Products
Results of the investigation will be disseminated through a final online report in the USGS Scientific Investigations Report series, a link to an online file archive where model data may be publicly accessed, and an online repository of geospatial layers and metadata. All numerical models used will be those developed by USGS and available publicly at
http://water.usgs.gov/software/lists/groundwater. The study products will document application of a groundwater-flow model to comprehensively delineate the ground-water recharge areas
associated with estuaries and streams of Long Island. The products will include:
• the flow model grid, including comparison of NACP/NAWQA grids and Long Island study area grid,
• maps and sections presenting the three-dimensional distribution of the hydrogeologic units,
• the present steady-state distribution of groundwater recharge,
• simulated potentiometric-surface and water-table maps of principal aquifers,
• statistics related to flow model calibration, sensitivity analysis, and model uncertainties, and
• recharge area delineations and associated traveltimes.
References Cited
Harbaugh, A.W., 2005, MODFLOW-2005, the U.S. Geological Survey modular ground-water model -- the Ground-Water Flow Process: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 6-A16.
Langevin, C.D., Thorne, D.T., Jr., Dausman, A.M., Sukop, M.C., and Guo, W., 2007, SEAWAT version 4—A computer program for simulation of multi-species solute and heat transport: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, book 6, chap. A22, 39 p.
Masterson, J.P., Pope, J.P., Monti, Jack, Jr., Nardi, M.R., Finkelstein, J.S., and McCoy, K.J., 2013, Hydrogeology and hydrologic conditions of the Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain aquifer system from Long Island, New York, to North Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2013–5133, 76 p.
Pollock, D.W., 1994, User's Guide for MODPATH/MODPATH-PLOT, Version 3: A particle tracking post processing package for MODFLOW, the U.S. Geological Survey finite-difference ground-water flow model: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-464, 6 chapters.
Walter, D.A., Masterson, J.P., and Hess, K.M., 2004, Ground-Water Recharge Areas and Traveltimes to Pumped Wells, Ponds, Streams, and Coastal Water Bodies, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Scientific Investigations Map I-2857, 1 sheet.
Project
Location by County
Kings County, NY, Queens County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Nassau County, NY, Bronx County, NY, Suffolk
County, NY, New York (Manhattan) County (FIPS 36061), NY, Richmond County, NY