Coastal Plain and Unconsolidated Aquifers

Simulation of Groundwater Mounding beneath Hypothetical Stormwater Infiltration Basins

Simulated Effects of Alternative Withdrawal Strategies on Groundwater Flow in the Unconfined Kirkwood-Cohansey Aquifer System, the Rio Grande Water-Bearing Zone, and the Atlantic City 800-Foot Sand in the Great Egg Harbor and Mullica River Basins, New Jersey

Simulated Effects of Groundwater withdrawals from Aquifers in Ocean County and Vicinity, New Jersey

Hydraulic and Solute-Transport Properties and Simulated Advective Transport of Contaminated Groundwater in a Fractured-Rock Aquifer at the Naval Air Warfare Center, West Trenton, New Jersey by Jean C. Lewis-Brown and Donald E. Rice

Hurricane Sandy made a variety of impacts along the highly populated northeastern Atlantic seaboard in October 2012. Improved understanding of these impacts will better prepare us for the next one. As a result the USGS science provides a strong foundation for decision makers, planners and resource managers.

The mission of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is to assess the quantity and quality of the earth resources of the Nation and to provide information that will assist resource managers and policymakers at Federal, State, and local levels in making sound decisions. Assessment of water-quality conditions and trends is an important part of this overall mission.

The Long Island-New Jersey (LINJ) coastal drainages NAWQA study is one of the 1994 set and is coordinated from our West Trenton, NJ office. Tasks for the first two years, 1994-95, included staffing, developing a liaison process, analyzing existing data, and designing a data collection program that started in 1996. These planning activities lead to the study design for 3 years of intensive data...

In the New Jersey Coastal Plain, where confined aquifers provide over 200 million gallons per day, effective water resource planning and management under increasingly complex circumstances requires a current and improving understanding of the limitations of the available water from confined aquifers, the interconnections between confined and unconfined aquifers, and the sources of flow to critical...

The development of groundwater in the New Jersey Coastal Plain has occurred primarily near large population centers, creating large regional cones of depression in several of the New Jersey Coastal Plain aquifers. Continued decline of water levels in the confined aquifers poses the threat of serious adverse effects to the water supply in some areas, including the depletion of groundwater supplies...

Results of investigations since the early 1980s by Health Departments of eight counties in southern New Jersey, by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), and by the U.S.Geological Survey (USGS) have determined that mercury concentrations in water tapped by about 500 domestic wells in more than 70 residential areas exceed the maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 2 mg/L. The...

Anticipated growth in the coastal watersheds of Ocean County, New Jersey has heightened concerns about the future availability of water supply and potential effects of human activities on fluvial and estuarine resources. The overall objectives for the project are to develop an improved hydrologic database and analytical tools for resource management and to apply these tools to improve the present...

Federal, state and local agencies need flood-peak data for zoning, building permitting, and flood protection. Flood data needed are high-water elevations, flood discharges, and flood-frequency information. Stankowski in 1974 developed equations relating peak discharge to basin characteristics. Forty-six percent more station years of flood data are now available for analysis. Much of the additional...