Rancocas Creek Surficial Aquifer Study
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Hydrology of the unconfined aquifer system, Rancocas Creek area: Rancocas, Crosswicks, Assunpink, Assiscunk, Blacks, and Crafts Creek Basins, New Jersey
Groundwater budget (1986-95)
Water use data (1995)
Illustration of Groundwater and Surface water interactions
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Land Surface System
P + Ras = Qdr + ET + Ws + Rn
Groundwater System
Rn + Rag = Wg + L + Qg
Where: Qg = Qb - Ras + Ws
List of Budget Components (in inches per year)
- Precipitation (P) = 47.3
- Direct Runoff (Qdr) = 6.38
- Base Flow (Qb) = 12.73
- Evapotranspiration (ET) = 25.9
- Leakage (L) = 0.5155
- Consumptive Water Use from surface-water withdraws (Ws) = 0.22
- Consumptive Water Use from unconfined groundwater withdraws (Wg) = 0.056
- Artificial recharge to the surface-water system (Ras) = 0.83
- Artificial recharge to the unconfined groundwater system (Rag) = 0.1
- Natural recharge to the aquifer (Rn) = 14.1
- Groundwater discharge (Qg) = 12.1
Hydrology of the unconfined aquifer system, Rancocas Creek area, Rancocas, Crosswicks, Assunpink, Blacks, and Crafts Creek Basins, New Jersey, 1996
Watt, Martha K.; Kane, A.C.; Charles, E.G.; Storck, D.A.-
Date published: June 1, 2016Rancocas Creek Surficial Aquifer Data Zip
Download of ARC GIS data set for the Rancocas Creek Aquifer
Attribution: New Jersey Water Science Center
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Date published: July 6, 2017
New Jersey Coastal Plain Water-Table
The series of surficial aquifer studies were completed to evaluate the unconfined aquifer system of the NJ Coastal Plain for use as a potential source of water. As the demand for water in the State increases and the restrictions continue on the use of water from certain confined aquifers, withdrawals on the unconfined aquifer system are expected to increase.
Attribution: New Jersey Water Science Center