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Ground-water hydrology of the Lower Wolftever Creek Basin, with emphasis on the Carson Spring area, Hamilton County, Tennessee

U.S. Geological Survey, Water-Resources Investigations Report 91-4190

by D.A. Webster and J.K. Carmichael


Table of Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Purpose and scope

Previous studies

Description of the study area

Physiographic characteristics

Geologic setting

Ground-water hydrology of the lower Wolftever Creek basin

Recharge, discharge, and direction of flow

Interaction of ground water and streams

Ground-water hydrology of Carson Spring

Characterization of the Chepultepec Dolomite as an aquifer

Withdrawals from wells at Carson Spring

Carson Spring discharge

Hydraulic-head relation at Carson Spring

Carson Spring recharge area

Conceptualization of the ground-water system

Ground-water quality

Physical, chemical, and bacterial characteristics

Potential sources of water-quality degradation

Summary and conclusions

References cited

 


 

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