Emeritus
Email:
wkappel@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
607-753-9391
ORCID:
0000-0002-2382-9757
Location
3075 Gracie Road
Cortland
, NY
13045
US
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Shale gas is a key source of onshore domestic energy for the United States and production of this resource is increasing rapidly. Development and extraction of shale gas requires hydraulic fracturing, which entails horizontal drilling, perforation of steel casing and cement grout using explosive charges, and expansion of fractures using fluids under high pressure. Concern over potential environmental effects of shale gas development is growing and based on a recent review there is very little information in the scientific literature on potential environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing. We propose to conduct the first broad scale, data-based assessment of the potential effects of hydraulic fracturing on water...
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Problem The Tully Valley, located in southern Onondaga County has been the source of sediment and brackish water discharge to Onondaga Creek, a tributary to the Seneca and Oswego Rivers and eventually Lake Ontario. Information on the origin of the Tully Valley mudboils, their persistence, and the possible extent of their migration within the Tully Valley is needed to mitigate or remediate (1)the discharge of turbid water and fine-grained sediment from the mudboils, (2) land-surface subsidence caused by the removal of sediment from below the land surface, and (3) degradation of Onondaga Creek by turbidity, fine-sediment deposition, and chloride loading. Objectives To define the glacial stratigraphy and hydraulic-head...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: Cooperative Research Units,
Cooperative Water Program,
GW or SW,
GW or SW,
GW or SW, All tags...
Geophysics,
Geophysics,
Groundwater Monitoring,
Groundwater Monitoring,
Groundwater Monitoring,
Groundwater and Streamflow Information,
Groundwater and Streamflow Information,
Hydrogeologic Characterization,
Hydrogeologic Characterization,
Hydrogeologic Characterization,
Landslide Hazards,
New York,
Sediment,
Sediment,
Sediment,
Tully Valley, Southern Onondaga County,
USGS New York Water Science Center,
WSC, Fewer tags
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A digital representation of closed depression features overlying and adjacent to New York’s carbonate-bedrock aquifers. Includes closed depressions that are both natural and anthropogenic in origin. The features were derived from a digital contour database obtained from https://topotools.cr.usgs.gov/contour_data.php. The original contour dataset was generated from the National Elevation Dataset (NED) and the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) in a fully automated process. The process is described in U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2012–5167.
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Aquifer Mapping,
Geospatial Applications,
Hydrogeologic Characterization,
New York,
aquifer, All tags...
bedrock geologic units,
carbonate rock,
closed depression,
focused,
groundwater,
infiltration rate,
karst,
land cover,
recharge,
thin soil, Fewer tags
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Background: A sequence of gently dipping carbonate bedrock - the Bertie Formation, Akron Dolostone, and Onondaga Limestone crop out along a 2- to5-mile wide band in western and central New York. These bedrock units trend east-west for 250 miles across the State and form extensive carbonate-bedrock aquifers which transmit and yield water from solution-enlarged fractures, bedding planes, and other openings (Olcott, 1995). Bedding planes or sub-horizontal fractures typically are the most enlarged and important water conduits. Karstic features such as sinkholes, swallets, solution channels, and caverns can locally transmit large amounts of surface water into the ground where the groundwater can move quickly and over...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: Aquifer Mapping,
Aquifer Mapping,
Aquifer Mapping,
Basin & Hydrogeologic Characterization,
Basin & Hydrogeologic Characterization, All tags...
Basin & Hydrogeologic Characterization,
Contaminants, Organic,
Contaminants, Organic,
Contaminants, organic,
Cooperative Water Program,
Geospatial Applications,
Geospatial Applications,
Groundwater Recharge,
Groundwater Recharge,
Groundwater recharge,
Hydrogeologic Characterization,
Hydrogeologic Characterization,
Hydrogeologic Characterization,
Livingston County,
Mapping Application Development,
Mapping Application Development,
Mapping Applications Development,
Monroe County,
New York,
USGS New York Water Science Center,
WSC,
Water Use and Availability Science,
Water Use and Availability Science,
carbonate-bedrock,
evaporite-bedrock,
hydrogeologic, Fewer tags
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From April 2013 to August 2015, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Town of Enfield and the Tompkins County Planning Department, collected horizontal-to-vertical seismic soundings at 69 locations in the Enfield Creek valley to help determine thickness of the unconsolidated deposits and depth to bedrock. The HVSR technique, commonly referred to as the passive-seismic method, is used to estimate the thickness of unconsolidated sediments and the depth to bedrock (Lane and others, 2008). The passive-seismic method uses a single, broad-band three-component (two horizontal and one vertical) seismometer to record ambient seismic noise. In areas that have a strong acoustic contrast between the bedrock and...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Aquifer,
Aquifer Mapping,
Enfield,
GW or SW,
Geophysics, All tags...
Groundwater,
Hydrogeologic Characterization,
New York,
Seismology,
Seismology,
Surface Geophysics,
Tompkins County,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
Water Resources, Fewer tags
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