others (1991)Gearhart-OwenWestechRichard K. Waddell (USGS, written commun., 1984)Richard E. Spengler (USGS, written commun., 1984)Holmes and Narver, Inc.USGS, assisted by REECoUSGS, assisted by TAM InternationalUSGS, assisted by TAM InternationalFrederick L. Paillet (USGS, written commun., 1992)Galloway and Rojstaczer (1988)

Fenix and Scisson, Inc. (1986)

Borehole UE-25c #2BirdwellBirdwellAtlas Wireline ServicesUSGSSperry-SunBirdwellBirdwellUSGSNelson and others (1991)Gearhart-OwenWestechBarbour Well Surveying CorporationRichard K. Waddell (USGS, written commun., 1984)USGSRichard E. Spengler (USGS, written commun., 1984)Alan L. Flint (USGS, written commun., 1993)USGS, assisted by REECoUSGS, assisted by REECoFrederick L. Paillet (USGS, written commun., 1992)Galloway and Rojstaczer (1988)

Fenix and Scisson, Inc. (1986)

09/18/8312/11/9012/10/9109/18/8309/20/8309/20/8312/09/91

08/21/83-11/20/8309/29/83

09/17/83-11/18/8310/31/83

2/8403/14/84

09/27/83-10/02/83 10/06/83-10/12/83 10/08/83-10/12/83

12/12/91 02/23/86-04/21/86

08/10/83-02/01/85

02/28/8408/23/8412/11/9012/14/9102/27/8402/28/8402/28/8412/14/91

01/27/84-02/29/8403/12/84

02/08/84-04/13/8406/02/9202/27/8412/14/91

03/84 12/92

03/07/84-03/18/8410/30/8412/16/91

02/23/86-04/21/86

01/09/84-06/27/85

PHYSICAL SETTING

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Table 1. Information collected at the c-hole complex for determination of rock hydrologic properties1 -Continued

Information Source Dates obtained

Caliper logs

Gyroscopic (borehole deviation) surveyResistivity logsTemperature logs (nonpumping)

Miscellaneous geophysical logs Tracejector survey (pumping) Television logs

Acoustic televiewer logs

Lithologic logCore permeability analyses (8)Pumping tests

First testSecond test

Heat-pulse flowmeter survey (nonpumping) Static water levels, atmospheric pressure and barometric efficiency Borehole history

Borehole UE-25c #3BirdwellBirdwellAtlas Wireline ServicesUSGSSpeny-SunBirdwellBirdwellUSGSNelson and others (1991)Gearhart-OwenWestechBarbour Well Surveying CorporationRichard K. Waddell (USGS, written commun., 1984)USGSRichard E. Spengler (USGS, written commun., 1984)Alan L. Flint (USGS, written commun., 1993)

USGS, assisted by REECoUSGS, assisted by REECoFrederick L. Paillet (USGS, written commun., 1992)Galloway and Rojstaczer (1988)

Fenix and Scisson, Inc. (1986)

04/27/84 03/21/85 12/11/90 12/13/91 04/26/84 04/30/84 04/30/84 12/31/91

03/28/84-04/30/8405/07/8404/13/8406/02/9204/27/8412/13/91

05/8412/92

05/14/84-06/12/84 10/30/84-12/09/84

12/15/91 02/23/86-04/21/86

03/20/84-06/27/85

Core permeability analyses UE-25b#l(12) USW H-l (15) USW G-3 (22) USW G-4 (20)

Boreholes near the c-holes

Lobmeyer and others (1983)Rush and others (1983)Philip Nelson (USGS, written commun., 1992)Philip Nelson (USGS, written commun., 1992)

unknown unknown unknown unknown

Any use of trade names in this report is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Geological Survey.

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37°00'116030' 116°22'30"

36°45'

UE-25c#1, UE-25c #2, UE-25c #3

Potential Repository Site

CRATER FLAT

NEVADA TEST SITE BOUNDARY

Amargosa Valley

AMARGOSA DESERT

\10 KILOMETERS

10 MILESI

Figure 1. Location of Yucca Mountain, boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3, and nearby boreholes used for hydrologic investigations.

PHYSICAL SETTING

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N757J50

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SURFACE LOCATION OF BOREHOLE

DIRECTION OFBOREHOLE DRIFT

UE-25c #3

UE-25C #1

100 FEET

50 METERS

Figure 2. Surface location and drift of boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3.

Table 2. Distances between pumped wells and monitored intervals in observation wells during some pumping tests conducted in 1984 in boreholes UE-25c #2 and UE-25c #3

Connected pointsMonitored Interval(feet below land

surface)

Thickness- weighted average distance

(feet)

Borehole UE-25c #2 test, March 1984UE-25c#l above packers to UE-25c #2 1,371-2,510 270 UE-25c #1 between packers to UE-25c #2 2,520-2,600 277

Borehole UE-25c #3 test, May-June 1984

UE-25c#l above packers to UE-25c #3 1,371-1,595 256 UE-25c#l between packers to UE-25c #3 1,605-1,680 259

Borehole UE-25c #3 test, October-December 1984UE-25c #1 above packers to UE-25c #3 1,371-2,514 267 UE-25c #1 between packers to UE-25c #3 2,524-2,594 280 UE-25c #1 below packers to UE-25c #3 2,603-3,000 280 UE-25c #2 between packers to UE-25c #3 2,364-2,475 92

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16 15 14 13 12 11 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

BOREHOLE DIAMETER, IN INCHES, ON DECEMBER 11, 1992 CALIPER LOG

2,730

EXPLANATION

OPEN, NEAR VERTICAL, SOUTH-STRIKING (160°-195°) FRACTURE Dashed where extrapolated outside borehole

OPEN, VERTICAL, NORTHWEST-STRIKING (330°) FRACTURE

Figure 3. Relation between fractures and borehole diameter in an enlarged, rugose interval of borehole UE-25c #2.

(Grady O'Brien, U.S. Geological Survey, written com- mun., 1993). As indicated by TV and caliper logs listed in table 1, casing and concrete extend 1,368 ft below the top of the borehole. The open part of the borehole was rotary-drilled with a 14.75-in.-diameter bit through the bottom of the concrete to a depth of 1,514 ft and a 9.875-in.-diameter bit from 1,514 to 3,000 ft. Caliper logs indicate that the borehole walls are very irregular (pi. 3). TV and caliper logs indicate that the bottom of the borehole has collapsed substan­ tially since completion. The bottom of the borehole was at a depth of 3,000 ft in April 1984,2,976 ft in March 1985, and 2,954 ft in June 1992.

Site Geology

The c-holes are completed in Miocene tuf- faceous rocks that are covered by a thin veneer (0-80 ft) of Quaternary alluvium and underlain by dolomite of the Silurian Roberts Mountain Formation and Lone Mountain Dolomite (Carr and others, 1986; Geldon, 1993). Based on information obtained from borehole UE-25p #1, 2,028 ft southeast of borehole UE-25c #1, the Miocene rocks are estimated to be about 5,000 ft thick in the vicinity of the c-holes.

Northerly trending, high-angle faults, such as the Paintbrush Canyon and Bow Ridge Faults, have offset and tilted the Miocene rocks in the vicinity of the

PHYSICAL SETTING

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c-holes (Scott and Bonk, 1984). The dip of the Miocene rocks increases in fault blocks from 5° to 10° on the crest of Yucca Mountain to 15° to 20° at the c-hole complex (Frizzell and Shulters, 1990; Geldon, 1993). According to Scott (1990), the high- angle faults merge listrically at depth with a detach­ ment fault that forms the contact between Miocene and Paleozoic rocks in the Yucca Mountain area. However, Carr (1990) considers the contact between the Miocene and Paleozoic rocks to be an unconformity, and the high-angle faults in the Yucca Mountain area to be col­ lapse faults bordering a caldera centered in Crater Flat (location shown in fig. 1).

As indicated in table 3, Miocene rocks pene­ trated by the c-holes include the Tiva Canyon and Topopah Spring Members of the Paintbrush Tuff, the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills, and the Prow Pass, Bullfrog, and Tram Members of the Crater Flat Tuff. These geologic units predominantly consist of ash-flow tuff, that is devitrified to vitrophyric and nonwelded to

densely welded. Bedded tuff, consisting of ash-fall tuff and volcaniclastic rocks (reworked tuff), is interlayed with the ash-flow tuff at the base of formations and members. Unique to boreholes in the Yucca Mountain area, a tuff breccia occurs in the Tram Member in an interval where moderately welded ash-flow tuff is present in nearby boreholes (Geldon, 1993). Faults that intersect at the c-hole complex apparently have brecciated the upper nonwelded to partially welded part of the Tram Member and cut out the moderately welded part (Geldon, 1993). All of the geologic units at the c-hole complex have been altered partially to zeolite and clay minerals below the water table, which according to information from Robison and other (1988) and USGS files, occurs at depths of between 1,312 and 1,320 ft below the land surface (at altitudes of 2,394 to 2,396 ft above the NGVD of 1929). The water table is slightly above or below the contact between the Paintbrush Tuff and the tuffs and lavas of

Table 3. Stratigraphic column for the c-hole complex

[Summarized from lithologic logs prepared by Richard E. Spengler, USGS, written commun., 1984; dashed line in depth column indicates an unconformity]

Geologic unit Generalized descriptionDepth below land surface

(feet)

UE-25C #1 UE-25c #2 UE-25C #3

Alluvium Paintbrush Tuff

Tiva Canyon Member

Topopah Spring Member

Tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills

Crater Flat Tuff

Sand and gravel

Moderately to densely welded ash-flow tuff with thin basal bedded tuffModerately to densely welded ash-flow tuff with inter­ vals containing lithophysae; thin vitrophyre and non- welded tuff layers at the top and bottom Nonwelded ash-flow tuff Bedded tuff

Absent 0-70 0-80

0-315 70-290 80-290

315-1,332 290-1,316 290-1,300

1,332-1,593 1,593-1,691

1,316-1,570 1,570-1,672

1,300-1,560 1,560-1,629

Prow Pass Member

Bullfrog Member

Tram Member

Nonwelded to partially welded ash-flow tuffModerately welded ash-flow tuffPartially welded to nonwelded ash-flow tuffBedded tuffNonwelded to partially welded ash-flow tuffModerately to densely welded ash-flow tuffPartially welded to nonwelded ash-flow tuffBedded tuffNonwelded to partially welded ash-flow tuff

Indurated tuff brecciaPartially welded, lithic ash-flow tuff

1,692-1,8381,838-1,860

~ UJ6CT2, m ~

2,118-2,152~ 2T15T-2T260"

2,260-2,4802,480-2,6952,695-2,7162,716-2,775

2,775-2,975

2,975-3,000

1,673-1,8101,810-1,8401,840-2,1102,110-2,138

~2,l39^2,240 ~2,240-2,4602,460-2,6752,675-2,7192,719-2,775

2,775-2,935

2,935-3,000

1,630-1,7801,780-1,8301,830-2,0852,085-2,1122,112-2,2102,210-2,4302,430-2,6502,650-2,6702,670-2,804

2,804-3,000Not reached

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Calico Hills in individual boreholes (see tables in the Supplementary Data section at the end of this report).

The tuffaceous rocks at the c-hole complex are pervaded by tectonic and cooling fractures. Fracture orientations and frequency in the geologic units pene­ trated by the c-holes vary from unit to unit and among boreholes, but for the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills and the Crater Flat Tuff, in general, fractures strike pre­ dominantly south-southeast to south-southwest (fig. 4) and dip 50° to 87° to the west-southwest or west-north­ west. Largely because of the Tram Member of the Crater Flat Tuff, the second most abundant fractures in the c-holes strike north-northwest to north-northeast and dip east-northeast to east-southeast. Many of the latter fractures are shallow-dipping or mineralized. The least common fractures generally strike to the east (between 70° and 110°) and west (between 250° and 290°), and many of these are shallow-dipping or miner­ alized. In contrast to boreholes UE-25c #1 and UE-25c #2, southwesterly, westerly, and northwest­ erly-striking fractures are more common in borehole UE-25c #3 than southeasterly, easterly, and northeast­ erly striking fractures. Borehole UE-25c #3 differs from the other two c-holes, also, in having a smaller proportion of steep to vertical, nonmineralized frac­ tures to mineralized or shallow, nonmineralized frac­ tures. Because of fault brecciation, fracture frequency is greatest in the Tram Member. The bedded zone of the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills is also very fractured. On the average, moderately to densely welded zones of the Prow Pass and Bullfrog Members are more frac­ tured than bedded zones, which in turn, are more frac­ tured than nonwelded to partially welded zones (pis. 1-3).

SITE HYDROLOGY

The tuffaceous rocks penetrated by the c-holes are not uniformly permeable. Variations in fracture fre­ quency and openness and matrix permeability confine ground-water movement to relatively thin intervals in the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills and the Crater Flat Tuff. In combination, laboratory analyses of core per­ meability, fracture (television and acoustic televiewer) logs, caliper logs, resistivity logs, temperature logs, tracejecter surveys during pumping tests, and heat- pulse flowmeter surveys identify the transmissive intervals.

Matrix Permeability

Permeameter tests were done on 20 samples of core from boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3 (table 1) to determine horizontal and verti­ cal matrix permeability. These samples were insuffi­ cient to characterize the variation in matrix permeability with depth throughout the entire thickness of tuffaceous rocks penetrated by the c-holes. How­ ever, with the addition of permeability analyses for 69 samples of core from four boreholes within a three- mile radius of the c-hole complex (table 1), profiles of horizontal matrix permeability as a function of depth within geologic units (sample depth divided by the thickness of the geologic unit from which the sample was obtained) were prepared for the c-holes and nearby boreholes (fig. 5).

To construct the permeability profile shown in figure 5, it was assumed that permeability values would be the same at the same normalized depths within geo­ logic units at different locations. However, it was rec­ ognized that this assumption might be incorrect locally because of lateral changes in lithology. Some points shown in figure 5 that deviate substantially from the plotted permeability profile were ignored under the assumption that they represent either locally unusual lithology or a poorly correlated permeability value.

Horizontal matrix permeability as a function of depth for each of the c-holes was calculated from the permeability and percent of thickness values in figure 5 and depths of stratigraphic horizons listed in table 3. As indicated on plates 1-3, horizontal matrix perme­ ability in the tuffaceous rocks at the c-hole complex is estimated to range from 0.001 to 20 mD. With respect to matrix permeability, the tuffaceous rocks at the c-hole complex are slightly anisotropic (fig. 6). Matrix permeability is slightly larger in the horizontal direc­ tion than in the vertical direction. Expressed as a func­ tion of horizontal matrix permeability (kr\ vertical matrix permeability (fcz) can be found from the follow­ ing empirically derived equation (R2 = 0.71):

log* = 0.881og*r -0.36 (1)

Vertical matrix permeability in the tuffaceous rocks at the c-hole complex is estimated to range from 0.001 to 6mD.

SITE HYDROLOGY B

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UE-25c #1P B T A C P B TiA C P B TiA C P B T A C P B TiA C P B TiA C P B TiA C.P B TiA

'340-20' 21-69 ' 70 -110 'ill - 159'l60 - 200 201 - 249'250 - 290'29l - 339'

UE-25c #3

70-110 111 - 159 160 - 200 201 - 249 250 - 290 291 - 339'

STRIKE AZIMUTH, IN DEGREES

200

190 -

UE-25C #2C P B T.A C P B T A C P B TiA C P B TiA C P B TIA C P B T A C P B TIA C P B TM

340-20 21-69 70 -110 111 - 159'l60 - 200'201 - 249'250 - 290'291 - 339 1

STRIKE AZIMUTH, IN DEGREES

EXPLANATION

"'// 'A PARTLY OR ENTIRELY MINERALIZED

NONMINERALIZED, SHALLOW (<50 DEGREE DIP)

NONMINERALIZED, STEEP TO VERTICAL

TUFFS AND LAVAS OF CALICO HILLS

PROW PASS MEMBER OF THE CRATER FLAT TUFF

BULLFROG MEMBER OF THE CRATER FLAT TUFF

TRAM MEMBER OF THE CRATER FLAT TUFF

ALL GEOLOGIC UNITS

Figure 4. Frequency distribution of fracture orientations in boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3. (Based on TV and acoustic televiewer logs. Fractures identified in the c-holes are listed in the Supplementary Data section at the end of this report.)

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Heat-Pulse Flowmeter Surveys

Heat-pulse flowmeter surveys were conducted in each of the c-holes in December 1991 by Alfred E. Hess and Frederick L. Paillet of the USGS Borehole Geophysics Research Project to identify zones of intraborehole flow under natural hydraulic gradients (undisturbed by pumping or drilling). As described by Hess (1990), the method used involves lowering the flowmeter probe by cable to intervals of a borehole previously identified by fracture (television and acoustic televiewer) logs, caliper logs, and temper­ ature logs as possibly transmissive intervals. Measure­ ments are made with the probe above and below an

interval of interest. A packer is inflated above the probe to restrict the measurement to the depth of inter­ est. The flow measurement is made by releasing a heat pulse from an open grid of resistance wire and timing the movement of the heat pulse to sensors located at equal distances above and below the heat source. A positive deflection on a strip-chart recording of heat- pulse transit time indicates movement of the heat pulse to the upper sensor and, hence, upward intraborehole flow. A negative deflection on a strip-chart recorder indicates movement of the heat pulse to the lower sen­ sor and, hence, downward intraborehole flow. Heat- pulse transit time is converted to flow rate by an empir­ ically derived calibration equation for the probe.

12 Results and Interpretation of Preliminary Aquifer Tests in Boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c *2, and UE-25c f 3, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada

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Heat-pulse flowmeter surveys indicated dis­ tinctly different patterns of intraborehole flow in each of the c-holes (pis. 1-3). In borehole UE-25c #1, the flow fluctuated slightly but remained less than 0.09 gal/min and downward from 1,505 to about 2,520 ft. Below about 2,520 ft, the intraborehole flow became upward. The upward flow increased from 0 to 1.18 gal/min between about 2,520 and 2,735 ft, decreased to 0.91 gal/min between 2,735 and 2,765 ft, and became too small to measure reliably between 2,765 and 2,830 ft.

Similar to the pattern in borehole UE-25c #1, flow in borehole UE-25c #2 was downward in the top of the borehole and upward in the bottom of the bore­ hole. However, downward and upward flow in bore­ hole UE-25c #2 remained small (less than 0.15 gal/min) throughout the entire surveyed part of the borehole, and the change from downward to upward flow was 230 ft lower than in borehole UE-25c #1.

In contrast to the situation in boreholes UE-25c #1 and UE-25c #2, the flow in borehole UE-25c #3 was upward throughout the entire surveyed part of the borehole, although it is possible that small downward flow might be occurring above the upper­ most measuring depth. The flow in borehole UE-25c #3 decreased from 0.10 to 0.05 gal/min between 1,505 and 1,650 ft, increased gradually to 0.08 gal/min between 1,650 and 2,275 ft, increased sharply to 4.0 gal/min between 2,275 and 2,550 ft, and decreased from 4.0 to 1.7 gal/min between 2,800 ft and the bottom of the borehole.

As described in the next section, changes in flow in the c-holes generally coincide with zones of moder­ ately to very fractured rock. Faults, partings, and inter­ vals with relatively large matrix permeability, also influence intraborehole flow.

Transmissive Intervals

The best indicators of transmissivity are aquifer tests and numerical modeling. However, both tech­ niques require some knowledge of hydrogeologic con­ ditions in advance of use for the most reliable calculation of hydrologic properties. Diverse labora­ tory and geophysical data obtained at the c-hole com­ plex from 1983-1992 were used to determine transmissive intervals in and between the c-holes in order to improve the analysis and interpretation of pre­ liminary aquifer tests conducted at the c-hole complex. For example, knowing that ground-water flow was occurring in only 50 ft of a packed-off interval 500-ft thick instead of the entire interval, substantially would change the calculation of hydraulic conductivity from

a transmissivity value determined by a pumping test. The analytical solution used to calculate transmissivity from drawdown, residual drawdown, or recovery data, and hence the numerical value obtained, would be expected to differ substantially if pre-test analysis showed that the source of ground water in a borehole was a fracture zone, an unfractured interval with large matrix permeability, a fault, or gravity drainage from the water table. In this study, the following criteria were used to identify transmissive intervals:

1. Gains and losses in intraborehole flow detected during heat-pulse flowmeter surveys;

2. Gains in discharge detected by tracejector surveys during pumping tests;

3. Inflections in nonpumping temperature gradients (caused by inflow, outflow, upflow, or down- flow);

4. Relatively low resistivity associated with moder­ ate to intense fracturing, relatively large matrix permeability, or partings (indicating that the resistivity is related to water and not weather­ ing, mineralization, or other factors); and

5. Borehole enlargement associated with fracturezones, an indicator of the openness of individ­ ual fractures, or the presence of cavities created by fracture intersections.

Transmissive intervals in each of the c-holes and their characteristics are listed in tables 4-6. Figure 7, a hydrogeologic section of the c-holes, drawn along lines shown in figure 2, extrapolates transmissive intervals between the c-holes. For purposes of discussion in this report, the c-hole transmissive intervals informally were grouped into four aquifers that are separated by three confining units. The aquifers cannot be consid­ ered as formal hydrogeologic units because (1) the aquifers are defined largely by the extent of fracturing within them; (2) fractures are spatially related to faults at the c-hole complex; and (3) in different areas, faults and related fractures can be expected to penetrate geo­ logic units differently than at the c-hole complex.

Calico Hills Aquifer

The Calico Hills aquifer extends from the water table, at depths between 1,312 and 1,320 ft to about 1,700 ft below land surface and is unconfined. It con­ sists of three relatively thin zones of moderately to very fractured rock separated by unfractured to sparsely fractured rock, much of which contains large matrix permeability (fig. 7). Fractures, some of which are

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erat

ely

wel

ded

and

parti

ally

wel

ded

to n

onw

elde

d zo

nes

of P

row

Pas

s M

embe

rV

ery

frac

ture

d; f

ract

ures

are

ope

n, s

hallo

w-s

teep

, nor

th, e

ast,

and

sout

h-st

rikin

gM

oder

atel

y fr

actu

red;

fra

ctur

es a

re o

pen,

sha

llow

, nor

th-s

triki

ngPo

or v

isib

ility

but

bel

ieve

d to

be

spar

sely

to v

ery

frac

ture

d; k

now

n fr

actu

res

are

shal

low

-ver

tical

, mos

tly s

outh

and

nor

thea

st-s

triki

ng.

Inte

rval

s w

ith la

rge

mat

rixpe

rmea

bilit

y an

d an

ope

n pa

rting

at t

he P

row

Pas

s-B

ullfr

og c

onta

ctV

ery

frac

ture

d to

2,2

43 ft

, lar

ge m

atrix

per

mea

bilit

y be

low

; fra

ctur

es, s

ome

ofw

hich

are

ope

n, a

re s

hallo

w-v

ertic

al, n

orth

, sou

thea

st, a

nd s

outh

-stri

king

Spar

sely

to v

ery

frac

ture

d, w

ith la

rge

mat

rix p

erm

eabi

lity

belo

w 2

,415

ft;

frac

ture

sar

e ne

ar v

ertic

al- v

ertic

al, s

outh

and

eas

t-stri

king

Ver

y fr

actu

red

rock

sep

arat

ed b

y th

in in

terv

als

of u

nfra

ctur

ed ro

ck; f

ract

ures

, man

yof

whi

ch a

re o

pen

are

stee

p-ve

rtica

l, so

uth,

eas

t, an

d so

uthe

ast-s

triki

ng

Mod

erat

ely

to v

ery

frac

ture

d; fr

actu

res

are

open

, sha

llow

-ste

ep, n

orth

and

nor

th-

Intr

abor

ehol

e flo

w

(gal

lons

per

min

ute)

>0.0

9 do

wn

0.02

out

0.01

out

0.02

in a

nd d

own

0.02

out

0.02

in a

nd d

own

0.01

out

0.01

in a

nd d

own

0.01

out

0.03

in a

nd d

own

0.1 2

out

(cha

ngin

gfr

om d

own

to u

p at

2,52

0 ft)

0.76

out

Pum

ping

di

char

ge

(per

cent

)0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 64

Supp

ortin

g in

form

atio

n

Low

resi

stiv

ity

Low

resi

stiv

ity, c

onca

ve te

mpe

ratu

regr

adie

nt in

flect

ion

Low

resi

stiv

ityLo

w re

sist

ivity

, con

vex

tem

pera

ture

grad

ient

infle

ctio

nB

oreh

ole

enla

rgem

ent

Abr

upt r

esis

tivity

dec

reas

e

Low

resi

stiv

ity, b

oreh

ole

enla

rgem

ent

Ver

y lo

w re

sist

ivity

Low

resi

stiv

ity, b

oreh

ole

enla

rgem

ent

Low

resi

stiv

ity, b

oreh

ole

enla

rgem

ent

Low

resi

stiv

ity, b

oreh

ole

enla

rgem

ent,

pron

ounc

ed c

onca

ve te

mpe

ratu

re g

ra­

dien

t inf

lect

ion

Ver

y lo

w re

sist

ivity

, con

vex

tem

pera

-

0 o.

c

east

-str

ikin

g an

d ne

ar v

ertic

al o

r ver

tical

, eas

t-st

riki

ng

2,65

6-2,

715

Mod

erat

ely

frac

ture

d, la

rge

mat

rix p

erm

eabi

lity;

fra

ctur

es a

re s

hallo

w-s

teep

, nor

th-

strik

ing

2,72

9-2,

752

Ver

y fr

actu

red;

fra

ctur

es, s

ome

of w

hich

are

ope

n, a

re s

hallo

w-v

ertic

al a

nd

dive

rsel

y or

ient

ed

0.38

out

0

0.29

in to

max

imum

0

upw

ard

flow

of 1

.18

ture

gra

dien

t inf

lect

ion,

bor

ehol

een

larg

emen

tLo

w re

sist

ivity

, bor

ehol

e en

larg

emen

t

Ver

y lo

w re

sist

ivity

, con

cave

tem

pera

­ tu

re g

radi

ent i

nfle

ctio

n, b

oreh

ole

enla

rgem

ent

2,75

9-2,

790

2,79

0-2,

840

2,89

0-2,

915

2,92

1-2,

941

2,96

0-2,

980

Ver

y fr

actu

red;

fra

ctur

es, s

ome

of w

hich

are

ope

n, a

re s

hallo

w-s

teep

, mos

tly s

outh

and

sout

hwes

t-stri

king

. Tw

o of

the

frac

ture

s com

pris

e th

e Pa

intb

rush

Can

yon

Faul

tzo

neV

ery

frac

ture

d; f

ract

ures

, som

e of

whi

ch a

re o

pen,

are

ste

ep- v

ertic

al a

nd d

iver

sely

orie

nted

Ver

y fr

actu

red;

fra

ctur

es a

re n

ear v

ertic

al-v

ertic

al, d

iver

sely

orie

nted

Ver

y fr

actu

red;

fra

ctur

es a

re s

hallo

w-v

ertic

al, d

iver

sely

ori

ente

dM

oder

atel

y fr

actu

red(

?):

unce

rtain

bec

ause

inte

rval

con

ceal

ed b

y bo

reho

leco

llaps

e

<0.9

1 in

and

up

Smal

l up

Smal

l up(

?)

Smal

l up(

?)Sm

all u

p(?)

25 0 11 0 0

Con

vex

tem

pera

ture

gra

dien

t inf

lec­

tion,

ext

ensi

ve b

oreh

ole

enla

rgem

ent

Bor

ehol

e en

larg

emen

t

Con

cave

tem

pera

ture

gra

dien

t inf

lec­

tion,

bor

ehol

e en

larg

emen

tC

onve

x te

mpe

ratu

re g

radi

ent i

nfle

ctio

nLo

w re

sist

ivity

, bor

ehol

e en

larg

emen

t

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Tab

le 5

. T

rans

mis

sive

int

erva

ls in

bor

ehol

e U

E-2

5c #

2

[Fea

ture

s disc

usse

d br

iefly

in th

is ta

ble

are

show

n in

det

ail o

n pl

ate

2]

Dep

thbe

low

land

surf

ace

(feet

)

Cha

ract

eris

tics

Intr

abor

ehol

eflo

w(g

allo

ns p

er

min

ute)

Pum

ing

dis­

ch

arge

(p

er­

cent

)

Sup

port

ing

info

rmat

ion

o 3J

O 5 S

1,44

1-1,

570

Poor

vis

ibili

ty to

1,5

14 ft

, but

bel

ieve

d to

be

spar

sely

to m

oder

atel

y fr

ac­

ture

d to

1,5

52 ft

. La

rge

mat

rix p

erm

eabi

lity

belo

w 1

,539

ft.

Kno

wn

frac

­ tu

res

are

verti

cal,

north

wes

t, no

rth, a

nd n

orth

east

-stri

king

; tw

o ar

e op

en

1,62

4-1,

634

Ver

y fr

actu

red;

fra

ctur

es a

re s

hallo

w, n

orth

and

nor

thea

st-s

triki

ng1,

644-

1,65

3 V

ery

frac

ture

d; fr

actu

res

are

shal

low

-ver

tical

, div

erse

ly o

rient

ed, o

pen

at

inte

rsec

tions

1,67

2-1,

673

Ope

n pa

rting

at C

alic

o H

ills-

Cra

ter F

lat c

onta

ct1,

812-

1,87

0 V

ery

frac

ture

d, w

ith la

rge

mat

rix p

erm

eabi

lity;

fra

ctur

es a

re n

ear v

ertic

al-

verti

cal,

sout

h an

d so

uthe

ast-s

triki

ng

1,94

8-1,

968

Mod

erat

ely

frac

ture

d(?)

. N

o kn

own

frac

ture

s be

caus

e of

poo

r vis

ibili

ty2,

045-

2,09

3 Po

or v

isib

ility

; cou

ld b

e sp

arse

ly to

mod

erat

ely

frac

ture

d, a

lthou

gh n

o fr

ac­

ture

s w

ere

dete

cted

. In

terv

al k

now

n to

hav

e la

rge

mat

rix p

erm

eabi

lity

2,10

7-2,

122

Poor

vis

ibili

ty, b

ut b

elie

ved

to b

e m

oder

atel

y fr

actu

red.

Kno

wn

to h

ave

larg

e m

atrix

per

mea

bilit

y2,

138-

2,13

9 O

pen

parti

ng a

t Pro

w P

ass-

Bul

lfrog

con

tact

2,25

2-2,

267

Ver

y fr

actu

red;

fra

ctur

es, o

ne o

f whi

ch is

ope

n, a

re n

ear

verti

cal-v

ertic

al,

sout

h-st

rikin

g2,

380-

2,41

6 V

ery

frac

ture

d, w

ith la

rge

mat

rix p

erm

eabi

lity;

fra

ctur

es, a

bout

a th

ird o

f w

hich

are

ope

n, a

re s

teep

-ver

tical

, mos

tly n

orth

and

sou

th-s

triki

ng (

also

no

rthea

st, e

ast,

sout

heas

t, an

d so

uthw

est-s

triki

ng)

2,43

7-2,

499

Ver

y fr

actu

red

rock

with

thin

inte

rval

s of

unf

ract

ured

rock

; fra

ctur

es m

ostly

ar

e op

en, s

teep

-ver

tical

, sou

th, s

outh

east

, sou

thw

est,

and

north

wes

t-stri

king

2,69

1-2,

694

Ver

y fr

actu

red;

inte

rval

con

tain

s a

sing

le p

artly

min

eral

ized

, ver

tical

, sou

th-

strik

ing

frac

ture

, ind

icat

ed o

n lit

holo

gic

log

to b

e a

faul

t2,

707-

2,72

6 V

ery

frac

ture

d; fr

actu

res

mos

tly a

re o

pen,

ste

ep-v

ertic

al, s

outh

east

, sou

th,

and

sout

hwes

t-stri

king

2,74

9-2,

789

Ver

y fr

actu

red;

fra

ctur

es, t

hree

of w

hich

are

ope

n, a

re s

teep

-ver

tical

, nor

th

and

sout

h-st

rikin

g

2,78

9-2,

797

Ver

y fr

actu

red;

frac

ture

s m

ostly

are

sha

llow

-ste

ep, s

outh

-stri

king

; thr

eeop

en fr

actu

res

at 2

,793

-2,7

95 f

t com

pris

e th

e Pa

intb

rush

Can

yon

Faul

t zon

e

2,89

1-2,

942

Ver

y fr

actu

red;

fra

ctur

es, f

our o

f whi

ch a

re o

pen,

are

ste

ep-v

ertic

al,

dive

rsel

y or

ient

ed

2,94

2-2,

961

Spar

sely

fra

ctur

ed; i

nter

val k

now

n to

con

tain

two

shal

low

, sou

th-s

triki

ngfr

actu

res,

one

of w

hich

is o

pen

>0.0

4 do

wn

0.01

in

and

dow

n

0.10

in a

nd

dow

n to

max

i­ m

um d

ownw

ard-

flo

w o

f 0.1

50.

01 o

ut

0.01

out

0.01

out

0.04

out

0.02

out

Smal

l los

s(?)

>0.0

3 ou

t

0.08

out

(cha

ng­

ing

from

dow

war

d to

upw

ard

at 2

,750

ft)

>0.0

5 in

to m

ax­

imum

upw

ard

flow

Smal

l up(

?)

Smal

l up(

?)

0 Lo

w re

sist

ivity

; con

vex

tem

pera

ture

gra

dien

tin

flect

ion

at a

bout

1,4

65 f

t, an

d co

ncav

e te

mpe

ra­

ture

gra

dien

t inf

lect

ion

at a

bout

1,5

20 ft

; bor

ehol

e en

larg

emen

t and

rugo

sity

0

Ver

y lo

w re

sist

ivity

, bor

ehol

e en

larg

emen

t 0

Ver

y lo

w re

sist

ivity

, con

vex

tem

pera

ture

gra

dien

tin

flect

ion,

bor

ehol

e en

larg

emen

t 0

Low

resi

stiv

ity, b

oreh

ole

enla

rgem

ent

0 D

ecre

ase

to lo

w re

sist

ivity

con

cave

tem

pera

ture

gr

adie

nt in

flect

ion

0 Lo

w re

sist

ivity

, bor

ehol

e en

larg

emen

t0

Gen

eral

ly lo

w re

sist

ivity

, con

vex

tem

pera

ture

gra

­ di

ent i

nfle

ctio

n, s

ubst

antia

l bor

ehol

e en

larg

emen

t0

Gen

eral

ly lo

w re

sist

ivity

, bor

ehol

e en

larg

emen

t an

d ru

gosi

ty7

Low

resi

stiv

ity, b

oreh

ole

enla

rgem

ent

0 Lo

w re

sist

ivity

79

Res

istiv

ity tr

ough

, maj

or c

onve

x te

mpe

ratu

re g

ra­

dien

t inf

lect

ion,

bor

ehol

e en

larg

emen

t

14

Dec

reas

e to

low

resi

stiv

ity, c

onca

ve te

mpe

ratu

re

grad

ient

infle

ctio

n; m

inor

bor

ehol

e en

larg

emen

t 0

Low

resi

stiv

ity

0 Lo

w re

sist

ivity

, maj

or c

onca

ve te

mpe

ratu

re g

radi

­ en

t inf

lect

ion,

maj

or b

oreh

ole

enla

rgem

ent

0 Lo

w re

sist

ivity

, con

vex

tem

pera

ture

gra

dien

t in

flect

ion,

bor

ehol

e en

larg

emen

t and

rugo

sity

Low

resi

stiv

ity

0 Lo

w re

sist

ivity

, con

cave

tem

pera

ture

gra

dien

tin

flect

ion

0 Lo

w re

sist

ivity

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I II

Tabl

e 6.

Tra

nsm

issi

ve in

terv

als

in b

oreh

ole

UE

-25c

#3

[Fea

ture

s di

scus

sed

brie

fly in

this

sec

tion

are

show

n in

det

ail o

n pl

ate

3]

o I I 3 3 I

Dep

thbe

low

land

surf

ace

(feet

)

Cha

ract

eris

tics

intr

abor

ehol

e flo

w(g

allo

ns p

erm

inut

e)

Pum

ing

dis­

ch

arge

(p

er­

cent

)

Supp

ortin

g in

form

atio

n

o_ 9 m C m m ; a m

1,41

4-1,

483

Spar

sely

to m

oder

atel

y fr

actu

red.

Kno

wn

frac

ture

s ar

e st

eep-

near

ver

tical

, nor

th a

nd

Smal

l dow

n(?)

0

north

wes

t-stri

king

. U

nfra

ctur

ed ro

ck a

ppar

ently

tran

smits

wat

er1,

483-

1,52

2 M

oder

atel

y to

ver

y fr

actu

red;

larg

e m

atrix

per

mea

bilit

y; fr

actu

res,

mos

tly o

pen

to

>0.1

0 ou

t (an

y 0

1,51

0 ft,

are

sha

llow

-ver

tical

, nor

th, s

outh

, and

sout

hwes

t-stri

king

. W

ater

app

aren

tly

dow

nwar

d flo

w

is tr

ansm

itted

by

frac

ture

s an

d m

atrix

an

d al

l rem

aini

ngup

war

d flo

w lo

st)

1,52

2-1,

586

Spar

sely

to m

oder

atel

y fr

actu

red,

larg

e m

atrix

per

mea

bilit

y; f

ract

ures

are

sha

llow

- 0.

04 in

and

up

0 ve

rtica

l, no

rthea

st, e

ast,

and

sout

h-st

rikin

g. W

ater

app

aren

tly tr

ansm

itted

by

frac

­ tu

res

and

mat

rix1,

615-

1,64

0 V

ery

frac

ture

d, la

rge

mat

rix p

erm

eabi

lity

belo

w 1

,629

ft, o

pen

parti

ng a

t Cal

ico

0.01

in

and

up

0 H

ills-

Cra

ter F

lat c

onta

ct; f

ract

ures

, mos

tly o

pen

1,62

2-1,

625

ft, a

re s

hallo

w-n

ear

verti

cal,

dive

rsel

y or

ient

ed.

Mos

t flo

w p

roba

bly

is th

roug

h op

en fr

actu

res

and

part­

in

g1,

640-

1,67

4 Sp

arse

ly f

ract

ured

to 1

,666

ft, m

oder

atel

y fr

actu

red

belo

w; l

arge

mat

rix p

erm

eabi

l- Sm

all g

ain(

?)

0 ity

; fra

ctur

es a

re n

ear v

ertic

al, e

ast,

sout

h, a

nd s

outh

wes

t-stri

king

. W

ater

app

aren

tly

trans

mitt

ed b

y fr

actu

res

and

mat

rix1,

846-

1,86

5 M

oder

atel

y fr

actu

red,

larg

e m

atrix

per

mea

bilit

y; f

ract

ures

are

nea

r ver

tical

-ver

tical

Sm

all l

oss(

?)

0 ea

st, s

outh

east

, and

sou

th-s

triki

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FEET BELOW LAND SURFACE 1

1,300

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BEND IN SECTION

UE-25C #1 UE-25C #2

CALICO HILLS AQUIFER

UPPER PROW PASS CONFINING UNIT

PROW PASS-UPPER BULLFROG AQUIFER

MIDDLE BULLFROG CONFINING UNIT

LOWER BULLFROG CONFINING UNIT

1 Depths in boreholes adjusted for topography by adding 5 feet to depths in borehole UE-25c #1, which is 5 feet lower than the other 2 boreholes

0 50 100 FEETI ,

50 METERS

Figure 7A. Hydrogeologic section of the c-hole complex.

18 Results and Interpretation of Preliminary Aquifer Tests in Boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada

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EXPLANATION

PAINTBRUSH TUFF, TOPOPAH SPRING MEMBER

TUFFS AND LAVAS OF CALICO HILLS

NONWELDED

BEDDED

CRATER FLAT TUFF

PROW PASS MEMBER

NONWELDED TO PARTIALLY WELDED

MODERATELY WELDED

PARTIALLY WELDED TO NONWELDED

BEDDED

BULLFROG MEMBER

NONWELDED TO PARTIALLY WELDED

MODERATELY TO DENSELY WELDED

PARTIALLY WELDED TO NONWELDED

BEDDED

TRAM MEMBER

NONWELDED TO PARTIALLY WELDED

TUFF BRECCIA

PARTIALLY WELDED

TRANSMISSIVE INTERVAL Dark gray where moderately to very fractured; light gray where sparsely to moderately fractured (?) and largely dependent on matrix permeability for transmissivity. Roman numeral referenced in text

NONTRANSMISSIVE ROCK Unfractured to very fractured

PUMP-TEST PRODUCTION ZONE

J. BOREHOLE

T WATER TABLE ON JUNE 2, 1992

CONFORMABLE GEOLOGIC CONTACT

DISCONFORMABLE GEOLOGIC CONTACT, WITH OPEN PARTING, EXCEPT IN TRAM MEMBER

BOUNDARY OF TRANSMISSIVE INTERVAL

1 FAULT Arrows indicate relative direction of movement

DIRECTION OF NONPUMPEDINTRABOREHOLE FLOW

Figure 7B. Hydrogeologic section of the c-hole complex.

SITE HYDROLOGY 19

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open, are shallow to vertical and diversely oriented. The upper part of the aquifer (transmissive interval I) is characterized by small to moderate downflows from the water table. In the middle part of the aquifer (trans­ missive intervals II and III), all downward flow in bore­ hole UE-25c #3, all remaining upward flow from lower in borehole UE-25c #3, and about a third of the down- wardflow in borehole UE-25c #1 are lost through frac­ tures and the rock matrix; some of this water flows into borehole UE-25c #2. At the bottom of the aquifer, small upflows and downflows enter the c-holes through a parting at the contact between the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills and the Crater Flat Tuff.

Prow Pass - Upper Bullfrog Aquifer

The Prow Pass - upper Bullfrog aquifer extends from about 1,800 ft to about 2,270 ft below land surface and probably either is unconfirmed or is a fissure-block aquifer. It consists of four relatively thin zones of mod­ erately (?) to very fractured rock separated by thin to thick intervals of unfractured to sparsely fractured rock, some of which contain large matrix permeability (fig. 7). Fractures, some of which are open, are shallow to vertical and diversely oriented, although many are north- or south-striking. A parting at the contact between the Prow Pass and Bullfrog Members of the Crater Flat Tuff occurs near the bottom of the aquifer. In the upper part of the aquifer (transmissive intervals IV and V), a small outflow from borehole UE-25c #3 is transmitted toward borehole UE-25c #1, and a small outflow from borehole UE-25c #1 is transmitted toward borehole UE-25c #2. Lower in this part of the aquifer, these inflows leave boreholes UE-25c #1 and UE-25c #2 through fractures. In the middle part of the aquifer (transmissive interval VI), small outflows from boreholes UE-25c #2 and UE-25c #3 are transmitted by fractures, the rock matrix, and the parting at the Prow Pass - Bullfrog contact toward borehole UE-25c #1. At the bottom of the aquifer (transmissive interval VII), small outflows to fractures occur in all of the c-holes. Seven percent of the discharge from borehole UE-25c #2 during a pumping test in March 1984 came from this aquifer.

Bullfrog Aquifer

The Bullfrog aquifer extends from about 2,370 to 2,660 ft below land surface and is confined by more than 100 ft of overlying unfractured to sparsely frac­ tured, moderately to densely welded tuff (fig. 7). The aquifer consists mostly of moderately to very fractured rock with thin intervals of unfractured to sparsely frac­ tured rock, but the lower 50 ft of the aquifer in borehole

UE-25c #3 is sparsely to moderately fractured. The upper part of the aquifer (transmissive interval VIII) contains large matrix permeability. Fractures, most of which are open, are shallow to vertical, and diversely oriented. In the upper part of the aquifer, small to large outflows from boreholes UE-25c #2 and UE-25c #3 are transmitted toward borehole UE-25c #1. In the lower part of the aquifer (transmissive interval IX), all down­ ward flow and all remaining upward flow from lower in borehole UE-25c #1 are lost through fractures; small to large outflows from boreholes UE-25c #2 and UE-25c #3 occur, as well. Sixty-four percent of the discharge from a pumping test in borehole UE-25c #1 in September 1983,93 percent of the discharge from a pumping test in borehole UE-25c #2 in March 1984, and 75 percent of the discharge from a pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3 in May-June 1984 came from this aquifer.

Tram Aquifer

The Tram aquifer extends from about 2,660 ft below land surface to the bottom of the c-holes and is confined. However, leakage occurs from two faults that transect this aquifer. The aquifer consists almost entirely of moderately to very fractured rock (fig. 7). Fractures, many of which are open, are shallow to ver­ tical and diversely oriented. At the top of the aquifer (transmissive interval X), all downward flow and all remaining upward flow from lower in the borehole are lost from borehole UE-25c #2 and are transmitted toward boreholes UE-25c #1 and UE-25c #3. In the lower part of the aquifer (transmissive interval XI), small to large upward flows enter the c-holes. Thirty- six percent of the discharge from a pumping test in borehole UE-25c #1 in September 1983 and 25 percent of the discharge from a pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3 in May-June 1984 came from this aquifer.

FLUID-INJECTION TESTS

Twenty-six fluid-injection tests were conducted in the c-holes in 1983 and 1984. In October 1983, 16 falling-head (slug) tests and nine pressure-injection tests were conducted in borehole UE-25c #1. In October 1984, a constant-head injection test was con­ ducted in borehole UE-25c #2 using boreholes UE-25c #1 and UE-25c #3 as observation wells. The constant-head test, soon after it began, developed into a constant-flux test and is discussed later in this report with pumping tests conducted in the c-holes.

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Falling-Head Tests

Falling-head tests conducted in borehole UE-25c #1 are listed in table 7, which indicates that test intervals were successively reduced from 160 to 40 to 22 ft, except near the top and bottom of the borehole, where test interval thicknesses were determined partly by the bottom of the concrete and the bottom of the borehole. As shown in figure 8, tests intervals were isolated by TAM International inflatable packers, mon­ itored primarily by contractor-supplied Kuster and Speny-Sun pressure and temperature gauges above, between, and below the packers, and monitored sec­ ondarily by a USGS-supplied Bell and Howell pres­ sure-transducer suspended inside the 2.26-in.-inside diameter plastic riser pipe above the packer string. For all tests except test 1, the transducer was set at 1,370 ft below the top of the riser pipe; for test 1, it was set at 1,330 ft below the top of the pipe.

According to Devin L. Galloway (USGS, oral commun., 1993), the contractor-supplied gauges, with pressure ranges of 0 to 2,150 lb/in.2 and 0 to 5,000 lb/in.2 (Tarn International, written commun., 1983), were insensitive to small changes in head that are common to aquifer tests. Moreover, because of a recording interval of 2 min, these gauges missed the initial head in some tests, and in very permeable inter­ vals, the gauges missed most or all of the head recov­ ery. The USGS-supplied pressure transducer, with a pressure range of 0 to 500 lb/in.2 and a minimum recording interval of eight seconds, was considered more reliable for data collection and analysis than the contractor-supplied gauges. Consequently, only the pressure-transducer data for the falling-head tests were analyzed.

An additional problem with the design of the falling-head tests was the large column of water injected into borehole UE-25c #1 during the tests. As indicated in table 7, initial injected heads in these tests ranged from 592 to 1,022 ft above the static water level, averaging about 700 ft. Galloway (USGS, written commun., 1986) reported that calculations for a repre­ sentative test conducted in a permeable zone indicate that a head loss of 35 to 40 percent probably occurred during the falling-head tests as a result of friction between the injected water as it descended and the riser pipe. Although early-time recovery data could have been affected by any initial head loss to friction, later recovery data probably would not have been affected. Consequently, the later-time recovery data were emphasized in analyzing these tests.

The commonly used method for analyzing falling-head tests, in a confined aquifer, is that of Cooper and others (1967), which assumes radial flow

to a fully penetrating well in a homogeneous, isotropic, compressible aquifer. Reed (1980) presents type curves of the well function for the analytical solution of Cooper and others (1967). As pointed out by Cooper and others (1967), matching data curves with the type curves can provide a good determination of transmis- sivity, whereas the determination of storativity is not reliable because of the similar shape of the type curves. Barker and Black (1983) indicate that the solution of Cooper and others (1967) can be applied successfully to formations with very low storativity and to fractured rock, provided that there is no exchange of water between fractures and the rock matrix and that fracture apertures are not changed by the pressure of the injected water column. However, Barker and Black (1983) state that even where water is derived from frac­ tures and the rock matrix, a situation commonly termed a "dual-porosity" aquifer, transmissivity determined by the method of Cooper and others (1967) will be under­ estimated by a factor of no more than 2-3. This poten­ tial error generally would be considered insignificant in a complicated hydrogeologic environment, such as the c-hole complex, where one might expect transmissivity calculations to be within an order of magnitude of actual values. Barker and Black (1983) cautioned against using the method of Cooper and others (1967) to determine storativity in a dual-porosity aquifer, because the method can underestimate storativity by a factor of as large as 0.000001. Because of large poten­ tial error, storativity was not determined from the falling-head tests in borehole UE-25c #1.

In the solution of Cooper and others (1967), values of the ratio of injected head at time t to initial injected head (H/H0) are plotted against time elapsed since the injection of fluid occurred. A match between the data curve and a type curve plot of H/H0 as a func­

tion of 6 = Tt/rc2 gives a value of a = rs2/rc2 x S, 6, and time, where,

T = transmissivity (L2/T);rc = radius of casing (plastic riser pipe in

UE-25c #1) in which water level fluctuates (L);

rs = radius of open hole (L);t = time (T); andS = storativity (dimensionless).

Transmissivity is found by picking a match point where 6=1 and solving the equation:

(2)

On the basis of the solution of Cooper and others (1967), falling-head tests in borehole UE-25c #1 indi­ cated transmissivity values for tested intervals that

FLUID-INJECTION TESTS 21

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Logging truck with Fluke digital and analog recorders

Valve Cable-Rig floor Ground

Riser pipe

Casing

Concrete

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Inflated packer

Injected water

Static water level

Pressure transducer

Open hole

Recorder carrier and guages

Recorder carrier and guages

Test interval, pipe slotted

Recorder carrier and guages

NOT TO SCALE

Figure 8. Design configuration of falling-head tests in borehole UE-25c #1, October 1983.

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ranged from 0.3 to 80 ft2/d (table 7). Assuming that head is dissipated uniformly throughout tested inter­ vals, and not through preferred pathways, such as frac­ tures and partings, then dividing transmissivity by test interval thickness provides estimates of hydraulic con­ ductivity for the tested intervals. Estimated values of hydraulic conductivity from the falling-head tests, range from 0.005 to 2 ft/d (table 7 and fig. 9).

Values of transmissivity and hydraulic conduc­ tivity calculated using the method of Cooper and others (1967) are considered reasonable because:

1. In all tests, there was fair to good agreementbetween data curves and type curves. There was no systematic improvement in curve matching for intervals with less fracturing and, presumably, more dependence on matrix flow (fig. 10). Therefore, one can conclude that the presence of fractures in a test interval generally did not invalidate the fundamental assumption of radial flow through a homogeneous, isotro- pic aquifer.

2. In the three sections of the borehole where multi­ ple tests were conducted, 1,685 to 1,845 ft, 1,865 to 2,025 ft, and 2,607 to 2,995 ft, tests of successively smaller intervals produced suc­ cessively smaller values of transmissivity, the sum of which did not exceed the transmissivity of the larger test interval (fig. 10). Transmis­ sivity is additive and should increase with increasing test-interval thickness.

One problem common to all of the falling-head tests conducted in borehole UE-25c #1 is the small to large divergence between the late-time recovery data and the tail of the type curve to which the data curve was matched (fig. 9). Analytical solutions invoking different conceptual flow models than that of Cooper and others (1967) were tried to provide more precise determinations of transmissivity (Devin L. Galloway, USGS, written commun., 1986). A linear flow model, which simulates flow in and perpendicular to fracture planes, produced a poorer solution because type curves are much flatter than those of Cooper and others (1967). Imposing a linear or radial constant-head boundary at some variable distance from borehole UE-25c #1, simulating radial flow through a borehole skin (although not justified by the drilling technique), or considering spherical flow through the test interval, all produced type curves and tails steeper than those of Cooper and others (1967), but less steep than the data curves. None of the alternative analytical solutions were considered substantially more accurate or con­

ceptually more realistic than the method of Cooper and others (1967). Consequently, calculations using only the method of Cooper and others (1967) are presented in this report.

Pressure-Injection Tests

Pressure-injection tests conducted in borehole UE-25c #1 are listed in table 8, which indicates that test intervals were 22,40, or 160 ft. Some of the tests were planned for intervals thought to have small permeabil­ ity (Devin L. Galloway, USGS, oral commun., 1993), but most of the tests were changed from falling-head tests after a few minutes of extremely slow gravity drainage (USGS, unpublished log book for borehole UE-25c #1). Four of the tests could not be analyzed because of apparent mechanical problems and insuffi­ cient or unreliable data.

The pressure-injection tests were designed simi­ larly to the falling-head tests (fig. 8), except that a valve in the water line was closed during the pressure- injection tests to isolate the test interval from atmo­ spheric pressure. With the system pressurized (shut in), the pressure transducer used in the falling-head tests would have no hydraulic connection to the test interval and, therefore, could not be used (see fig. 8). The Sperry-Sun gauge, which provided digital output at two-minute intervals, produced the primary record for the pressure-injection tests. The procedure for the pressure-injection tests (Neuzil, 1982) consisted of the following steps:

1. The valve in the water line was opened, and a slug of water was released into the borehole;

2. The test interval was shut in by closing the valve in the water line;

3. Pressure decay in the test interval was monitored until pressure was constant or nearly constant;

4. The control valve was opened briefly, and another slug of water was released into the borehole;

5. The control valve was closed, again shutting in the test interval;

6. Pressure in the test interval again was allowed to decay to a constant or nearly constant level; and

7. The control valve was opened, and pressure on the system was released.

The pressure-injection tests were analyzed by the method of Bredehoeft and Papadopulos (1980), as

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Figure 9A. Analyses of falling-head tests in borehole UE-25c #1, October 1983, assuming an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer (symbols on plots explained in text).

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Figure 9B. Analyses of falling-head tests in borehole UE-25c #1, October 1983, assuming an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer (symbols on plots explained in text).

26 Results and Interpretation of Preliminary Aquifer Tests in Boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada

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Figure 9C. Analyses of falling-head tests in borehole UE-25c #1, October 1983, assuming an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer (symbols on plots explained in text).

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0.01

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Figure 9D. Analyses of falling-head tests in borehole UE-25c #1, October 1983, assuming an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer (symbols on plots explained in text).

28 Results and Interpretation of Preliminary Aquifer Tests in Boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada

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Figure 9E. Analyses of falling-head tests in borehole UE-25c #1, October 1983, assuming an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer (symbols on plots explained in text).

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0.01

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Figure 9F. Analyses of falling-head tests in borehole UE-25c #1, October 1983, assuming an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer (symbols on plots explained in text).

30 Results and Interpretation of Preliminary Aquifer Tests in Boreholes UE-25C #1, UE-25C #2, and UE-25c #3, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada

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100

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Figure 9G. Analyses of falling-head tests in borehole UE-25c #1, October 1983, assuming an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer (symbols on plots explained in text).

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Figure 9H. Analyses of falling-head tests in borehole UE-25c #1, October 1983, assuming an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer (symbols on plots explained in text).

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modified by Neuzil (1982). Assumptions of this method are the same as those discussed previously for the falling-head tests. In this method, pressure decay at the end of the first shut-in period is extrapolated to establish unambiguously an antecedent pressure trend before the second shut-in period. Antecedent pressure is subtracted from pressures recorded during the sec­ ond shut-in period, and the residual pressure decay is analyzed. If a, as defined previously, is less than or equal to 0.1, then transmissivity is calculated from equation 2 (Cooper and others, 1967). If a is between 0.1 and 10, the product of transmissivity and storativ- ity, TS, can be calculated from the following equations (Bredehoeft and Papadopulos, 1980; Neuzil, 1982):

2nr TSt s

(3)

and

AV/V\v'obsAP

(4)

where,

pw = density of water (M/L3); g = gravitational acceleration (L/T2); Vw = volume of water in pressurized interval (L3); AV = injected volume of water (L3); and AP = pressure pulse resulting from injected

volume of water (M/L2).

At values of a greater than 0.1, transmissivity can be calculated if the storativity can be determined inde­ pendently.

The five pressure-injection tests that could be analyzed, all had in common a downward bulge in the middle-time data on a semi-log plot of head recovery as a function of time. This bulge made it impossible to match the data curve for test 8 to any type curve. For test 9, a questionable match was made between the data and type curves. For tests 13,14, and 23, the bulge was small enough that a fairly reliable match could be made between data curves and type curves (fig. 11).

The reason for the downward bulge in the data curves is unknown. It could be an artifact of the coarse recording interval of the Sperry-Sun gauge (two min­ utes), or it could indicate a problem in the mechanical set-up. A transmissivity value obtained from test 13 that is substantially larger than would be expected from a falling-head test conducted in an interval that includes the one in which test 13 was run seems to indi­ cate that pressures applied could have opened fracture apertures in some pressure-injection tests. This would

violate one of the fundamental assumptions of the test method, that fracture apertures are independent of pres­ sure, and would invalidate the results of any tests thus affected. The transmissivity value obtained from test 13 was considered invalid because of possible "hydrofracturing".

Only tests 9,14, and 23 were considered to have produced reasonable values of transmissivity and hydraulic conductivity. Transmissivity values in tests 9,14, and 23 ranged from 1 to 10 ft2/d, and hydraulic conductivity values in these tests ranged from 0.03 to 0.4 ft/d (table 8).

The results of the falling head and pressure injec­ tion tests were combined to extrapolate the hydraulic conductivity distribution within a small radius of bore­ hole UE-25c #1. As shown in figure 12, hydraulic con­ ductivity in the vicinity of borehole UE-25c #1 was estimated to range from 0.005 to 0.6 ft/d. The average hydraulic conductivity in the horizontal direction was estimated to be 0.2 ft/d, whereas the average hydraulic conductivity in the vertical direction was estimated to be 0.02 ft/d.

On the basis of the hydraulic conductivity distri­ bution, the transmissivity distribution within a small radius of borehole UE-25c #1 was estimated for aqui­ fers and the entire thickness of rocks in the open part of the borehole (fig. 12). The Calico Hills aquifer was estimated to have a transmissivity of 22 ft2/d; the Prow Pass-upper Bullfrog aquifer was estimated to have a transmissivity of 34 ft2/d; the Bullfrog aquifer was estimated to have a transmissivity of 152 ft2/d; and the Tram aquifer was estimated to have a transmissivity of 44 ft2. The composite transmissivity of rocks below casing and concrete in borehole UE-25c #1 was esti­ mated to be 261 ft2. As discussed later in the report, the composite transmissivity value obtained from fluid- injection tests in borehole UE-25c #1 virtually is iden­ tical to the composite transmissivity value obtained by pumping borehole UE-25c #3.

CONSTANT-FLUX TESTS

Five pumping tests and a constant-flux injection test were conducted in the c-holes between September 1983 and December 1984. With the completion of each additional borehole at the c-hole complex, the monitoring network for these constant-flux tests was expanded, the conceptual model of ground-water flow at the c-hole complex was refined, and test compo­ nents, such as the rate of flux, the duration of fluid injection or withdrawal, and the length of time that recovery was monitored, were changed in accordance with information learned from previous tests. The design of these tests, problems encountered, possible

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0.4

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TYPE CURVE MATCHED TO DATA POINTS

I = TIME ATTt/rc2 =1.0, IN MINUTES

T = TRANSMISSIVITY, IN FEET SQUARED PER DAY

t = TIME, IN MINUTES

rc = RADIUS OF ftlSER PIPE, IN FEET

a = A DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETER RELATED TO STORATIVITY

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10

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100

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1 10

TIME, IN MINUTES, SINCE INJECTION

100

Figure 11 A. Analyses of pressure-injection tests conducted in borehole UE-25c #1, October 1983, assuming an infinite, homo­ geneous, isotropic, confined aquifer (symbols on plots are explained in the text).

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0.8 -

TEST 142,215-2,255 feet

EXPLANATION

o DATA POINT REPRESENTING THE RATIO OF HEAD WITH TIME SINCE FLUID INJECTION TO INITIAL HEAD

TYPE CURVE MATCHED TO DATA POINTS

I =TIME ATTt/rc2 =1.0, IN MINUTES

T = TRANSMISSIVITY, IN FEET SQUARED PER DAY

t -= TIME, IN MINUTES

rr = RADIUS OF filSER PIPE, IN FEET

a = A DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETER RELATED TO STORATIVITY

TEST 232,575 - 2,597 feet

0.2 -

100

1 10

TIME, IN MINUTES, SINCE INJECTION

100

Figure 11 B. Analyses of pressure-injection tests conducted in borehole UE-25c #1, October 1983, assuming an infinite, homo­ geneous, isotropic, confined aquifer (symbols on plots are explained in the text).

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LLJ O

1,200

1,300

1,400

1,500

1,600

1,700

1,800

1,900

2,000

2,100

2,200

2,300

2,400

2,500

2,600

2,700

2,800

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j nnn

AQUIFER

; , BOTTOM

CALICOHILLS

-

~ PROW PASS- UPPER

r BULLFROG

- BULLFROG

; TRAM

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY (FEET PER DAY)

OF CONCRETE ANC

0.1

0.03

0.05

0.1

0.008

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0.005

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TRANSMISSIVITY (FEET SQUARED

PER DAY)

CASING ;

22 !

6 ;

34

1 ;

152

2 !

44 ;

Figure 12. Transmissivity and hydraulic conductivity distribu­ tions within a small radius of borehole UE-25c #1, estimated from falling-head and pressure-injection tests.

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ground-water flow models that explain hydraulic head changes with time during the tests, and ranges in hydrologic properties calculated on the basis of analy­ tical solutions for different possible ground-water flow models are presented in this section of the report. For a general discussion of the principles of aquifer tests, the reader is referred to Lohman (1979) and Driscoll (1986).

Analytical Methods

Constant-flux tests conducted at Yucca Moun­ tain, including tests conducted in the c-holes discussed later in this section, rarely produce a transient response characteristic of an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer the exponential-integral curve of Theis (1935). As indicated by Robison and Craig (1991), plots of the log of water-level change as a func­ tion of the log of time typically result in a two-humped curve or a curve that flattens out. Additionally, the early-time data are characterized by borehole storage effects (Gringarten, 1982), and the late-time data com­ monly contain oscillations that Galloway and Rojstaczer (1988) attributed to Earth tides and changes in atmospheric pressure. In this report, constant-flux tests in the c-holes are interpreted with respect to four analytical ground-water models: (1) An infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer (Theis, 1935; Cooper and Jacob, 1946); (2) a leaky, homoge­ neous, isotropic, confined aquifer (Cooper, 1963); (3) a fissure-block (dual-porosity) aquifer (Streltsova-Adams, 1978); and (4) an infinite, homoge­ neous, anisotropic, unconfined aquifer (Neuman, 1975). The four analytical models used were selected because of their applicability to hydrogeologic charac­ teristics of the c-hole complex discussed previously in this report.

Under the assumption of an infinite, homoge­ neous, isotropic, confined aquifer, water-level changes in observation wells are plotted as a function of time on log-log paper and matched to the exponential-integral type curve of Theis (1935). The following equations are used to calculate hydrologic properties:

T=

and

4ns

= T/b

_ 4Tt\l

(5)

(6)

(7)

where,

T = transmissivity (L2/T); Q = rate of injection or withdrawal (L3/T);

W(\i) = well function for an infinite, homogeneous,isotropic, confined aquifer (also called theexponential integral);

\i = a dimensionless parameter defined byequation 7;

Kr = horizontal hydraulic conductivity (L/T); b = thickness of transmissive intervals (L); S = storativity (dimensionless); t = time since injection or withdrawal started or

stopped (T) corresponding to fi; s = water-level change (L) corresponding to

; andr = distance from the pumped well to an

observation well (L).Under the same assumptions applicable to equa­

tions 5, 6, and 7, the transmissivity of rocks in the pumped well can be analyzed by plotting residual drawdown as a function of the log of the ratio of time since injection or withdrawal started to time since injection or withdrawal stopped and solving the follow­ ing equation (Theis, 1935):

T =_ 2.3 Q t

d(8)

where:

AJ ' = the residual water-level change (L) over one log

cycle of the ratio of time since injection or withdrawal started to time since injection or withdrawal stopped; and all other variables are defined as in equation 5.

Flattening of a plot of the log of drawdown in the pumped well or an observation well as a function of the log of time can be interpreted to indicate induced recharge from an aquifer boundary, as a hydraulic gra­ dient develops between the boundary and the aquifer in response to pumping. This situation is analogous to leakage from a confining unit without storage during pumping. Analysis of drawdown in an aquifer with leakage from a confining unit without storage, accord­ ing to Cooper (1963), is done by plotting the log of drawdown as a function of the log of the ratio of time since pumping started to the distance squared from the pumped well, matching the data curve to one of a fam­ ily of type curves, and solving the following equations:

T= QxL(\i,v) 4ns (9)

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C .._ 4Tt /r

and

v = <x

(10)

(ID

where,

L(ii,v)= well function of an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer with leakage from a confining unit without storage;

K' = vertical hydraulic conductivity of theconfining unit (L/T);

b' = thickness of the confining unit (L); and v = a dimensionless parameter defined by

equation 11; and all other variables are as defined previously.

The fissure-block model of ground-water flow can be analyzed either by straight-line techniques (Robison and Craig, 1991) or by curve-matching (Streltsova-Adams, 1978). If a pumping test proceeds long enough, a plot of drawdown in an observation well as a function of the log of time since pumping started is characterized by three segments. The first and third segments have twice the slope of the second segment, which is relatively flat. The third segment is analyzed using the following equations (Cooper and Jacob, 1946):

and

2.25 TtS = o

(12)

(13)

where,

As, = drawdown (L) over one log cycle of time;

t0 = time at point of zero drawdown (T); and r = distance from pumped well to observation

well (L); and all other variables are asdefined previously.

If the test is terminated before the third segment is obtained, the second segment is analyzed with the denominator of equation 12 multiplied by 2.

In the curve-matching technique of Streltsova- Adams (1978), the log of drawdown in an observation well as a function of the log of time is plotted and matched to a type curve with a shape determined by the ratio of total storativity to fracture storativity (T|), and

by the ratio of the distance from the pumped well to the parameter B, which is defined by the following equa­ tion:

D TTT (14)

where,

T H

= transmissivity (L2/T);= the distance from the center of a block to a

bounding fracture, equivalent to half the average distance between fractures (L); and

Kb = hydraulic conductivity of the blocks (L/T).

Matching the data curve to the type curve gives the transmissivity of the aquifer; matching the data curve to the early-time part of the type curve gives the frac­ ture storativity; substituting the fracture storativity and T| into equation 17 below, gives the block storativity; rearranging equation 14 and solving for Kb gives the block hydraulic conductivity; and dividing transmis­ sivity by the thickness of transmissive intervals in the test interval gives the average fracture hydraulic con­ ductivity. The analytical equations are:

r=4ns

Sb = -1)

and

K - Kf~ b

(15)

(16)

(17)

(18)

(19)

where,

W(Q) = well function of a fissure-block aquifer; s = drawdown in fractures (L) corresponding to

W(0);Sf = fracture storativity (dimensionless); 0 = a dimensionless parameter defined by

equation 16; t = time since pumping started (T)

corresponding to 0; Kf = hydraulic conductivity of the fractures

(L/T); Sb = block storativity (dimensionless); and all

other variables are as defined previously.

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Because the type curves are very similar, esti­ mating r/B in advance of curve-matching is recom­ mended. In analyzing the c-hole pumping tests, values of r/B were estimated using the fracture data in the Supplementary Data section of this report, values of matrix permeability shown on pis. 1-3, and values of transmissivity estimated from plots of drawdown or recovery during aquifer tests as a function of the log of time. Hydraulic conductivity (K), in feet per day, was estimated from matrix permeability (k), in millidarcies by the following equation:

where,

K = (20)

where,

\i = the dynamic viscosity of water(in centipoise); and

p w and g are defined as in equation 3.The final analytical model considered in this

report is an infinite, homogeneous, anisotropic, uncon- fined aquifer (Neuman, 1975). The method of analysis requires plotting the log of drawdown or recovery in either the pumped well or an observation well as a function of the log of the ratio of time since pumping started or stopped to distance squared from the pumped well and matching the data curve to a type curve that consists of two relatively steep segments (Type A and Type B curves) separated by a relatively flat transi­ tional segment. The shape of the transitional curve is related to the anisotropy of the aquifer. Matching the data curve to either the early-time or late-time part of a type curve gives the transmissivity; matching the data curve to the early-time part of a type curve gives the storativity; and matching the data curve to the late-time part of a type curve gives the specific yield. Hydro- logic properties are calculated using the following equations:

r =

= well function for an unconfinedaquifer;

s - drawdown (L) corresponding toW(|iAf JIB.B);

\LA = a dimensionless parameter defined byequation 22;

\LB = a dimensionless parameter defined byequation 23;

t = time since pumping started (T)corresponding to \1A or J1B ;

fi = a dimensionless parameter defined byequation 24;

Sy = specific yield (dimensionless); Kz = vertical hydraulic conductivity (L/T); and

all other variables are as defined previously. To calculate hydrologic properties using the

unconfined aquifer solution of Neuman (1975) first requires estimating the parameter 6, which, in turn, requires estimates of vertical hydraulic conductivity (KJ and horizontal hydraulic conductivity (K,). Initial estimates of IQ and Kj were obtained from values of interval hydraulic conductivity determined from the previously discussed fluid-injection tests in borehole UE-25c #1. The values of hydraulic conductivity determined from the fluid injection tests were inserted into equations given by Freeze and Cherry (1979) for determining average values of vertical and horizontal hydraulic conductivity in rocks with layered hydraulic conductivity. The equations used were:

K = (25)

K.i = i

and

4ns (21) (26)

S =

S =y

r

4Tt\LB

and

K r

Kb'

(22)

(23)

(24)

where:

K{ = hydraulic conductivity of a layer (L/T);fe, = thickness of a layer (L);b = total thickness of layers (L); andn = the number of layers.

In observation wells with packers emplaced to isolate selected intervals, the proportion of discharge contributed from above, between, and below the pack­ ers in an observation well had to be estimated to solve equations 5,9,15, and 21. The results of heat-pulse flowmeter surveys conducted in the c-holes, that are

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shown on plates 1-3, were used to proportionalize dis­ charge.

Pumping tests with residual head changes from preceding tests or significant recovery (more than about 10 percent of drawdown) caused by a pump fail­ ure during the test were analyzed applying the principle that the effects of superimposed cycles of fluid injec­ tion or withdrawal and recovery are additive. The fol­ lowing equations were used during analysis of a pumping test to separate total recorded drawdown into component parts:

s = ST-SA

rl =S l~ ST

and

(28)

(29)

(30)

where

ST = total recorded drawdown (L);s = drawdown caused by continuous pumping

(L); SA = residual drawdown from a previous aquifer

test (L); Sj = drawdown caused by continuous pumping

or pumping prior to a pump failure (L); s2 = drawdown caused by pumping following a

period during which a pump failure occurred(L);

rj = water-level recovery after shutting off apump following continuous pumping orduring a pump failure (L); and

r2 = water-level recovery following pumpinginterrupted by a pump failure (L).

Values of SA, slt s2, and r7 were estimated beyond the time each was recorded by extrapolation of the slope of the recorded data on a plot of water-level change as a function of the log of time.

Where depths to water were recorded in piezom­ eters open to the surface, and a recording barometer was operated during an aquifer test, recorded draw­ down data were corrected for atmospheric pressure changes based on values of barometric efficiency obtained by Galloway and Rojstaczer (1988) from simultaneous records of water levels in the c-holes and borehole UE-25p #1 and atmospheric pressure during 1986. Above packers emplaced between depths of about 2,400 to 2,600 ft, and in open boreholes, a baro­ metric efficiency of 0.8 was used for the c-holes. Between packers emplaced between 2,400 and 2,600 ft

and below the packers, a barometric efficiency of 0.85 was used for the c-holes. In borehole UE-25p #1 below a packer emplaced 4,255 ft below the land sur­ face to isolate the Miocene tuffaceous rocks from the Paleozoic carbonate rocks, a barometric efficiency of 0.75 was used. Oscillations in recorded drawdown caused by Earth tides were handled by a visual best-fit match of type curves to curves of drawdown or recov­ ery through the oscillations.

(27) Pumping Tests in Borehole UE-25c #1

Two unsuccessful pumping tests were conducted in borehole UE-25c #1 in September and October 1983, immediately after completion of the borehole. During each test, borehole UE-25p #1, 2,028 ft south­ east of the pumped well, was monitored to determine whether the Miocene tuffaceous rocks, and the Paleo­ zoic carbonate rocks are connected hydraulically in the vicinity of the c-holes. Atmospheric pressure at bore­ hole UE-25c #1 was recorded on a Validyne digital barometer.

Borehole UE-25c #1 was open during the pump­ ing tests in the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills and the Crater Flat Tuff, from the bottom of concrete at a depth of 1,371 ft, to the bottom of the borehole at a depth of 2,995 ft (USGS logbook for borehole UE-25c #1, unpublished). A Centrilift submersible pump was emplaced in the borehole from 1,399 to 1,477 ft below land surface, with the pump intake at 1,416 ft below land surface (Fenix and Scisson, Inc., written com- mun., 1983). A 5.5-in.-outside-diameter riser pipe extended from the pump to the wellhead, where it was coupled to a 6-in.-diameter, steel discharge pipe with an in-line flowmeter and end-line orifice plate and manometer (USGS logbook for borehole UE-25c #1, unpublished). Depth to water in the borehole was mon­ itored with a Bell and Howell pressure transducer with a recording range of 0 to 50 lb/in.2, that was connected at the surface to a Fluke data logger (USGS logbook for borehole UE-25c #1, unpublished). The calibrated depth of the transducer was 1,423 ft below land surface (110 ft below the static water level in the borehole).

Borehole UE-25p #1 is part of a water-level monitoring network at Yucca Mountain and is perma­ nently configured to record hydraulic head in the Paleozoic rocks near the c-hole complex (Robison and others, 1988). Borehole UE-25p #1 is cased and grouted through the tuffaceous rocks to a depth of 4,256 ft below land surface (175 ft below the contact between the Miocene and Paleozoic rocks in the bore­ hole). Hydraulic head in the Paleozoic rocks is recorded with a pressure transducer suspended inside a

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I.9-in.-outside-diameter plastic piezometer tube. Dur­ ing the pumping tests in borehole UE-25c #1, a Bell and Howell pressure transducer with a recording range of 0 to 10 lb/in.2, that was connected at the surface to a Fluke data logger, was used in the borehole (USGS log­ book for borehole UE-25c #1, unpublished). The cali­ brated depth of the transducer was 1,198 ft below land surface, and 7.5 ft below the static water level in the piezometer tube (USGS records, unpublished).

Following several periods of pumping lasting from 10 minutes to 11.5 hours, during which the dis­ charge rate was varied between 242 and 500 gal/min, equipment to be used in the pumping tests was evalu­ ated, borehole UE-25c #1 was flushed of drilling debris, and a pumping test was started in borehole UE-25c #1 on September 27,1983. The pump was off for 22 hours prior to the test, and the water level was static when the test began. At an average discharge rate of 234 gal/min, a volume of 1,192,969 gal of water was withdrawn from the pumped well during the test (USGS records, unpublished). Pumping lowered the water level in borehole UE-25c #1 about 100 ft to the pump intake in about 12 minutes, where it remained until pumping ceased on September 30,1983,3.5 days after the test began (USGS records, unpublished). After the pump was shut off, the water level in borehole UE-25c #1 rose abruptly, and residual draw­ down was negligible 10.3 minutes after pumping ended (USGS records, unpublished).

A second pumping test in borehole UE-25c #1 took place 11 hours after the first pumping test on October 1,1983 (USGS logbook for borehole UE-25c #1, unpublished). During the first 12 minutes of the test, pumping at an average rate of 216 gal/min again lowered the water level in the pumped well to the pump intake (USGS records, unpublished). AfterII.8 hours, the pump failed for about 10 minutes, and the water level in the pumped well recovered 83 per­ cent (USGS records, unpublished). After the pump was restarted, the water level again decreased rapidly to the pump intake. Pumping continued at an average rate of 213 gal/min for another 19.6 hours until on October 2, the pump was shut off, and the water level in the pumped well again recovered rapidly (USGS records, unpublished).

The pumping tests conducted in borehole UE-25c #1 generally were a failure. Drawdown and recovery in borehole UE-25c #1 could not be analyzed quantitatively, because the depth to water during most of each pumping test was controlled by the depth of the pump intake and not the hydrologic properties of the rocks being tested. Clearly, a smaller capacity pump should have been used for these tests. Both pumping tests in borehole UE-25c #1 were too short to produce

any discernible effect on the water level in borehole UE-25p #1. Thus, neither test could be used to deter­ mine whether the Miocene and Paleozoic rocks are connected hydraulically in the vicinity of the c-holes.

Pumping Test in Borehole UE-25c #2

A pumping test was conducted in borehole UE-25c #2 in March 1984, several days after comple­ tion of the borehole. During the test, water levels in the pumped well, in borehole UE-25c #1, 251 ft north- northeast of the pumped well, and in borehole UE-25p #1,1,971 ft east-southeast of the pumped well, were monitored. Atmospheric pressure during the test was recorded on a Validyne digital barometer located at borehole USW H-4,7,466 ft northwest of borehole UE-25c #2.

Procedures and Problems

Borehole UE-25c #2 was open during the pump­ ing test in the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills and the Crater Flat Tuff, from the bottom of concrete, at a depth of 1,365 ft, to the bottom of the borehole, at a depth of 2,999 ft (USGS logbook for borehole UE-25c #2, unpublished). A Centrilift submersible pump was emplaced in the borehole from 1,420 to 1,485 ft below land surface, with the pump intake at 1,447 ft below land surface (Fenix and Scisson, Inc., written com- mun., 1984). A 5.5-in.-outside-diameter riser pipe extended from the pump to the wellhead, where it was coupled to a 6-in.-diameter, steel discharge pipe with an in-line flowmeter and end-line orifice plate and manometer (USGS logbook for borehole UE-25c #2, unpublished). Depth to water in the borehole was mon­ itored with a Bell and Howell pressure transducer with a recording range of 0 to 25 lb/in.2, that was suspended inside a 2.4-in.-diameter access tube and connected at the surface to a Fluke data logger (USGS logbook for borehole UE-25c #2, unpublished). The calibrated depth of the transducer was 1,369 ft below the top of the access tube, 50 ft below the static water level inside the tube (USGS records, unpublished).

Borehole UE-25c #1 was monitored above and between straddle packers suspended on a 2.9-in.- outside-diameter plastic tube between depths of 2,510 and 2,610 ft (Fenix and Scisson, Inc., written commun., 1984). From the bottom of concrete to the top of the packers, borehole UE-25c #1 was open from the Calico Hills aquifer to the top of the Bullfrog aquifer (fig. 7). Between the packers, at depths of 2,520 to 2,600 ft, borehole UE-25c #1 was open in the lower part of the Bullfrog aquifer. Depth to water above the packers was

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monitored with a Bell and Howell pressure transducer with a recording range of 0 to 10 lb/in.2, that was con­ nected at the surface to a Fluke data logger (USGS log­ book for borehole UE-25c #2, unpublished). The calibrated depth of the transducer to monitor the inter­ val above the packers was 1,355 ft below the top of cas­ ing, 20 ft below the static water level in the borehole. Depth to water between the packers was monitored with a Bell and Howell pressure transducer with a recording range of 0 to 25 lb/in.2, that was suspended inside the tube on which the packers were hung and connected at the surface to a Fluke data logger (USGS logbook for borehole UE-25c #2, unpublished). The calibrated depth of the transducer to monitor the inter­ val between the packers was 1,369 ft below the top of tubing, 50 ft below the static water level inside the tube.

In borehole UE-25p #1, depth to water inside the piezometer tube that was open to the Paleozoic rocks was monitored with a Bell and Howell vented pressure transducer with a recording range of 0 to 15 lb/in.2, that was connected at the surface to a Fluke data logger (USGS logbook for borehole UE-25c #2, unpublished). The calibrated depth of the transducer was 1,205 ft below the top of the piezometer tube, 15 ft below the static water level inside the tube.

Five days prior to the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #2, the borehole was cleaned of debris by repeated cycles of pumping and recovery over a period of five hours. Discharges during this procedure ranged from 321 to 335 gal/min (USGS logbook for borehole UE-25c #2, unpublished). On March 7, 1984, from 0350 to 0423, several attempts were made to begin a pumping test in borehole UE-25c #2, but the longest the pump remained operative during this time was 23 minutes (USGS logbook for borehole UE-25c #2, unpublished).

After complete water-level recovery (USGS records, unpublished) and several modifications to the equipment, a pumping test in borehole UE-25c #2 was started successfully at 1742 on March 7,1984 (USGS logbook for borehole UE-25c #2, unpublished). Pump­ ing continued until 1029 on March 14,1984 (a period of about 6.7 days). Discharge during the pumping test stabilized within minutes of the pump being started at an average rate of 245 gal/min, and a volume of 2,361,386 gal of water was withdrawn during the test (USGS records, unpublished).

The pumping in borehole UE-25c #2 caused the water level in the pumped well to decrease 8 ft during the first minute of the test; shutting off the pump at the end of the test caused an equally abrupt increase in the water level (fig. 13). Complete recovery to the pre-test static water level in the pumped well occurred 1,165 minutes after pumping ceased. The pumping in

borehole UE-25c #2 drew down water levels in bore­ hole UE-25c #1 about 1.2 ft above the packers and about 1.4 ft between the packers (fig. 14). Considering the changes in atmospheric pressure during the test (fig. 15), water-level recovery in borehole UE-25c #1, about 3.7 days after pumping ceased, was about 79 per­ cent complete above the packers and 100 percent com­ plete between the packers. The pumping in borehole UE-25c #2 apparently caused the water level in bore­ hole UE-25p #1 to decrease after about 1,000 minutes (fig. 14), indicating that the Miocene tuffaceous rocks and Paleozoic carbonate rocks at the c-hole complex are connected hydraulically. Corrected for changes in atmospheric pressure, the water level in borehole UE-25p #1 decreased 1.4 ft while the pump was on and another 0.5 ft in the 3.7 days that water levels were monitored after the pump was shut off.

Test Analyses

Despite oscillations, drawdown and recovery data from borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers could be interpreted to conform to the analytical solution of either Streltsova-Adams (1978) for a fissure-block aquifer or Neuman (1975) for an unconfined, anisotro- pic aquifer. For both solutions, tuffaceous rocks above the packers were estimated from a heat-pulse flow- meter survey done in December 1991 to contribute 12.5 percent of the discharge from the entire thickness of rocks below casing and concrete in borehole UE-25c#l.

Aquifer-test analysis using the fissure-block solution of Streltsova-Adams (1978) was guided by an estimate of r/B = 0.09 that was obtained from the fol­ lowing: (1) Half the average distance between frac­ tures in the interval above the packers = 2.6 ft; (2) log mean matrix hydraulic conductivity in the interval above the packers = 0.0009 ft/d; and (3) a first approx­ imation-estimate of transmissivity from the slope of the late-time data on a plot of drawdown as a function of the log of time during the pumping test = 3,200 ft2/d. The parameter r/B was calculated as follows:

ITxH210ft = 0.09

3.200/r /dx 2.6ft 0.0009/r/d

Fit to the type curve for r| = 10 and r/B = 0.3, the drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers (fig. 16) indicated the following values of transmissivity (7), fracture storativity (Sy), block stor- ativity (Sb), fracture hydraulic conductivity (Kj), and block hydraulic conductivity (Kb):

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oQ

IQC Q

10

11

12

13

1 I I T

10 11 12

MARCH

13 14 15 16

Figure 13. Drawdown as a function of time in borehole UE-25c #2 during the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #2, March 1984.

-0.5

- 0.5

1.0

1.5

2.0

UE-25c #1, ABOVE PACKERS

UE-25c#1, BETWEEN PACKERS

UE-25p#1

Figure 14. Drawdown as a function of time in boreholes UE-25c #1 and UE-25p #1 during the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #2, March 1984.

28.6

28.5

£ 28.4

28.3

28.2

28.1

28.0

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

MARCH

19

Figure 15. Atmospheric pressure at borehole USW H-4 during the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #2, March 1984.

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

MARCH

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10

1 -

0.1 -

0.01

MATCH POINT

DRAWDOWN DATA

TYPE CURVE MATCHED TO DATA

0.1 10 100

TIME SINCE PUMPING STARTED, IN MINUTES

1,000 10,000

Figure 16. Analytical solution for drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers assuming a fissure-block aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #2, March 1984.

T =QxW(Q) (0.125x245ga//romx 192.5ft /djxl 2

^ (47IX0.135/0 xlgal/min ~4ns= 3,500ft /d

c _ 4Tt _ 4 x 3 » 500/if /dx 1.35mm _ no, - -T ^ ~ "-r6 (270/0 x 1 x 1, 44Qmin/d

= Sfx (11-1) = 0.0002 x (10-1) = 0.002

r/B = 0.3

__ _ 3,500ft /dx 2.6ft _

B2 (900ft) 2

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Aquifer-test analysis using the unconfined aquifer solution of Neuman (1975) was guided by an estimate of the parameter 6, as follows:

K.

K = 1 ' 139z (40/0.6 + 25/0.4 + 40/0.3 + 209/0.1 + 190/0.08 + 120/0.05 + 145/0.03 + 105/0.008 + 190/0.005 + 75/0.003)

K = 0.0\3ft/d

K =rY +1 £j b

i= 1

_ (40 x 0.6 + 25 x 0.4 + 40 x 0.3 + 209 x 0.1 + 190 x 0.08 + 120 x 0.05 + 145 x 0.03 + 105 x 0.008 + 190 x 0.005 + 75 x 0.003)r ~ 1, 139

Kr = 0.083/r/d

Assuming b is the thickness of transmissive intervals above the packers:2 2

P = -Ll = 0-013/r/Jx (270/Q = Q04

Kb2 0.083/r/d x (524/r) 2

Fit to the type curve for 6 = 0.06, the drawdown and recovery data from borehole UE-25c #1 above thepackers (fig. 17) indicated the following values of transmissivity (7), storativity (S), specific yield (Sy), horizontalhydraulic conductivity, vertical hydraulic conductivity, and anisotropy (K/Kr).

Drawdown Recover

T -[ 0.125 x 245gal/min x 192.5ft3 /d j x 1 [ 0.125 x 245gal/min x 192.5ft3 /d] x 1

~ 4n x 0.1 6/f x Igal/min ~ 4itx0.16/fx \gal/min

T = 2, 900ft2 /d T = 2, 900f 2/d

r» _ ^* r. _ ______ £*

+t £r r

2 2c _ 4x2,900/f /Jx 1.5mm xl _ 4x2,900/r /d x 2mm x 1* ~ T ~ 2

(270/0 X 1, 440min/«/ (270/0 xl,440min/d5 = 0.0002 S = 0.0002

y ~ 2 y ~ ~T~r r

2 25 = 4x2, 900/f / d x 35>m'n x 1 _ _ 4x2. 900/r / d x 25mm x 1

y (270/0 xl,440min/</ ( 270/0 2 x 1, 440m in/dS = 0.004 S = 0.003y y

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Assuming b is the thickness of transmissive intervals:

_ K - Krb $ _ 6ft /dx (524/Q 2 x 0.06 _ . ft/ , - - - ijt/a(270//)

K /K = 1/6 = 0.2z r

First Pumping Test in Borehole UE-25c #3

A pumping test was conducted in borehole UE-25c #3 from May to June 1984, primarily to deter­ mine the composite transmissivity of the tuffaceous rocks penetrated by borehole UE-25c #3 and the trans­ missivity of the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills at the c-hole complex. During the test, water levels were monitored in the pumped well, in borehole UE-25c #2 (100 ft southeast of the pumped well) in borehole UE-25c #1 (224 ft northeast of the pumped well) and in

borehole UE-25p #1 (2,067 ft southeast of the pumped well). No barometric record during this pumping test was found in USGS files.

Procedures and Problems

The pumped well, borehole UE-25c #3, was open in the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills and the Crater Flat Tuff, from the bottom of concrete, at a depth of 1,368 ft, to the bottom of the borehole, at a depth of 3,000 ft (Fenix and Scisson, Inc., written commun., 1984). A Centrilift submersible pump was emplaced in the borehole from 1,439 to 1,484 ft below land surface, with the pump intake at 1,454 ft below land surface (Fenix and Scisson, written commun., 1984). A 5.5-in.-outside-diameter riser pipe extended from the pump to the wellhead, where it was coupled to a 6-in.-diameter, steel discharge pipe with an in-line flowmeter and an end-line orifice plate and manometer (USGS logbook for borehole UE-25c #3, unpublished). Depth to water in the pumped well was monitored with a Bell and Howell pressure transducer with a recording range of 0 to 50 lb/in.2, that was suspended inside a

10 10TIME SINCE PUMPING STOPPED, IN MINUTES

100 1,000 10,000 100,000

LUo

0.1

0.01

x RECOVERY DATA

DRAWDOWN DATA

TYPE CURVE MATCHED TO DATA

MATCH POINTS

Early-time drawdown

Late-time drawdown

Early-time recovery

Late-time recovery

0.1 10 100

TIME SINCE PUMPING STARTED, IN MINUTES

1,000 10,000

Figure 17. Analytical solutions for drawdown and recovery data from borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers assuming an infinite, homogeneous, anisotropic, unconfined aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #1, March 1984.

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2.4-in.-diameter access tube and connected at the sur­ face to a Fluke data logger (USGS logbook for bore­ hole UE-25c #3, unpublished). The calibrated depth of the transducer was 1,420 ft below the top of the access tube, 100 ft below the static water level inside the tube (USGS records, unpublished).

Borehole UE-25c #2 was open in the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills and the Crater Flat Tuff, from the bottom of concrete, at a depth of 1,365 ft, to the bottom of the borehole, at a depth of about 2,990 ft (USGS log­ book for borehole UE-25c #3, unpublished). Depth to water in the borehole was monitored with a Bell and Howell pressure transducer with a recording range of 0 to 25 lb/in.2, that was connected at the surface to a Fluke data logger. The calibrated depth of the trans­ ducer was 1,340 ft below the top of the casing, 20 ft below the static water level in the borehole (USGS records, unpublished).

Borehole UE-25c #1 was monitored above, between, and below straddle packers (Fenix and Scisson, Inc., written commun., 1984). Above the packers, between depths of 1,371 and 1,595 ft, the borehole was open in the nonwelded, upper part of the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills. Between the packers, from 1,605 to 1,680 ft, the borehole was open in the bedded, lower part of the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills. Below the packers, between depths of 1,690 and 2,962 ft, the borehole was open in the Crater Flat Tuff. Hydraulic heads above, between, and below the pack­ ers were monitored with GRC temperature- compensated pressure transducers with a recording range of 0 to 2,500 lb/in.2 (USGS records, unpub­ lished). The packers and instrumentation were sus­ pended on 2.9-in.-outside-diameter plastic tubing. The transducers were connected at the surface by water­ proofed cable to a Hewlett-Packard (HP-85) data log­ ger (USGS logbook for borehole UE-25c #3, unpublished). After installation of equipment and prior to testing, borehole UE-25c #1 was shut in to minimize barometric effects on water-level changes (USGS log­ book for borehole UE-25c #3, unpublished).

Borehole UE-25p #1, as in previous tests, was monitored to record hydraulic head in the Paleozoic rocks in the vicinity of the c-holes. Depth to water inside a piezometer tube was monitored with a pressure transducer with a recording range of 0 to 15 lb/in.2, that was connected at the surface to a Fluke data logger. The calibrated depth of the transducer was 1,190 ft below the top of the piezometer tube, 9 ft below the static water level inside the tube (USGS records, unpublished).

Without prior development, pumping began in borehole UE-25c #3 at 2257 on May 4,1984, and con­ tinued until 1002 on May 14, 1984, a period of about

9.5 days (USGS logbook for borehole UE-25c #3, unpublished). The test was interrupted by a pump fail­ ure on May 9,1984 (6,520 min into the test), that lasted 163 minutes. Prior to the pump failure, the discharge averaged 420 gal/min, but it took 25 hours for the dis­ charge to stabilize. After the pump was restarted, the discharge quickly stabilized at an average rate of 414 gal/min. For the entire pumping period, the aver­ age discharge rate was 418 gal/min, and a volume of 5,623,928 gallons of water was withdrawn (USGS log­ book for borehole UE-25c #3, unpublished).

In addition to the pump failure, the first pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3 was hampered by several other mechanical problems. Diurnal fluctuations of 1 to 4 mv in the system power supply, coupled with Earth tides, caused daily fluctuations of water levels in some of the boreholes. On the average, the water level in borehole UE-25c #2 was 0.35 ft higher at 0600 than at 1700 during and after the period in which the pump was operating; the water level in borehole UE-25c #3 fluctuated 1.5 ft between 0600 and 1700 after the pump was shut off. The transducer in borehole UE-25c #1 below the packers was inoperative during the entire pumping test. Finally, intermittent failure of data log­ ging equipment resulted in gaps of as much as seven days in recorded drawdown and recovery in each of the c-holes.

As in the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #2, turning the pump on and off during the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3 caused rapid, large changes in the water level in the pumped well (fig. 18 A). Ten minutes after pumping began, the water level in borehole UE-25c #3 had decreased 61 ft; during the pumping failure, the water level in this borehole recovered to within three percent of the static level; when the pump was shut off on May 14, 1984, the water level in the pumped well rose 67 ft in ten minutes. Maximum drawdown in the pumped well during this test was about 72 ft (USGS records, unpublished).

The drawdown in boreholes UE-25c #2 and UE-25c #1 caused by pumping borehole UE-25c #3 was much slower and smaller than in the pumped well. The maximum drawdown in borehole UE-25c #2 was about 1.7 ft (fig. 18B), the maximum drawdown in borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers was about 18 ft (fig. 19A), and the maximum drawdown in borehole UE-25c #1 between the packers was about 11 ft (fig. 19B). The pumping did not cause a change in the water level in borehole UE-25 p#l that could be distin­ guished from water-level fluctuations related to Earth tides, atmospheric pressure changes, variations in the discharge rate, and mechanical problems (USGS records, unpublished). The pump failure caused an 86 percent water-level recovery in borehole

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UE-25c #2, about one percent recovery in borehole UE-25c #1 between the packers, and no discernible recovery in borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers (figs. 18 and 19). On June 12,28.9 days after the pump was shut off, recovery in borehole UE-25c #2 was

100 percent complete, recovery in borehole UE-25c #1 between the packers was 20 percent complete, and no recovery had occurred in borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers.

-5

0 510 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55

in 60UJ 65

Z 70

2 75

O -0.5 Q

0.5

1.0

1.5

2.0

RECOVERYDURINGPUMP

FAILURE

I I I I I I I I T \ I I 1 I I I I I V

RECOVERY DURING PUMP FAILURE

B

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

MAY

Figure 18. Drawdown as a function of time during the pump­ ing test in borehole UE-25c #3, May to June 1984: (A), Bore­ hole UE-25C #3; (B), Borehole UE-25c #2 (data from unpublished USGS records).

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O -5 Q

IDC Q

I T T 1 \ i i i r \ I I T \ II T \ I I I

B -

10

15

.RECOVERY DURING PUMP FAILURE

I I I I I I4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

MAY JUNE

Figure 19. Drawdown as a function of time in borehole UE-25c #1 during the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, May to June 1984: (A), above the packers; (B), between the packers (data from unpublished USGS records).

Test Analyses

The first pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3 provided analyzable data sets from boreholes UE-25c #3, UE-25c #2, UE-25c #1 above the packers, and UE-25c #1 between the packers. Because of the variable discharge rate during the first 25 hours of the test, more weight was given in analyses to data obtained later in the pumping phase and during the recovery phase of the test. Based on atmospheric cor­ rections of less than 0.25 ft that were applied during the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #2, it is believed that failure to obtain a barometric record during the first pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3 potentially would have affected only analyses of data from monitored

intervals where drawdown or recovery did not exceed two feet. Thus, only analyses of data from borehole UE-25c #2 and recovery data from borehole UE-25c #1 between the packers might have been improved by cor­ recting for atmospheric pressure change.

Analyses of the data from the pumped well, bore­ hole UE-25c #3, by two methods indicated nearly iden­ tical values of transmissivity and hydraulic conductivity. Under the assumption of an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer (Theis, 1935), a plot of residual drawdown as a function of the log of the ratio of time since the pump was restarted to time since pumping stopped (fig. 20) indicated the fol­ lowing:

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T = = 2.3 x 4l4gal/min x 192.5ft /d = 2Qf 2 ' 4nx (60.0- 5.6/0 7

DATAPOINT

BEST-FIT STRAIGHT LINE SOLUTION

10 100 1,000 10,000 100,000

TIME SINCE PUMPING STARTED

TIME SINCE PUMPING STOPPED

Figure 20. Analytical solution for residual drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #3 assuming an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, May to June 1984.

Assuming b = the thickness of transmissive intervals (table 6):

= T/b = = 0.3ft/d

Flattening of a log-log plot of drawdown as a function of time since pumping started implies that a recharge boundary exists very close to borehole UE-25c #3. Hence, the solution of Cooper (1963) was applied to the drawdown data. Fit to the type curve for v = 0.1, the drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #3 after the pump was restarted (fig. 21) indicated the fol­ lowing values of transmissivity and horizontal hydrau­ lic conductivity:

= QxL(u,v) = 4l4gal/minx 192.5ft4ns 4nx2lftxlgal/min

If b is assumed to equal the total thickness of transmis­ sive intervals in the borehole,

The drawdown and recovery data obtained from borehole UE-25c #2 could be interpreted to conform to the analytical solution of either Streltsova-Adams (1978) for a fissure-block aquifer or Neuman (1975) for an unconfined, anisotropic aquifer. For both analy­ ses, the distance between boreholes UE-25c #2 and UE-25c #3 (r) was considered to be the average dis­ tance between the open sections of the boreholes. Tak­ ing into account the drift of both boreholes, the average interborehole distance was determined from gyro­ scopic surveys to be 95 ft.

For the analytical solution of Streltsova-Adams (1978), the parameter r/B was estimated as follows:

1. Half the average distance between fractures in transmissive intervals (from Supplementary Data section) = 1.7ft

2.

3.

Log-mean matrix hydraulic conductivity (from pi. 2) = 0.0004 ft/d

Transmissivity (from the slope of late-time data on a plot of recovery as a function of time during this pumping test) = 25,000 ft2/d

fTxH95ft

25,000ft /dx 1.1 ft 0.0004ft/d

= 0.009

Fit to the type curve for i\ = 10 and r/B = 0.05, the drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #2 after the pump was restarted (fig. 22) indicated the following values of transmissivity (7), fracture storativity (Sj), block storativity (Sfc), fracture hydraulic conductivity (Kf), and block hydraulic conductivity (Kb):

T =4ns

= 4l4gal/minxl92.5ft/dxl = 4nx 0.22ft x 1 gal/ min

_ 4Tt _ 4x29,000ft /dxQ.49min _ nrvuA, - - - - U.UW

re (95/0 xlxl,440min/d

5^ = S,x (Tl-1) = 0.004x (10-1) = 0.04

4 = 0.05

K =r 899/f

= Q.3ft/dJ

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10

1 -

0.1

MATCH POINT

DATA POINT

TYPE CURVE MATCHED TO DATA

0.1 1 10 100 1,000

TIME SINCE PUMPING STARTED/RADIUS SQUARED, IN MINUTES PER SQUARE FOOT

10,000

Figure 21. Analytical solution for drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #3 assuming an infinite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer with leakage from a confining unit without storage, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, May to June 1984.

10

0.1

0.010.1

DATA POINT

TYPE CURVE MATCHED TO DATA

10 100

TIME SINCE PUMPING STARTED, IN MINUTES

1,000 10,000

Figure 22. Analytical solution for drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #2 assuming a fissure-block aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25C #3, May to June 1984.

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=

(1,900/0

For the analytical solution of Neuman (1975), it was assumed that the vertical hydraulic-conductivity profile determined by injection tests in borehole

UE-25c #1 applied, also, in UE-25c #2. Consequently, values of vertical hydraulic conductivity (ATZ), horizon­ tal hydraulic conductivity (ATr), and the parameter 6 in the first pumping test in UE-25c #3 were estimated for borehole UE-25c #2 as follows:

K.

K = 1,625z (70/2 + 55/0.6 + 135/0.4 + 80/0.2 + 250/0.08 + 345/0.05 + 145/0.03 + 175/0.01 + 105/0.008 + 190/0.005 + 75/0.003)

K = 0.0l5ft/d

K =

V K.b.£j i ii= 1

_ (70 x 2 + 55x 0.6 + 135 x 0.4 + 80 x 0.2 + 250 x 0.08 + 345 x 0.05 + 145 x 0.03 + 175 x 0.01 + 105 x 0.008 + 190 x 0.005 + 75 x 0.00! r T625

= 0.18/f/d

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Assuming b = the thickness of transmissive intervals in borehole UE-25c #2:

B =Kb2 0.18/f/</x (544/r) 2

(95/Q = 0<003

Fit to the type curve for 6 = 0.004, the drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #2 after the pump was restarted (fig. 23) indicated the following values of transmissiv- ity (7), storativity (5), specific yield (Sy), horizontal hydraulic conductivity, vertical hydraulic conductiv­ ity, and anisotropy (K/Kr):

T =4ns

'n * 192.5ft /dx 1 _4n x 0.27ft x Igal/min

_ 4 x 23, 000/r/</ x 0.6mm x 1 _ - - - -

r (95/r) x 1, 440min/</

T =

_ o -

_ 4 x 23,000/r /d x 9.7mm x 1 _ OQ7

/ ( 95/r) 2 x 1, 440min/d

Assuming b = thickness of transmissive intervals:

T2 IUU14*

= T/b =

(544/Q x 0.004

= 5/r/rf

/K = z r 4Qft/d

= 0.1

Both the drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers and the recovery data from borehole UE-25c #1 between the packers unam­ biguously conform to type curves of Neuman (1975) for an unconfined, anisotropic aquifer (figs. 24 and 25). From a heat-pulse flowmeter survey done in December 1991, it was estimated that tuffaceous rocks above the packers contribute four percent of the discharge from the entire thickness of rocks below casing and concrete in borehole UE-25c #1, and tuffaceous rocks between the packers contribute 0.5 percent of this discharge. Therefore, for the interval above the packers the fol-

lowing values of transmissivity (7) and specific yield (Sy) were calculated:

T =4ns

[o.Q4 x 4lSgal/min x 192.5ft3 /d] x 1 2

_V ~"

(4n x 4.5/0 x Igal/min

_ 4 x 60ft /d x 480mm x 1 _ nnni - ^ ~ UlUU1 r (256/r) x\440min/d

For the interval between the packers, the following values of transmissivity and specific yield were calcu­ lated:

Q x

4ns

{ 0.005 x 418*a//mm x 192.5/f3/</ )xl 71________________________ / _ AQft /

(4nx 0.74/0 x Igal/min J

_ 4 x 40/r /d x 1,100mm x 1y - = U.UU2

r (259/f) x 1,440min/</

From the drawdown data and thickness of transmis­ sive intervals above the packers,

B = K

K /KZ

x K /K = 4.0 z r

2 2 4.0 x (182/Q

(256/0

Fracture data from between the packers were insufficient to calculate unequivocally the thickness of transmissive intervals between the packers. Therefore, average values of horizontal hydraulic conductivity (Kr) and vertical hydraulic conductivity (Kz) were cal­ culated for the Calico Hills aquifer (the intervals above and between the packers in borehole UE-25c #1) by assuming that the value of anisotropy (K/Kr) obtained above the packers applies, also, to the interval between the packers.

Adding the transmissivity values for the intervals above and between the packers gives a composite transmissivity of 100 ft2/d for the Calico Hills aquifer. Dividing this transmissivity value by the known thick­ ness of transmissive intervals above and between the packers, 198 ft, gives a horizontal hydraulic conductiv­ ity value of 0.5 ft/d for the Calico Hills aquifer. If K/Kr - 2, then the vertical hydraulic conductivity of the Calico Hills aquifer = 2 Kr = 2 x 0.5 ft/d = 1 ft/d.

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10

oQ

0.1

0.010.1

EARLY-TIME DATA MATCH POINT

LATE-TIME DATA MATCH POINT

_L_L

DATA POINT

TYPE CURVE MATCHED TO DATA

10 100

TIME SINCE PUMPING STARTED, IN MINUTES

1,000 10,000

Figure 23. Analytical solution for drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #2 assuming an infinite, homogeneous, anisotropic, unconfined aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, May to June 1984.

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100

10

0.01

MATCH POINT

DATA POINT

TYPE CURVE MATCHED TO DATA

10 100 1,000 10,000

TIME SINCE PUMPING STARTED, IN MINUTES

100,000

Figure 24. Analytical solution for drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers assuming an infinite, homogeneous, anisotropic, unconfined aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, May to June 1984.

10

0.1

0.01

MATCH POINT

DATA POINT

TYPE CURVE MATCHED TO DATA

100 1,000 10,000 100,000

TIME SINCE PUMPING STOPPED, IN MINUTES

Figure 25. Analytical solution for recovery data from borehole UE-25c #1 between the packers assuming an infinite, homogeneous, anisotropic, unconfined aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, May to June 1984.

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Injection Test in Borehole UE-25c #2

An injection test was conducted in borehole UE-25c #2 from 1351 to 1520 on October 30,1984, to ascertain hydrologic properties of an interval in bore­ hole UE-25c #2 that was thought to contain very per­ meable rock (the Bullfrog aquifer). The injection test was conducted using monitoring equipment installed for a pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3 that began 156 minutes after the injection test ended.

In the injection well, borehole UE-25c #2, strad­ dle packers were installed on a 2.9-in-diameter plastic tube to isolate the Bullfrog aquifer (Fenix and Scisson, Inc., written commun., 1984). The interval between the packers extended from 2,364 to 2,475 ft below the land surface. Above the packers, from 1,365 to 2,355 ft below the land surface, the borehole was open in the Calico Hills aquifer, the Prow Pass-upper Bull­ frog aquifer, and confining units between and below the two aquifers. Below the packers, from 2,484 to 2,990 ft below land surface, the borehole was open in the Tram aquifer and the overlying confining unit. Hydraulic heads above, between, and below the pack­ ers were monitored with GRC temperature-compen­ sated, pressure transducers with recording ranges of 0 to 2,500 and 0 to 5,000 lb/in.2, that were connected at the surface to a HP-85 data logger (USGS logbook for thec-holes, 1984-1985, unpublished). During the test, water was injected between the packers from a Baker tank to maintain a constant pressure head of 778 ft (USGS records, unpublished). Because the injection rate quickly stabilized at 167 gal/min (USGS logbook for the c-holes, 1984-1985, unpublished), what was intended to be a constant-head test was converted to a constant-flux test, and the effects of this flux were mon­ itored in borehole UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3 (Devin L. Galloway, USGS, oral commun., 1993).

Borehole UE-25c #1 was monitored above, between, and below straddle packers hung on a 2.9-in.-diameter plastic tube (Fenix and Scisson, Inc., written commun., 1984). Above the packers, from 1,371 to 2,514 ft below land surface, the borehole was open from the Calico Hills aquifer to the top of the Bullfrog aquifer. Between the packers, from 2,524 to 2,594 ft below land surface, the borehole was open in the Bullfrog aquifer. Below the packers, from 2,603 to 2,962 ft below land surface, the borehole was open in the Tram aquifer and overlying confining unit. Hydraulic heads in borehole UE-25c #1 were moni­ tored with GRC temperature-compensated, pressure transducers with recording ranges of 0 to 2,500 and 0 to 5,000 lb/in.2, that were connected at the surface to a HP-85 data logger (USGS logbook for the c-holes,

1984-1985, unpublished). Before the test began, bore­ hole UE-25c #1 was shut in to minimize barometric effects.

Borehole UE-25c #3 was open in the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills and the Crater Flat Tuff, from the bottom of concrete, at a depth of 1,368 ft, to the bottom of the borehole, at a depth of 2,976 ft. The pump instal­ lation was the same as it was in the May-June 1984 pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3. Depth to water in the borehole was monitored with a Bell and Howell pressure transducer with a recording range of 0 to 50 lb/in.2, that was suspended inside a 2.4-in.- diameter access tube and connected at the surface to a Fluke data logger (USGS logbook for the c-holes, 1984-1985, unpublished). The calibrated depth of the transducer was 1,320 ft below the top of the access tube, 100 ft below the static water level inside the tube (USGS records, unpublished).

Injection of water between the packers in bore­ hole UE-25c #2 caused the water level to rise about 4.0 ft in borehole UE-25c #2 above the packers (fig. 26), 0.7 ft in borehole UE-25c #1 between the packers, 0.1 ft in borehole UE-25c #1 above and below the packers, and 0.4 ft in borehole UE-25c #3 (fig. 27). After injection ended, water-level recovery to pre-test static levels was complete in all monitored intervals in boreholes UE-25c #1 and UE-25c #3 within 90 min­ utes. However, in borehole UE-25c #2, water level recovery above the packers was only 69 percent com­ plete when a pumping test began in borehole UE-25c #3,156 minutes after injection ended. As indi­ cated in figure 26, residual drawdown from the injec­ tion test is estimated to have had an effect on the water level in borehole UE-25c #2 above the packers for the first 515 minutes of the pumping test. Possibly because injection changed fracture apertures in the injection interval, the hydraulic head between the packers was 1.6 ft lower than the pre-injection test static level and still falling when the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3 started (fig. 27). Post-pumping test data indicate that the hydraulic head between the packers probably would have stabilized asymptotically with time at a level about 2.5 ft lower than before the injec­ tion test started, had the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3 not been conducted.

Most of the data from the injection test were not analyzed. The head build-up in borehole UE-25c #2 above the packers (fig. 26) was erratic and indicative of possible mechanical problems. The head build-up in borehole UE-25c #1 above and below the packers (fig. 27) was insignificant. Although the head build-up in borehole UE-25c #1 between the packers (fig. 27) was large and steady enough to be analyzed, the data were considered less reliable than recovery data

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ABOVE PACKERS, DASHED WHERE EXTRAPOLATED

BETWEEN PACKERS, DASHED WHERE EXTRAPOLATED

10 100

TIME SINCE INJECTION STARTED, IN MINUTES

1,000 10,000

Figure 26. Water-level changes in borehole UE-25c #2 during and after injection of water between packers on October 30,1984.

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1.0

I 0.5 - O

UJ

LL)

INJECTION ENDED

UE-25c #1 ABOVE PACKERS UE-25c#1 BETWEEN PACKERS UE-25c#1 BELOW PACKERS UE-25c#3

0.1 10

TIME SINCE INJECTION STARTED, IN MINUTES

100 1,000

Figure 27. Water-level changes in boreholes UE-25c #1 and UE-25c #3 in response to injection of water into borehole UE-25C #2, October 30,1984.

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obtained from the same interval during the subsequent pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3. Consequently, the data from UE-25c #1 between the packers were not analyzed. Only the data from borehole UE-25c #3 were analyzed because no comparable data were obtained from this borehole in any other constant-flux tests (This was the only test in which borehole UE-25c #3 was used as an observation well).

The composite transmissivity (J), storativity (5), and hydraulic conductivity (Kr) of the tuffaceous rocks in borehole UE-25c #3 could be determined from the head build-up data shown in figure 27 assuming an infi­ nite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer. Using the method of Cooper and Jacob (1946) and equations 12 and 13, the following calculations were made:

T = 23Q = 2.3 x 167gal/min x 192.5ft3 /d = 35 QQO^/J A ~*s, 47TX (0.40-0.23)/f x Igal/min ' *

2.25 Tto 2.25 x 35, 000ft2/d x 0.42mm nrvv, U.UUZ

r (95/0 xl,440min/</

Assuming b to be the thickness of transmissive inter­ vals:

Values of transmissivity and hydraulic conduc­ tivity determined for the rocks in borehole UE-25c #3 from the injection test are two orders of magnitude larger than values determined from the drawdown in borehole UE-25c #3 during the pumping test in this borehole in May-June 1984. Yet, the transmissivity determined from the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3 is the same, to one significant figure, as the composite transmissivity determined in borehole UE-25c #1 from fluid-injection tests (261 ft2/d). Larger values of transmissivity and hydraulic conductivity apparently are determined as the radius of investigation expands and encompasses more conduits for ground- water flow, such as faults and fracture zones. Cross- hole tests indicate site-scale hydrologic properties, whereas single-well tests indicate hydrologic proper­ ties within a small radius of the pumping or injection well. Consequently, the remainder of this report emphasizes analyses of data obtained from observation wells.

Second Pumping Test in Borehole UE-25c #3

A second pumping test was conducted in bore­ hole UE-25c #3 from October-December 1984, prima­ rily to determine vertical and lateral variations in hydrologic properties of the Crater Flat Tuff. In addi­ tion to the monitoring network for the injection test described in the previous section, a piezometer was monitored in borehole UE-25p #1, and a recording barometer was maintained at borehole USW H-4. Because the piezometer record from borehole UE-25p #1 indicated an erratic but progressive increase in hydraulic head throughout the entire two weeks that borehole UE-25c #3 was pumped, it is believed that the transducer installed in borehole UE-25p #1 was miscal- ibrated or malfunctioned during this pumping test. The barometric record obtained at borehole USW H-4 (fig. 28) was not used to correct drawdown data, because head changes in the c-holes were considered large enough that atmospheric pressure changes proba­ bly would have had little or no effect on data analyses.

Procedures and Problems

Pumping in borehole UE-25c #3 began at 1756 on October 30,1984, and continued until 1342 on November 15,1984, a period of about 15.8 days (USGS records, unpublished). The test was interrupted by an 8.3 minute pump failure on November 2,1984 (3,839 minutes into the test), which caused a 97 percent recovery of the water level in the pumped well but only slight (4-8 percent) recovery in monitored intervals of boreholes UE-25c #1 and UE-25c #2 (USGS records, unpublished). During the first few hours of the test, the discharge rate varied from 400 to 410 gal/min, but for most of the test, the discharge rate varied from 422 to 429 gal/min (USGS logbook for the c-holes, 1984- 1985, unpublished). At an average discharge rate of 425 gal/min, a volume of 9,675,942 gallons of water was withdrawn during the test (USGS logbook for the c-holes, 1984-1985, unpublished).

In addition to the pump failure, the second pump­ ing test in borehole UE-25c #3 was hampered by sev­ eral other mechanical problems and the short interval between the injection test in borehole UE-25c #2 described previously and the pumping test. The trans­ ducer in borehole UE-25c #2 below the packers was inoperative for the entire pumping test, and the trans­ ducer in borehole UE-25c #1 between the packers intermittently gave spurious readings (USGS logbook for the c-holes, 1984-1985, unpublished; USGS records unpublished). During the first few days of the test, the discharge meter was slightly inaccurate

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28.6

27.830 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

OCT NOV DEC

Figure 28. Atmospheric pressure at borehole USW H-4 during the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, October to December 1984.

because of leakage through a fitting in the discharge line (USGS logbook for the c-holes, 1984-1985, unpublished). Oscillations in the power supply cou­ pled with Earth tides caused diurnal fluctuations in recorded drawdown (USGS records, unpublished). Problems with data loggers caused intermittent losses of drawdown and recovery data (USGS logbook for the c-holes, 1984-1985, unpublished). In borehole UE-25c #2 above the packers, a 13-ft head decrease followed by a 7-ft head increase occurred as borehole UE-25c #3 was being pumped. Regardless of whether the head increase during pumping resulted from ante­ cedent effects of the preceding injection test, changing hydrologic conditions during pumping (e.g. boundary effects), or a transducer malfunction, the entire record from borehole UE-25c #2 above the packers is suspect. Consequently, this record could not be analyzed to determine hydrologic properties. Finally, antecedent drawdown from the injection test required a correction to the recorded drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #2 between the packers for these data to be used to calculate hydrologic properties. The anteced­ ent drawdown trend was estimated by extrapolation between drawdown values recorded prior to pumping and apparent steady-state drawdown values obtained 23.7 days after pumping ceased.

As in the first pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3 (fig. ISA), turning the pump on and off dur­

ing the second pumping test in this borehole caused rapid, large changes in the water level in the pumped well (fig. 29). Ten minutes after pumping began, the water level in borehole UE-25c #3 had decreased 61 ft; when the pump was turned off, the water level rose about 65 ft in ten minutes. Maximum drawdown in the pumped well during this test was about 65 ft (USGS records, unpublished).

-RECOVERY DURING PUMP FAILURE

-5

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

55

60

65

30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

OCT NOV

Figure 29. Drawdown as a function of time in borehole UE-25c #3 during the pumping test in borehole UE-25C #3, October to December 1984.

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The drawdown in monitored intervals of bore­ hole UE-25c #1 caused by pumping borehole UE-25c #3 was much slower and smaller than in the pumped well (USGS records, unpublished). The max­ imum drawdown in borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers was about 1.1 ft; the maximum drawdown between the packers was about 2.2 ft; and the maxi­ mum drawdown below the packers was about 3.15 ft (fig. 30). Water-level recovery in the pumped well was

complete 444 minutes after pumping ceased (fig. 29), but complete recovery in monitored intervals of bore­ hole UE-25c #1 required 20.7 to 21.7 days (fig. 30).

Similar to borehole UE-25c #1 between the packers, the maximum drawdown in borehole UE-25c #2 between the packers after correcting for residual drawdown from the injection test was about 2.3 ft (USGS records, unpublished). Complete recov­ ery in borehole UE-25c #2 between the packers occurred 23.7 days after pumping ceased (fig. 31).

-0.5

0

0.5

1.0

' '2.0

2.5

3.0

3.5

UE-25c #1, ABOVE PACKERS

UE-25c#1, BETWEEN PACKERS

UE-25c #1, BELOW PACKERS

29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

OCT NOV DEC

Figure 30. Drawdown as a function of time in borehole UE-25c #1 during the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, October to December 1984.

-0.5

RECOVERY DURING PUMP FAILURE

I I I I I30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

OCT NOV DEC

Figure 31. Drawdown as a function of time in borehole UE-25c #2 between the packers during the pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, October to December 1984, with residual drawdown from a preceding injection test subtracted.

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Test Analyses

The second pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3 produced analyzable data sets from boreholes UE-25c #3, UE-25c #2 between the packers, and UE-25c #1 above, between, and below the packers. Analyses of the data from the pumped well, borehole UE-25c #3, produced nearly identical results as analy­ ses of data from this borehole obtained during the first pumping test in the borehole. To avoid redundancy, analyses of data from the pumped well obtained during the second pumping test in the borehole are not dis­ cussed further in this report. The remaining data sets are discussed with respect to the hydrogeologic inter­ vals tested, instead of by borehole.

For drawdown and recovery data from borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers, the pumping test in bore­ hole UE-25c #2 indicated that using the analytical solu­ tion of Neuman (1975) for an unconfmed aquifer and matching the data curve to the type curve for 6 = 0.06 provided the most reasonable calculations of hydro- logic properties. Therefore, in the second pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers again were matched to the type curve of Neuman (1975) for 6 = 0.06 (fig. 32), and the following values of transmissivity (7), storativ- ity (5), specific yield (Sy), horizontal hydraulic conduc­ tivity (Kr), vertical hydraulic conductivity (Kz), and anisotropy (K/K,) were calculated:

T =Q x , \L,

4ns

0.125 x 425gal/min x 192.5ft*/d) x 1

(47tx0.21/0 x Igal/min/d

_ 4x3,900/r/dx6.1mmxl - - *T

r (267/0 xl,440min/d

4x3,900/y/dx80mfn x 2

(267/0 xl,440mm/d

K =Z

P 7/f/dx[528/f2Jx0.06

267 !

= 2ft/'d

K /K = 2/7 = 0.3z r

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10

0.1

0.01

EARLY-TIME DATA MATCH POINT

LATE-TIME DATA MATCH POINT

DATA POINT

TYPE CURVE MATCHED TO DATA

10 100 1,000

TIME SINCE PUMPING STARTED, IN MINUTES

10,000 100,000

Figure 32. Analytical solution for drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers assuming an infinite, homoge­ neous, anisotropic, unconfined aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, October to December 1984.

The average transmissivity of the Prow Pass- upper Bullfrog aquifer was estimated to equal the aver­ age transmissivity of the rocks in borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers minus the transmissivity of the Calico Hills aquifer, which was calculated as follows:

Transmissivity

UE-25c #1 above packers, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #2UE-25c #1 above packers, second pumpingtest in borehole UE-25c #3UE-25c #1 above packers, averageCalico Hills aquiferProw Pass - upper Bullfrog aquifer

2,900

3,900

3,400 -100

3,300

The average horizontal hydraulic conductivity of the Prow Pass-upper Bullfrog aquifer, then, would be 3,300 ft2/d divided by 326 ft of transmissive rocks, which equals 10 ft/d. Multiplying the average hori­ zontal hydraulic conductivity of the Prow Pass-upper Bullfrog aquifer by the average anisotropy in borehole

UE-25c #1 above the packers, 0.2, indicates an aver­ age vertical hydraulic conductivity of 2 ft/d for the Prow Pass-upper Bullfrog aquifer.

As in the above calculations, the average specific yield of the Prow Pass-upper Bullfrog aquifer was esti­ mated to equal the average specific yield of the rocks in borehole UE-25c #1 above the packers minus the spe­ cific yield of the Calico Hills aquifer, which was calcu­ lated as follows:

UE-25c #1 above packers, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #2UE-25c #1 above packers, second pumpingtest in borehole UE-25c #3UE-25c #1 above packers, averageCalico Hills aquiferProw Pass-upper Bullfrog aquifer

Specific yield

0.004

.01

O007 -.003

Recovery data obtained from boreholes UE-25c #1 and UE-25c #2 between the packers, both,

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conform to the type curve of Theis (1935) for an infi­ nite, homogeneous, isotropic, confined aquifer (figs. 33 and 34) and indicate hydrologic properties for the Bullfrog aquifer. Based on heat-pulse flowmeter sur­ veys done in December 1991, it was assumed that 29.5 percent of the flow in rocks below casing and con­

crete in borehole UE-25c #1 and 14 percent of the flow in rocks below casing and concrete in borehole UE-25c #2 come from the packed-off intervals in these boreholes. The following calculations of transmissiv- ity (7), storativity (5), and horizontal hydraulic conduc­ tivity (Kr) were made:

UE-25c #1 Between Packers UE-25c #2 Between Packers

4ns 4ns

[o.295 x 425gal/min x 192.5/f3/rfJ x 1

(4rex0.23/0 x Igal/min

[o.!4 x 425gal/min x 192.5ft3 /d) x

(4nx 0.22/0 x Igal/min

T = 8, 400ft /d T = 4,100/r /d

s = 4x8. 400ft /d x 7.0mm x 0.1

(280/0 2 xl,

5 _ 4x4,100/f /d x 5.6mm x 0.1

(92/f)

5 = 0.0002 S = 0.0008

70ft 74/f

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10

0.1 -

0.01

MATCH POINT

DATA POINT

TYPE CURVE MATCHED TO DATA

10 100 1,000

TIME SINCE PUMPING STOPPED, IN MINUTES

10,000 100,000

Figure 33. Analytical solution for recovery data from borehole UE-25c #1 between the packers assuming an infinite, homoge­ neous, isotropic, confined aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25C #3, October to December 1984.

Because of uncertainty regarding the estimate of flow contributed by rocks between the packers, calculated values of hydrologic properties presumably bracket the actual values.

Drawdown data obtained from borehole UE-25c #1 below the packers reveal the influence of fault boundaries on the Tram aquifer. Drawdown below the packers became essentially constant after about 5,000 minutes of pumping, indicating a constant flux to the Tram aquifer from that point until pumping ceased. The two faults that are shown in figure 7 cut­ ting the Tram aquifer at the c-hole complex probably are the source of the water recharged to the aquifer dur­ ing pumping. As discussed previously, a constant flux from a fault is analogous to constant leakage from a confining unit without storage. Hence, the drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #1 below the packers were matched to the type curve of Cooper (1963) for v = 0.02 (fig. 35), and values of transmissivity (7), storativity (5), and horizontal hydraulic conductivity (ATr) were then calculated. Based on a heat-pulse flowmeter sur­ vey done in December 1991, it was estimated that

58 percent of the flow from rocks below casing and concrete in borehole UE-25c #1 comes from the inter­ val that was below the packers during this pumping test. The following calculations were made:

r=4715

0.58 x 425gal/min x 192.5ft /dj x 1

(4nx0.48/0 x \gal/min~ '

_ 4Tt/r2 _ 4x7, 900ft2/d x0.00012min/ft2 _ nnn, ~ ~ lxl,440mm/</ ~

As a check on the assumptions made regarding the percentage of flow contributed from rocks in bore­ hole UE-25c #1 above, between, and below the pack­ ers, values of transmissivity, storativity, and hydraulic conductivity obtained for each interval from the second pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3 were added or averaged, as appropriate, and compared to composite values of hydrologic properties obtained from bore­ holes UE-25c #2 and UE-25c #3 during the first pump-

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10

0.1

0.01

MATCH POINT

DATA POINT

TYPE CURVE MATCHED TO DATA

10 100 1,000

TIME SINCE PUMPING STOPPED, IN MINUTES

10,000 100,000

Figure 34. Analytical solution for recovery data from borehole UE-25c #2 between the packers assuming an infinite, homoge­ neous, isotropic, confined aquifer, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, October to December 1984.

10

0.1

MATCH POINT

DATA POINT

TYPE CURVE MATCHED TO DATA

0.010.00001

_l I I I I I

0.0001 0.001 0.01 0.1

TIME SINCE PUMPING STARTED/DISTANCE FROM THE PUMPED WELL, SQUARED, IN MINUTES PER SQUARE FOOT

Figure 35. Analytical solution for drawdown data from borehole UE-25c #1 below the packers assuming an infinite, homoge­ neous, isotropic, confined aquifer with leakage from a confining unit without storage, pumping test in borehole UE-25c #3, October to December 1984.

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ing test in borehole UE-25c #3 and the injection test in borehole UE-25c #2. As indicated in table 9, compos­ ite values of transmissivity = 20,000 ft2/d, storativity = 0.004, horizontal hydraulic conductivity = 30 ft/d, and vertical hydraulic conductivity = 2 ft/d calculated for borehole UE-25c #1 compare favorably with compos­ ite values of transmissivity, storativity, and hydraulic conductivity obtained for rocks in boreholes UE-25c #2 and UE-25c #3. Therefore, calculations of hydrologic properties of the four aquifers penetrated by borehole UE-25c #1 can be considered reasonable esti­ mates.

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

Fluid-injection and pumping tests conducted in 1983 and 1984 in boreholes UE-25c #1, UE-25c #2, and UE-25c #3 (the c-holes) on the east side of Yucca Mountain, Nev., were analyzed and interpreted in the context of other hydrogeologic information obtained from lithologic logs, borehole geophysical logs, core permeameter tests, and borehole flow surveys.

The c-holes, each of which is about 3,000 ft deep, are 100 to 251 ft apart at the surface. The three boreholes are completed in a 5,000-ft-thick sequence of Miocene tuff aceous rocks that is underlain by Paleozoic carbonate rocks and transected by high- angle, north-northeasterly and northwesterly striking faults. The contact between the Miocene and Paleozoic rocks generally is believed to be a detachment fault, into which the north-northeasterly striking faults merge listrically. A pumping test conducted in borehole UE-25c #2 indicated hydraulic connection between the Miocene and Paleozoic rocks, possibly through the net­ work of faults cutting these rocks.

The depth to water at the c-hole complex ranges from 1,312 to 1,320 ft below land surface. The c-holes are open in the saturated zone below an average depth of about 1,370 ft from the land surface. Each of the c-holes is open in the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills and the Prow Pass, Bullfrog, and Tram Members of the Crater Flat Tuff. These geologic units consist mostly of nonwelded to densely welded ash-flow tuff with interlayered ash-fall tuff and volcaniclastic rocks. A tuff breccia occurs in the Tram Member where the unit is transected by the Paintbrush Canyon Fault and another high-angle, north-northeasterly striking fault.

Tectonic and cooling fractures pervade the tuf- faceous rocks penetrated by the c-holes, although frac­ tures are distributed unevenly, and intervals range from unfractured to very fractured. Because of the fault brecciation, fracture frequency is greatest in the Tram Member. The bedded zone of the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills, also, is very fractured. On the average,

moderately to densely welded zones of the Prow Pass and Bullfrog Members are more fractured than bedded zones which, in turn, are more fractured than non- welded to partially welded zones. Most fractures strike approximately south and dip westward at angles of 50°-87°. The least common fractures strike generally east or west, and many of these are shallow-dipping or mineralized.

Within the saturated zone open to the c-holes, the tuffaceous rocks display layered heterogeneity. Per­ meameter tests indicate a vertical range in matrix per­ meability of 0.001 to 20 mD, with slightly larger permeability horizontally than vertically. Falling-head and pressure-injection tests in borehole UE-25c #1 indicate a vertical range in hydraulic conductivity of 0.003 to 2 ft/d. The average hydraulic conductivity in the horizontal direction in borehole UE-25c #1 is 0.2 ft/d, whereas the average hydraulic conductivity in the vertical direction is 0.02 ft/d.

Fluid-injection tests and single-well pumping tests in boreholes UE-25c #1 and UE-25c #3 indicate a composite transmissivity of about 300 ft2/d for the tuffs and lavas of Calico Hills and the Crater Flat Tuff. However, multiple-well, constant-flux tests in the c-holes indicate that single-well injection and with­ drawal tests are not reliable indicators of site-scale hydrologic properties. For the entire thickness of rocks below casing and concrete in a borehole, cross-hole tests generally indicate values of transmissivity and hydraulic conductivity that are about two orders of magnitude larger than values obtained in single-well tests. This dependence of results on the radius of inves­ tigation can be interpreted as an effect of encompassing more conduits for ground-water flow, such as faults or fracture zones, as a larger volume of aquifer is investi­ gated.

In the c-holes, eleven transmissive intervals were identified on the basis of fracture and matrix perme­ ability distributions, borehole resistivity, temperature, and caliper logs, and heat-pulse flowmeter and trace- jector surveys. The heat-pulse flowmeter surveys indi­ cated downward flow in the upper parts and upward flow in the lower parts of boreholes UE-25c #1 and UE-25c #2, but upward flow through the entire sur­ veyed section of borehole UE-25c #3 (below a depth of about 1,500 ft). The eleven transmissive intervals at the c-hole complex were grouped for purposes of investigation and discussion into four informal aquifers with intercalated confining units. In descending order, the four aquifers are the Calico Hills, Prow Pass-upper Bullfrog, Bullfrog, and Tram.

The Calico Hills aquifer is unconfined and aniso- tropic. The aquifer has a transmissivity of 100 ft2/d, a specific yield of 0.003, a horizontal hydraulic conduc-

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tivity of 0.5 ft/d, and a vertical hydraulic conductivity of about Ift/d.

The Prow Pass-upper Bullfrog aquifer may be either an unconfined, anisotropic aquifer or a fissure- block aquifer. If unconfined, the aquifer has an average transmissivity in pumping tests of 3,300 ft2/d, a specific yield of 0.004, a storativity, combined with the Calico Hills aquifer, of 0.0005, a horizontal hydraulic conduc­ tivity of 10 ft/d, and a vertical hydraulic conductivity of 2 ft/d.

The Bullfrog aquifer is confined, nonleaky, and isotropic. The aquifer has a transmissivity that in bore­ hole UE-25c #1 was determined to be 8,400 ft2/d and in borehole UE-25c #2 was determined to be 4,100 ft2/d. Assuming the larger value to be correct, the aquifer has a storativity of 0.0002, and a hydraulic conductivity of 100 ft/d.

The Tram aquifer, although confined, is recharged by leakage from faults. The aquifer has a transmissivity of 7,900 ft2/d, a storativity of 0.003, and a hydraulic conductivity of 40 ft/d.

Composite values of hydrologic properties deter­ mined for rocks in borehole UE-25c #1 by adding or averaging interval values, as appropriate, compare favorably with composite values determined by moni­ toring borehole UE-25c #2 during a pumping test in borehole UE-25 c#3 and by monitoring borehole UE-25c #3 during an injection test in borehole UE-25c #2. For the entire thickness of rocks pene­ trated by the c-holes, transmissivity was determined to be between 20,000 and 35,000 ft2/d, storativity was determined to be between 0.002 and 0.004, horizontal hydraulic conductivity was determined to be between 30 and 40 ft/d, and vertical hydraulic conductivity was determined to be between 2 and 5 ft/d.

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