Land-Surface Subsidence in the Houston-Galveston Region, Texas

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dc.acquisition-srcDownloaded from-Water Resources Abstractsen_US
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dc.contributor.authorGabrysch RKen_US
dc.contributor.otherProceedings of the Anaheim Symposium December 1976: International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication No 121, p 16-24, 1976 5 fig, 7 refen_US
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dc.date.issued1976 5en_US
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dc.description.abstractDevelopment of ground water in the Houston-Galveston region, Texas, began in the 1890's. Pumping of ground water from the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers for municipal supply, industrial use, and irrigation was about 23 cubic meters per second by 1974. Pumping of large amounts of ground water has resulted in water-level declines during 1943-73 of as much as 61 meters in wells completed in the Chicot aquifer and as much as 99 meters in wells completed in the Evangeline aquifer. The declines in artesian pressures have resulted in pronounced regional subsidence of the land surface. The center of subsidence is east-southeast of Houston at Pasadena, where as much as 2.3 meters of subsidence occurred between 1943 and 1973. The maximum amount of subsidence during 1964-73 was about 1.1 meters. The area in which subsidence is 0.3 meter or more has increased from about 906 square kilometers in 1954 to about 6,475 square kilometers in 1973. Water from Lake Livingston on the Trinity River, about 97 kilometers east of Houston, will become available in 1976. As a result, it is estimated that ground-water pumping will decrease by about 3.1 cubic meters per second in the area of maximum artesian-pressure decline and subsidence. The recovery of water levels is expected to decrease the rate of subsidence substantially. (Woodard-USGS)en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/23210
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dc.subjectAquifer managementen_US
dc.subjectAquifersen_US
dc.subjectChicot Aquiferen_US
dc.subjectCompactionen_US
dc.subjectDrawdownen_US
dc.subjectEvaluationen_US
dc.subjectEvangeline Aquiferen_US
dc.subjectGalveston Countyen_US
dc.subjectGroundwateren_US
dc.subjectGroundwater pumpingen_US
dc.subjectGroundwater rechargeen_US
dc.subjectHarris Countyen_US
dc.subjectHoustonen_US
dc.subjectHydrogeologyen_US
dc.subjectLake Livingstonen_US
dc.subjectLand subsidenceen_US
dc.subjectLand-surface subsidenceen_US
dc.subjectProjectionsen_US
dc.subjectPUMPINGen_US
dc.subjectSubsidenceen_US
dc.subjectSW 0840 Groundwateren_US
dc.subjectSW 0890 Estuariesen_US
dc.subjectSW 2040 Groundwater managementen_US
dc.subjectTEXen_US
dc.subjectTexasen_US
dc.subjectTRINITY RIVERen_US
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dc.subjectWATERen_US
dc.subjectwater levelen_US
dc.subjectWater levelsen_US
dc.subjectWellsen_US
dc.subjectWithdrawalen_US
dc.titleLand-Surface Subsidence in the Houston-Galveston Region, Texasen_US
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