Predicting Well Production in the Southern Piedmont of Georgia Using Site Topographic and Geologic Characteristics
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Mr. Garcia is a Ph.D. student in Geography, Dr. Brook is Professor of Geography, and Dr. Carver is Professor of Geology at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA 30602.
Footnotes
(1) M. J. Mundorff, Geology and Ground Water in the Greensboro Area, North Carolina (Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development, 1948); H. E. LeGrand and M. J. Mundorff, Geology and Ground Water in the Charlotte Area, North Carolina (Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development, 1952).
(2) The research presented in this paper utilizes English units of measurement as these are the common units of ground-water hydrology in the United States.
(3) H. E. LeGrand, Ground Water of the Piedmont and Blue Ridge Provinces in the Southeastern States, U.S. Geological Survey, Circular No. 538 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1967).
(4) Mundorff, footnote 1.
(5) L. H. Lattman, "Technique of Mapping Geologic Fracture Traces and Lineaments on Aerial Photographs," Photogrammetric Engineering, Vol. 24 (1958), pp. 568-576; L. H. Lattman and R. P. Nickelsen, "Photogeologic Fracture-Trace Mapping in Appalachian Plateau," American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, Vol. 42 (1958), pp. 2238-2245; R. R. Parizek, "On the Nature and Significance of Fracture Traces and Lineaments in Carbonate and Other Terranes," in V. Yevjevich (ed.), Karst Hydrology and Water Resources (Fort Collins, CO: Water Resources Publications, 1976), Vol. 1, pp. 47-100.
(6) G. A. Brook, C-H. Sun, and T. S. Lloyd, Geological Factors Influencing Well Productivity on the Georgia Piedmont, Publication ERC-05-84 (Atlanta: Environmental Resources Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1984); C. W. Cressler, C. J. Thurmond, and W. G. Hester, Ground Water in the Greater Atlanta Region, Georgia, Georgia Geological Survey, Information Circular No. 63 (Atlanta: Georgia Department of Natural Resources, 1983).
(7) Cressler, Thurmond, and Hester, footnote 6.
(8) A. C. Staheli, "Topographic Expression of Superimposed Drainage on the Georgia Piedmont," Geological Society of America Bulletin, No. 87 (1976), pp. 450-452.
(9) Cressler, Thurmond, and Hester, footnote 6.
(10) W. Z. Clark and A. C. Zisa, "Physiographic Map of Georgia," Georgia Geological Survey (1976), 1:200,000.
(11) G. W. Crickmay, Geology of the Crystalline Rocks of Georgia, Georgia Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 58 (Atlanta: Georgia Department of Natural Resources, 1952).
(12) Brook, Sun, and Lloyd, footnote 6.
(13) Bailer test data were obtained by the Virginia Supply and Well Company prior to 1970. Wells were drilled using cable tools, and yields were estimated using a bailer, in which the well is bailed continuously for 30 minutes with an 18.5-gallon bailer pipe section attached to the drill cable. Static water level is recorded prior to bailing, discharge is measured as the total amount of water bailed, and drawdown is measured at the end of the test period. After 1970 the company drilled wells using an air-rotary method, and most yields were estimated by blowing compressed air through the drill column and measuring the volume of water that the air expelled. As the air compression procedure does not provide accurate well data, only those wells drilled prior to 1970 with bailer test data were used in this study.
(14) S. Mandel and Z. L. Shiftan, Groundwater Resources: Investigation and Development (New York: Academic Press, 1981).
(15) Mundorff and LeGrand and Mundorff, footnote 1.
(16) C. W. Welby and T. M. Wilson, Use of Geologic and Water Yield Data from Ground Water Based Community Water Systems as a Guide for Ground Water Planning and Management (Chapel Hill: Water Resources Research Institute, University of North Carolina, 1982).
(17) S. N. Davis and L. J. Turk, "Optimum Depth of Wells in Crystalline Rocks," Ground Water, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1964), pp. 6-11.
(18) L. J. Nutter and E. G. Otton, Ground-Water Occurrence in the Maryland Piedmont, Maryland Geological Survey, Report of Investigations No. 10 (Baltimore: Maryland Department of Natural Resources, 1969).
(19) Brook, Sun, and Lloyd, footnote 6.
(20) Cressler, Thurmond, and Hester, footnote 6.
(21) Mundorff and...
