Applied Hydrogeology, Third Edition

When one writes a textbook the intent of the author is always to be 100 % correct and accurate. This is rarely the outcome, especially with a long, technical text. However, over time the typographical errors and author's mistakes are found, either by the author or readers of the text. Prentice Hall makes it a practice to correct errors when textbooks are reprinted. A printing is not the same as an edition. For example as of the summer of 1998, the Third Edition of Applied Hydrogeology is now it the eighth printing.

As of the present time I am only aware of one error in either the seventh or eighth printing. On the first line of page 264 the word valve should be value. Should a reader find other possible errors, please contact me at FETTER@uwosh.edu. I will post corrections on this web page and hope to have future printings corrected.

Contaminant Hydrogeology, Second Edition

Please contact me if you find any potential errors or typos at FETTER@uwosh.edu. I will post corrections on this web page and have future printings corrected.

Corrections to Contaminant Hydrogeology, 2nd Edition, by C. W. Fetter
(ISBN 0-1 3751215-5)

Page 37
Replace first sentence of section 1.8.2 with the following:
The first experimental study of water movement through a porous medium was performed by Henry Darcy (Darcy, 1856).

Page 111
Replace Equation 2.86 with the following:

D_L = (Vß)²
         210D                                                               (2.86)

Page 222
Replace equations 5.21, 5.22 and 5.23 and included text with the following:

Pt = -h_cy = -{2o}cosø                                  (5.21)
                         r

h_c = {2o}cosø                                                         (5.22)
          ry

For pure water in a clean glass tube, Ø can be taken as zero, so that cos Ø is 1.0. The value of o for water in contact with glass at 20° C is 74 dyne/cm, or 74 gm/s². The value of y at 20° C is 0.98 gm/cm³. Substitution of these values in Equation 5.22, with r in cm, results in:

hc = 0.15 cm
           r                                                                    (5.23)

Page 468
Replace the first bulleted line in section 9.92 with the following:
One mg of dissolved oxygen can be used by microbes to degrade 0.32 mg of BTEX

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