Hydraulic and mechanical properties affecting ground-water flow and aquifer-system compaction, San Joaquin Valley, California
Open-File Report
2001-35
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Abstract
This report summarizes hydraulic and mechanical properties affecting ground-water flow and aquifer-system compaction in the San Joaquin Valley, a broad alluviated intermontane structural trough that constitutes the southern two-thirds of the Central Valley of California. These values will be used to constrain a coupled ground-water flow and aquifer-system compaction model of the western San Joaquin Valley called WESTSIM. A main objective of the WESTSIM model is to evaluate potential future land subsidence that might occur under conditions in which deliveries of imported surface water for agricultural use are reduced and ground-water pumping is increased. Storage values generally are components of the total aquifer-system storage and include inelastic and elastic skeletal storage values of the aquifers and the aquitards that primarily govern the potential amount of land subsidence. Vertical hydraulic conductivity values generally are for discrete thicknesses of sediments, usually aquitards, that primarily govern the rate of land subsidence. The data were compiled from published sources and include results of aquifer tests, stress-strain analyses of borehole extensometer observations, laboratory consolidation tests, and calibrated models of aquifer-system compaction.
Suggested Citation
Sneed, M., 2001, Hydraulic and mechanical properties affecting ground-water flow and aquifer-system compaction, San Joaquin Valley, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2001-35, 26 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr0135.
ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Hydraulic and mechanical properties affecting ground-water flow and aquifer-system compaction, San Joaquin Valley, California |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 2001-35 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr0135 |
| Year Published | 2001 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Description | 26 p. |