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Over the time, we have seen numerical modeling as a great tool for the evaluation of the groundwater flow regime and we might have seen numerical modelers as high level professionals with strong analytical capabilities that can provide all the answers we need to proof that a project is sustainable or the accuracy of a predictive simulation. On a broad perspective we might have overestimated the numerical modeling exercise and sometimes deified numerical modelers, but by sure we haven’t seen them as humans.

Phreeqc can solve geochemical simulations for a specific solution and simulations relying on previous results. We have developed a tutorial that goes through the Example 3 from the Phreeqc documentation in a stepwise approach to simulate groundwater, seawater, the mixing from both and cases regarding the equilibrium with calcite and dolomite. There is a Python class capable of running the input files and parse results incluided on the scripting part of the input files.

We have developed an applied example to download information and groundwater levels for one well and multiple wells with Python and the dataretrieval package. The tutorial stores information and levels on a csv file an can be easily applied for streamflow and water quality data stored on the NWIS.