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WEST VIRGINIA DOCUMENTATION 
Last edited: December 13, 2005

        In West Virginia water use data for public supply was available from the West Virginia Bureau of Health, Office of Environmental Health Services.  The West Virginia Bureau of Employment provided county facility counts and employment data by SIC code.  This information was used with a Harris Infosource directory of West Virginia manufacturers to develop self-supplied industrial water use estimates.  The U.S. Department of Agricultures Census of Agriculture provided data that was used to determine irrigation water use.  The West Virginia Geologic and Economic Survey provided legacy information that provided a quality check for all categories.
      
      In 2000 total water ground-water withdrawals in West Virginia was approximately 90.9 Mgal/d.  Ground-water withdrawals in the categories of public supply, self-supplied industrial, and irrigation are 51.3 Mgal/d, 56 per cent of total ground-water withdrawals.  Withdrawals from the alluvial aquifers and the Other aquifer category totaled 23.2 Mgal/d, representing 45 per cent of ground water withdrawals from the three categories. Public supply was the source of most of the withdrawals attributed to alluvial aquifers (20.8 Mgal/d out of a total of 21.5 Mgal/d).  Public supply was also the major source of water assigned to the Other aquifer category (1.58 Mgal/d out of a total of 1.72 Mgal/d).

      For the 2000 water use compilation West Virginia had water use data aggregated at the county level. For West Virginia the Ground Water Atlas of the United States shows 25 counties that could contain possible stream-valley aquifer withdrawals. Seven of the 25 counties have the potential to contain stream-valley aquifer withdrawals from more than one stream-valley unit. Eight-digit hydraulic unit data that was available for the public supply data and that information provided a means to differentiate between two different stream-valley units within a county. The Ohio River hydraulic units are long and slender in areal extent which means that there is little space available for alluvial deposits that are not associated with the Ohio River. Eight-digit hydraulic unit data was not available for the self-supplied industrial data so only withdrawals from counties that contained a single stream-valley aquifer and no isolated alluvium could be utilized.
      
      The Ohio stream-valley aquifer had the greatest total withdrawals (21.2 Mgal/d); followed by the Kanawha stream-valley aquifer (0.09 Mgal/d) and then the Monongahela stream-valley aquifers (0.03 Mgal/d) and the Potomac stream-valley aquifer (0.01 Mgal/d).  For all stream-valley aquifer withdrawals, the public supply category had the greatest withdrawals (20.8 Mgal/d). Self-supplied industrial had stream-valley aquifer withdrawals of 0.52 Mgal/d. There were no stream-valley aquifer withdrawals for the irrigation category. The 1.72 Mgal/d of withdrawals attributed to the Other aquifer originated from an Appalachian Plateau aquifer along the eastern side of the State. The areal extent of this aquifer is shown on figure 7 of Chapter L of the Ground Water Atlas of the United States and is labeled, Not a principal aquifer on the figure.


