Sustainability of Ground-Water Resources in the City of Lawrenceville area Cooperator: City of Lawrenceville, GeorgiaYear started: 2002 Currently, the City of Lawrenceville obtains about six percent of its water from an igneous and metamorphic rock aquifer and expects to expand this share in the near future. Long-term effects of the withdrawal of ground water in this area is largely unknown and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the City of Lawrenceville initiated a study in the fall of 2002 to look at the sustainability of ground-water resources in the area as additional municipal ground-water withdrawal increases. The City of Lawrenceville is concerned about the long-term sustainability of its water resources in the area as it prepares to increase the withdrawal of ground water. A monitoring network of USGS observation wells and streamflow measurement sites installed in 2003 in two areas near the city will be used to obtain both ground-water level and streamflow data over the next five to seven years. These data will be used to observe any possible effects that withdrawal of ground water may have on storage in the aquifer and on streamflow. Links
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