Configuration of the water table and depth to water, spring 1980, water-level fluctuations, and water movement in the Snake River Plain Regional Aquifer System, Idaho and eastern Oregon

Lindholm, Gerald F.; Garabedian, Stephen P.; Newton, G.D.; Whitehead, R.L.

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“…Thickness of vadose zone of the Snake River Plain Aquifer Basin was determined from the map of depth to groundwater table compiled by Lindholm, G. F. et al ( 1988). On the map the thickness of vadose zone is given in hatching according to the next gradation: less than 100; 100-299; 300-599; 600-900; more than 900 feet.…”

Section: The Methods For Groundwater Vulnerability Assessing and Mapp...mentioning

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Regional assessment of groundwater vulnerability in the Snake river plain aquifer basin, USA

Zektser

Pozdniakov

Szpakiewicz

et al. 2004

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El sistema acuífero del rio Snake en Idaho orientales una de los más grandes e importantes fuentes regionales de agua en los Estados Unidos. Salvaguardar este sistema acuífero de la contaminación por el Laboratorio Nacional Ambiental y de Ingeniería de Idaho (INEEL) es de critica importancia para el Depto. de Energía Norteamericano. Este trabajo contiene el resultado de las siguientes investigaciones: analizar el impacto de factores naturales sobre la vulnerabilidad de las aguas subterráneas; desarrollar el mapa de vulnerabilidad acuífera a la contarninación, indicar sitios contaminados de riesgo de contaminación acuífera usando el mapa. Se puso especial atención a la zona vadosa (zona de aeración) que determina el peligro potencial de penetración de un contaminante desde la superficie al agua subterránea. La evaluación del papel de la protección ala zona vadosa fue basada en los siguientes factores de control: factores pasivos- profundidad al agua y propiedades conductoras del medio insaturado; factores activos- recarga incluyendo sus partes principales: precipitación e irrigación. La evaluación de la vulnerabilidad fue hecha paso a paso para compilar una serie de mapas. Combinando el mapa de la zona vadosa y el de recarga al oriente de la planicie del rio Snake, el mapa resultante refleja todos los factores antes mencionados. El sistema Point Count constituyó un concepto principal de evaluación de vulnerabilidad. La influencia de cada factor fue especificado por diferentes números (rangos), los cuales fueron determinados por expertos. A menor el rango, más favorables la situación en relación con la vulnerabilidad del agua subterránea. La vulnerabilidad acuífera es caracterizada por la suma de rangos que puede variar de 8 a 40 en la región estudiada. La suma total de rangos caracteriza la vulnerabilidad acuífera a la contaminación.doi: sin doi

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Regional assessment of groundwater vulnerability in the Snake river plain aquifer basin, USA

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Szpakiewicz

et al. 2004

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“…Movement of water is generally from northeast to southwest. The hydraulic gradient is ϳ0.6-19 m/km and averages ϳ2.3 m/km (Lindholm et al, 1988). Gradients are smallest in the central part of the plain southwest of the INEEL, where there is a thick section of transmissive basalt (Lindholm, 1991).…”

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Introduction to the hydrogeology of the eastern Snake River Plain

Bartholomay¹,

Davis²,

Link³

2002

Geology, Hydrogeology, and Environmental Remediation: Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Eastern Snake Ri

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“…In 1991, virtually all harvest on federal lands stopped in response to the Northern Spotted Owl controversy, and the issue was not resolved until 1993 when the Northwest Forest Plan was adopted. Between 1965 and1988, timber sold from PNW national forests fluctuated between 3 and 4 billion board feet annually. In 1991, sales dropped to less than 1 billion board feet, a level maintained throughout the 1990s .…”

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Sonoran Basin and Range Ecoregion: Chapter 30 in <i>Status and trends of land change in the Western United States--1973 to 2000</i>

Calzia¹,

Wilson²

2012

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This Professional Paper is the first multitemporal assessment of late-20th-century land change in the conterminous United States across all regions and all land-use and land-cover sectors. The work is the culmination of nearly 10 years of research and development by the U.S. Geological Survey, with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as well as university collaborators. It represents the most complete and comprehensive analysis of the rates, types, distribution, and drivers of recent changes in land use and land cover. The study bridges the gap between coarse-scale continental and global assessments and fine-scale local and regional case studies.Land-change studies attempt to explain the "what, where, when, how, and why" of changes to the vegetation and to the use of the land. Land-change research is aimed specifically at measuring where change is occurring (and where it is not occurring); which land-use and land-cover classes are changing (and what they are changing to); how much land is changing (and how fast); and what drivers are responsible for the measured changes. The goal is not only to understand the scope of change but also to provide the information base necessary to evaluate, predict, and manage the consequences of change.Like many key issues in climate change and ecosystem functioning, land use and land cover are both drivers and indicators of environmental quality. The National Research Council has identified the understanding of land-use dynamics as one of the grand challenges for environmental research-no other global-change parameter is so tightly intertwined with issues of past, present, and future land-use practices, weather patterns, soil and carbon dynamics, ecosystem health and diversity, economic development and policy, technology issues, human population size and distribution, and overall human health. People and their use of the land are interrelated in complex ways, and the effects of land-use and land-cover change can have a huge impact on their quality of life, on the goods and services that they can expect from the land, and on the hazards that they may face. Despite these profound consequences, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Third Assessment Report has cited the lack of scientific understanding about the timing, magnitude, and direction of response of ecological, social, and economic systems to the combined effects of climate change and land-use and land-cover change as a key uncertainty in determining societal vulnerabilities and predicting both regional and global impacts of climate change.Prior to this study, only sectorally specific or spatially limited assessments and inventories had been conducted to categorize land change in the United States. These efforts often included only certain land-use and land-cover classes or ownership categories, or they were conducted over short time intervals only, and integrating these various assessments into a comprehensive and consistent national synthesi...

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Configuration of the water table and depth to water, spring 1980, water-level fluctuations, and water movement in the Snake River Plain Regional Aquifer System, Idaho and eastern Oregon

Cited by 10 publications

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Regional assessment of groundwater vulnerability in the Snake river plain aquifer basin, USA

Regional assessment of groundwater vulnerability in the Snake river plain aquifer basin, USA

Introduction to the hydrogeology of the eastern Snake River Plain

Sonoran Basin and Range Ecoregion: Chapter 30 in <i>Status and trends of land change in the Western United States--1973 to 2000</i>

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