Fractured Rock Hydrology Research - Pennsylvania
Fractured Rock Hydrology Research (Archive)
contributions by the Pennsylvania Water Science Center, and others
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WellFootprint and ModelMuse - A New Map App for Visualizing the Magnitude of Pumping: Pennsylvania Groundwater Symposium abstract by Goode et al. (2018), and presentation slides.
Mapping groundwater withdrawals from wells relative to water-resource metrics or management targets: American Water Resources Assoc. Annual Meeting poster and technology lightning presentation by Goode & Winston (2016).
Streamflow Depletion by Groundwater Pumping from Fractured-Rock Aquifers of the Newark Basin: 2014 Pennsylvania Groundwater Symposium Abstract
Compilation of Groundwater Recharge Studies and Estimates of Groundwater Recharge Based on Streamflow-Hydrograph Methods, by Dennis Risser, c. 2010.
Application of Existing Guidance, Methods, and Models for Evaluating Capture Zones in Fractured Rock Aquifers : 2011 NGWA Fractured Rock Conf. Abstract
Field-scale borehole diffusion experiments at the former Naval Air Warfare Center, West Trenton, New Jersey : 2011 NGWA Fractured Rock Conf. Abstract
Monitoring contaminant changes in fractures and rock matrix during bioaugmentation: 2011 SERDP/ESTCP Symposium Abstract
Mass of trichloroethene and other contaminants in the rock matrix and estimates of diffusion coefficients and ratesat the former Naval Air Warfare Center, West Trenton, N.J.: 2010 SERDP/ESTCP Partners in Environmental Technology Symposium Abstract
Comparison of Stair-Step and Dipping-Layer Approaches for Simulation of Flow and Advective Transport in Fractured-Sedimentary Formations: 2007 National Ground Water Association / EPA Fractured Rock Conference Abstract
USGS Research on Fate and Remediation of Point-Source NAPLs: Abstract, EPA Region III States 2007 LUST Technical Workshop, Gettysburg
Scale and Hydrogeologic Complexity in Models of Ground-Water Flow for Newark-Basin Aquifers: Abstract and presentation at Regional Workshop on Hydrogeology of the Newark Basin, Rutgers U., November 2004
Modifications to the Solute-Transport Model MOC3D for Simple Reactions, Double Porosity, and Age, with Application at Mirror Lake, New Hampshire, and Other Sites: Proceedings Paper, 1999 USGS Toxic Substances Hydrology Program Meeting.
CFC's in the Unsaturated Zone and in Shallow Ground Water at Mirror Lake, New Hampshire: Proceedings Paper, 1999 USGS Toxic Substances Hydrology Program Meeting.
Fractured Rock Field Demonstration: Includes description of methods and photo gallery of 1998 event
Ground-water Age and Atmospheric Tracers: Simulation Studies and Analysis of Field Data from the Mirror Lake Site, New Hampshire: Princeton U. Thesis.
Aquifer Tests and Regional Groundwater Flow in Fractured Rock, Lansdale, Pennsylvania: Northeastern Section GSA 1997 Annual Meeting Abstract.
Use of Borehole Geophysical Logging and Water-Level Data to Characterize the Ground-Water System in the Lockatong and Brunswick Formations: Northeastern Section GSA 1997 Annual Meeting Abstract
New Type Curves for Estimation of Aquifer Properties from Water-Level Recovery under Theis Conditions : AGU 1996 Spring Meeting Abstract. Includes image of type curves, text file of data, and FORTRAN source code.
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Date published: November 20, 2018Status: ActiveContaminants in groundwater near North Penn Area Superfund sites
USGS has investigated groundwater flow and contaminant transport in the vicinity of Superfund sites in Montgomery County, southeastern Pennsylvania, in cooperation with EPA. Additional cooperative support for these investigations has been provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Montgomery County, and local government agencies.
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Date published: November 20, 2018Status: ActiveContaminants in groundwater near former Navy bases in southeastern Pennsylvania
USGS has investigated groundwater flow and contaminant transport in the vicinity of former Navy bases in Bucks and Montgomery Counties, southeastern Pennsylvania, in cooperation with the U.S. Navy. Additional cooperative support for these investigations has been provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Bucks and Montgomery...
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Date published: March 16, 2018Status: ActiveContaminant Fate and Transport Studies in Fractured Sedimentary Rock Aquifers at the former Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), West Trenton, N.J.
Contaminants associated with industry are present in groundwater in fractured-rock aquifers, posing long-term hazards to drinking-water supplies and ecosystems. The heterogeneous character of fractured rock challenges our understanding, monitoring, and remediation of such sites.
Bioremediation in fractured rock: 1. Modeling to inform design, monitoring, and expectations
Field characterization of a trichloroethene (TCE) source area in fractured mudstones produced a detailed understanding of the geology, contaminant distribution in fractures and the rock matrix, and hydraulic and transport properties. Groundwater flow and chemical transport modeling that synthesized the field characterization information proved...
Tiedeman, Claire; Shapiro, Allen M.; Hsieh, Paul A.; Imbrigiotta, Thomas; Goode, Daniel J.; Lacombe, Pierre; DeFlaun, Mary F.; Drew, Scott R.; Johnson, Carole D.; Williams, John H.; Curtis, Gary P. Bioremediation in fractured rock: 2. Mobilization of chloroethene compounds from the rock matrix
A mass balance is formulated to evaluate the mobilization of chlorinated ethene compounds (CE) from the rock matrix of a fractured mudstone aquifer under pre- and postbioremediation conditions. The analysis relies on a sparse number of monitoring locations and is constrained by a detailed description of the groundwater flow regime. Groundwater...
Shapiro, Allen M.; Tiedeman, Claire; Imbrigiotta, Thomas; Goode, Daniel J.; Hsieh, Paul A.; Lacombe, Pierre; DeFlaun, Mary F.; Drew, Scott R.; Curtis, Gary P.
Visualization of groundwater withdrawals
Generating an informative display of groundwater withdrawals can sometimes be difficult because the symbols for closely spaced wells can overlap. An alternative method for displaying groundwater withdrawals is to generate a “footprint” of the withdrawals. WellFootprint version 1.0 implements the Footprint algorithm with two optional variations...
Winston, Richard B.; Goode, Daniel J.
Effects of changes in pumping on regional groundwater-flow paths, 2005 and 2010, and areas contributing recharge to discharging wells, 1990–2010, in the vicinity of North Penn Area 7 Superfund site, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
A previously developed regional groundwater flow model was used to simulate the effects of changes in pumping rates on groundwater-flow paths and extent of recharge discharging to wells for a contaminated fractured bedrock aquifer in southeastern Pennsylvania. Groundwater in the vicinity of the North Penn Area 7 Superfund site, Montgomery County,...
Senior, Lisa A.; Goode, Daniel J. Map visualization of groundwater withdrawals at the sub-basin scale
A simple method is proposed to visualize the magnitude of groundwater withdrawals from wells relative to user-defined water-resource metrics. The map is solely an illustration of the withdrawal magnitudes, spatially centered on wells—it is not capture zones or source areas contributing recharge to wells. Common practice is to scale the size (area...
Goode, Daniel J. High-resolution delineation of chlorinated volatile organic compounds in a dipping, fractured mudstone: depth- and strata-dependent spatial variability from rock-core sampling
Synthesis of rock-core sampling and chlorinated volatile organic compound (CVOC) analysis at five coreholes, with hydraulic and water-quality monitoring and a detailed hydrogeologic framework, was used to characterize the fine-scale distribution of CVOCs in dipping, fractured mudstones of the Lockatong Formation of Triassic age, of the Newark...
Goode, Daniel J.; Imbrigiotta, Thomas E.; Lacombe, Pierre J. Integration of stable carbon isotope, microbial community, dissolved hydrogen gas, and 2HH2O tracer data to assess bioaugmentation for chlorinated ethene degradation in fractured rocks
An in situ bioaugmentation (BA) experiment was conducted to understand processes controlling microbial dechlorination of trichloroethene (TCE) in groundwater at the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), West Trenton, NJ. In the BA experiment, an electron donor (emulsified vegetable oil and sodium lactate) and a chloro-respiring microbial consortium...
Révész, Kinga M.; Lollar, Barbara Sherwood; Kirshtein, Julie D.; Tiedeman, Claire; Imbrigiotta, Thomas E.; Goode, Daniel J.; Shapiro, Allen M.; Voytek, Mary A.; Lancombe, Pierre J.; Busenberg, Eurybiades Surface-water and groundwater interactions in an extensively mined watershed, upper Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania, USA
Streams crossing underground coal mines may lose flow, while abandoned mine drainage (AMD) restores flow downstream. During 2005-12, discharge from the Pine Knot Mine Tunnel, the largest AMD source in the upper Schuylkill River Basin, had near-neutral pH and elevated concentrations of iron, manganese, and sulfate. Discharge from the tunnel...
Cravotta, Charles A.; Goode, Daniel J.; Bartles, Michael D.; Risser, Dennis W.; Galeone, Daniel G.
Physical, chemical, and isotopic data from groundwater in the watershed of Mirror Lake, and in the vicinity of Hubbard Brook, near West Thornton, New Hampshire, 1983 to 1997
Research on the hydrogeologic setting of Mirror Lake near West Thornton, New Hampshire (43° 56.5’ N, 71° 41.5’ W), includes the study of the physical, chemical, and isotopic characteristics of groundwater in the vicinity of the lake and nearby Hubbard Brook. Presented here are those physical, chemical, and isotopic data for the period 1983 to 1997...
LaBaugh, James W.; Harte, Philip T.; Shapiro, Allen M.; Hsieh, Paul A.; Johnson, Carole D.; Goode, Daniel J.; Wood, Warren W.; Buso, Donald C.; Likens, Gene E.; Winter, Thomas C.
Investigations of groundwater system and simulation of regional groundwater flow for North Penn Area 7 Superfund site, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Groundwater in the vicinity of several industrial facilities in Upper Gwynedd Township and vicinity, Montgomery County, in southeast Pennsylvania has been shown to be contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs), the most common of which is the solvent trichloroethylene (TCE). The 2-square-mile area was placed on the National Priorities...
Senior, Lisa A.; Goode, Daniel J.
Groundwater-level trends and forecasts, and salinity trends, in the Azraq, Dead Sea, Hammad, Jordan Side Valleys, Yarmouk, and Zarqa groundwater basins, Jordan
Changes in groundwater levels and salinity in six groundwater basins in Jordan were characterized by using linear trends fit to well-monitoring data collected from 1960 to early 2011. On the basis of data for 117 wells, groundwater levels in the six basins were declining, on average about -1 meter per year (m/yr), in 2010. The highest average rate...
Goode, Daniel J.; Senior, Lisa A.; Subah, Ali; Jaber, Ayman Enhanced dichloroethene biodegradation in fractured rock under biostimulated and bioaugmented conditions
Significant microbial reductive dechlorination of [1,2 14C] cis-dichloroethene (DCE) was observed in anoxic microcosms prepared with unamended, fractured rock aquifer materials, which were colonized in situ at multiple depths in two boreholes at the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) in West Trenton, New Jersey. The lack of significant reductive...
Bradley, Paul M.; Journey, Celeste A.; Kirshtein, Julie D.; Voytek, Mary A.; Lacombe, Pierre J.; Imbrigiotta, Thomas E.; Chapelle, Francis H.; Tiedeman, Claire; Goode, Daniel J.-
Date published: April 23, 2018Wellfootprint - A Map App for Visualizing Groundwater Withdrawals
Wellfootprint computes a raster map of groundwater withdrawals relative to a user-defined "Depth-Rate Index" (DRI), such as a recharge rate. Dividing each well's withdrawal rate by the length per time DRI yields an area for display for each well's 'footprint' as a circle around each well. Symbols for closely spaced wells are merged to visualize the combined withdrawals equitably.
Attribution: Water Resources, Pennsylvania Water Science Center