MODPATH particle-tracking analysis of groundwater flow and travel times to the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor estuary and streams within the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor watershed, New Jersey

A groundwater-flow model that was previously developed by the U. S. Geological Survey of Ocean County, N.J. (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20165035) was used in an analysis of groundwater flow in the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system and deeper confined aquifers that underlie the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor (BB-LEH) watershed and estuary. The analysis used a MODFLOW2005 simulation, in conjunction with the particle-tracking computer program MODPATH (Pollock, 1994), to delineate particle flow paths, the discharge location of each particle, and estimate the travel time along flow paths to the BB LEH estuary and streams within the BB-LEH watershed. This study conducted by the USGS, in cooperation with the Barnegat Bay Partnership, also [...]