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aquifer

a reservoir of ground water found in underground rock, sand and gravel layers.
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146) The Department presumes that "[a]ll wells located a horizontal distance less than one-fourth mile from a surface water source that produce water from an unconfined aquifer shall be assumed to be hydraulically connected to the surface water source, unless the applicant or appropriator provides satisfactory information or demonstration to the contrary" and conducts additional analysis for wells farther from an unconfined aquifer.
Overdrafting Oregon: The case against groundwater mining
In contrast, in low yielding aquifers, such as overburdens or unconfined aquifers, dug/bored wells often are more advantageous than drilled wells.
Simultaneous influence of geology and system design on drinking water quality in private systems
The lateral zonation of unconfined aquifer on the basis of hydraulic conductivity is done by the help of an algorithm method in Figure 5 (e.
Causes and effects of temporal groundwater level change in the alluvial aquifer of Dera Ismail Khan area Pakistan
Groundwater samples from the unconfined aquifer (during autumn season with 19[degrees]C of average temperature) were collected from rural wells, including windmills and domestic wells with electric pumps.
Hydrogeology and hydrogeochemical modeling in phreatic aquifer of NE Mendoza, Argentina
2] ions are abundantly present in the reduced waters of the unconfined aquifer.
Phosphate mineralization at Nonconnah Creek, Memphis, Tennessee
Research area was assumed as heterogeneous and isotropic unconfined aquifer.
Phosphorus migration in an unconfined aquifer using MODFLOW and MT3DMS/ Fosforo pernasos vandeningajame horizonte modeliavimas MODFLOW ir MT3DMS programomis
It is an alluvial unconfined aquifer comprising mainly gravel and sand.
The effects of water table decline on the groundwater quality in aquifer of Torbat Jam plain, Northeast Iran
The drawdown near and abstraction well of large diameter under non-steady conditions in an unconfined aquifer, Journal of Hydrology, 30, 29-46.
Analisis de pruebas de bombeo por el metodo de Moench para pozos de gran diametro mediante hojas de calculo
A groundwater level of an unconfined aquifer or the piezometric surface of a confined aquifer indicates the elevations of the atmospheric pressure on the aquifer and hydraulic gradient of the area.
Groundwater resource and development potential in parts of Central Ganga-Basin, Aligarh (U.P.), India
The flood gravels that filled the glacial trench in northern Idaho and the Spokane valley have been partially filled with water creating an unconfined aquifer.
Response of the Spokane Valley--Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer to changes in water elevation of Coeur d'Alene Lake
Figure 11-4 shows an unconfined aquifer overlying a confined aquifer.
Chapter 11 Water supply
The tracer experiments were conducted in the upper unconfined aquifer, which consists of quaternary sediments overlaid by loess.
Modelling velocity and retardation factor of a nonlinearly sorbing solute plume

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