IntroductionWater is an important resource in the arid southwest region of the United States where there is a limited supply of surface water and groundwater. In the Death Valley regional groundwater flow system (DVRFS) in southern Nevada and eastern California, groundwater is the main source of supply for agricultural, commercial, and domestic water needs.For over four decades, the United States

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Steven R. Reiner, Peggy E. Elliott, Katherine J. Earp, Wayne R. Belcher

Water Resources Mission Area, Nevada Water Science Center

February 7, 2019

Hydrogeology of Lower Amargosa Valley and groundwater discharge to the Amargosa Wild and Scenic River, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties, California, and adjacent areas in Nye and Clark Counties, Nevada

In 2009, Congress designated certain reaches of the Amargosa River in Inyo County, California between the town of Shoshone and Dumont Dunes as a Wild and Scenic River. As part of the management of the Amargosa Wild and Scenic River, the Bureau of Land Management cooperated with the U.S. Geological Survey to assess the surface and groundwater resources of the Tecopa basin. Groundwater is the primar

Authors

Wayne R. Belcher, Donald S. Sweetkind, Candice B. Hopkins, Megan E. Poff

Water Resources Mission Area, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Nevada Water Science Center

January 19, 2017

An update of the Death Valley regional groundwater flow system transient model, Nevada and California

Since the original publication of the Death Valley regional groundwater flow system (DVRFS) numerical model in 2004, more information on the regional groundwater flow system in the form of new data and interpretations has been compiled. Cooperators such as the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Department of Energy, and Nye County, Nevada, recogni

Authors

Wayne R. Belcher, Donald S. Sweetkind, Claudia C. Faunt, Michael T. Pavelko, Mary C. Hill

Water Resources Mission Area, California Water Science Center, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

January 1, 2011

Comment on “An unconfined groundwater model of the Death Valley Regional Flow System and a comparison to its confined predecessor” by R.W.H. Carroll, G.M. Pohll and R.L. Hershey [Journal of Hydrology 373/3–4, pp. 316–328]

Carroll et al. (2009) state that the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Death Valley Regional Flow System (DVRFS) model, which is based on MODFLOW, is “conceptually inaccurate in that it models an unconfined aquifer as a confined system and does not simulate unconfined drawdown in transient pumping simulations.” Carroll et al. (2009) claim that “more realistic estimates of water availability”

Authors

Claudia C. Faunt, Alden M. Provost, Mary C. Hill, Wayne R. Belcher

Water Resources Mission Area, California Water Science Center

August 25, 2010

Death Valley regional groundwater flow system, Nevada and California: Hydrogeologic framework and transient groundwater flow model

A numerical three-dimensional (3D) transient groundwater flow model of the Death Valley region was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey for the U.S. Department of Energy programs at the Nevada Test Site and at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Decades of study of aspects of the groundwater flow system and previous less extensive groundwater flow models were incorporated and reevaluated together with new

Authors

Wayne Belcher, Frank A. D'Agnese, Grady M. O'Brien, Donald S. Sweetkind, Carma A. San Juan, Randell J. Laczniak, Christopher J. Potter, Heather Putnam, Claudia C. Faunt, Joan B. Blainey, Mary C. Hill, M. S. Bedinger, J. R. Harrill

Water Resources Mission Area, California Water Science Center, Nevada Water Science Center

January 1, 2009

Interbasin flow in the Great Basin with special reference to the southern Funeral Mountains and the source of Furnace Creek springs, Death Valley, California, U.S.

Interbasin flow in the Great Basin has been established by scientific studies during the past century. While not occurring uniformly between all basins, its occurrence is common and is a function of the hydraulic gradient between basins and hydraulic conductivity of the intervening rocks. The Furnace Creek springs in Death Valley, California are an example of large volume springs that are widely a

Authors

W.R. Belcher, M. S. Bedinger, J.T. Back, D. S. Sweetkind

November 27, 2008

Technical Review of Water-Resources Investigations of the Tule Desert, Lincoln County, Southern Nevada

The Nevada State Engineer in Ruling No. 5181 required Lincoln County and Vidler Water Company, Inc., to provide results from additional water-resources studies of Tule Desert in southern Nevada to support water-rights application 64692. As outlined by the ruling, the additional studies were to include the determination of the amount of ground water available from the Tule Desert basin, ground-wate

Authors

David L. Berger, Keith J. Halford, Wayne R. Belcher, Michael S. Lico

December 13, 2006

Ground-Water Flow Modeling by the U.S. Geological Survey in Nevada: Uses and Approaches

No abstract available.

Authors

Wayne R. Belcher, Alan H. Welch

Water Resources Mission Area, Nevada Water Science Center

October 30, 2006

Ground-water modeling of the Death Valley Region, Nevada and California

The Death Valley regional ground-water flow system (DVRFS) of southern Nevada and eastern California covers an area of about 100,000 square kilometers and contains very complex geology and hydrology. Using a computer model to represent the complex system, the U.S. Geological Survey simulated ground-water flow in the Death Valley region for use with U.S. Department of Energy projects in southern Ne

Authors

W.R. Belcher, C.C. Faunt, D. S. Sweetkind, J.B. Blainey, C. A. San Juan, R. J. Laczniak, M. C. Hill

Water Resources Mission Area, Nevada Water Science Center

November 1, 2004

Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California -- hydrogeologic framework and transient ground-water flow model

A numerical three-dimensional (3D) transient ground-water flow model of the Death Valley region was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey for the U.S. Department of Energy programs at the Nevada Test Site and at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Decades of study of aspects of the ground-water flow system and previous less extensive ground-water flow models were incorporated and reevaluated together with n

December 1, 2002

Probability distributions of hydraulic conductivity for the hydrogeologic units of the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California

The use of geologic information such as lithology and rock properties is important to constrain conceptual and numerical hydrogeologic models. This geologic information is difficult to apply explicitly to numerical modeling and analyses because it tends to be qualitative rather than quantitative. This study uses a compilation of hydraulic-conductivity measurements to derive estimates of the probab

Authors

Wayne R. Belcher, Donald S. Sweetkind, Peggy E. Elliott

January 1, 2002

A three-dimensional numerical model of predevelopment conditions in the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California

In the early 1990's, two numerical models of the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system were developed by the U.S. Department of Energy. In general, the two models were based on the same basic hydrogeologic data set. In 1998, the U.S. Department of Energy requested that the U.S. Geological Survey develop and maintain a ground-water flow model of the Death Valley region in support of U.S. D

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Frank A. D'Agnese, G. M. O'Brien, C.C. Faunt, W.R. Belcher, C. San Juan

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Hydrologic monitoring networks in the Death Valley Regional Flow System, Nye County, Nevada and Inyo County, California

IntroductionWater is an important resource in the arid southwest region of the United States where there is a limited supply of surface water and groundwater. In the Death Valley regional groundwater flow system (DVRFS) in southern Nevada and eastern California, groundwater is the main source of supply for agricultural, commercial, and domestic water needs.For over four decades, the United States

Authors

Steven R. Reiner, Peggy E. Elliott, Katherine J. Earp, Wayne R. Belcher

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Water Resources Mission Area, Nevada Water Science Center

February 7, 2019
Hydrogeology of Lower Amargosa Valley and groundwater discharge to the Amargosa Wild and Scenic River, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties, California, and adjacent areas in Nye and Clark Counties, Nevada

In 2009, Congress designated certain reaches of the Amargosa River in Inyo County, California between the town of Shoshone and Dumont Dunes as a Wild and Scenic River. As part of the management of the Amargosa Wild and Scenic River, the Bureau of Land Management cooperated with the U.S. Geological Survey to assess the surface and groundwater resources of the Tecopa basin. Groundwater is the primar

Authors

Wayne R. Belcher, Donald S. Sweetkind, Candice B. Hopkins, Megan E. Poff

By

Water Resources Mission Area, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Nevada Water Science Center

January 19, 2017
An update of the Death Valley regional groundwater flow system transient model, Nevada and California

Since the original publication of the Death Valley regional groundwater flow system (DVRFS) numerical model in 2004, more information on the regional groundwater flow system in the form of new data and interpretations has been compiled. Cooperators such as the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Department of Energy, and Nye County, Nevada, recogni

Authors

Wayne R. Belcher, Donald S. Sweetkind, Claudia C. Faunt, Michael T. Pavelko, Mary C. Hill

By

Water Resources Mission Area, California Water Science Center, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

January 1, 2011
Comment on “An unconfined groundwater model of the Death Valley Regional Flow System and a comparison to its confined predecessor” by R.W.H. Carroll, G.M. Pohll and R.L. Hershey [Journal of Hydrology 373/3–4, pp. 316–328]

Carroll et al. (2009) state that the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Death Valley Regional Flow System (DVRFS) model, which is based on MODFLOW, is “conceptually inaccurate in that it models an unconfined aquifer as a confined system and does not simulate unconfined drawdown in transient pumping simulations.” Carroll et al. (2009) claim that “more realistic estimates of water availability”

Authors

Claudia C. Faunt, Alden M. Provost, Mary C. Hill, Wayne R. Belcher

By

Water Resources Mission Area, California Water Science Center

August 25, 2010
Death Valley regional groundwater flow system, Nevada and California: Hydrogeologic framework and transient groundwater flow model

A numerical three-dimensional (3D) transient groundwater flow model of the Death Valley region was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey for the U.S. Department of Energy programs at the Nevada Test Site and at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Decades of study of aspects of the groundwater flow system and previous less extensive groundwater flow models were incorporated and reevaluated together with new

Authors

Wayne Belcher, Frank A. D'Agnese, Grady M. O'Brien, Donald S. Sweetkind, Carma A. San Juan, Randell J. Laczniak, Christopher J. Potter, Heather Putnam, Claudia C. Faunt, Joan B. Blainey, Mary C. Hill, M. S. Bedinger, J. R. Harrill

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Water Resources Mission Area, California Water Science Center, Nevada Water Science Center

January 1, 2009
Interbasin flow in the Great Basin with special reference to the southern Funeral Mountains and the source of Furnace Creek springs, Death Valley, California, U.S.

Interbasin flow in the Great Basin has been established by scientific studies during the past century. While not occurring uniformly between all basins, its occurrence is common and is a function of the hydraulic gradient between basins and hydraulic conductivity of the intervening rocks. The Furnace Creek springs in Death Valley, California are an example of large volume springs that are widely a

Authors

W.R. Belcher, M. S. Bedinger, J.T. Back, D. S. Sweetkind

November 27, 2008
Technical Review of Water-Resources Investigations of the Tule Desert, Lincoln County, Southern Nevada

The Nevada State Engineer in Ruling No. 5181 required Lincoln County and Vidler Water Company, Inc., to provide results from additional water-resources studies of Tule Desert in southern Nevada to support water-rights application 64692. As outlined by the ruling, the additional studies were to include the determination of the amount of ground water available from the Tule Desert basin, ground-wate

Authors

David L. Berger, Keith J. Halford, Wayne R. Belcher, Michael S. Lico

December 13, 2006
Ground-Water Flow Modeling by the U.S. Geological Survey in Nevada: Uses and Approaches

No abstract available.

Authors

Wayne R. Belcher, Alan H. Welch

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Water Resources Mission Area, Nevada Water Science Center

October 30, 2006
Ground-water modeling of the Death Valley Region, Nevada and California

The Death Valley regional ground-water flow system (DVRFS) of southern Nevada and eastern California covers an area of about 100,000 square kilometers and contains very complex geology and hydrology. Using a computer model to represent the complex system, the U.S. Geological Survey simulated ground-water flow in the Death Valley region for use with U.S. Department of Energy projects in southern Ne

Authors

W.R. Belcher, C.C. Faunt, D. S. Sweetkind, J.B. Blainey, C. A. San Juan, R. J. Laczniak, M. C. Hill

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Water Resources Mission Area, Nevada Water Science Center

November 1, 2004
Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California -- hydrogeologic framework and transient ground-water flow model

A numerical three-dimensional (3D) transient ground-water flow model of the Death Valley region was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey for the U.S. Department of Energy programs at the Nevada Test Site and at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Decades of study of aspects of the ground-water flow system and previous less extensive ground-water flow models were incorporated and reevaluated together with n

December 1, 2002
Probability distributions of hydraulic conductivity for the hydrogeologic units of the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California

The use of geologic information such as lithology and rock properties is important to constrain conceptual and numerical hydrogeologic models. This geologic information is difficult to apply explicitly to numerical modeling and analyses because it tends to be qualitative rather than quantitative. This study uses a compilation of hydraulic-conductivity measurements to derive estimates of the probab

Authors

Wayne R. Belcher, Donald S. Sweetkind, Peggy E. Elliott

January 1, 2002
A three-dimensional numerical model of predevelopment conditions in the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California

In the early 1990's, two numerical models of the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system were developed by the U.S. Department of Energy. In general, the two models were based on the same basic hydrogeologic data set. In 1998, the U.S. Department of Energy requested that the U.S. Geological Survey develop and maintain a ground-water flow model of the Death Valley region in support of U.S. D

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Frank A. D'Agnese, G. M. O'Brien, C.C. Faunt, W.R. Belcher, C. San Juan

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Evaluation of Groundwater Flow in the Southern Part of the Amargosa Desert, Nevada and California

Since the original publication of the Death Valley regional groundwater flow system (DVRFS) numerical model in 2004, more information on the regional groundwater flow system in the form of new data and interpretations has been compiled. Cooperators such as the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Department of Energy, and Nye County, Nevada...

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Evaluation of Groundwater Flow in the Southern Part of the Amargosa Desert, Nevada and California

Since the original publication of the Death Valley regional groundwater flow system (DVRFS) numerical model in 2004, more information on the regional groundwater flow system in the form of new data and interpretations has been compiled. Cooperators such as the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Department of Energy, and Nye County, Nevada...

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