Technical Report NTB 87-40
3-D Migration Experiment-Report 3:Part I: Performed Experiments, Results and Evaluation
This report is one of the four reports describing the Stripa 3D experiment where water and tracer flow has been monitored in a specially excavated drift in the Stripa mine. The experiment was performed in a specially excavated drift at the 360 m level in granite. The whole ceiling and upper part of the walls were covered with more than 350 individual plastic sheets where the water flow into the drift could be collected. 11 different tracers were injected at distances between 11 and 50 m from the ceiling of the drift. The flow rate and tracer monitoring was kept up for more than two years. The tracer breakthrough curves and flow rate distributions were used to study the flow paths, velocities, hydraulic conductivities, dispersivities and channeling effects in the rock.
The present report describes the structure of the observations, fracture mapping, the flow rate measurements and how these were used to estimate the hydraulic conductivities. The main part of this report addresses the interpretation of the tracer movement in the rock outside the drift. The tracer movement as measured by the more than 160 individual tracer curves has been analyzed with the traditional advection-dispersion model, but also with more recent models which include the effects of channeling and the diffusion of tracers into stagnant waters in the rock matrix and in stagnant waters in the fractures themselves. The tracer experiments have permitted the flow porosity and dispersion to be studied.
