Donald Walter
Science and Products
Date published: February 26, 2018
Status: Active Groundwater-Flow Modeling - Long Island, New York
Numerical models provide a means to synthesize existing hydrogeologic information into an internally consistent mathematical representation of a real system or process, and thus are useful tools for testing and improving...
Contacts: John Peter Masterson, Donald Walter
Date published: October 24, 2017
Status: Active The Use of Solute-transport Methods to Estimate Time-varying Nitrogen Loading Rates to the Peconic Estuary Resulting from Wastewater and Fertilizer Inputs to Groundwater in Suffolk County, New York (Peconic Solute Transport)
Problem The Peconic Estuary of eastern Long Island, New York, is undergoing development as the region transitions from a rural area dependent on agriculture and tourism to a suburban one with a larger year-round population. The glacial and coastal-plain sediments underlying Long Island comprise a sole-source aquifer system that supplies the region’s communities with potable water. The area...
Contacts: Donald Walter, Ronald Busciolano
Date published: July 12, 2016
Cape Cod susceptible to potential effects of sea-level rise
New USGS study highlights Cape Cod's risk to rising sea levels