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  3. Collection of Water-Level Measurement Data, Water-Level Altitude and Water-Level Altitude Change Contours in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper Aquifers, Houston-Galveston Region, Texas
  4. Water-Level Measurement Data, Water-Level Altitude and Long-term Water-Level Altitude Change Contours (2017) in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper Aquifers, Houston-Galveston Region, Texas
  5. Water-Level Altitude and Long-term Water-Level Altitude Change Contours (2017) in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper Aquifers in the Houston-Galveston Region, Texas

Water-Level Altitude and Long-term Water-Level Altitude Change Contours (2017) in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper Aquifers in the Houston-Galveston Region, Texas

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2016
End Date
2017

Citation

Kasmarek, M.C. and Ramage, J.K., 2017, Water-Level Measurement Data, Water-Level Altitude and Long-term Water-Level Altitude Change Contours (2017) in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper Aquifers, Houston-Galveston Region, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F77S7M18.

Summary

The U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Harris‐Galveston Subsidence District, City of Houston, Fort Bend Subsidence District, and Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District has produced this dataset of water‐level altitudes and water‐level altitude changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper aquifers in the Houston‐Galveston region, Texas. This dataset shows current‐year (2017) water‐level altitudes for each aquifer, 5‐year (2012‐17) water‐level changes for each aquifer, long‐term (1990‐2017 and 1977‐2017) water‐level changes for the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers, and long‐term (2000‐2017) water‐level change for the Jasper aquifer. The water‐level measurements from which the dataset were built are stored in the National [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Public Information Officer, Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center
Originator :
Mark C Kasmarek, Jason K Ramage
Metadata Contact :
Public Information Officer, Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Shapefiles Water-Level Altitude and Long-term WL Altitude Change Contours 2017.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		37.79 KB application/fgdc+xml
JASPER_GIS.zip 65.74 KB application/zip
EVANGELINE_GIS.zip 138.08 KB application/zip
CHICOT_GIS.zip 118.43 KB application/zip

Purpose

Most of the land-surface subsidence in the Houston-Galveston region, Texas, occurs as a direct result of groundwater withdrawals for municipal supply, commercial and industrial use, and irrigation that depressured and dewatered the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper aquifers, thereby causing compaction of the aquifer sediments, mostly in the fine-grained silt and clay layers.This dataset was created by the U.S. Geological Survey to provide resource managers, public officials, researchers, and the general public with ready access to accurate, impartial, scientific information regarding groundwater‐level changes and altitudes in Harris, Galveston, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Brazoria, Chambers, Grimes, Liberty, San Jacinto, Walker, and Waller Counties, Texas

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