Code: 4360607
Credits: 4
Semester 6
CIVIL
Ground Water Engineering
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Ground Water Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Ground Water Engineering (subject code 4360607) as prescribed for CIVIL · Semester 6 divides the course into 5 units, covering 87 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (4360607)Unit 1 Introduction
- 1.1. Explain the sources of Groundwater
- 1.2. Define various terms related to groundwater
- 1.3. Define various terms related to aquifer
- 1.4. Explain Aquifers
- 1.5. Define various terms related to permeability
- 1.6. Describe causes of changes in ground Water quantity
- 1.1. Sources of water
- 1.2. Groundwater scenario of Gujarat and India
- 1.3. Origin of Groundwater
- 1.4. Groundwater Characteristics
- 1.5. Terms related to Ground water Engineering - Hydraulic conductivity - Specific Retention - Transmissibility - Coefficient of transmissibility - Yield - Specific yield - Storage coefficient
- 1.5. Aquifer-Types of aquifer, aquiclude, aquifuge, porosity of aquifer.
- 1.6. Permeability- Darcy’s permeability, coefficient of permeability
- 1.7. Causes of changes in ground water quantity
Unit 2 Ground water - Survey and Quality
- 2.1. Describe various surface and subsurface surveys for ground water exploration
- 2.2. Describe groundwater Quality parameters
- 2.3. Describe reasons for ground Water quality degradation
- 2.4. Explain steps for Improvement of Groundwater quality.
- 2.1. Surface Methods for ground water exploration Esoteric Methods – Geomorphologic methods – Geological & structural Methods – Soil and Micro-Biological Methods – Remote Sensing Techniques – Surface Geophysical Methods
- 2.2. Sub surface methods for ground water exploration
- 2.3. Geophysical survey of ground water - Surface Geophysical techniques -Electric logging & Radioactive logging Method
- 2.4. Ground water quality - Factors affecting ground water quality - Classification of ground water quality -Types of water quality -Physical characteristics of ground water quality -Various test for ground water quality
- 2.5. Parameters of ground water quality
- 2.6. Groundwater quality degradation
- 2.7. Reasons of groundwater quality degradation
- 2.8. Effects of changes in ground water quality
- 2.9. Importance of ground water quality
Unit 3 Artificial Recharge
- 3.1. Describe methods of Artificial recharging
- 3.2. Describe suitability of recharging methods
- 3.3. Explain Identification of areas for artificial recharge.
- 3.4. Explain Artificial recharge structures
- 3.1. Conceptual introduction -Ground water development
- 3.2. Stages of ground water development
- 3.3. Social, economical and overall national benefits of ground water development
- 3.4. Artificial Recharge-Objectives and Importance
- 3.5. Development of Artificial recharging
- 3.6. Methods of artificial recharge
- 3.7. Suitability , advantages and dis advantages of artificial recharge methods
- 3.8. Identification of areas for artificial recharge.
- 3.9. Artificial recharge structures
- 3.10. Rain water harvesting
Unit 4 Wells and Tubewells
- 4.1. Differentiate between wells and tubewells
- 4.2. Describe well losses
- 4.3. Describe terms related
- 4.4. Explain method of construction of wells Design the wells
- 4.2. Difference between wells and tubewell
- 4.3. Types of wells - Open wells - Tube wells - Shallow, deep and Medium well
- 4.4. Benefits of well and tube well irrigation
- 4.5. Well losses
- 4.5. Specific capacity
- 4.6. Interference among wells
- 4.7. Gravity well - Fully penetrating gravity wells - Partially penetrating gravity wells
- 4.8. Safe yield of well
- 4.9. Construction Method of wells
- 4.10. Selection of pump sets - Plunger pump - Jet pump - Submersible pump - Air lift pump
- 4.11. Design of Tube well -Steps, features -Structure -Size -Basis -Principles -Data required -Methods
Unit 5 Sea Water Intrusion
- 5.1. Explain causes of sea Water intrusion
- 5.2. Describe ill-effects of Sea water intrusion
- 5.3. Explain remedial measures to prevent sea water intrusion a. Explain with examples sea water intrusion
- 5.2. Causes of sea water intrusion
- 5.3. Ill-effects of sea water intrusion
- 5.4. Mechanism of sea water intrusion
- 5.5. Ghyben -Herzberg fresh watersea water Interface
- 5.6. Remedial measures to control sea water intrusion a. Related examples
- 6. SUGGESTED SPECIFICATION TABLE WITH HOURS & MARKS(Theory) Unit No. Unit Title Teaching Hours Distribution of Theory Marks R Level U Level A Level Total Marks I Introduction 06 05 05 00 10 II Ground water Survey and quality
- 08. 06 04 04 14 III Artificial Recharge 08 05 05 04 14 IV Wells and Tubewells 12 04 04 10 18 V Sea water Intrusion 08 04 04 06 14 Total 42 24 22 24 70 Legends: R = Remember , U = Understand , A= Apply and above Level ( Bloom’s revised taxonomy ) Note : This specification table shall be treated as a general guideline for students and teachers. The actual distribution of marks in the question paper may vary slightly from above table
- 7. SUGGESTED LIST OF EXERCISES/PRACTICAL The practical/exercises should be properly designed and implemented with an attempt to develop different types of skills (outcomes in psychomotor and affective domain) so that students are able to acquire the competencies/programme outcomes. Following is the list of practical exercises for guidance. Note: Here only outcomes mainly in psychomotor domain are listed as practical/exercises. However, if these practical/exercises are completed appropriately, they would also lead to development of certain outcomes in affective domain which would in turn lead to development of Course Outcomes related to affective domain. Thus over all development of Programme Outcomes (as given in a common list at the beginning of curriculum document for this programme) would be assured. Faculty should refer to that common list and should ensure that students also acquire outcomes in affective domain which are required for overall achievement of Programme Outcomes/Course Outcomes. Sr. No. Unit No. Practical/Exercise Approx. Hrs. Required
- 1. Drawings and Illustrations 08 I.II.III.IV ,V Prepare drawing of Sources of water, Representation of coefficient of storage of ground water Illustration of aquifers Various types of wells Various types of tubewells Artificial recharge structures Mechanism of Sea water intrusion Rain water harvesting
- 2. Practical 04 I Determine the TDS, Electrical Conductivity (ES) of groundwater sample II Determine the pH and Hardness of groundwater sample
- 3. Solve numerical from given data : 04 IV Examples related to well hydraulics V Examples related to sea water intrusion
- 4. Field visit and Report : 08 I Visit to Water resources department/Irrigation department for collecting existing groundwater data of the district with respect to importance & necessity of ground water management. II Visit to various storage works and collect data pertaining to quality. III Visit to nearby rain water harvesting structure and prepare a report.
- 5. Seminar : 04 I to VII Select a topic as a seminar and present it using modern teaching aids. Total Hours 28
- 8. SUGGESTED LIST OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES
- 8.1. Prepare a model/prototype of groundwater recharging structure in the college/ suggested Premises.
- 8.2. Prepare a model/prototype of tube well in the suggested premises.
- 8.3. Explore internet to study different issues related to ground water level and Contamination and prepare a report.
- 8.4. Prepare a report on Remote Sensing Method for ground water Survey
- 8.5. Motivate owners of some building/housing society being constructed to install ground water recharging system and design system for them.
- 9. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES ( If Any ) a. Show video films of sea water intrusion and its effects b. Arrange expert lectures of Engineers working in ground water department/geological survey of India. c. Present case studies of success and failures of ground water recharge projects being carried out by some NGOs of national/state repute.
- 10. SUGGESTED LEARNING RESOURCES A BOOKS Sr. No. Title Author Publisher
- 1. Groundwater Hydrology Raghunath H. M Willy Eastern Ltd-2000
- 2. Groundwater Hydrology Todd D.K. John Willey & Sons
- 3. Groundwater Engineering Abdel-Aziz Mc-graw Hill book company
- 4. Ground Water Assessment, Development & Management K.R. Karanth Tata Mc Graw Hill Co. Ltd., New Delhi
- 5. Hydrogeology K.R. Karanth Tata Mc Graw Hill Pub Co. Ltd., New Delhi
- 6. Groundwater Hydrology Herman Bower McGraw-Hill,Kogakusha Ltd. Int.Student Edn.1978
- 7. Related I S Codes BIS, New Delhi A. LIST OF RECOMMENDED I.S. PUBLICATIONS: B. List of Major Equipment/Materials i. Working models of recharging works. ii. Models of rain water harvesting structures iii. Models of tube well. C List of Software/Learning Websites i. www.nptel.ac.in ii. www.ocw.mit.edu iii. www.ngwa.org/ iv. www.groundwaterinternational.co v. www.cgwb.gov.in vi. wrmin.nic.in vii. www.cwc.nic.in viii. www. cgwb.gov.in/Research_and_Development.html
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