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"@context": "http://schema.org/", "@type": "WebPage", "additionalType": "Project", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/sawsc/science/groundwater-monitoring-program-augusta-richmond-county-area-ga", "headline": "Groundwater Monitoring Program for the Augusta\u2013Richmond County Area, GA", "datePublished": "November 7, 2016", "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gerard J Gonthier", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/gerard-j-gonthier", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "orcid", "value": "0000-0003-4078-8579" } } ], "description": [ { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Water supply in the Augusta\u2013Richmond County area, Georgia is provided in part by three well fields that withdraw water from the Dublin-Midville aquifer system---sand aquifers of Late Cretaceous to Early Paleocene age. Low levels of tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene have been detected in a supply well at the northernmost extent of Well Field 2. To ensure that groundwater pumping does not adversely affect water levels in areas within and surrounding well fields or water-quality of production wells, the U.S. Geological Survey operates a groundwater monitoring program for the Augusta\u2013Richmond County area. Data collected from this network will provide information to support water-management decisions, provide a basis for future groundwater modeling efforts, and add to the regional characterization of ground-water conditions." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Groundwater Conditions of Georgia (website with current updates)" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Collect synoptic water-level measurements and construct potentiometric-surface maps on an annual basis." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Develop a groundwater model to assess groundwater-flow direction and rates of flow under different pump settings, within the area of the three well fields" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Groundwater Conditions" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Groundwater Conditions and Studies in Georgia, 2008-2009, pg 64-65" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Groundwater Conditions and Studies in Georgia, 2006-2007, pg 62-63" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Water supply in the Augusta\u2013Richmond County, GA area is provided in part by three well fields that withdraw water from the Dublin\u2013Midville aquifer system. The U.S. Geological Survey operates a groundwater-level and water-quality monitoring program to support water-management decisions and provide a basis for future groundwater modeling efforts while adding to regional characterization of groundwater conditions." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Objectives" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Maintaining a network of continuous water-level recorders at selected wells." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Collect and analyze water samples from selected wells in and near Well Field 2 with additional water-quality data collection from Well Fields 1 and 3." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "The project goal is to determine current groundwater levels, groundwater-level trends, groundwater-flow directions, water quality, and water-quality trends of the Dublin-Midville aquifer system within the Augusta-Richmond County area. This goal will be achieved by:" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Problem" } ], "funder": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/sawsc" }, "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Energy" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Geology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Science Technology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Environmental Health" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Groundwater Contamination" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Water Availability" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Water" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Information Systems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Groundwater Monitoring" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Methods and Analysis" } ]
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