A Retrospective and Critical Review of Aquifer Storage and Recovery Sites and Frameworks within the Upper Floridan Aquifer in South Florida

Project Investigator: Ronald S. Reese Project Personnel: Mike Deacon, Kim Swidarsky Project Start Date: 2000 End Date: 2004 Proposals Work Plans Project Summaries Data Metadata Publications Related Links

Summary

The analysis for this project will provide scientists and ASR decision-makers with additional tools and data necessary to make informed decisions that incorporate constraining geologic, hydrogeologic, and hydrologic factors.

Objectives of this project are to: 1) Assess the strengths and weakness of available geologic, hydrogeologic, hydrologic, hydraulic, and hydrochemical information at existing ASR sites; 2) Conduct a review of existing conceptual geologic and hydrogeologic frameworks; 3) Identify factors which locally or regionally constrain the efficient recovery and storage of water within the Upper Floridan aquifer; and, 4) Identify successful techniques and methodologies that private and public operators have employed during the development of ASR facilities in south Florida and evaluate and identify problems and weaknesses to methods employed.

Proposals

• 2001

Work Plans

• 2003
• 2004

Project Summaries

• 2001
• 2002
• 2003
• 2004

Data

• Ambient Water Quality (from WRI 02-4036)
• Cycle Test (from WRI 02-4036)
• Hydraulic Well-Test (from WRI 02-4036)

Metadata

• A retrospective and critical review of aquifer and storage (ASR) sites and conceptual framework of the Upper Floridian aquifer in south Florida (project metadata)

Publications

Abstracts

• A Retrospective and Critical Review of Aquifer Storage and Recovery Sites and Conceptual Frameworks of the Upper Floridan Aquifer in South Florida (from the GEER Conference, December, 2000)
• Inventory and Review of Aquifer Storage and Recovery in Southern Florida (from the GEER Conference, April 2003)

Fact Sheets

• 2004 Review of Aquifer Storage and Recovery in the Floridan Aquifer System of Southern Florida (FS-2004-3128, available from the U.S. Geological Survey website)

Open File Reports

• U.S. Geological Survey Artificial Recharge Workshop Proceedings, Sacramento, California, April 2-4, 2002 (OFR-02-89, available from the Water Resources of the United States website)

Posters

• Inventory and Review of Aquifer Storage and Recovery in Southern Florida (presented at the 2003 GEER conference)

Water Resources Investigations Reports

• Hydrogeology and the Distribution and Origin of Salinity in the Floridan Aquifer System, Southeastern Florida (WRI 94-4010)
• Hydrogeology and the distribution of salinity in the Floridan aquifer system, Palm Beach County, Florida (WRI 99-4061, available from the Water Resources of Florida website)
• Hydrogeology and the Distribution of Salinity in the Floridan Aquifer System, Southwestern Florida (WRI 98-4253, available from the Water Resources of Florida website)
• Hydrogeology of the Gray Limestone Aquifer in Southern Florida (WRI 99-4213, available from the Water Resources of Florida website)
• Inventory and Review of Aquifer Storage and Recovery in Southern Florida (WRI 02-4036)

Related Links

• Analysis of Existing Core in the Floridan Aquifer
• Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Coordination