Chloride concentrations from wells in the Genesee River Valley, Livingston County, New York

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Publication Date: 2021-04-21
Start Date: 2004
End Date: 2017

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Kappel, W.M., and Williams, J.H., 2021, Chloride concentrations from wells in the Genesee River Valley, Livingston County, New York: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9J354SU.

Summary

The Retsof salt mine in the Genesee River Valley, Livingston County, New York, flooded after mine-roof collapses in 1994 created two rubble chimneys in overlying bedrock that intersected a confined aquifer in the basal glacial-drift deposits and continued collapse to the land surface. Groundwater in the lower confined aquifer flowed downward through the bedrock rubble chimneys causing widespread drawdown in the lower confined aquifer until the mine was completely flooded in 1996 (Yager and others, 2001). By 2005, water levels in the lower confined aquifer had nearly recovered to pre-collapse conditions but the hydraulic connection through the rubble chimneys between the brine-filled mine cavity, saline-water bedrock fracture zones, [...]

Summary

The Retsof salt mine in the Genesee River Valley, Livingston County, New York, flooded after mine-roof collapses in 1994 created two rubble chimneys in overlying bedrock that intersected a confined aquifer in the basal glacial-drift deposits and continued collapse to the land surface. Groundwater in the lower confined aquifer flowed downward through the bedrock rubble chimneys causing widespread drawdown in the lower confined aquifer until the mine was completely flooded in 1996 (Yager and others, 2001). By 2005, water levels in the lower confined aquifer had nearly recovered to pre-collapse conditions but the hydraulic connection through the rubble chimneys between the brine-filled mine cavity, saline-water bedrock fracture zones, and the lower confined aquifer remained. The mine contains billions of liters of saturated brine that is slowly being displaced upward as the weight of overlying bedrock and unconsolidated sediments causes the mine cavity to very slowly close (Yager and others, 2009).

This data release provides chloride-concentration data from water samples collected from wells in the groundwater-quality well network established in the Genesee River Valley. The well network includes wells that were actively pumped and monitoring wells in and around the collapse area. In the nine wells monitored for chloride concentration, some wells only monitored one zone, while others monitored up to eight zones. The lower confined aquifer was monitored in six wells, while other wells monitored the underlying bedrock at various depths. Chloride data in "GeneseeValley_ChlorideData_OtherMeasurements.csv" were from monitoring wells further from the collapse area or from domestic wells north of the collapse area near Fowlerville, New York.

References Cited:

Yager, R.M., Miller, T.S., and Kappel, W.M., 2001, Simulated effects of 1994 salt-mine collapse on groundwater flow and land subsidence in a glacial aquifer system, Livingston County, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1611, 85 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1611.

Yager, R.M., Misut, P.E., Langevin, C.D., and Parkhurst, D.L., 2009, Brine migration from a flooded salt mine in the Genesee Valley, Livingston County, New York—Geochemical modeling and simulation of variable-density flow: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1767, 59 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1767.

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Point of Contact :: William M Kappel
Originator :: William M Kappel, John H Williams
Metadata Contact :: Kristin S Linsey
Publisher :: U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :: U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :: New York Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :: Water Resources

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GeneseeValley_ChlorideData.xml “Metadata XML” Original FGDC Metadata	View	21.73 KB	application/fgdc+xml
GeneseeValley_ChlorideData.xlsx “All Data XLSX”		282.68 KB	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
GeneseeValley_ChlorideData_TableOfContents.csv “Table of Contents CSV”		942 Bytes	text/csv
GeneseeValley_ChlorideData_WellLocations.csv “Site Information CSV”		3.71 KB	text/csv
GeneseeValley_ChlorideData_MultipleMeasurements.csv		46.72 MB	text/csv
GeneseeValley_ChlorideData_OtherMeasurements.csv		10.03 KB	text/csv
GeneseeValley_ChlorideData_Graphs.pdf		772.51 KB	application/pdf

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Yager, R.M., Miller, T.S., and Kappel, W.M., 2001, Simulated effects of 1994 salt-mine collapse on groundwater flow and land subsidence in a glacial aquifer system, Livingston County, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1611, 85 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1611.	https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1611
Yager, R.M., Misut, P.E., Langevin, C.D., and Parkhurst, D.L., 2009, Brine migration from a flooded salt mine in the Genesee Valley, Livingston County, New York—Geochemical modeling and simulation of variable-density flow: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1767, 59 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1767.	https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1767

Type: Related Primary Publication

Williams, J.H., Kappel, W.M., Johnson, C.D., White, E.A., Heisig, P.M., and Lane, J.W., Jr., 2021, Time-domain electromagnetic soundings and passive-seismic measurements for delineation of saline groundwater in the Genesee valley-fill aquifer system, western New York, 2016–17: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2021–5008, 27 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20215008.	https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20215008

Purpose

Chloride data were obtained to evaluate changing chloride concentrations before, during, and immediately following a brine capture/migration effort at the collapse area from 2006 through 2013 and to determine potential future impacts of saline water migration on the groundwater resource in the Genesee River Valley.

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