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Hydrogeology Program The WGNHS has a principal responsibility among state agencies for conducting groundwater survey and research. Many activities under this program are closely coordinated with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and with individual counties or regional planning agencies. The Survey also works cooperatively with the U.S. Geological Survey and other agencies about groundwater issues affecting Wisconsin. Hydrogeology research at the Survey is interdisciplinary and ranges from original hydrogeologic research to water-resources protection and management. Specific groundwater research projects focused on scientific questions about Wisconsin’s groundwater address questions associated with groundwater movement through fractured rocks, groundwater recharge, land-use impacts on groundwater, arsenic in groundwater, and other topics. The WGNHS staff develops water-table maps, builds computerized models to predict groundwater flow, assists with land-use questions, and conducts various research projects. These activities provide information to local governments, state agencies, and the public to help increase their effectiveness is dealing with water-resource protection and management issues. WGNHS researchers also collect data and compile maps about the state’s groundwater, usually at the county level (scale 1:100,000); products include county groundwater reports, well construction databases, and groundwater-quality surveys. Some researchers in the hydrogeology program are faculty in the University of Wisconsin–Extension’s Department of Environmental Sciences. Hydrogeology researchers also cooperate regularly with the Hydrogeology Group at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. |
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