Effects of Pumpage Reductions in the Savannah, Georgia–Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, Area on Saltwater Intrusion near Hilton Head Island

Payne, Dorothy F.

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Effects of Pumpage Reductions in the Savannah, Georgia–Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, Area on Saltwater Intrusion near Hilton Head Island

dc.contributor.author	Payne, Dorothy F.
dc.contributor.corporatename	Geological Survey (U.S.)	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2013-07-04T16:28:06Z
dc.date.available	2013-07-04T16:28:06Z
dc.date.issued	2007-03
dc.description	Proceedings of the 2007 Georgia Water Resources Conference, March 27-29, 2007, Athens, Georgia.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Numerical simulations were used to test the effects of variable pumpage reductions on the movement of chloride plumes in the Upper Floridan aquifer at the northern end of Hilton Head Island, at Pinckney Island, and near the Colleton River, South Carolina. Several combinations of pumpage reductions in the Savannah, Georgia, and Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, areas were simulated using a previously published, variable-density, solute-transport model of the Savannah–Hilton Head Island area. Simulation results indicate that the Colleton River plume responds more to pumpage reductions in the Savannah area than does the northern Hilton Head Island plume, and that the northern Hilton Head Island plume responds more to local pumpage reductions in the Hilton Head Island area than does the Colleton River plume. The Pinckney Island plume responds to pumpage reductions at both Savannah and Hilton Head Island areas. Substantial reductions, more than 75 percent, in the Savannah and Hilton Head Island areas may be required to prevent the expansion and salinity increase of the plumes. Finally, if all pumping is eliminated, the chloride plumes may persist for the foreseeable future.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Sponsored and Organized by: U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Natural Resources Conservation Service, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibility	This book was published by the Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2202. The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of The University of Georgia, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Georgia Water Research Institute as authorized by the Water Resources Research Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-397) or the other conference sponsors.
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/48236
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	GWRI2007. Coastal Issues	en_US
dc.subject	Water resources management	en_US
dc.subject	Simulation testing	en_US
dc.subject	Colleton River plume	en_US
dc.subject	Hilton Head Island plume	en_US
dc.subject	Pumpage reductiions	en_US
dc.subject	Saltwater intrusion	en_US
dc.subject	Pinckney Island plume	en_US
dc.subject	Chloride plumes	en_US
dc.title	Effects of Pumpage Reductions in the Savannah, Georgia–Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, Area on Saltwater Intrusion near Hilton Head Island	en_US
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