Locations
Approach
- Chemical measurements in samples from monitoring wells and surface waters
- Numeric modeling to assess the impacts of SGD on nutrient budgets and water quality
- Concurrent preliminary information on potential saltwater intrusion.
- Transfer our findings to local communities and regional managers.
Observations
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Boat Based Surveys
- Rad7
- Electrical Resistivity
- Ground Penetrating Radar
- Receiving water-based surveys will inform locations for land-based surveys of electrical resistivity and ground penetrating radar
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- Monitoring wells
- Temporary wells beneath shallow water
- Sampling of discrete water samples from surveys and wells for measurement of temperature, salinity, nutrients, radon, & chloride
- Monitoring wells
Modeling
Groundwater models incorporate information about flow through the subsurface, including but not limited to:
- geologic formations
- porosity & permeability
- hydraulic gradient
- recharge rate
- contaminant distributions/reactions
to create a simulation of the movement of water and dissolved and suspended constituents.
