Indirect ground-water discharge to the Great Lakes

Open-File Report 98-579
Prepared in cooperation with Great Lakes Protection Fund
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Abstract

Estimates of the average ground-water component of streamflow for 195 streams in the United States part of the Great Lakes Basin range from 25 to 97 percent. Among the selected streams, the average ground-water component of streamflow was 67.3 percent. Estimates of the ground-water component of streamflow are based on hydrograph separation of 5,735 years of daily streamflow data. Incorporation of these estimates into the basin water supply for the Great Lakes shows that indirect discharge of ground water to the Great Lakes ranges from 22 percent of the basin water supply of Lake Erie to 42 percent of the basin water supply for Lake Ontario.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Indirect ground-water discharge to the Great Lakes
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 98-579
DOI 10.3133/ofr98579_1998
Year Published 1998
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Michigan Water Science Center
Description ii, 25 p.
Country United States
Other Geospatial Great Lakes
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