Randall Bayless

Total Thickness of Glacial Deposits

The glacial aquifer system of the United States encompasses all or parts of 25 states and is the most widely used supply of drinking water in the Nation (Maupin and Barber, 2005; Maupin and Arnold, 2010). A series of seven raster data sets were derived from a database of water-well drillers' records that was compiled in partial fulfillment of the goals of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Groundwater Availability and Use assessment program (U.S. Geological Survey, 2002). They contain hydrogeologic information for areas of the U.S. that are north of the southern limit of Pleistocene glaciation, including the total thickness of glacial deposits, thickness of coarse-grained sediment within the glacial deposits, specific-capacity...

Tags: Aquifer, Coarse, Connecticut, Deposits, Glacial, All tags... Gravel, Groundwater, Hydraulic Conductivity, Hydrogeology, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Sand, Sediment, South Dakota, Specific Capacity, Thickness, Transmissivity, Vermont, Water Availability, Wisconsin, environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Texture-Based Estimated Equivalent Transmissivity of the Glacial Deposits

The glacial aquifer system of the United States encompasses all or parts of 25 states and is the most widely used supply of drinking water in the Nation (Maupin and Barber, 2005; Maupin and Arnold, 2010). A series of seven raster data sets were derived from a database of water-well drillers' records that was compiled in partial fulfillment of the goals of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Groundwater Availability and Use assessment program (U.S. Geological Survey, 2002). They contain hydrogeologic information for areas of the U.S. that are north of the southern limit of Pleistocene glaciation, including the total thickness of glacial deposits, thickness of coarse-grained sediment within the glacial deposits, specific-capacity...

Tags: Aquifer, Coarse, Connecticut, Deposits, Glacial, All tags... Gravel, Groundwater, Hydraulic Conductivity, Hydrogeology, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Sand, Sediment, South Dakota, Specific Capacity, Thickness, Transmissivity, Vermont, Water Availability, Wisconsin, environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

X-ray diffraction trace analysis of solid phase samples collected from groundwater wells at a confined disposal facility in East Chicago, Indiana

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), conducted a study from June 2014 through November 2014 to identify the hydrologic, chemical and microbiologic processes affecting declining pump performance and frequent pump failure at a confined disposal facility (CDF) in East Chicago, Indiana. Solid phase samples were collected from monitoring and extraction wells from September to November 2014. Qualitative and quantitative x-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses were done on eight samples of pump scrapings collected from five extraction wells (EW-4C, EW-4D, EW-11D, EW-20D) and one monitoring well (MW-4B). The data set includes a comma-separated value (.csv) file of XRD...

Categories: Data; Tags: East Chicago, Indiana, Lake County, environment, geochemistry, All tags... geoscientificInformation, laboratory methods, x-ray diffraction, Fewer tags

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), at the request of the U.S. Army Environmental Command (USAEC), evaluated the capabilities of two borehole technologies to measure horizontal groundwater velocity and direction of flow in a parallel-plate fractured-rock simulator. A colloidal borescope flowmeter (HB) and a heat-pulse flowmeter (HH) were deployed in 4-inch and 6-inch inner-diameter simulated uncased wells that spanned 0.39- and 1.0-inch apertures with simulated groundwater velocities ranging from 2 to 958 feet per day. Measurements were made at the USGS Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility in the Hydraulics Laboratory and the Indianapolis office of the USGS Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center. Ten measurements...

Tags: Groundwater flow, Groundwater movement, Hydrogeology, Hydrologic processes, Information Sciences, All tags... Laboratory experiments, USGS Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility, USGS Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, fracture (geologic), geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Specific-Capacity Based Transmissivity of Coarse-Grained Sediment within the Glacial Deposits

The glacial aquifer system of the United States encompasses all or parts of 25 states and is the most widely used supply of drinking water in the Nation (Maupin and Barber, 2005; Maupin and Arnold, 2010). A series of seven raster data sets were derived from a database of water-well drillers' records that was compiled in partial fulfillment of the goals of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Groundwater Availability and Use assessment program (U.S. Geological Survey, 2002). They contain hydrogeologic information for areas of the U.S. that are north of the southern limit of Pleistocene glaciation, including the total thickness of glacial deposits, thickness of coarse-grained sediment within the glacial deposits, specific-capacity...

Tags: Aquifer, Coarse, Deposits, Glacial, Gravel, All tags... Groundwater, Hydraulic Conductivity, Hydrogeology, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Montana, Ohio, Sand, Sediment, Specific Capacity, Thickness, Transmissivity, Washington, Water Availability, Wisconsin, environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, Fewer tags