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: We are looking for the simplest borehole pump test possible to have one tangible piece of evidence about in-situ borehole capacity. Working to support rural Syrian communities to move from centralised water systems to using normally existing boreholes in villages or fields.
Our agency wants to develop a simple procedure to provide basic borehole information: - depth - SWL - DWL - sustainable production capacity m3/hr or simply to see if the borehole meets the community need over a maximum 10 hour pump time. Information will be used to provide best most efficient pump size, therefore generator size. Pump/generator sizing is critical in that oversizing will cause unneeded costs for the communities and therefore run a greater risk for project failure.

Full details of technical support request : Simple Borehole Capacity Test - multiple wells. The idea is to train and equip a partner to carry out pump tests in villages. Objective - know if borehole can achieve desired volume of water per day.

We are working on 50LPD (for now) as water is crucial to indoor sanitation in villages. Typical village may need 400,000 Litres per day.

Information available example: BH1: depth of 400m, SWL 265m, pump 60 HP, production of 30 m3 BH2: depth 400m, SWL 240m, pump 40 HP, production 20m3 without pumping line and with a connection to pumping line is 16 m3

To make a decision based on something tangible we want to test the borehole. Probably some variation on a step pump test.

Questions to answer: - what is the procedure - what equipment is needed - how do we analyse the results - e.g. graph

Remember much of this is being done remotely.

: We are looking for the simplest borehole pump test possible to have one tangible piece of evidence about in-situ borehole capacity. Working to support rural Syrian communities to move from centralised water systems to using normally existing boreholes in villages or fields.

Our agency wants to develop a simple procedure to provide basic borehole information: - depth - SWL - DWL - information:

• depth
• SWL
• DWL
• sustainable production capacity m3/hr or simply to see if the borehole meets the community need over a maximum 10 hour pump time.

Information will be used to provide best most efficient pump size, therefore generator size. Pump/generator sizing is critical in that oversizing will cause unneeded costs for the communities and therefore run a greater risk for project failure.

Full details of technical support request : Simple Borehole Capacity Test - multiple wells. The idea is to train and equip a partner to carry out pump tests in villages. Objective - know if borehole can achieve desired volume of water per day.

We are working on 50LPD (for now) as water is crucial to indoor sanitation in villages. Typical village may need 400,000 Litres per day.

Information available example: BH1: depth of 400m, SWL 265m, pump 60 HP, production of 30 m3 BH2: depth 400m, SWL 240m, pump 40 HP, production 20m3 without pumping line and with a connection to pumping line is 16 m3

To make a decision based on something tangible we want to test the borehole. Probably some variation on a step pump test.

Questions to answer: - answer:

• what is the procedure - procedure
• what equipment is needed - needed
• how do we analyse the results - e.g. graph

Remember much of this is being done remotely.

We are looking for the simplest borehole pump test possible to have one tangible piece of evidence about in-situ borehole capacity. Working to support rural Syrian communities to move from centralised water systems to using normally existing boreholes in villages or fields.

Our agency wants to develop a simple procedure to provide basic borehole information:

• depth
• SWL
• DWL
• sustainable production capacity m3/hr or simply to see if the borehole meets the community need over a maximum 10 hour pump time.

Information will be used to provide best most efficient pump size, therefore generator size. Pump/generator sizing is critical in that oversizing will cause unneeded costs for the communities and therefore run a greater risk for project failure.

Full details of technical support request : Simple Borehole Capacity Test - multiple wells. The idea is to train and equip a partner to carry out pump tests in villages. Objective - know if borehole can achieve desired volume of water per day.

We are working on 50LPD (for now) as water is crucial to indoor sanitation in villages. Typical village may need 400,000 Litres per day.

Information available example: BH1: depth of 400m, SWL 265m, pump 60 HP, production of 30 m3 BH2: depth 400m, SWL 240m, pump 40 HP, production 20m3 without pumping line and with a connection to pumping line is 16 m3

To make a decision based on something tangible we want to test the borehole. Probably some variation on a step pump test.

Questions to answer:

• what is the procedure
• what equipment is needed
• how do we analyse the results - e.g. graph

Remember much of this is being done remotely.