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INDIANA DOCUMENTATION AND NOTES
Last edited: August 22, 2005

           In Indiana water users that withdraw over 0.1 Mgal/d must register their withdrawals with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), Division of Water, Section of Water Use and report their monthly withdrawals on an annual basis.  Although the IDNR does not require flowmeters, nearly all the public suppliers and some of industries use flowmeters to measure water withdrawals.  The IDNR database has information about each facility with regards to standard industrial classification (SIC) code, county, hydraulic unit code (HUC), and aquifer. SIC code is critical for facility classification because a facility that is labeled as industrial by one agency may be labeled as commercial by another and only by using SIC code can the facility be correctly categorized.  Location information is stored as Universal Transverse Mercator coordinates (UTM).  For Indiana, 2000 data was obtained from the IDNR, which had recently upgraded its database information system, rather than the USGS 2000 Water Use compilation files.   
      
      In 2000 total water ground-water withdrawals in Indiana was approximately 656 Mgal/d.  Ground-water withdrawals in the categories of public supply, self-supplied industrial, and irrigation are 76 per cent of total ground-water withdrawals (500 Mgal/d).  All water-bearing unconsolidated deposits were categorized as Glacial sand and gravel aquifers in Indiana.  Withdrawals from this unit (455 Mgal/d) represented 91 percent of total aquifer withdrawals from the three categories (public supply, irrigation, and self-supplied industrial). The majority of the withdrawals were for public supply (309 Mgal/d); irrigation and self-supplied industrial withdrawals were only 50.6 and 94.9 Mgal/d, respectively.  Withdrawals from Glacial sand and gravel aquifers were not previously differentiated as to whether the deposit is north or south of the line of continental glaciation.  As total withdrawals from the Other aquifer were only 0.1 Mgal/d, this aquifer unit was not investigated 

      There are eight counties out of ninety-two in Indiana whose total land area is south of the line of glaciation. They are: Crawford, Harrison, Lawrence, Orange, Perry, Spencer, Vanderburgh, and Warrick. Parts of Brown, Clark, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Greene, Martin, Monroe, Pike, Posey, and Washington counties are both south and north of the line of continental glaciation.  All the counties listed above may have ground-water withdrawals from stream-valley alluvium.  
      
      Site-specific information was developed by converting UTM coordinates into latitude and longitude values in order to map the location of wells. The distribution of withdrawals from the Glacial sand and gravel aquifer unit south of the line of glaciation matches the distribution of stream valley alluvium shown on figure 4, chapter K, of the Ground Water Atlas. Thus, it was assumed that, given wells screened in Glacial sand and gravel, sediment adjacent to the screen identified as either sand or gravel, and the wells located in areas of the stream-valley aquifer as shown in the Ground Water Atlas, that the withdrawals likely originated from a stream-valley aquifer.
      
      The portion of the glacial and stream-valley aquifer deposits in figure 4, chapter K, of the Ground Water Atlas south of the line of Quaternary continental glaciation have the characteristic string-like shape of a stream-valley aquifer and do not appear to represent outwash deposits. Buried glacial deposits underlie much of the northern two-thirds of Indiana, where they are typically interbedded with till deposits and can be 10 to 400 ft deep. Discontinuous sand and gravel deposits are present as isolated lenses, also in glaciated areas (Hydrogeologic Atlas of Aquifers in Indiana, Water-Resources Investigations Report 92-4142, by J.M. Fenelon and others, 1994 197 p.)  South of the line of Quaternary continental glaciation, stream-valley aquifers are generally the most reliable source of ground water. (oral communication, Paul M. Buszka, August 5, 2005) 
      
      Ground-water withdrawals from the Ohio stream-valley aquifer, the Wabash stream-valley aquifer and the Lower East Fork White stream-valley aquifer totaled 38.5 Mgal/d. Withdrawals along the Ohio River was significantly greater than withdrawals associated with the other two stream-valley aquifer (36.98 versus 1.56 Mgal/d, respectively). Public supply had the greatest withdrawals of any category (33.1 Mgal/d).  Although Evansville, the third largest city in Indiana with a population over 120,000, is located along the Ohio River, its primary source of water supply is surface water. However, most of the other communities along the Ohio River withdraw water from the Ohio stream-valley aquifer, which explains the relatively large amount of public supply withdrawals (oral communication, Paul M. Buszka, August 5, 2005).
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Contact for data from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources  Ralph Spaeth (317-234-1101)
      
      Conversion of UTM coordinates to latitude and longitudes was accomplished using an Excel spreadsheet created by Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin  Green Bay and found at: http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/UsefulData/HowUseExcel.HTM
      
      
      

 
      
      


