Masters Theses

Groundwater development in rural Lemoa, Guatemala

Erin Lepper

Abstract

"In rural Lemoa, located in the central highlands of Guatemala, safe, reliable sources of drinking water are often a rare commodity. In these areas of Guatemala, methods of acquiring drinking water include the capture/collection of rainwater, routing spring water to villages, simply utilizing surface water, and high digging shallow groundwater wells...Drilling deep groundwater wells is the most effective method of reaching groundwater in these areas, however there is still a lack of hydrogeologic data limiting the efficiency of this method...In this research, the Time Domain Electromagnetic (TDEM) method of geophysics was used in combination with pre-existing well logs to determine which previously found formations were water-bearing"--Abstract, page iv.

Department(s)

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering

Degree Name

M.S. in Geological Engineering

Publisher

University of Missouri--Rolla

Publication Date

Fall 2004

Pagination

ix, 95 pages

Geographic Coverage

Guatemala

Rights

© 2004 Erin Rose Lepper, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Thesis - Citation

File Type

text

Language

English

Subject Headings

Groundwater -- GuatemalaWater resources development -- GuatemalaTime-domain analysis

Thesis Number

T 8708

Print OCLC #

62331579

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