Columbia aquifer
New groundwater quality project
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In cooperation with DelDOT, DGS is investigating the physical and chemical impacts of de-icing practices (salting and brining) and stormwater infiltration best management practices (BMP) on groundwater.
Stormwater infiltration BMP impacts on groundwater quality
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In cooperation with DelDOT, DGS is monitoring groundwater at stormwater infiltration best management practice sites (BMPs) to characterize the fate and transport of chloride.
Delaware Geological Survey Issues Report on water resources study of southern New Castle and Northern Kent Counties, Delaware
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The Delaware Geological Survey released a new technical report titled “Southern New Castle – Northern Kent Counties Groundwater Monitoring Project: Results of Subsurface Exploration and Hydrogeological Studies,” which was prepared by A.
DGS joins Project WiCCED
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DGS staff members Rachel McQuiggan and Scott Andres are participants in a new National Science Foundation EPSCoR – funded effort, Water in the Changing Coastal Environment of Delaware (Project WiCCED).
RI82 Southern New Castle – Northern Kent Counties Groundwater Monitoring Project: Results of Subsurface Exploration and Hydrogeological Studies
The Delaware Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, completed a groundwater-monitoring, infrastructure-construction, and data-collection project in southern New Castle and northern Kent Counties, Delaware.
Delaware Geological Survey Issues Report on Results of Groundwater Flow Simulations in The East Dover Area, Delaware
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The Delaware Geological Survey released a new Open File Report titled “Results of Groundwater Flow Simulations in the East Dover Area, Delaware,” which was prepared by Changming He and A. Scott Andres of the Survey. DGS Open File Report No.
OFR52 Results of Groundwater Flow Simulations In the East Dover Area, Delaware
In 2015, staff of the Water Supply Section of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) informed the DGS of their concerns about overpumping of the unconfined Columbia aquifer in an area east of Dover (Figure 1). In this area, the City of Dover’s Long Point Road Wellfield (LPRW) and numerous irrigation systems pump water from the shallow Columbia aquifer.