PPT-Growing Groundwater

Grievances in Graceland The Memphis Sand Aquifer The Plot Sickens GEO 335H 14 May 2015 Michael E Campana Professor of Hydrogeology and Water Resources Management. Use of brackish groundwater could supplement or in some places replace the use of freshwater sources and enhance our Nations water security However a better understanding of the location and charac ter of brackish groundwater is needed to expand dev Hydraulic Head. Bernoulli’s Equation. Hydrostatic Pressure. Hydraulic Head. Bernoulli’s Equation. Hydrostatic Pressure. Hydraulic Head. Total Hydraulic Head (drop velocity – why?). . Or. Much of the global H. 2. O, resides below the surface of the Earth in what geologists refer to as . groundwater. . . Although in the subsurface, it has a large impact on society and the features that we see on the surface of the Earth.. Makes up 23% of Earth’s freshwater.. 12% Shallow (we can reach). 11% Deep (out of our reach). Underground Layers. When precipitation occurs, water often seeps down into the soil and trickles down in between particles of soil and through cracks and spaces in layers of rock. . Chapter 9, Section 2. The Hydrologic Cycle (WATER CYCLE). . Evaporation. Condensation. Precipitation. Runoff. Soil is made up of many small rock and . mineral. fragments.. Holes, . cracks. ,. and crevices exist in the rock underlying the soil.. LA’s Water Resources. You may be familiar with Spring water… . Aquifer:. A water-bearing. rock. that readily transmits water to wells and springs . Water Bearing Rock??. Let’s investigate!. notes. 2. Groundwater Sampling. Sampling a well with a tennis shoe?. Standards, Directives, Guidelines................... 4. Standards, Directives, Guidelines. Hierarchy:- “more or less a general consensus” EN/AS/NZS=. Tom M. Marston, U. S. Geological Survey. In cooperation with the . Utah Division of Water Rights. Parowan Valley. Approx. 160 mi. 2. Structural depression between Hurricane fault and the Red Hills. Closed surface-water basin (aside from Winn Gap). William L. Cunningham. Acting Chief, USGS Office of Groundwater. Briefing to . ACWI Workgroup . How to Sustain and Enhance High Quality Water Monitoring under Constrained Budgets . January 28, 2013. Monitoring Networks Outline. The Unseen Part of the Water Cycle. Salt Groundwater. Ground Water. Reservoir. . The present-day surface hydrologic cycle. The numbers in parentheses refer to volumes of water in millions of cubic kilometres,. sandstone and . Rogersville shale play area, eastern Kentucky. Kentucky . Geological Survey, University of . Kentucky. GSI . Environmental Inc., . Austin. , . TX. Possible Contamination Pathways of Hydraulic Fracturing to Groundwater Aquifers . Delphi . Corporation, . Wyoming. , . Michigan. Dr. Peter E. Riemersma. Department of Geology. Grand Valley State University. Allendale, Michigan. Geohydrology (Geo 440), 3 credit, . no lab, elective. Groundwater Sustainability Agency . Governance Formation. REGINA RUBIER. WATER RESOURCES MANAGER. CITY OF STOCKTON - MUNICIPAL UTILITIES DEPARTMENT. JANUARY 26, 2016. Agency Boundary Overlap. SEWD. WID. . G. . . D. S. Floridan Aquifer. Extent. Hydrologic Horizons. Pressure. Tension. θ. pwp. < . θ. < n. θ. fc. < . θ. < n. θ. = n. θ. = n. Geologic Profiles . (Stratigraphy).