Hydrology of the southeastern Coastal Plain aquifer system in South Carolina and parts of Georgia and North Carolina

Groundwater availability in the Crouch Branch and McQueen Branch aquifers, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, 1900-2012

“…Aucott and Newcome (1986) and Newcome (1993Newcome ( , 2000 published reports that include selected information on well hydraulics and aquifer properties for sites in Chesterfield County. Other reports that include various information on the hydrology in the study area include others (1984, 1987a, b), Aucott and Speiran (1985a, b, c, 1986, 1996, and Aucott (1988Aucott ( , 1996. Harrelson and Fine (2006) published a report that represents a partial inventory of wells in North and South Carolina, including several wells within Chesterfield County.…”

Simulation of groundwater flow and pumping scenarios for 1900–2050 near Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

“…As in the previous investigations (Petkewich and Campbell, 2007;Petkewich and Campbell, 2009), the focus of the current investigation is the six major aquifers within the Coastal Plain aquifer system in South Carolina and parts of Georgia and North Carolina ( fig. 4; Aucott and Speiran, 1985;Aucott, 1996) and, in particular, the Middendorf aquifer near Mount Pleasant, S.C. Land-surface altitudes range from 0 ft at the coast to more than 600 ft in the upper part of the Coastal Plain physiographic province (Aucott, 1996). The offshore part of the study area ranges from 0 ft to more than 300 ft below the NGVD 29.…”

“…4). The aquifers were divided into units on the basis of relative permeability and not geologic formation; therefore, aquifers may cross formation boundaries in some instances (Aucott, 1996). Although previous and ongoing investigations in the study area may use different nomenclature to describe these aquifers, this report uses the nomenclature described in Aucott and Speiran (1985), Aucott (1988Aucott ( , 1996, Campbell and van Heeswijk (1996), Petkewich and Campbell (2007), and Petkewich and Campbell (2009).…”

“…T e r ti a r y s a n d a q u if e r Specified head (source-sink) 1 Aucott and Sperian (1985); 2 Aucott (1996) Aquifer Confining unit Pre-Cretaceous rock Recharge Approximate freshwatersaltwater interface Aucott and Speiran (1985) described six major aquifers within the Coastal Plain aquifer system in South Carolina. From youngest to oldest these aquifers are the surficial aquifer, the Floridan aquifer system, and the Tertiary sand, Black Creek, Middendorf, and Cape Fear aquifers ( fig.…”

Coastal Forests and Groundwater: Using Case Studies to Understand the Effects of Drivers and Stressors for Resource Management

“…Changes resulting from groundwater pumping were significant as of 1982, based on a quasi-three-dimensional, finite-difference digital ground-water flow model that the author constructed to simulate flow in the coastal plain aquifers, prior to development [70]. It was noted that head declines in the deep McQueen Branch and Charleston aquifers (formerly known as Black Creek and Middendorf, respectively) have occurred throughout much of the eastern part of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina, as a result of pumping in the Myrtle Beach and Florence areas.…”