USGS Pennsylvania Fractured Rock Hydrology Research

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Contamination in Fractured Rock Aquifers - USGS Toxic Substances Hydrology Program	Chlorinated Solvents in Fractured Sedimentary Rock - Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) Research Site, West Trenton, NJ
Comparison of Stair-Step and Dipping-Layer Approaches for Simulation of Flow and Advective Transport in Fractured-Sedimentary Formations: 2007 National Ground Water Association / EPA Fractured Rock Conference Abstract	Contamination in Fractured-Rock Aquifers—Research at the former Naval Air Warfare Center, West Trenton, New Jersey: USGS Factsheet 2007-3074
Distribution and Fate of TCE at NAWC West Trenton: 2006 National Ground Water Association Eastern Focus Conference Abstract	USGS Research on Fate and Remediation of Point-Source NAPLs: abstract, EPA Region III States LUST Technical Workshop, Gettysburg
Geologic, Hydrogeologic, and Biogeochemical Controls on Natural and Enhanced Degradation of Industrial Solvents in Fractured Rocks: Field Trip, 26 October 2006, at Geological Society of America (GSA) 2006 National Meeting, Philadelphia.	Scale and Hydrogeologic Complexity in Models of Ground-Water Flow for Newark-Basin Aquifers: Abstract and presentation at Regional Workshop on Hydrogeology of the Newark Basin, Rutgers U., November 2004.
Simulation of Aquifer Tests and Local-Scale Flowpaths, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: USGS Report OFR 00-97	Hydrologic Effects of the Pymatuning Earthquake of September 25, 1998, in Northwestern Pennsylvania: USGS Report WRIR 99-4170
Simulating Contaminant Attenuation, Double-Porosity Exchange, and Water Age in Aquifers using MOC3D: USGS Fact Sheet FS-086-99 or (265K pdf)	Aquifer Properties and Effects of Pumping in Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: USGS Report WRIR 99-4228
Fractured Rock Field Demonstration: Includes agenda, description of methods, and photo gallery of June 3&4, 1998 event.	Review of Aquifer Test Results for the Lansdale Area, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: USGS Report OFR 98-294. Includes drawdown data.
Hydrogeological Investigation at Site 5, Willow Grove Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base, Horsham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: USGS Report WRIR 01-4263 (pdf).	Use of Borehole Geophysical Logging and Water-Level Data to Characterize the Ground-Water System in the Lockatong and Brunswick Formations: Northeastern Section GSA 1997 Annual Meeting Abstract.

More Research Results - Previous studies and modeling tools
Mirror Lake Site - USGS Toxics Research in N.H.
MOC3D - Solute transport package for MODFLOW
Bibliography - updated 2008 - abstracts and papers (with links)

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