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Groundwater wells from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan state databases and USGS NWIS database with static water level data within 10km of the Lake Superior watershed

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Start Date
1881
End Date
2021

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Nielsen, M.G., Sherry L. Martin, S.L., Cowdery, T.K., and Bittmann, B.M., 2024, Data for improved understanding of the susceptibility of Lake Superior to threats from groundwater contamination: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9084UKQ.

Summary

This dataset includes over 49,000 well records from the state well drillers databases in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Each state well has at a minimum the well depth and a static water level. Static water levels were mostly determined when the well was constructed. Data included in this shapefile include the well construction date, well depth, well elevation (if determined), type of well, the methods used for determining the well location and elevation (if determined), casing and screen depths (where reported), the static water level and a date, and the year the well was constructed. The field names from each of the state databases were harmonized to merge the data, and a table of the original field names is included. Tabular [...]

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COLUMN_Conversions.csv 757 Bytes text/csv
NWIS_Well_additional_attributes.csv 252.38 KB text/csv
state_elevation_codes.csv 681 Bytes text/csv
state_location_codes.csv 1.84 KB text/csv
state_welltype_codes.csv 2.12 KB text/csv
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COMBINED_State_wells_LakeSuperior.zip 3.6 MB
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NWIS_GWLsites_LakeSuperior.zip 202.2 KB

Purpose

These well records were assembled and combined into one dataset to be made available for using in the development of hydrologic models that need groundwater level data. The data are a product of the 2021 Lake Superior Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative, a product of Annex 10 of the bi-national Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, and supporting Science Priority 10, quantifying the groundwater contribution to the water budget of Lake Superior.

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