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Modern groundwater-quality, depth, and well-construction data for selected wells in the San Joaquin Valley, California, 1993-2015

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1993-01-01
End Date
2015-12-31

Citation

Hansen, J.A., Jurgens B.C., and Fram, M.S., 2018, Groundwater-quality data and ancillary data for selected wells in the San Joaquin Valley, California, 1900-2015: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7319T3K.

Summary

Groundwater-quality data collected between 1993 and 2015 were compiled from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Information System (NWIS) database for 722 wells in the San Joaquin Valley (SJV). Groundwater-quality data retrieved included lab analyses of complete major ion data (calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, chloride, sulfate, nitrate, alkalinity, bicarbonate, carbonate, silica, and TDS) for 613 samples, and an additional 109 samples with measured values of specific conductance. Most of these wells were sampled as part of the California Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program Priority Basin Project or the USGS National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. In addition to GW quality data, [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Jeffrey A Hansen
Originator :
Jeffrey A Hansen, Bryant C Jurgens, Miranda S Fram
Metadata Contact :
Jeffrey A Hansen
USGS Mission Area :
Water
SDC Data Owner :
California Water Science Center
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Purpose

The dataset compiled here was created for the geochemical evaluation of century-scale changes in groundwater salinity in the San Joaquin Valley (SJV), California. It represents the modern equivalent of a dataset compiled and presented in U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Supply Paper 398 by Mendenhall and others, 1916. These data provide well information and locations, water-quality analyses, groundwater depths, as well as ancillary data used for interpretation in Hansen and others (2018).

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