Estimated water use and availability in the Pawcatuck Basin, southern Rhode Island and southeastern Connecticut, 1995-99

Abstract

sand and gravel deposits for the subbasins in the Pawcatuck Basin based on the A, 50th percentile; B, 50th percentile minus the 7-day, 10-year flow criteria; and C, 50th percentile minus the Aquatic Base Flow criteria. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 15. Estimated water availability for June, July, August, and September from till deposits for the subbasins in the Pawcatuck Basin based on the A, 50th percentile; B, 50th percentile minus the 7-day, 10-year flow criteria; and C, 50th percentile minus the Aquatic Base Flow criteria .

A precipitation-runoff model for the analysis of the effects of water withdrawals and land-use change on streamflow in the Usquepaug–Queen River Basin, Rhode Island

“…Water-use information was compiled for a 5-year period, 1995 through 1999, by Wild and Nimiroski (2004) as part of a quantitative water-use investigation of the Pawcatuck River Basin. This compilation includes domestic, public, commercial, and agricultural uses.…”

“…Water Use: Total water use in the basin is estimated at 0.841 Mgal/d, and is mainly used for agricultural (56 percent) and domestic (40 percent) purposes according to average annual water-use statistics compiled for the 1995-99 period (Wild and Nimiroski, 2004). This compilation also indicates that a small amount of water was used for commercial (0.013 Mgal/d) and industrial (0.019 Mgal/d) purposes.…”

“…These withdrawals are from wells registered with the RIDEM as serving 25 or more people for 60 days or more and include a retirement home, a mobile-home park, and a drug rehabilitation home. Collectively, the self-supply public wells pumped an estimated 0.028 Mgal/d (Wild and Nimiroski, 2004), but most water is returned to the basin through on-site septic systems. Domestic self-supply wells pumped an estimated 0.31 Mgal/d that is also mostly returned to the basin through on-site septic systems.…”

Simulation of groundwater flow and hydrologic effects of groundwater withdrawals from the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system in the Pinelands of southern New Jersey

“…These models have been developed over many years to estimate the effect of groundwater withdrawals on base flow for a variety of idealized physical streamaquifer systems (Theis, 1941;Hantush, 1965;Jenkins, 1968;Hunt, 1999;and Barlow, 2000). Examples of applications of analytical models to drainage basins in New England are those by Zariello and Ries (2000), Wild and Nimiroski (2004), and Archfield and others (2010). One limitation of these model applications is the implicit assumption that the zone of influence (ZOI) of a withdrawal well is limited by the basin boundary and that base-flow reduction is limited to a nearby stream or streams within the basin.…”

Hydrologic, vegetation, and soil data collected in selected wetlands of the Big River Management area, Rhode Island, from 2008 through 2010

“…Water demand in Rhode Island is increasing (Deb and others, 1991;Wild and Nimiroski, 2004;Granato and Barlow, 2005). Concerned that increases in demand may exhaust the capacity of existing water supplies, the Rhode Island Water Resources Board (RIWRB) proposed the establishment of public supply wells in the Big River Management Area (BRMA).…”