NAWQA Regional Assessments of Principal and other Aquifers (Map)

Quickr -- Circular draft chapters, frozen dataset, EPN information, planning documents, and budgets. Login with your Lotus Internet ID and Password.

Communications Tool Box -- Guidance, templates, text, and other resources to communicate the results of the PA Circulars

Circular planning web page

NWQL photos for Circulars

Data Archival Guidance || Archived datasets

PA Planning Meetings

Quickr -- Planning documents, and budgets. Login with your Lotus Internet ID and Password.

Report Covers for All Principal Aquifer SIR and OFR Reports

Data Archival Guidance || Archived datasets

List of Proposed Reports (GWS&T Reports Plans Spreadsheet)

NAWQA (Internal)

• Ground Water Design Guidelines -- NAWQA Guidelines and Protocols (Internal)
• GW Status and Trends (Internal)
• Field Technical Support -- Lab and QC information and protocols (Internal)

GW Age dating prioritization for PAs (June 2007) || Example

Groundwater Plan and Budgets (GWPlan) Access database -- Includes original GWPlan, NIT Plan, and FY02-13 Budget plans that used to be in Excel

• Basic QC Requirements as specified in the NIT Plan
• List of Lab Schedules for various networks and sample frequencies as specified in the NIT Plan.

Land Use/Land Cover Characterization for Well Networks -- Guidance and data

Cycle 3 planning information is available on the NAWQA Internal web page.

Draft Science Plan (ver 03/28/12)

Groundwater Implementation Planning Team

Publications (public page)

Contact Information

USGS FactSheet 2005-3013: National Water-Quality Assessment Program -- Cycle II Regional Assessments of Aquifers (PDF)

Map of Principal Aquifers studied by NAWQA (PDF to print, 1Mb)

2003 US Principal Aquifer Map (USGS OGW) (PDF, 2Mb)

Principal Aquifers in NWIS--National Aquifer Code (GWSI component number C715). This links to a reference list of principal aquifer names and coverages that were digitized by CAPP from the USGS Ground Water Atlas of the United States.

Data Used by the Principal Aquifer Teams

• Approx. areas (Excel) of Principal Aquifers
• County Weights for Principal Aquifers -- Percent of each county overlying the Principal Aquifers (WinZipped DBF file 75Mb)
• Boundaries of Principal (National) Aquifers (WinZipped Spatial Geodatabase 6Mb). Some of the boundaries have been updated from the National Atlas version.
• Miscellaneous Spatial Data for Principal Aquifers (WinZipped Geodatabase 2Gb)
• Water Use by Principal Aquifer
  • Estimates for Domestic Withdrawals and Population Served for Selected Principal Aquifers, 2005
    (OFR 2010-1223 online only)
  • Estimated Withdrawals from Principal Aquifers in the United States, 2000
    (Circular 1279)

Estimated withdrawals from principal aquifers for public supply in the year 2000

Maps for Power Point Presentations

Photos -- Photos contributed for presentations

Water-Quality Comparisons among Principal Aquifers by Lithology: Box and dot plots of cycle 1 data for 21 principal aquifers

Synthesis at the Principal-Aquifer Scale: Why NAWQA is analyzing data by principal aquifer during Cycle II.

Concepts for a Principal Aquifer Framework: General NAWQA concepts for developing an aquifer framework for each of the principal aquifers.

NAWQA NIT Report (Internal report, June, 2001): Additional information about the NAWQA Cycle II Ground-Water Design by the NAWQA Implementation Team (NIT)