TP – 1239 An Introduction to Groundwater Aquifer Yields for Professional Engineers

Description

Proper management of a resource such as ground water requires knowledge of the magnitude, distribution, depletion, and replenishment, if any, of the resource. Without such .an assessment, the effects of past development and predictions of the influences of future development cannot be adequately determined. Budgets and inventories provide the means of assessment of ground-water resources and involve such factors as storage, recharge, and discharge. Because of the interrelationship of surface and ground water, comprehensive, quantitative budgets and inventories must consider both modes of water occurrence.