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GEORGIA PROJECTS

• Urban Atlanta
  • City of Atlanta
  • Gwinnett County
  • Rockdale County
  • Chattahoochee River BacteriALERT
  • Peachtree Creek

• Surface-Water Studies
  • Chattahoochee Flood Tracking
  • Flint Flood Tracking
  • Flood-frequency
  • Low-flow statistics

• River Basin Water Quality
  • Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin study

• Groundwater Resources
  • Georgia GW monitoring
  • Lawrenceville
  • Rockdale County
  • Lower ACF Basin
  • Albany monitoring
  • Agricultural chemicals, SW Georgia

• Coastal Georgia
  • Coastal Georgia
  • Brunswick GW
  • Coastal aquifers

• Other Projects
  • Air Force Plant 6
  • Panola Mountain
  • Fort Gordon

• Completed Projects
  • Savannah River GW
  • Chattahoochee microbial
  • Lake Seminole

USGS IN YOUR STATE

USGS Water Science Centers are located in each state.

Coastal Georgia Sound Science Initiative
Publications

Cherry, Gregory S., 2006, Simulation of Selected Ground-Water Pumping Scenarios at Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia: USGS Open-File Report 2006-1148, 16 p.

Cherry, Gregory S., 2006, Simulation and Particle-Tracking Analysis of Ground-Water Flow near the Savannah River Site, Georgia and South Carolina, 2002, and for Selected Ground-Water Management Scenarios, 2002 and 2020: USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5195, 156 p.

Clarke, J.S., and Krause, R.E., 2000, Design, revision, and application of ground-water flow models for simulation of selected water-management scenarios in the coastal area of Georgia and adjacent parts of South Carolina and Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Water- Resources Investigations Report 00-4084, 93 p.

Clarke, J.S., and Rumman, M. A., 2004, Pond-Aquifer Flow and Water Availability in the Vicinity of Two Coastal Area Seepage Ponds, Glynn and Bulloch Counties, Georgia : U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5260

Clarke, J.S., Leeth, D.C., Taylor-Harris, D., Painter, J.A., and Labowski, J. L., 2004, Summary of Hydraulic Properties of the Floridan Aquifer System in Coastal Georgia and Adjacent Parts of South Carolina and Florida : U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5264

W. Fred Falls, Camille Ransom, James E. Landmeyer, Eric J. Reuber, and Lucy E. Edwards, 2005, Hydrogeology, Water Quality, and Saltwater Intrusion in the Upper Floridan Aquifer in the Offshore Area near Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, and Tybee Island, Georgia, 1999–2002: Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5134, 57 p.

Falls, W. Fred Harrelson, Larry G., Conlon, Kevin J., and Petkewich, Matthew D. , 2005, Hydrogeology, Water Quality, and Water-Supply Potential of the Lower Floridan Aquifer, Coastal Georgia, 1999­2002: Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5124, 98 p.

Fanning, J.L., 1999, Water use in coastal Georgia by county and source, 1997; and water-use trends, 1980-97: Georgia Geologic Survey Information Circular 104, 37 p.

Krause, R.E., and Clarke, J.S., 2001, Coastal Ground Water at Risk - Saltwater Contamination at Brunswick, GA and Hilton Head Island, SC: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 01-4107, 1 oversize sheet.

Payne, Dorothy F., Provost, Alden M., Painter, Jaime A., Rumman, Malek Abu, and Cherry, Gregory S., 2006, Application of Ground-Water Flow and Solute-Transport Models to Simulate Selected Ground-Water Management Scenarios in Coastal Georgia and Adjacent Parts of South Carolina and Florida, 2000—2100: USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5077, 124 p.

Peck, M.F., McFadden, K.W., and Leeth, D.C., 2005, Effects of Decreased Ground-Water Withdrawal on Ground-Water Levels and Chloride Concentrations in Camden County, Georgia, and Ground-Water Levels in Nassau County, Florida, From September 2001 to May 2003: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5295

Peck, M.F.and McFadden, K.M., 2004, Potentiometric Surface of the Upper Floridan Aquifer in the Coastal Area of Georgia, September 2000: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1030.

Peck, M.F., Clarke, J.S., Ransom, Camille III, and Richards, C.J., 1999, Potentiometric surface of the Upper Floridan Aquifer in Georgia and adjacent parts of Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina, May 1998, and water-level trends in Georgia, 1990-98: Georgia Geologic Survey Hydrologic Atlas 22, 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.

Dorothy F. Payne, Malek Abu Rumman, and John S. Clarke, 2005, Simulation of Ground-Water Flow in Coastal Georgia and Adjacent Parts of South Carolina and Florida—Predevelopment, 1980, and 2000 : U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5089, 81 pages

Provost, Alden M., Payne, Dorothy F., and Voss, Clifford I., 2006, Simulation of Saltwater Movement in the Upper Floridan Aquifer in the Savannah, Georgia–Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, Area, Predevelopment–2004, and Projected Movement for 2000 Pumping Conditions: USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5058, 124 p.

Warner, Debbie, Aulenbach, B.T., 1999, Hydraulic characteristics of the Upper Floridan aquifer in the Savannah and St Marys areas of coastal Georgia: Georgia Geologic Survey Information Circular 105, 23 p.

Abu-Ruman, Malek, and Clarke, J.S., 2001, Preliminary simulation of pond-aquifer flow and water availability at a seepage pond near Brunswick, Georgia: in Proceedings of the 2001 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held March 26-27, 2001, at the University of Georgia, Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

Clarke, J.S., 2000, Georgia's coastal sound science initiative--evaluation of ground-water flow, saltwater contamination, and alternative water sources: in Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 2, p. 11.

John S. Clarke, D.F. Payne, and W.F. Falls, 2005, Coastal Sound Science Initiative 2005--what have we learned?, Proceedings of the 2005 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held April 25–27, 2005, at the University of Georgia. Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

Clarke, J.S., and Krause, R.E., 2000, Use of ground-water flow models for simulation of water-management scenarios in the coastal area of Georgia and adjacent parts of South Carolina: in Proceedings of the 2001 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held March 26-27, 2001, at the University of Georgia, Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia., p. 627-630.

Clarke, J.S., Smith, C.H., and McConnell, J.B., 1999, Aquifer interconnection in eastern Chatham County, Georgia, as indicated by hydraulic and water-chemistry data: in Proceedings of the 1999 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held March 30-31, 1999, at The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

Edwards, L.E., 1999, Subsurface stratigraphy of the Miocene of southeastern Georgia: in Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no. 3, p. A-14.

Falls, W.F., Harrelson, L.G., Conlon, K.J., and Petkewich, M.D., 2001, Hydrogeology and water quality of the Lower Floridan aquifer, coastal Georgia: in Proceedings of the 2001 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held March 26-27, 2001, at the University of Georgia, Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, p. 652-655.

Falls, W.F., Leeth, D.C., and Ransom III, Camille, 2000, Preliminary geochemistry and hydrogeology of the Floridan aquifer system in offshore test holes, Savannah, Georgia - Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, area, August-September, 1999: in Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 2, p. 17.

Fanning, J.L., 1999, Water use in coastal Georgia by county and source, 1997; and water-use trends, 1980-97: in Proceedings of the 1999 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held March 30-31, 1999, at The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

Julia L. Fanning and Gregory S. Cherry, 2005, Development of water-use projections for groundwater flow models in the coastal plain of Georgia and South Carolina, Proceedings of the 2005 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held April 25–27, 2005, at the University of Georgia. Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

Hall, Mark E., and Peck, Michael F., , 2005, Saltwater contamination due to well construction problems—A case study from Vernonburg, Georgia 401 kb PDF file), Proceedings of the 2005 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held April 25–27, 2005, at the University of Georgia. Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

Jones, L.E., 2001, Saltwater Contamination in the Upper Floridan Aquifer at Brunswick, Georgia: in Proceedings of the 2001 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held March 26-27, 2001, at the University of Georgia, Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, p. 644-647.

Krause, R.E., 2000, Ground-water resources of coastal Georgia--past, present, and future: in Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 2, p. 32.

Krause, R.E., and Clarke, J.S., 2001, Saltwater contamination of ground water at Brunswick, Georgia and Hilton Head Island, South Carolina: in Proceedings of the 2001 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held March 26-27, 2001, at the University of Georgia, Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, p. 756-759.

Laitta, M.T., 2001, Linkage of Offshore and Onshore Hydrogeologic Data for Coastal Georgia and adjacent parts of South Carolina and Florida using a Geographic Information System: in Proceedings of the 2001 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held March 26-27, 2001, at the University of Georgia, Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, p.764-767.

Payne, D.F., Provost, Alden, and Voss, C.I., 2001, Preliminary Models of Saltwater Transport in Coastal Georgia and Southeastern South Carolina: in Proceedings of the 2001 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held March 26-27, 2001, at the University of Georgia, Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, p. 656-659.

Payne, D.F., Provost, A.M., Voss, C.I., and Clarke, J.S., 2001, Mechanisms of saltwater contamination of ground water in coastal Georgia, U.S.A.: Preliminary results of variable-density transport modeling: in, First International conference on saltwater intrusion and coastal aquifers-monitoring, modeling, and management, Essaouira, Morrocco, April 23-25, 2001.

Peck, M.F., 1999, Water levels in the Upper Floridan aquifer in the coastal area of Georgia, 1990-98: in Proceedings of the 1999 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held March 30-31, 1999, at The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

Peck, M.F., Abu-Ruman, Maluk, Clarke, J.S., and Georgakakos, A.P., 2000, Water-supply potential of a seepage pond near Brunswick, Georgia: in Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 2, p. 66.

Peck, M.F., Clarke, J.S., Abu-Ruman, Malek, and Laitta, M.T., 2001, Hydrogeologic Conditions at Two Seepage Ponds in the Coastal Area of Georgia, August 1999 -- February 2001: in Proceedings of the 2001 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held March 26-27, 2001, at the University of Georgia, Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

Peck, Michael F., McFadden, Keith W., and Leeth, David C., 2005, Impact of a major industrial shutdown on groundwater flow and quality in the St. Marys area, southeastern Georgia and northeastern Florida, 2001­2003. (290 kb PDF file). Proceedings of the 2005 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held April 25–27, 2005, at the University of Georgia. Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

Priest, Sherlyn, and Clarke, John S.,., 2005, Potential effects of groundwater development in eastern Camden County, Georgia, on groundwater resources of Cumberland Island National Seashore. (279 kb PDF file). Proceedings of the 2005 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held April 25–27, 2005, at the University of Georgia. Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

Warner, Debbie, and Aulenbach, B.T., 1999, Regression technique for removing effects of tides and pumpage from ground-water levels during an aquifer recovery test at St Marys, Georgia: in Proceedings of the 1999 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held March 30- 31, 1999, at The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, Kathryn J. Hatcher, editor, Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

Other Information Sources

Coasts in Crisis - online publication

South Florida Information Access - publications

Sound Science listing of report summaries

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