Sentences with phrase «used groundwater well»

Gido, Perkin and their colleagues at the U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado State University, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Westar Energy and The Nature Conservancy used groundwater well data from the 1950s to 2010 to track the rate of change in the water table of the High Plains Aquifer.

Not exact matches

Sewage from dairy cows as well as the fertilizers used to grow feed for them pollute rivers and groundwaters, affecting all ecosystems dependent upon the rivers and groundwaters.

The study uses four statistical approaches, which come to the same conclusion: «there is no significant correlation between dissolved methane concentrations in groundwater and proximity to nearby oil / gas wells.»

If approved in the Legislature, the resolution would fund the unit — responsible for drilling monitoring wells to evaluate groundwater pollution across the county at sites like the former Grumman facility in Calverton — using money from the water quality fund, a fund established by a voter - approved, quarter - penny sales tax.

Scientists typically monitor groundwater reserves using wells, but this method fails to provide the global picture of how water levels are changing.

«That would be one situation where you could, in theory, put a well in there and pump that water out and use it without affecting a groundwater system.»

Over the lifespan of a gas station, Hilpert says, concrete pads underneath the pumps can accumulate significant amounts of gasoline, which can eventually penetrate the concrete and escape into underlying soil and groundwater, potentially impacting the health of those who use wells as a water source.

For example, Jakarta's consumption of groundwater for industry and domestic use has been so high that sea water has infiltrated shallow wells as far as 10 kilometres inland.

«Regenerated» water Yet regeneration is already being used in the United States and abroad, reducing groundwater and surface water depletion as well as energy consumption.

Two state agencies are teaming up with farmers in a 185 - square - mile area near Ginnie Springs to study best - management practices, such as reducing groundwater pumping and fertilizer use.

At least 140 million people in Asia are drinking arsenic - contaminated water, and the ever - expanding use of groundwater wells — a growing population needs water to drink, and farmers need it to grow crops to feed them — has been making the situation worse.

One way the state could get a better handle on its water situation would be to better use the technology available to it to understand things like how much groundwater it has and more detailed information on crops, said Richard Howitt, a professor emeritus, with UC Davis Agricultural & Resource Economics.

The team used a submersible pump in deep wells to obtain groundwater samples at depths of 280 to 1,300 meters from seven locations in the fault zones surrounding the epicenter 11 days after the earthquake in April 2016.

It has now been well - established that Mars used to be much wetter than it is now, with lakes, rivers, groundwater, and possibly oceans.

A new report by UCLA researchers says the city could, eventually — if it does a better job of capturing local stormwater, increases the use of recycled water, cleans up groundwater and steps up conservation measures.

The study was part of the Defense Department budget because perfluorinated compounds have contaminated groundwater wells on and near military bases across the country, primarily through the use of firefighting foams.

Aldicarb, cotton's second best - selling insecticide and most acutely poisonous to humans and wildlife, is still used in 25 countries, including the U.S., where 16 states reported it in their groundwater.

From groundwater, arsenic finds its way into wells and other water supplies that may be used for crop irrigation and cooking (22).

Thus, I might by using Nash - Sutcliffe only (which I wouldn't generally recommend) and obtain a high score (good calibration), but only at the expense of groundwater values which are unrealistic physically.

It is intended to provide information that can be used to support further research and analysis, with the ultimate goal of identifying a set of common elements of good governance for transboundary freshwater and marine water bodies as well as groundwater systems.

Developing energy from shale (and other tight - rock formations) using hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling takes four to eight weeks — from preparing the site for development to production itself — after which the well can be in production up to 40 years.10 A well can be a mile or more deep and thousands of feet below groundwater zones vertically, before gradually turning horizontal.

Perhaps Jim D you should reconsider: The groundwater flow model will be developed using MODFLOW - 2000 (Harbaugh and others, 2000), and will use a commercial Graphical User Interface (GUI) to enhance pre - and post-processing tasks, as well as to allow for ease of use, model refinement, and updating.

A total of 28 wells (many of which were once groundwater monitoring wells) are used to collect, or «intercept,» the methane gas that would have otherwise entered the atmosphere at the outcroppings.

It is important to effectively track this energy usage, gain a better understanding of the global warming emissions associated with water use, and develop new approaches to groundwater management.

As groundwater levels drop, a variety of negative consequences result: pumps must pull water up from deeper depths, increasing energy use; new wells are drilled and pumped, driving up costs; and groundwater tables drop lower, which may harm streams and ecosystems.

This condition, known as «overdraft,» has a number of significant consequences, including loss of stream flows, increased costs and energy use as wells are drilled deeper, ecosystem degradation, and potential salinization of groundwater due to seawater intrusion.

When in - situ mining is used, wastewater is stored in the same well the bitumen is extracted from — risking contaminated groundwater if a leak occurs.

While this research has been underway, GFDL scientists have also embarked on extensive development of the land surface model, including integrated and detailed treatment of surface and groundwater hydrology as well as dynamic vegetation including the carbon cycle and human land use / alteration.

Of course, the industry says it is safe, going to far as to say that fracking «has been used for more than 60 years in more than one million U.S. wells without a single confirmed instance of groundwater contamination.»

Nebraska argued that the compact didn't cover groundwater use because it was signed before deep - well irrigation was used in the river basin.