Venue: Future Africa Campus UP Pretoria

This GWD Practical Skill course will be hosted at the UP Future Africa Campus and will focus on imparting best practice skills presented by specialists in the field.

The Course will utilise the UP Boreholes walking distance from the Conference facility to run the field tests.
An additional drill-site(s) - from partner institutions- are planned to be added to the programme itinerary for additional practical exposure.

Preliminary Course Programme*

*CPD ACCREDITED COURSE

• Drilling - borehole construction, drilling supervision, logging

• Hydrocensus - mapping and locating, DWA databases, measuring water levels, landowner liaison

• Sampling - accessing boreholes, purging, sampling, labelling, preservation

• Field analyses - Aquaread, Extech, RAD7, etc.

• Hydraulic testing - step tests, constant rate calculation, measuring drawdown, test interpretation, calculation of hydraulic parameters (K, T, S, Sy)