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Hydrogeologic reconnaissance of Poro Point and vicinity, Luzon Island, Philippines

Water Supply Paper 1608-E
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wsp1608E

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Abstract

In 1961 a reconnaissance of the geology and ground-water hydrology of Poro Point, on the west coast of Luzon Island, Philippines, was made on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Navy. Poro Point, which marks the northern end of Lingayen Gulf, is about half a mile wide and projects northwestward about 2 miles into the China Sea. The point is underlain by coralline limestone of probable Pleistocene age. The aquifer system consists of a fresh-water lens floating on salt water within the coralline limestone. Several tube wells obtain fresh water from the lens, but in May, at the end of the 6-month dry season during which rainfall totals only 40 inches, the water becomes brackish. 'Skimming wells' are considered the best method of obtaining fresh water from the lens, whose annual range in average thickness is probably 25 to 40 feet. Recharge is about 2,000-3,000 acre-feet per year and is derived wholly from precipitation during the 6-month wet season in which rainfall totals about 92 inches. The approximate amount of ground water stored in the fresh-water lens ranges from about 3,000 acre-feet at the end of the dry season to about 5,000 acre-feet at the end of the wet season. Most of the ground water is discharged through seeps and submarine springs around Poro Point; pumpage in 1961 was only about 100 acre-feet.

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Worts, G., 1964, Hydrogeologic reconnaissance of Poro Point and vicinity, Luzon Island, Philippines: U.S. Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 1608, iii, 14 p. :ill., map ;24 cm. + plate folded in pocket., https://doi.org/10.3133/wsp1608E.

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Hydrogeologic reconnaissance of Poro Point and vicinity, Luzon Island, Philippines
Series title Water Supply Paper
Series number 1608
Chapter E
DOI 10.3133/wsp1608E
Year Published 1964
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. G.P.O.,
Description iii, 14 p. :ill., map ;24 cm. + plate folded in pocket.
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