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Water use for Georgia counties, 2000
County | Population (in thousands) | Ground water | Surface water | Total |
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Appling | 17.42 | 4.63 | 59.07 | 63.70 |
Atkinson | 7.61 | 3.18 | 3.37 | 6.55 |
Bacon | 10.10 | 4.56 | 1.29 | 5.85 |
Baker | 4.07 | 38.80 | 3.05 | 41.85 |
Baldwin | 44.70 | 0.65 | 9.29 | 9.94 |
Banks | 14.42 | 0.87 | 1.47 | 2.34 |
Barrow | 46.14 | 2.01 | 5.53 | 7.54 |
Bartow | 76.02 | 6.43 | 59.60 | 66.03 |
Ben Hill | 17.48 | 8.43 | 2.80 | 11.23 |
Berrien | 16.24 | 8.51 | 6.75 | 15.26 |
Bibb | 153.89 | 5.67 | 149.04 | 154.71 |
Bleckley | 11.67 | 8.37 | 7.80 | 16.17 |
Brantley | 14.63 | 1.52 | 0.23 | 1.75 |
Brooks | 16.45 | 4.99 | 1.39 | 6.38 |
Bryan | 23.42 | 2.83 | 0.01 | 2.84 |
Bulloch | 55.98 | 12.98 | 2.89 | 15.87 |
Burke | 22.24 | 27.25 | 70.82 | 98.07 |
Butts | 19.52 | 0.48 | 3.34 | 3.82 |
Calhoun | 6.32 | 22.79 | 11.74 | 34.53 |
Camden | 43.66 | 43.12 | 0.01 | 43.13 |
Candler | 9.58 | 3.44 | 2.93 | 6.37 |
Carroll | 87.27 | 3.20 | 8.90 | 12.10 |
Catoosa | 53.28 | 9.03 | 1.64 | 10.67 |
Charlton | 10.28 | 1.38 | 0.10 | 1.48 |
Chatham | 232.05 | 72.21 | 142.80 | 215.01 |
Chattahoochee | 14.88 | 0.50 | 15.77 | 16.27 |
Chattooga | 25.47 | 6.42 | 5.12 | 11.54 |
Cherokee | 141.90 | 2.44 | 17.95 | 20.39 |
Clarke | 101.49 | 0.41 | 19.00 | 19.41 |
Clay | 3.36 | 1.49 | 4.36 | 5.85 |
Clayton | 236.52 | 1.29 | 26.51 | 27.80 |
Clinch | 6.88 | 1.50 | 0.36 | 1.86 |
Cobb | 607.75 | 1.17 | 465.61 | 466.78 |
Coffee | 37.41 | 12.76 | 8.50 | 21.26 |
Colquitt | 42.05 | 18.12 | 27.79 | 45.91 |
Columbia | 89.29 | 2.49 | 14.78 | 17.27 |
Cook | 15.77 | 8.00 | 4.04 | 12.04 |
Coweta | 89.22 | 5.45 | 555.02 | 560.47 |
Crawford | 12.50 | 4.55 | 1.51 | 6.06 |
Crisp | 22.00 | 15.14 | 2.27 | 17.41 |
Dade | 15.15 | 0.48 | 2.16 | 2.64 |
Dawson | 16.00 | 0.62 | 1.68 | 2.30 |
Decatur | 28.24 | 55.42 | 7.51 | 62.93 |
DeKalb | 665.87 | 3.14 | 88.53 | 91.67 |
Dodge | 19.17 | 4.24 | 11.77 | 16.01 |
Dooly | 11.53 | 24.87 | 1.56 | 26.43 |
Dougherty | 96.07 | 55.98 | 166.75 | 222.73 |
Douglas | 92.17 | 0.80 | 11.34 | 12.14 |
Early | 12.35 | 38.85 | 118.23 | 157.08 |
Echols | 3.75 | 6.06 | 0.53 | 6.59 |
Effingham | 37.54 | 5.29 | 144.01 | 149.30 |
Elbert | 20.51 | 0.87 | 2.34 | 3.21 |
Emanuel | 21.84 | 4.87 | 0.99 | 5.86 |
Evans | 10.50 | 3.23 | 1.14 | 4.37 |
Fannin | 19.80 | 0.74 | 1.38 | 2.12 |
Fayette | 91.26 | 2.87 | 14.37 | 17.24 |
Floyd | 90.57 | 3.41 | 582.72 | 586.13 |
Forsyth | 98.41 | 2.40 | 16.57 | 18.97 |
Franklin | 20.29 | 1.30 | 2.50 | 3.80 |
Fulton | 816.01 | 1.62 | 170.31 | 171.93 |
Gilmer | 23.46 | 1.88 | 5.07 | 6.95 |
Glascock | 2.56 | 0.27 | 0.09 | 0.36 |
Glynn | 67.57 | 62.81 | 0.01 | 62.82 |
Gordon | 44.10 | 2.40 | 14.07 | 16.47 |
Grady | 23.66 | 9.21 | 10.42 | 19.63 |
Greene | 14.41 | 0.69 | 12.58 | 13.27 |
Gwinnett | 588.45 | 0.48 | 93.14 | 93.62 |
Habersham | 35.90 | 1.79 | 5.80 | 7.59 |
Hall | 139.28 | 5.71 | 19.60 | 25.31 |
Hancock | 10.08 | 0.38 | 0.77 | 1.15 |
Haralson | 25.69 | 0.46 | 3.27 | 3.73 |
Harris | 23.70 | 1.38 | 5.40 | 6.78 |
Hart | 23.00 | 1.30 | 3.08 | 4.38 |
Heard | 11.01 | 0.65 | 72.88 | 73.53 |
Henry | 119.34 | 0.81 | 12.78 | 13.59 |
Houston | 110.77 | 29.79 | 1.10 | 30.89 |
Irwin | 9.93 | 7.61 | 5.12 | 12.73 |
Jackson | 41.59 | 2.56 | 4.52 | 7.08 |
Jasper | 11.43 | 1.36 | 1.56 | 2.92 |
Jeff Davis | 12.68 | 4.47 | 2.04 | 6.51 |
Jefferson | 17.27 | 13.25 | 13.78 | 27.03 |
Jenkins | 8.58 | 4.84 | 2.01 | 6.85 |
Johnson | 8.56 | 2.30 | 0.71 | 3.01 |
Jones | 23.64 | 2.37 | 0.31 | 2.68 |
Lamar | 15.91 | 1.51 | 5.19 | 6.70 |
Lanier | 7.24 | 2.30 | 0.44 | 2.74 |
Laurens | 44.87 | 10.75 | 21.57 | 32.32 |
Lee | 24.76 | 33.11 | 1.65 | 34.76 |
Liberty | 61.61 | 17.23 | 0.10 | 17.33 |
Lincoln | 8.35 | 0.62 | 0.57 | 1.19 |
Long | 10.30 | 0.84 | 0.13 | 0.97 |
Lowndes | 92.12 | 30.35 | 3.06 | 33.41 |
Lumpkin | 21.02 | 1.46 | 2.46 | 3.92 |
McDuffie | 21.23 | 1.23 | 4.23 | 5.46 |
McIntosh | 10.85 | 1.05 | 0.15 | 1.20 |
Macon | 14.07 | 16.25 | 15.31 | 31.56 |
Madison | 25.73 | 2.06 | 0.96 | 3.02 |
Marion | 7.14 | 2.48 | 1.04 | 3.52 |
Meriwether | 22.53 | 2.65 | 3.34 | 5.99 |
Miller | 6.38 | 31.00 | 3.01 | 34.01 |
Mitchell | 23.93 | 61.51 | 16.18 | 77.69 |
Monroe | 21.76 | 3.49 | 122.38 | 125.87 |
Montgomery | 8.27 | 1.81 | 0.84 | 2.65 |
Morgan | 15.46 | 0.88 | 1.77 | 2.65 |
Murray | 36.51 | 2.15 | 3.11 | 5.26 |
Muscogee | 186.29 | 0.08 | 45.54 | 45.62 |
Newton | 62.00 | 1.43 | 11.36 | 12.79 |
Oconee | 26.23 | 2.60 | 0.53 | 3.13 |
Oglethorpe | 12.64 | 0.92 | 0.89 | 1.81 |
Paulding | 81.68 | 1.47 | 2.85 | 4.32 |
Peach | 23.67 | 12.34 | 0.91 | 13.25 |
Pickens | 22.98 | 1.43 | 2.20 | 3.63 |
Pierce | 15.64 | 7.52 | 0.75 | 8.27 |
Pike | 13.69 | 1.39 | 0.90 | 2.29 |
Polk | 38.13 | 4.20 | 4.57 | 8.77 |
Pulaski | 9.59 | 13.89 | 3.04 | 16.93 |
Putnam | 18.81 | 1.25 | 987.15 | 988.40 |
Quitman | 2.60 | 0.22 | 0.13 | 0.35 |
Rabun | 15.05 | 0.81 | 3.54 | 4.35 |
Randolph | 7.79 | 5.06 | 4.11 | 9.17 |
Richmond | 199.78 | 24.47 | 104.10 | 128.57 |
Rockdale | 70.11 | 0.39 | 1.99 | 2.38 |
Schley | 3.77 | 0.52 | 0.34 | 0.86 |
Screven | 15.37 | 19.43 | 6.02 | 25.45 |
Seminole | 9.37 | 63.79 | 6.79 | 70.58 |
Spalding | 58.42 | 0.92 | 10.32 | 11.24 |
Stephens | 25.44 | 0.40 | 3.39 | 3.79 |
Stewart | 5.25 | 0.89 | 2.31 | 3.20 |
Sumter | 33.20 | 24.40 | 17.98 | 42.38 |
Talbot | 6.50 | 1.46 | 1.18 | 2.64 |
Taliaferro | 2.08 | 0.18 | 0.05 | 0.23 |
Tattnall | 22.31 | 6.76 | 2.82 | 9.58 |
Taylor | 8.82 | 5.93 | 3.51 | 9.44 |
Telfair | 11.79 | 4.88 | 1.27 | 6.15 |
Terrell | 10.97 | 11.15 | 10.90 | 22.05 |
Thomas | 42.74 | 17.48 | 3.23 | 20.71 |
Tift | 38.41 | 17.43 | 10.58 | 28.01 |
Toombs | 26.07 | 7.26 | 7.08 | 14.34 |
Towns | 9.32 | 0.19 | 1.00 | 1.19 |
Treutlen | 6.85 | 1.25 | 0.35 | 1.60 |
Troup | 58.78 | 0.67 | 12.44 | 13.11 |
Turner | 9.50 | 7.05 | 9.68 | 16.73 |
Twiggs | 10.59 | 19.34 | 0.32 | 19.66 |
Union | 17.29 | 0.84 | 0.66 | 1.50 |
Upson | 27.60 | 2.60 | 7.69 | 10.29 |
Walker | 61.05 | 8.99 | 5.52 | 14.51 |
Walton | 60.69 | 2.86 | 6.19 | 9.05 |
Ware | 35.48 | 9.00 | 1.63 | 10.63 |
Warren | 6.34 | 0.98 | 1.52 | 2.50 |
Washington | 21.18 | 24.57 | 1.50 | 26.07 |
Wayne | 26.57 | 64.13 | 0.42 | 64.55 |
Webster | 2.39 | 0.51 | 3.39 | 3.90 |
Wheeler | 6.18 | 1.26 | 3.69 | 4.95 |
White | 19.94 | 1.66 | 2.76 | 4.42 |
Whitfield | 83.53 | 0.18 | 65.52 | 65.70 |
Wilcox | 8.58 | 18.29 | 4.78 | 23.07 |
Wilkes | 10.69 | 0.34 | 2.22 | 2.56 |
Wilkinson | 10.22 | 27.41 | 0.88 | 28.29 |
Worth | 21.97 | 27.82 | 14.61 | 42.43 |
Total | 8,186.45 | 1,461.91 | 4,977.54 | 6,439.45 |