Recovery of Ground-Water Levels From 1988 to 2003 and Analysis of Potential Water-Supply Management Options in Critical Area 1, East-Central New Jersey

Aspects of Groundwater Supply Sustainable Yield

“…Initially, when supply is abundant in relation to withdrawals the criteria commonly used to determine the yield and spacing of supply well fields is primarily based on cost effectiveness concepts. Consideration of maximized and optimized development concepts (Theis 1940; Spitz et al 2008) increases as demand approaches supply. Maximized development results when supply wells are distributed as uniformly as possible in withdrawal areas and throughout the aquifer system and, in certain settings, located as close as possible to surface waters.…”