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Delineation of areas contributing groundwater to selected receiving surface water bodies for long-term average hydrologic conditions from 1968 to 1983 for Long Island, New York

Scientific Investigations Report 2016-5138
Prepared in cooperation with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
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https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20165138

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Abstract

To assist resource managers and planners in developing informed strategies to address nitrogen loading to coastal water bodies of Long Island, New York, the U.S. Geological Survey and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation initiated a program to delineate a comprehensive dataset of groundwater recharge areas (or areas contributing groundwater), travel times, and outflows to streams and saline embayments on Long Island. A four-layer regional three-dimensional finite-difference groundwater-flow model of hydrologic conditions from 1968 to 1983 was used to provide delineations of 48 groundwater watersheds on Long Island. Sixteen particle starting points were evenly spaced within each of the 4,000- by 4,000-foot model cells that receive water-table recharge and tracked using forward particle-tracking analysis modeling software to outflow zones. For each particle, simulated travel times were grouped by age as follows: less than or equal to 10 years, greater than 10 years and less than or equal to 100 years, greater than 100 years and less than or equal to 1,000 years, and greater than 1,000 years; and simulated ending zones were grouped into 48 receiving water bodies, based on the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Waterbody Inventory/Priority Waterbodies List. Areal delineation of travel time zones and groundwater contributing areas were generated and a table was prepared presenting the sum of groundwater outflow for each area.

Suggested Citation

Misut, P.E., and Monti, Jack, Jr., 2016, Delineation of areas contributing groundwater to selected receiving surface water bodies for long-term average hydrologic conditions from 1968 to 1983 for Long Island, New York:U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2016–5138, 22 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/sir20165138.

ISSN: 2328-0328 (online)

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Table of Contents

  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Methods of Analysis
  • Delineation of Areas Contributing Groundwater to Selected Receiving Surface Water Bodies
  • Limitations of Analysis
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • References Cited
  • Glossary
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Delineation of areas contributing groundwater to selected receiving surface water bodies for long-term average hydrologic conditions from 1968 to 1983 for Long Island, New York
Series title Scientific Investigations Report
Series number 2016-5138
DOI 10.3133/sir20165138
Year Published 2016
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Description Report: iv, 22 p.; Figures: 1-5; Data Release
Country United States
State New York
Other Geospatial Long Island
Online Only (Y/N) Y
Additional Online Files (Y/N) Y
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