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Ground-water Management in Coastal Georgia and Adjacent Parts of South Carolina and Florida: I. Ground-water Resources and Constraints to Development
Ground-water Management in Coastal Georgia and Adjacent Parts of South Carolina and Florida: I. Ground-water Resources and Constraints to Development
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Krause, Richard E.
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Current use and future demands for water in the
coastal area of Georgia and adjacent parts of South Carolina
and Florida affect all three States. Pumpage from the Floridan
aquifer system—an extremely permeable, paleokarst,
carbonate water-bearing sequence—has resulted in substantial
water-level declines and subsequent encroachment of
seawater into the aquifer at the northern end of Hilton Head
Island, South Carolina; and in saltwater intrusion of the
aquifer at Brunswick, Georgia; and near Jacksonville, Florida.
Although the mechanisms vary by which encroachment and
intrusion occur, all hypotheses indicate that pumpage from the
Floridan aquifer system has caused ground-water level decline
and a reduction in hydrostatic pressure, and has allowed
saltwater to enter the freshwater part of the system. This
situation has constrained further development of the Floridan
aquifer system in the coastal area.
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Sponsored and Organized by: U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology
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1997-03
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