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▪ Permeability
▪ Property of soil to enable transmission of water
and air
▪ The more permeable the soil, the greater the
seepage
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1. UNCONFINED AQUIFER
2. CONFINED AQUIFER
3. SEMI-CONFINED AQUIFER
1. UNCONFINED AQUIFER
▪ Also called water table
▪ Upper water surface is at atmospheric pressure
▪ Able to rise and fall
▪ Usually closer to earth's surface
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2. CONFINED AQUIFER
▪ Also known as artesian or pressure aquifers
▪ Below the land surface saturated with water
▪ Bound by impermeable layers above and below
▪ Under pressure
▪ If penetrated by a well, water rises above the top of
aquifer
3. LEAKY AQUIFERS
▪ Also called semi-confined aquifers
▪ both of Upper and lower boundaries are aquitards
▪ Or one boundary is an aquitard and the other is an
aquiclude
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