Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Summary
"Project WR07 GWM WR990, final report to Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, March 17, 1992."
The sandy till of the Green Bay Lobe in Wisconsin is mapped as the Horicon Formation, a lithostratigraphic term that implies that certain properties of the unit can be recognized everywhere it occurs. A compilation of a limited number of hydrogeological studies of the Horicon Formation by Rodenbeck (1988) showed that hydraulic conductivity varies over three orders of magnitude in a medium that appears texturally and lithologically homogeneous. The overall objectives of this study were: (1) to determine if this appartent heterogeneity is real of a result of different testing methods at different scales, and (2) to examine the effects of the scale of measurement on different methods of determining hydraulic conductivity in such materials.