| Abstract: | The Coastal Los Angeles Basin study unit is approximately 860 square miles and consists of the Santa Monica, Hollywood, West Coast, Central, and Orange County Coastal Plain groundwater basins (California Department of Water Resources, 2003). The basins are bounded in part by faults, including the Newport-Inglewood fault zone, and are filled with Holocene-, Pleistocene-, and Pliocene-age marine and alluvial sediments. The Central Basin and Orange County Coastal Plain are divided into a forebay zone on the northeast and a pressure zone in the center and southwest. The forebays consist of unconsolidated coarser sediment, and the pressure zones are characterized by lenses of coarser sediment divided into confined to semi-confined aquifers by lenses of finer sediments. The primary aquifer system in the study unit is defined as those parts of the aquifer system corresponding to the perforated intervals of wells listed in the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) database of public-supply wells. The majority of public-supply wells are drilled to depths of 510 to 1,145 feet, consist of solid casing from the land surface to a depth of about 300 to 510 feet, and are perforated below the solid casing. Water quality in the primary aquifer system may differ from that in the shallower and deeper parts of the aquifer systems. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 70039952 |
| Citation Author: | Fram, Miranda S.; Belitz, Kenneth |
| Citation Contributing Office: | California Water Science Center |
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| Citation LatN: | 0341500 |
| Citation LatS: | 0334000 |
| Citation LonE: | -1174000 |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | 4 p. |
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| Citation Public Comments: | Prepared in cooperation with the California State Water Resources Control Board |
| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Citation Series: | Fact Sheet |
| Citation Series Code: | FS |
| Citation Series Number: | 2012-3096 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Groundwater quality in the Coastal Los Angeles Basin, California; 2012; FS; 2012-3096; Fram, Miranda S.; Belitz, Kenneth |
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| Citation Year: | 2012 |
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| Text: | Groundwater quality in the Coastal Los Angeles Basin, California; 2012; FS; 2012-3096; Fram, Miranda S.; Belitz, Kenneth |
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| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3096/ |
| URL (DOCUMENT): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3096/pdf/fs20123096.pdf |
| Date Other: | Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00 -0500 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
