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Estimating net drawdown resulting from episodic withdrawals at six well fields in the coastal plain physiographic province of Virginia

Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4159
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wri934159

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Abstract

The groundwater-flow system of the Virginia Coastal Plain consists of areally extensive and interconnected aquifers. Large, regionally coalescing cones of depression that are caused by large withdrawals of water are found in these aquifers. Local groundwater systems are affected by regional pumping, because of the interactions within the system of aquifers. Accordingly, these local systems are affected by regional groundwater flow and by spatial and temporal differences in withdrawals by various users. A geographic- information system was used to refine a regional groundwater-flow model around selected withdrawal centers. A method was developed in which drawdown maps that were simulated by the regional groundwater-flow model and the principle of superposition could be used to estimate drawdown at local sites. The method was applied to create drawdown maps in the Brightseat/Upper Potomac Aquifer for periods of 3, 6, 9, and 12 months for Chesapeake, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach, Virginia. Withdrawal rates were supplied by the individual localities and remained constant for each simulation period. This provides an efficient method by which the individual local groundwater users can determine the amount of drawdown produced by their wells in a groundwater system that is a water source for multiple users and that is affected by regional-flow systems.
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Estimating net drawdown resulting from episodic withdrawals at six well fields in the coastal plain physiographic province of Virginia
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 93-4159
DOI 10.3133/wri934159
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Year Published 1993
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey ; U.S.G.S. Earth Science Information Center, Open-File Reports Section [distributor],
Description iv, 21 p. :ill., maps ;28 cm.
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