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Hydrology of the Jackson, Tennessee, Area and Delineation of Areas Contributing Ground Water to the Jackson Well Fields

U.S. Geological Survey, Water-Resources Investigations Report 92-4146

by Zelda Chapman Bailey


Table of Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Purpose and scope

Approach

Acknowledgments

Description of study area

Geography and climate

Geology

Land use

Water use

Streamflow characteristics

Hydrologic system

Hydraulic characteristics of aquifers

Ground- and surface-water interaction

Areal recharge

Water-level fluctuations

Ground-water flow

Ground-water flow model

Model assumptions

Conceptual model

Model grid and boundaries

Simulation of sources and sinks of water

Model calibration

Model limitations and sensitivity analysis

Pumping simulations

Areas contributing water to the well fields

Configuration of ground-water flow to the well fields

North Well Field

South Well Field

Summary and conclusions

Selected references

 


 

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