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    A wellpoint system consists of a series of small diameter wells connected via a header pipe to a wellpoint pump. The pump creates a vacuum to draw water up out of the ground from around the excavation. Deep well systems use submersible pumps in bored wells to lower the groundwater level over a wide area. Eductor systems are used in low permeability soils and work by circulating high pressure water through eductors to generate a vacuum and draw groundwater into wells.

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    Wellpoint: Horizontal Wellpoints

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    A wellpoint system consists of a series of small diameter wells connected via a header pipe to a wellpoint pump. The pump creates a vacuum to draw water up out of the ground from around the excavation. Deep well systems use submersible pumps in bored wells to lower the groundwater level over a wide area. Eductor systems are used in low permeability soils and work by circulating high pressure water through eductors to generate a vacuum and draw groundwater into wells.

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    A wellpoint system consists of a series of small diameter wells connected via a header pipe to a wellpoint pump. The pump creates a vacuum to draw water up out of the ground from around the excavation. Deep well systems use submersible pumps in bored wells to lower the groundwater level over a wide area. Eductor systems are used in low permeability soils and work by circulating high pressure water through eductors to generate a vacuum and draw groundwater into wells.

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    Wellpoint: Horizontal Wellpoints

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    A wellpoint system consists of a series of small diameter wells connected via a header pipe to a wellpoint pump. The pump creates a vacuum to draw water up out of the ground from around the excavation. Deep well systems use submersible pumps in bored wells to lower the groundwater level over a wide area. Eductor systems are used in low permeability soils and work by circulating high pressure water through eductors to generate a vacuum and draw groundwater into wells.

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    Wellpoint

    Wellpoint dewatering is widely used for excavations of shallow depths, especially for pipeline
    trench excavations. In appropriate ground conditions a wellpoint system can be installed speedily
    and made operational rapidly. A typical wellpoint system consists of a series of small diameters
    wells (known as wellpoints) connected via a header pipe, to the suction side of a suitable
    wellpoint pump. The pump creates a vacuum in the header pipe, drawing water up out of the
    ground. For long pipeline trenches, horizontal wellpoints may be installed by special trenching
    machines.
    Wellpoints are typically installed in lines or rings around the excavation, and are pumped by
    diesel or electrically powered pumps, with associated header mains, water discharge pipes,
    power supply generators, electrical controls and monitoring systems.

    Deep Wells

    A deep well system consists of an array of bored wells pumped by submersible pumps. Pumping
    from each well lowers the groundwater level and creates a cone of depression or drawdown
    around itself. Several wells acting in combination can lower groundwater level over a wide area
    beneath an excavation. Because the technique does not operate on a suction principle, large
    drawdowns can be achieved, limited only by the depth of the wells, and the hydrogeological
    conditions.
    The wells are generally sited just outside the area of proposed excavation, and are pumped by
    electric submersible pumps near the base of each well. Water collection pipes, power supply
    generators, electrical controls and monitoring systems are located at the surface.

    Eductors

    The eductor system (also known as the ejector system) is specialist technique used to control
    pore water pressure in low permeability soils such as very silty sands, silts, or clays with
    permeable fabric. Eductors are typically used to help stabilise the side slopes and base of
    excavations in soils that would be difficult to dewater with wellpoints or deep wells.
    Eductors have the advantage that they can allow vacuum-assisted drainage, to draw water out of
    poorly draining fine-grained soils. The system works by circulating high pressure water (from a
    tank and supply pumps at ground level) down the well to a small-diameter nozzle and venturi
    located in the eductor in each well. This generates a vacuum of up to 9.5 m of water at the level
    of the eductor. The vacuum draws groundwater into the well from where it is piped back to
    ground level via a return riser pipe and thence through the reservoir tank back to the supply
    pump for recirculation.
    Vacuum Wells

    Vacuum wells are an adaptation of deep well systems. Each well in the system is pumped by a
    submersible pumps, but a vacuum is also applied to each well via a vacuum pump located at the
    surface. The application of a vacuum allows the wells to be more effective in reducing pore
    water pressures in poorly draining fine grained soils. In appropriate ground conditions vacuum
    wells can be a viable alternative to eductors.

    Horizontal Wells

    Horizontal wells for dewatering are of two principal types:

    Horizontal drains installed by specialist trenching machines

    Horizontally directionally drilled (HDD) wells.

    Horizontal drains installed by specialist trenching machines

    This technique uses a horizontal flexible perforated pipe, pumped by a wellpoint pump, to lower
    groundwater levels. The perforated pipe is installed by a special trenching machine. One end of
    the pipe is unperforated and is brought to the surface and connected to a wellpoint suction pump.
    The method can be very effective for dewatering long pipeline excavations.
    Horizontally directionally drilled (HDD) wells.

    HDD wells are used where groundwater must be abstracted from beneath inaccessible areas or
    from areas where the disruption associated with surface drilling is undesirable. Applications for
    HDD wells include:

    Installation of permanent dewatering systems beneath existing built up


    (urban) environments.

    Pumping for remediation of contaminated groundwater without the risks of


    cross-contamination associated with vertical drilling

    Dewatering for tunnel construction

    Recharge wells to re-inject water as part of artificial recharge schemes.

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