Surface-water and Shallow Ground-water Quality in the Vicinity of Metropolitan Atlanta, Upper Chattahoochee River Basin, Georgia, 1992-95
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Frick, Elizabeth A.
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Hatcher, Kathryn J.
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Abstract
As part of the National Water-Quality Assessment
Program (NAWQA) (Leahy et. al., 1990; Gilliom et. al., 1995),
the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is evaluating water-quality
conditions in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF)
River basin in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida during 1993-95.
Urban and suburban land-use effects on regional surface- and
Found-water chemistry is one focus of the NAWQA ACF
River basin study. Historically, the focus of water-quality
studies within the vicinity of Metropolitan Atlanta primarily has
been on surface water because surface water has supplied about
98 percent of the water used in the area (Marella et. al., 1993).
However, evaluating the quality of ground water in the vicinity
of Metropolitan Atlanta is useful (1) to determine the usability
of ground water as a supplemental water supply; (2) to better
understand water quality in streams, especially during baseflow
conditions; and (3) when compared with surface-water-quality
data, to provide qualitative information about the interaction
between ground and surface waters and on the pathways of
travel for various chemical constituents.
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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
Date
1997-03
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