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Estimation of ground-water recharge from precipitation, runoff into drywells, and on-site waste-disposal systems in the Portland Basin, Oregon and Washington

Water-Resources Investigations Report 92-4010
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wri924010

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Abstract

The average recharge rate in the Portland Basin, in northwestern Oregon and southwestern Washington, is estimated to be about 22.0 inches per year. Of that amount, precipitation accounts for about 20.8 inches per year, runoff into drywells 0.9 inches per year, and on-site waste disposal about 0.4 inches per year. Recharge is highest, about 49 inches per year, in the Cascade Range. Recharge is lowest, near zero, along and between the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. Recharge is higher locally in discrete areas owing to recharge from runoff into drywells and on-site, waste-disposal systems in urbanized parts of the study area. In these urbanized areas, recharge ranges from 0 to 49 inches per year.

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Snyder, D., Morgan, D.S., McGrath, T., 1994, Estimation of ground-water recharge from precipitation, runoff into drywells, and on-site waste-disposal systems in the Portland Basin, Oregon and Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 92-4010, v, 34 p. :ill., maps (some col.) ;28 cm., https://doi.org/10.3133/wri924010.

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Estimation of ground-water recharge from precipitation, runoff into drywells, and on-site waste-disposal systems in the Portland Basin, Oregon and Washington
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 92-4010
DOI 10.3133/wri924010
Year Published 1994
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey ; Earth Science Information Center, Open-File Reports Section [distributor],
Contributing office(s) Oregon Water Science Center
Description v, 34 p. :ill., maps (some col.) ;28 cm.
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