Delineation of contributing areas to selected wells in Ingham County, Michigan

Abstract

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Preliminary investigation of groundwater quality near a Michigan cemetery, 2016–17

“…Hope Cemetery, an 82-acre facility in the City of Lansing, is bordered on the west by Sycamore Creek (fig. 1) (Luukkonen, 2014). The cemetery opened in 1874, even though some of the markers predate that year and represent where people from smaller local cemeteries were exhumed from other locations and reinterred at Mt.…”

Delineation of contributing areas for 2017 pumping conditions to selected wells in Ingham County, Michigan

“…Simulations in the north Lansing area with the original 1996 model and with reduced grid spacing were described by others (1997a, 1997b). Finally, additional reports describe the refinement of the 1996 model (Luukkonen, 2009) and updated delineations for Lansing area wells under 2011-12 pumping conditions (Luukkonen, 2014).…”