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Summary of well construction, testing, and preliminary findings from the Alligator Alley test well, Broward County, Florida

Open-File Report 87-551
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr87551

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Abstract

A 2,811-foot deep test well was drilled during 1980 in The Everglades along Alligator Alley as part of the Floridan Regional Aquifer Systems Analysis project. The well was cased 895 feet deep. Hydraulic packers were used to isolate selected zones in the open hole for water samples and measurement of water levels. The well penetrated the surficial and intermediate aquifers into the Floridan aquifer system. The top of the Floridan aquifer system occurs at 770 feet and includes limestone ranging in age from Oligocene to early Eocene. About 67 percent of the total thickness of the Floridan aquifer system was penetrated by the well. The chief water-producing zones in the Floridan aquifer system occur at about 1,030 feet and at about 2,560 feet. The 1,030-foot zone contains brackish artesian groundwater, and the 2,560-foot zone contains salty artesian groundwater similar in composition to seawater. The static water geothermal gradient is indicated, and radiocarbon activities suggest that the saltwater in the lower zone is younger than brackish groundwater in the upper zone. (USGS)
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Summary of well construction, testing, and preliminary findings from the Alligator Alley test well, Broward County, Florida
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 87-551
DOI 10.3133/ofr87551
Edition -
Year Published 1988
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey,
Description iv, 68 p. :ill., map ;28 cm.
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