Sustainability of Ground-Water Resources in the City of Lawrenceville area

Currently, the City of Lawrenceville obtains about six percent of its water from an igneous and metamorphic rock aquifer and expects to expand this share in the near future. Long-term effects of the withdrawal of ground water in this area is largely unknown and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the City of Lawrenceville initiated a study in the fall of 2002 to look at the sustainability of ground-water resources in the area as additional municipal ground-water withdrawal increases.

The City of Lawrenceville is concerned about the long-term sustainability of its water resources in the area as it prepares to increase the withdrawal of ground water. A monitoring network of USGS observation wells and streamflow measurement sites installed in 2003 in two areas near the city will be used to obtain both ground-water level and streamflow data over the next five to seven years. These data will be used to observe any possible effects that withdrawal of ground water may have on storage in the aquifer and on streamflow.

Links

• Duluth climate data (Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network)
• City of Lawrenceville: Home page | Water department

	Influence of Geologic Setting on Ground-Water Availability in the Lawrenceville Area - U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5136
	Methods and Hydrogeologic Data from Test Drilling and Geophysical Logging Surveys in the Lawrenceville, Georgia, Area - U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-13666
	Ground-water conditions and studies in Georgia, 2001 (U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4032)
	Ground-water studies: Geohydrology of the city of Lawrenceville area (1,006 kb PDF file)
	Technical highlights: Characterization of fractured crystalline-rock aquifers at selected sites in the vicinity of Lawrenceville, Georgia, 2001 (1,028 kb PDF file)
	Geology and ground-water resources of the Lawrenceville area, Ga. U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4233, 46 p.
2003 Georgia Water Resources Conference papers:
	Albertson, Phillip N., Naturally occurring radionuclides in Georgia water supplies: implications for community water systems (1,994 kb PDF file)
	Williams, Lester J., Influence of foliation fracture systems on water availability in the Lawrenceville, Georgia, area (279 kb PDF file)

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