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The Sparta aquifer is a primary source of groundwater in north-central Louisiana with more than 60 million gallons of water per day being withdrawn in 2015, and public supply and Industry account for over 90 percent of the water-use demand from the Sparta aquifer (Collier, 2018). Concentrated withdrawals from the Sparta aquifer have caused regional water-level declines within the Sparta aquifer (McGee and Brantly, 2015). Widespread concern about the potential effects of declining water levels has brought forth many questions regarding the sustainability of the aquifer as well as continued saltwater intrusion. In cooperation with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, the U.S. Geological Survey...
Categories: Data Release - Revised;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Arkansas,
Kentucky,
Louisiana,
Memphis aquifer,
Mississippi, All tags...
Mississippi Embayment,
Missouri,
Sparta Aquifer,
Sparta Sand,
Tennessee,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
freshwater extent,
groundwater,
potentiometric surface,
volume change,
water-level, Fewer tags
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The Mississippi Alluvial Plain (MAP) has become one of the most important agricultural regions in the US, and it relies heavily on a groundwater system that is poorly understood and shows signs of substantial change. The heavy use of the available groundwater resources has resulted in significant groundwater-level declines and reductions in base flow in streams within the MAP. These impacts are limiting well production and threatening future water-availability for the region. This product will help not only scientists in our center, but also at a national level. This product will also be part of a larger study encompassing the Mississippi Alluvial Plain region. The Mississippi Alluvial Plain extent was delineated...
Tags: Arkansas,
Arkansas River,
Illinois,
Kentucky,
LMG, All tags...
Louisiana,
Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science,
MAP,
MAP,
Mississippi,
Mississippi Alluvial Plain,
Mississippi Alluvial Plain,
Mississippi River,
Mississippi River Delta,
Mississippi Valley,
Missouri,
Tennessee,
U.S. Geological Survey,
U.S.Geological Survey,
USGS,
Water Availability and Use Science Program,
aquifer system,
groundwater availability project,
groundwater modeling,
hydrogeology,
water availability project, Fewer tags
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A digital dataset of the geomorphology of the Lower Mississippi River Valley in Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi was developed from Roger T. Saucier’s “Geomorphology and Quaternary Geologic History of the Lower Mississippi Valley, Volumes I and II” (1994) as part of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (MAP) Regional Water Availability Study. The maps included in the 1994 reports provide a comprehensive overview of the previously misunderstood alluvial valley geology and characterize twenty-nine Pleistocene and Holocene alluvial deposits, such as point bars, abandoned channels, backswamps, and natural levees. Each map was georeferenced to North American Datum 1983 and projected to USA...
Categories: Data;
Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service,
ArcGIS Service Definition,
Citation,
Downloadable,
Map Service;
Tags: Alluvial Fan,
Apron,
Arkansas,
Arkansas,
Arkansas River, All tags...
Deweyville Complex,
Early Wisconsin Stage,
Holocene,
Illinois,
Illinois,
Intermediate Complex,
Kentucky,
Kentucky,
Lacustrine,
Late Wisconsin Stage,
Louisiana,
Louisiana,
Mississippi,
Mississippi,
Mississippi Alluvial Plain,
Mississippi Alluvial Plain,
Mississippi River,
Mississippi River Delta,
Mississippi Valley,
Missouri,
Missouri,
Pleistocene,
Prairie Complex,
Quaternary,
Saucier,
Tennessee,
Tennessee,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
abandoned channel,
abandoned courses,
abandoned deltaic distributaries,
alluvial system,
backswamp deposit,
chenier,
delineation,
floodbasin deposit,
geologic history,
geomorphology,
geomorphology,
inland swamp deposit,
interdistributary deposits,
lacustrine deltaic deposit,
meander scroll,
natural levee,
point bar,
relict beach ridges,
relict channel,
sand dune field,
undifferentiated alluvium,
undifferentiated fluvial deposit,
undifferentiated paludal deposit,
valley train, Fewer tags
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A hydrogeologic framework of the Ozark Plateaus aquifer system was constructed as the base for a groundwater flow model developed as part of the U.S. Geological Survey Water Availability and Use Science Program to aid in the understanding of groundwater availability in select aquifer systems of the United States. The Ozark Plateaus aquifer system study area (hereinafter referred to as the “Ozark system”) is nearly 70,000 square miles and includes parts of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. A hydrogeologic framework was constructed to represent the altitudes and thicknesses of nine hydrogeologic units within the Ozark Plateaus aquifer system - . the Western Interior Plains confining system, Springfield Plateau...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation,
Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: Arkansas,
Arkansas,
Kansas,
Kansas,
Lower Mississippi-Gulf, All tags...
Missouri,
Missouri,
Oklahoma,
Oklahoma,
Ozark Mountains,
Ozark Plateaus,
Ozark Plateaus aquifer system,
U.S. Geological Survey,
USGS,
Water Availability and Use Science Program,
Water Science Center,
aquifer,
borehole data,
confining unit,
framework,
groundwater,
groundwater availability,
groundwater availability project,
groundwater modeling,
hydrogeologic framework,
hydrogeologic modeling,
hydrogeology,
surficial aquifer, Fewer tags
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Groundwater is an often overlooked freshwater resource compared to surface water, but groundwater is used widely across the United States, especially during periods of drought. If groundwater models can successfully simulate past conditions, they may be used to evaluate potential future pumping scenarios or climate conditions, thus providing a valuable planning tool for water-resource managers. Quantifying the groundwater-use component for a groundwater model is a vital but often challenging endeavor. This dataset includes groundwater withdrawal rates modeled for the Ozark Plateaus aquifer system (Ozark system) from 1900 to 2010 by groundwater model cell (2.6 square kilometers) for five water-use divisions—agriculture...
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