hydraulic boundary

A Dictionary of Geography;      36 words ...hydraulic boundary The interface within a groundwater system between regions of different hydraulic characteristics such as hydraulic conductivity or storage coefficient; for example, where an aquifer is adjacent to an aquiclude .

Call to cut Gnangara water use.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  March 18, 2008 ;     188 words ......states Perth must reduce its dependence on the Gnangara groundwater system during dry periods. The department noted in a draft management...gigalitres. Corporation spokesman, Phil Kneebone, said the groundwater system will remain the most important source of drinking water...

LAPORTE COUNTY DUMP IS A HAZARD

Post-Tribune (IN);  December 3, 1995 ;     291 words ......dumped, these contaminants have been seeping into the groundwater system beneath the site. All of unincorporated LaPorte County...municipalities draw their drinking water from this same groundwater system. It will cost a lot of money to do the job right. All...

Water Corp 'needs' Gnangara.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  October 13, 2008 ;     146 words ......Water Corporation says it will need more water from the groundwater system because of insufficient supplies of surface water. There are concerns that pressure on the groundwater system will devastate Perth's wetlands. There is currently...

Snow recharges water levels

The Press;  September 27, 2005 ;     545 words ......last week's polar blast would have found its way into the groundwater system because it was too cold for evaporation. "I was really...when I heard it was snowing. It will be excellent for the groundwater system." Normally there was no groundwater recharge during the...

Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow

Isthmus;  September 30, 2005 ;     700+ words ......the ground, it would infiltrate, and become part of the groundwater system that ultimately feeds the springs," says Jean Bahr, a...drains and ending up in lakes and rivers, "bypassing the groundwater system." Bahr and her students studied the groundwater geology...

GROUNDWATER SYSTEM SURE TO FAIL, WARNS HYDROLOGIST

Rocky Mountain News;  November 8, 2004 ;     210 words ......aquifers. But the level of water in those aquifers has dropped 300 feet since the mid-1980s in some places. "We know that the groundwater system will fail at some point in the future," Boand said. "We can't rely on it forever, and other options must be developed...

GROUNDWATER SYSTEM SURE TO FAIL, WARNS HYDROLOGIST.(News)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  November 8, 2004 ;     216 words ......aquifers. But the level of water in those aquifers has dropped 300 feet since the mid-1980s in some places. We know that the groundwater system will fail at some point in the future, Boand said. We can't rely on it forever, and other options must be developed. The...

Freshwater and Saltwater Interactions in Groundwater

Sea Technology;  October 1, 2005 ;     372 words ......compared those results with a general model of a coastal groundwater system. Their findings reveal a lag in the inflows and outflows...between the seasonal hydrologic cycle on land and the saline groundwater system in coastal aquifers. Now that a major driving mechanism...

Farmers fear drought devastation

The Press;  September 16, 1998 ;     466 words ......has changed,'' he said. The Waimakariri-Ashley plains groundwater system was severely depleted, with all monitoring wells within...There was a similar situation in the Yaldhurst-West Melton groundwater system, and aquifers in South Canterbury were ``running on empty...

Weirs could recharge aquifer

The Nelson Mail;  March 12, 2002 ;     587 words ......years. This had resulted in a corresponding fall in the groundwater system. The aquifer was already shallow, so the fall could be...level at that location, resulting in a recharge of the groundwater system. Mr Fenemor said gravel removal, river straightening...

UNDERGROUND, A DROUGHT THAT RAIN WON'T CURE

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  February 26, 2002 ;     700+ words ......may slow the drop, but they don't put water back in the groundwater system. So while heavy rains may eventually replenish surface...If rain hits pavement or turf, it can circumvent the groundwater system altogether, funneling from storm water drain to river...

Jump start, Jan. 9, 2007

St. Joseph News-Press;  January 9, 2007 ;     385 words ......Contractors start construction on Savannah's new $8 million groundwater system next month with plans to be operating in the spring of...lines for raw and finished water starting Mar. 12. The new groundwater system will replace the city's 1929 treatment plant. Injured...

Prairie droughts may worsen

Winnipeg Free Press;  January 18, 2008 ;     245 words ......changes. "The warmer it is, the larger the transevaporation losses and the faster the water is sucked out of the soil and groundwater system," Rick Lawford, a professor at the University of Manitoba, said Thursday. "I think what might happen is more severe droughts...

Foster Wheeler to Install SVE and Groundwater System at Mass. Site.

Corps Report;  August 12, 1998 ;     199 words ......problems on a cap that was already installed. Team contractors are working on both the SVE system and the pump-and-treat groundwater system. Most of the work should be complete by mid-autumn. Contact Gary Morin, New England District, (978) 318-8232. WE ARE ONLINE...