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Development of a Water-Use Database for Use in Coastal Region Ground-Water Models, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida, 1980–2000
Development of a Water-Use Database for Use in Coastal Region Ground-Water Models, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida, 1980–2000
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Taylor, Da'Vette A.
Painter, Jamie A.
Payne, Dorothy F.
Painter, Jamie A.
Payne, Dorothy F.
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Hatcher, Kathryn J.
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) compiled and integrated water-use data from 1980 to 2000 for coastal Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida for use in regional ground-water flow models. To represent accurately stresses on the ground-water flow system, ground-water flow models require that pumping rates be distributed temporally and spatially among three aquifer units. Water withdrawal data from different sources are inconsistent: pumping rates are estimated for different years or different schedules; data sets include estimates of single well or well-field specific pumping rates or a countywide aggregate pumping rate; and each of these data sources may not include aquifer designations. Several assumptions were made to construct model input to accommodate these inconsistencies.
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2003-04
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