Public-Supply Groundwater Use by Aquifer Type within the Glaciated Conterminous United States, 2005-14

This dataset describes public-supply groundwater use by aquifer type within the glaciated conterminous United States between 2005 and 2014. All or part of 24 states within this glaciated region were included. The U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act defines a "public water system" as an entity that provides water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances to at least 15 service connections or serves an average of at least 25 people for at least 60 days out of the year (United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1998). Water may be used for several purposes such as for commercial, industrial, and residential use, or may be used only for one specific purpose such as for residential use.

Categories: Data; Tags: community water system, drinking water, glacial principle aquifer system, groundwater withdrawal, non-community water system, All tags... population served, public supply, water availability, water supply, water system, water use, Fewer tags

Groundwater depletion in the United States (1900-2008)

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. A natural consequence of groundwater withdrawals is the removal of water from subsurface storage, but the overall rates and magnitude of groundwater depletion in the United States are not well characterized. This study evaluates long-term cumulative depletion volumes in 40 separate aquifers or areas and one land use category in the United States, bringing together information from the literature and from new analyses. Depletion is...

Categories: pre-SM502.8; Tags: Alluvial basins, Antelope Valley California, Arizona Antelope Valley, Atlantic Coastal Plain, Atlantic Coastal Plain, All tags... Black Mesa area, Arizona, California Coachella Valley, California Death Valley region, California Mesilla Basin, California Pahvant Valley, California and Nevada Escalante Valley, Central Valley California, Coastal Lowlands, Colorado, Colorado Tularosa Basin, Columbia Plateau aquifer system, Dakota aquifer, Death Valley, Deep Confined Aquifers, Deep Confined Bedrock Aquifers, Delaware, Denver Basin, Georgia, Gulf Coast Plain, High Plains (Ogallala) Aquifer, High Plains Aquifer, Idaho, Kansas, Long Island, New York, Maryland, Midwest Cambrian-Ordovician Aquifer, Midwest Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system, Mississippi Embayment, Mississippi Embayment, NSDI, Nebraska, Nevada, Nevada Los Angeles Basin, Nevada Pecos River Basin, New Jersey, New Mexico, New Mexico Hueco Bolson, New Mexico Middle Rio Grande Basin, New Mexico Milford area, New Mexico Mojave River Basin, New Mexico and Texas Las Vegas Valley, North Carolina, Oahu, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Snake River Plain, Snake River plateau, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Texas Gulf Coast, Texas San Luis Valley, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United Staes, Utah, Utah Estancia Basin, Utah Mimbres Basin, Utah Paradise Valley, Virginia, Western Alluvial Basins, Western Alluvial Basins, Western Volcanic Aquifer System, Western Volcanic Aquifer Systems, Western Volcanic Systems, Wyoming, agriculture and farming, aquifer, cultural, society, and demographic, environment, environment, geological and geophysical, groundwater, groundwater, groundwater depletion, groundwater withdrawal, hydrology, imagery and base maps, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, locations and geodetic networks, northeast Florida, northern Great Plains, oceans and estuaries, regionnal flow system, water, water level, wells, Fewer tags

Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Flowlines for the Conterminous United States: 2010 Public supply fresh water withdrawals, weighted by 2013 population served.

This metadata record describes estimates of public supply water withdrawals for 2010, weighted by the population served in 2013. Data were compiled for two spatial components of the NHDPlus version 2 data suite (NHDPlusv2) for the conterminous United States; 1) individual reach catchments and 2) reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network. This dataset can be linked to the NHDPlus version 2 data suite by the unique identifier COMID. Reach catchment information characterizes data at the local scale. Reach catchments accumulated upstream through the river network characterizes cumulative upstream conditions. Network-accumulated values are computed using two methods, 1) divergence-routed and 2)...

Categories: Data; Tags: Groundwater withdrawal, Surface water withdrawal, Water use, Withdrawal