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Use of double-mass curves to determine drawdown in a long-term aquifer test in north-central Volusia County, Florida

Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4309
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wri844309

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Abstract

A test well withdrew water from the upper Floridan aquifer system at an average of 530 gallons per minute from June 1978 to July 1979. Ground-water levels were monitored in wells open to the upper Floridan (artesian) aquifer system and in wells open to the surficial (water-table) aquifer. Double-mass curves were used to separate drawdown from natural water-level fluctuations. Drawdowns in the Floridan were 4.3 feet at a site 350 feet away from the pumped well, 4.1 feet at a site 1,000 feet away, 1.0 foot at a site 1.0 mile away, and 0.4 foot at a site 5.8 miles away. After an initial drawdown of 0.2 foot at a surficial aquifer well 1,000 feet from the pumped well, there was some recovery, and long-term drawdown averaged less than 0.2 foot. In a five-day aquifer test during a period of no rainfall in 1976, the ratio of surficial aquifer drawdown to Floridan aquifer system drawdown reached equilibrum at 0.05. The results of the long-term test indicate that this ratio is the upper limit of long-term drawdown because of capture of evapotranspiration and runoff during the long-term test. (USGS)
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Use of double-mass curves to determine drawdown in a long-term aquifer test in north-central Volusia County, Florida
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 84-4309
DOI 10.3133/wri844309
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Year Published 1985
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey,
Description iv, 29 p. :ill., maps ;28 cm.
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