Ground Water Hydrology

by David Keith Todd and Larry W. Mays

Book Overview

A unified presentation of the subject, treating fundamental principles, methods, and problems encountered in the field as a whole. All chapters have been extensively rewritten and expanded to keep up with the enormous growth of the subject matter. Nearly all references have been replaced; new ones have been selected on the basis of significance and general availability. Metric units have been employed exclusively. A conversion table for English units...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047187616X
• ISBN13: 9780471876168
• Release Date: September 1980
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.9" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

3rd edition is up-to-date

The reviews written in 2000 and 2001 referred to the 2nd edition. The 3rd edition, published in 2004, is now up-to-date. The 3rd edition includes information on modern groundwater modeling methods (including the Modflow model), more coverage of chemical contamination in groundwater, and includes both U.S. and SI units in the examples.

Groundwater Hydrology

This is a really good book covering a lot of the basics of groundwater hydrology. It covers occurrence, movement, well hydraulics, water wells, environmental influences, quality, and pollution, modeling subsurface investigations. A little outdated but can be used as a great complement to other more recent publications.

Essential Basic Reference

In spite of its age, this book continues to be an essential basic reference on the subject. Well organized and clearly written, the authors stated goal was "to present the fundamentals of groundwater hydrology in a manner understandable to [a wide variety of students and professionals]." If I were suddenly called to work in a foreign country and could only take one book, this would be the one. A slight drawback is the use of metric units throughout, perhaps because the book was expected to be translated into a number of foreign languages. This is the completely rewritten second edition of the original edition published in 1959. The first edition of this book was probably the first fundamental textbook on the subject. Basic information or equations that are not in Todd, usually can be found in "Groundwater" by Freeze and Cherry (John Cherry was a student of Todd's).