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About WTR

Description

WTR (Water Table Recharge) is a simple one-dimensional analytical groundwater model that you can interact with online to explore basic concepts of groundwater system behavior.

Development

WTRecharge was developed by Eileen Poeter. It was released in July of 2024 to support the upcoming Groundwater Project book that introduces concepts of flow modeling. When that book is published, this page will be updated to include a link to the book. This tool is an improvement over the spreadsheet that was supplied with the early Groundwater Project book: Hydrogeologic Properties of Earth Materials and Principles of Groundwater Flow.   All Groundwater Project books are available for free download.

About the Developer
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Eileen Poeter is a Professor Emeritus at Colorado School of Mines and a member of the Board of Directors for the Groundwater Project. She is also past director of the Integrated Groundwater Modeling Center and retired president of Poeter Engineering. With 40 years of experience modeling groundwater systems, she has consulted to attorneys, industries, engineering companies, government agencies, research labs, and citizen groups on groundwater modeling projects for aquifer storage and recovery; slurry wall performance; drainage at proposed nuclear power plant facilities; regional groundwater management; large scale regional pumping; dam seepage; contaminant migration; impacts of dewatering; and stream aquifer interaction. Dr. Poeter is author of groundwater modeling software including evaluation of model sensitivity, assessment of data needs, model calibration, selection and ranking of models, and evaluation of predictive uncertainty. If you find errors in this tool please contact Eileen by email at [email protected].

I am grateful for the time and thought that Bill Woessner, Andrea Brookfield, Francesca Lotti, Amanda Sills, and Claire Tiedeman contributed to review the tool as it was developed and for providing excellent suggestions for its improvement.