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Full-Text Articles in Hydrology
Contaminant Mapping And Refugia: Hidden River Cave, Kentucky, Chris Smart, Caren Raedts
Contaminant Mapping And Refugia: Hidden River Cave, Kentucky, Chris Smart, Caren Raedts
National Cave and Karst Management Symposia
No abstract provided.
An Investigation Of Groundwater Flow In The Vicinity Of Patoka Dam, Indiana: Assessment Research To Support United States Army Corps Of Engineers Dam Safety Risk, Lee Anne Bledsoe, Chris Groves, Kenneth Henn, Jackie Row
An Investigation Of Groundwater Flow In The Vicinity Of Patoka Dam, Indiana: Assessment Research To Support United States Army Corps Of Engineers Dam Safety Risk, Lee Anne Bledsoe, Chris Groves, Kenneth Henn, Jackie Row
National Cave and Karst Management Symposia
No abstract provided.
An Analysis Of The Lost River Karst Aquifer’S Hydrometeorological Response To Storm Events For Flooding And Water Quality Management, Logan Mitchell, Jason Polk, Kegan Mcclanahan
An Analysis Of The Lost River Karst Aquifer’S Hydrometeorological Response To Storm Events For Flooding And Water Quality Management, Logan Mitchell, Jason Polk, Kegan Mcclanahan
National Cave and Karst Management Symposia
No abstract provided.
An Analysis Of The Lost River Karst Aquifer’S Hydrometeorological Response To Storm Events For Flooding And Water Quality Management, Logan Mitchell, Jason Polk, Kegan Mcclanahan
An Analysis Of The Lost River Karst Aquifer’S Hydrometeorological Response To Storm Events For Flooding And Water Quality Management, Logan Mitchell, Jason Polk, Kegan Mcclanahan
National Cave and Karst Management Symposia
No abstract provided.
Discovery And Management Of Georgia Caves, Lasha Asanidze, Kukuri Tsikarishvili, Zaza Lezhava, Nana Bolashvili, Nino Chikhradze
Discovery And Management Of Georgia Caves, Lasha Asanidze, Kukuri Tsikarishvili, Zaza Lezhava, Nana Bolashvili, Nino Chikhradze
National Cave and Karst Management Symposia
No abstract provided.
Quantitative Dye Studies To Evaluate The Spill Response System For Mammoth Cave National Park, Jetara Brown, Rickard Toomey, Rick Olson, D. Solomon, Lonnie Sharp
Quantitative Dye Studies To Evaluate The Spill Response System For Mammoth Cave National Park, Jetara Brown, Rickard Toomey, Rick Olson, D. Solomon, Lonnie Sharp
National Cave and Karst Management Symposia
No abstract provided.
Potential Application Of Hugelkultur To Increase Water Holding Capacity Of Karst Rocky Desertified Land, Megan Laffoon, Albert Meier, Chris Groves
Potential Application Of Hugelkultur To Increase Water Holding Capacity Of Karst Rocky Desertified Land, Megan Laffoon, Albert Meier, Chris Groves
National Cave and Karst Management Symposia
No abstract provided.
Isotopic Evolution And Epikarst Mixing In A Telogenetic Karst System: Implications For Contaminant Transport And Groundwater Movement, Keegan Mcclanahan, Jason Polk, Benjamin Miller, Robert Schaefer, Carl Bolster
Isotopic Evolution And Epikarst Mixing In A Telogenetic Karst System: Implications For Contaminant Transport And Groundwater Movement, Keegan Mcclanahan, Jason Polk, Benjamin Miller, Robert Schaefer, Carl Bolster
National Cave and Karst Management Symposia
No abstract provided.
Dripwater Chemistry And Land-Use Study At Diamond Caverns, Hart County, Ky: Science And Student Engagement At A Show Cave, Ethan Morgan, Andrew Wulff, Pat Kambesis, Chris Groves
Dripwater Chemistry And Land-Use Study At Diamond Caverns, Hart County, Ky: Science And Student Engagement At A Show Cave, Ethan Morgan, Andrew Wulff, Pat Kambesis, Chris Groves
National Cave and Karst Management Symposia
No abstract provided.
Building Resilience Against Karst Hazards: A Case Study Of The National Corvette Museum Sinkhole, Jason Polk, Ric Fredrico, Brian Ham, Daniel Nedvidek, Kegan Mcclanahan, Leslie A. North, Pat Kambesis, Mike Marasa
Building Resilience Against Karst Hazards: A Case Study Of The National Corvette Museum Sinkhole, Jason Polk, Ric Fredrico, Brian Ham, Daniel Nedvidek, Kegan Mcclanahan, Leslie A. North, Pat Kambesis, Mike Marasa
National Cave and Karst Management Symposia
No abstract provided.
Improving Stormwater Treatment Efficiency Based On Runoff Properties At Mammoth Cave National Park, Hung-Wai Ho, Rickard Toomey
Improving Stormwater Treatment Efficiency Based On Runoff Properties At Mammoth Cave National Park, Hung-Wai Ho, Rickard Toomey
National Cave and Karst Management Symposia
No abstract provided.
Evaluation Of First Order Error Induced By Conservative-Tracer Temperature Approximation For Mixing In Karstic Flow, Philippe Machetel, David A. Yuen
Evaluation Of First Order Error Induced By Conservative-Tracer Temperature Approximation For Mixing In Karstic Flow, Philippe Machetel, David A. Yuen
Sinkhole Conference 2015
Fluid dynamics in karst systems is complex due to the heterogeneity of hydraulic networks that combine the Porous Fractured Matrix (PFM) and the interconnected drains (CS). These complex dynamic systems often need to be treated as “black boxes” in which only input and output properties are known. In this work, we propose to assess the first-order error induced by considering the temperature as a conservative tracer for flows mixing in karst (fluvio-karst). The fluvio-karstic system is treated as an open thermodynamic system (OTS), which exchanges water and heat with its surrounding. We propose to use a cylindrical PFM drained by …
Numerical Simulation Of Spring Hydrograph Recession Curves For East Yorkshire Chalk Aquifer, Uk, Nozad Hasan Azeez, Landis Jared West, Simon H. Bottrell
Numerical Simulation Of Spring Hydrograph Recession Curves For East Yorkshire Chalk Aquifer, Uk, Nozad Hasan Azeez, Landis Jared West, Simon H. Bottrell
Sinkhole Conference 2015
The Cretaceous Chalk aquifer is the most important in the UK for the provision of water to public supply and agriculture. The Chalk has both matrix and fracture porosity and is thus best considered as a dual porosity aquifer system. Although the matrix porosity is large, typically around 0.35 in the study area of East Yorkshire, UK (ESI, 2010), pore diameters are typically very small, and the water contained in them is virtually immobile. The high permeability fracture network is responsible for the ability of water to drain; spatial variations in fracture network properties mean conventional approaches to aquifer characterization …
Accounting For Anomalous Hydraulic Responses During Constant-Rate Pumping Tests In The Prairie Du Chien-Jordan Aquifer System – Towards A More Accurate Assessment Of Leakage, Justin Blum
Sinkhole Conference 2015
The Prairie du Chien-Jordan Aquifer system is an important source of drinking water for residents of southeastern Minnesota. Assessment of the hydraulic properties of this aquifer continues to be of interest for wellhead protection and resource evaluation efforts. When performing constant-rate pumping tests on wells constructed in the karsted Prairie du Chien Aquifer, anomalous hydraulic responses resulting from cavernous flow are frequently observed. Hydraulic response in the adjacent Jordan Sandstone Aquifer is also commonly distorted because of bedding-plane fractures and well development techniques such as blasting and bailing. Resolution of these anomalous responses is important for accurate estimates of leakage …
Hydrochemical Characteristics And Formation Mechanism Of Groundwater In The Liulin Karst System, Min Yang, Feng'e Zhang, Sheng Zhang, Miying Yin, Guoqing Wu
Hydrochemical Characteristics And Formation Mechanism Of Groundwater In The Liulin Karst System, Min Yang, Feng'e Zhang, Sheng Zhang, Miying Yin, Guoqing Wu
Sinkhole Conference 2015
The Liulin karst system is typical of hydrogeological systems in northwestern China, with a group of springs as the dominant mechanism for regional groundwater discharge. To reveal the hydrochemical formation mechanism of the Liulin karst groundwater system, we studied the hydrogeochemical processes of karst groundwater in aquifers at the base of the hydrogeological investigation. Then starting from the chemical composition of karst groundwater together with the recharge-runoff - discharge process of groundwater systems, we analyzed the solutes origin and the dissolved mineral facies of the groundwater chemical composition. The results showed that the anionic and cationic compositions of karst water …
Dye Tracing Through The Vadose Zone Above Wind Cave, Custer County, South Dakota, James Nepstad
Dye Tracing Through The Vadose Zone Above Wind Cave, Custer County, South Dakota, James Nepstad
Sinkhole Conference 2015
During the 1990s, in an attempt to better understand threats posed by surface developments overlying the cave, National Park Service staff at Wind Cave National Park in Custer County, South Dakota carried out a series of dye traces through portions of the vadose zone overlying the cave. Wind Cave is located within the 100m-thick Madison formation (limestone and dolomite), which in most locations is capped by varying thicknesses of the basal units of the Minnelusa formation (intermingled beds of sandstone, limestone, and shale). A variety of cave locations with dripping or pooled water were monitored for up to five years …
Finding Springs In The File Cabinet, Mason Johnson, Ashley Ignatius
Finding Springs In The File Cabinet, Mason Johnson, Ashley Ignatius
Sinkhole Conference 2015
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), in partnership with other agencies, is currently undertaking comprehensive sub-basin assessments statewide over a ten-year period. Southeast Minnesota has over 17,500 kilometers of perennial and intermittent streams, making the task of comprehensive sub-basin assessment challenging; the task is further complicated by karst geology. In the summer of 2014, a pilot project began between the MPCA and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to digitally preserve paper documents which capture qualitative and quantitative data about the hydrology, water chemistry, geomorphology, biology, land use and karst features of southeast Minnesota streams. The paper documents in file …
Legacy Data In The Minnesota Spring Inventory, Greg Brick
Legacy Data In The Minnesota Spring Inventory, Greg Brick
Sinkhole Conference 2015
Past spring inventories have covered certain parts of Minnesota reasonably well, notably, the springs of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area and the southeastern Minnesota karst. But hitherto, there has not been a systematic effort to create a uniform statewide inventory. The first step, before hunting down new springs, was to compile existing data and the most fruitful source of hydrological legacy data for the Minnesota spring inventory was the DNR Fisheries files. Once entered into a GIS-capable database, these spring locations can help “seed the ground” so that when crews finally do take to the field to map more springs, …
History And Future Of The Minnesota Karst Feature Database, Robert Tipping, Mathew Rantala, E. Calvin Alexander Jr., Yongli Gao, Jeffrey Green
History And Future Of The Minnesota Karst Feature Database, Robert Tipping, Mathew Rantala, E. Calvin Alexander Jr., Yongli Gao, Jeffrey Green
Sinkhole Conference 2015
Since the 1990s, the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources have maintained a karst features database that is used to conduct research on karst processes and inventory karst features. Originally designed as a tabular database only, the karst features database developed into a spatial database in 2002, with tabular data stored in Microsoft Access and a spatial component managed in ESRI ArcView. In 2012, the database was converted to a single, relational database platform, PostgreSQL, with both tabular and spatial components edited in ESRI ArcMap. Custom editing forms are written in Visual Basic and are accessed …
Sinkhole Vulnerability Mapping: Results From A Pilot Study In North Central Florida, Clint Kromhout, Alan E. Baker
Sinkhole Vulnerability Mapping: Results From A Pilot Study In North Central Florida, Clint Kromhout, Alan E. Baker
Sinkhole Conference 2015
At the end of June in 2012, Tropical Storm Debby dropped a record amount of rainfall across Florida which triggered hundreds, if not thousands, of sinkholes to form which resulted in tremendous damage to property. The Florida Division of Emergency Management contracted with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Florida Geological Survey to produce a map depicting the state’s vulnerability to sinkhole formation. The three-year project began with a pilot study in three northern Florida counties: Columbia, Hamilton and Suwannee. Utilizing the statistical modeling method Weights of Evidence, results from the pilot study yielded a 93 percent success rate of …
Shallow Depressions In The Florida Coastal Plain: Karst And Pseudokarst, Sam B. Upchurch, Thomas M. Scott, Michael C. Alfieri, Thomas L. Dobecki
Shallow Depressions In The Florida Coastal Plain: Karst And Pseudokarst, Sam B. Upchurch, Thomas M. Scott, Michael C. Alfieri, Thomas L. Dobecki
Sinkhole Conference 2015
In Florida, shallow depressions (i.e., depressions <1-2 m in depth) on the land surface are often attributed to sinkhole development. However, it has become evident that there are at least six different mechanisms through which these depressions can form in geologically young cover sediments. These mechanisms include: 1. Cover-subsidence sinkholes over shallow limestone; 2. Suffosion sinkholes over shallow limestone; 3. Cover settlement over shallow shell beds; 4. Large, aeolian deflation areas that resemble “Carolina bays;” 5. Depressions that mimic landforms developed on a shallow paleosol; and 6. Depressions created by pedodiagenesis (i.e., conversion of smectite to kaolinite) in a soil-forming environment. Of these, only the first two appear to represent traditional mechanisms for sinkhole development in eogenetic karst. Cover settlement over shell beds is poorly understood and incorrectly attributed to sinkhole development processes. This type of depression has serious limitations in terms of cover thickness and shell content of the substrate. The last three mechanisms are pseudokarst created by aeolian and soil-forming processes. In this paper we present examples of each and discuss their constraints and evidence.
Creation Of A Map Of Paleozoic Bedrock Springsheds In Southeast Minnesota, Jeffrey A. Green, E. Calvin Alexander Jr.
Creation Of A Map Of Paleozoic Bedrock Springsheds In Southeast Minnesota, Jeffrey A. Green, E. Calvin Alexander Jr.
Sinkhole Conference 2015
Springs are groundwater discharge points that serve as vital coldwater sources for streams in southeast Minnesota. The springs generally emanate from Paleozoic carbonate and siliciclastic bedrock aquifers. Use of systematic dye tracing began in the 1970s and continues through the present as a standard method for investigating karst hydrology and to map springsheds,. The work was accelerated in 2007 because of increased funding from the State of Minnesota’s Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund. A compilation springshed map of dye traces conducted over the last several decades has been assembled for the region. In southeast Minnesota, the springs are the …
Investigation Of A Sinkhole In Ogle County, Northwestern Illinois, Using Near-Surface Geophysical Techniques, Philip J. Carpenter, Lauren Schroeder
Investigation Of A Sinkhole In Ogle County, Northwestern Illinois, Using Near-Surface Geophysical Techniques, Philip J. Carpenter, Lauren Schroeder
Sinkhole Conference 2015
A sinkhole measuring 40 m in diameter and up to 6.5 m deep occurs within the Nachusa Grasslands, near the town of Franklin Grove, northwestern Illinois. This area, dedicated to prairie conservation and restoration, is owned and operated by The Nature Conservancy. Several meters of unconsolidated sand, gravel, and clay overlie the St. Peter sandstone, beneath which lies karstic Prairie du Chien dolomite. Investigations included EM conductivity profiles, resistivity soundings, 2D resistivity, and ground- penetrating radar (GPR), supplemented by conductivity logs, soil cores, and tree core studies. These data indicate the sandstone averages about 5 m deep near the sinkhole …
Goliath’S Cave, Minnesota: Epigenic Modification And Extension Of Pre-Existing Hypogenic Conduits, E. Calvin Alexander Jr., Scott C. Alexander, Kelton Barr, Andrew Luhmann, Cale Anger
Goliath’S Cave, Minnesota: Epigenic Modification And Extension Of Pre-Existing Hypogenic Conduits, E. Calvin Alexander Jr., Scott C. Alexander, Kelton Barr, Andrew Luhmann, Cale Anger
Sinkhole Conference 2015
Goliath’s Cave is developed in the Ordovician Dubuque and Stewartville Formations of the Galena Group in Fillmore County, MN. The cave currently functions as an epigenic karst system with allogenic surface water sinking into the cave and a vadose stream running through the cave and resurging at springs a few kilometers away. Passages in the cave are locally controlled by vertical joints in the nearly flat-lying carbonate bedrock, but the water flow directions often do not correspond to the systematic joint directions. The cave contains straight, joint-controlled passages that appear to pre-date the current epigenic drainage systems. These old passages …
Relay Ramp Structures And Their Influence On Groundwater Flow In The Edwards And Trinity Aquifers, Hays And Travis Counties, Central Texas, Brian B. Hunt, Brian A. Smith, Alan Andrews, Douglas Wierman, Alex S. Broun, Marcus Gary
Relay Ramp Structures And Their Influence On Groundwater Flow In The Edwards And Trinity Aquifers, Hays And Travis Counties, Central Texas, Brian B. Hunt, Brian A. Smith, Alan Andrews, Douglas Wierman, Alex S. Broun, Marcus Gary
Sinkhole Conference 2015
The Cretaceous Edwards and Middle Trinity Aquifers of central Texas are critical groundwater resources for human and ecological needs. These two major karst aquifers are stratigraphically stacked (Edwards over Trinity) and structurally juxtaposed (normal faulting) in the Balcones Fault Zone (BFZ). Studies have long recognized the importance of faulting on the development of the karstic Edwards Aquifer. However, the influence of these structures on groundwater flow is unclear as groundwater flow appears to cross some faults, but not others. This study combines structural and hydrological data to help characterize the potential influence of faults and relay ramps on groundwater flow …
The Sandstone Karst Of Pine County, Minnesota, Beverley Lynn Shade, Emmit Calvin Alexander Jr., Scott C. Alexander
The Sandstone Karst Of Pine County, Minnesota, Beverley Lynn Shade, Emmit Calvin Alexander Jr., Scott C. Alexander
Sinkhole Conference 2015
The glaciated, forested landscape of central Pine County in east-central Minnesota contains a series of sinkholes, stream sinks, springs and caves. The features are formed in Precambrian Hinckley Sandstone and overlying unconsolidated glacial deposits. This is a sandstone karst. The features serve the same function as in carbonate karst terrains: sinkholes and caves focus recharge into a heterogeneous subterranean flow system that discharges into springs. The Hinckley Sandstone is a quartz arenite. No carbonate grains or cements have been found in sandstone samples from the sinkhole area, nor is there evidence that calcite solution controls bedrock permeability. Three parameters appear …
Determination Of The Relationship Of Nitrate To Discharge And Flow Systems In North Florida Springs, Sam B. Upchurch
Determination Of The Relationship Of Nitrate To Discharge And Flow Systems In North Florida Springs, Sam B. Upchurch
Sinkhole Conference 2015
The Suwannee River Water Management District has collected quarterly discharge and water quality data from 30 1st and 2nd magnitude springs in the Suwannee River Basin since 1998. These data were collected quarterly well into the late 2000s and constitute a valuable database for characterizing spring discharge behavior. Trend and correlation analyses were used to compare the relationships of NO3- + NO2- (nitrate in this paper), specific conductance, and spring discharge. Trends were considered significant if alpha levels of the trend slopes were ≤ 0.05. Data from 50% of the springs show that nitrate concentrations increase as discharge from the …
Tracking Of Karst Contamination Using Alternative Monitoring Technologies: Hidden River Cave Kentucky, Caren Raedts, Christopher Smart
Tracking Of Karst Contamination Using Alternative Monitoring Technologies: Hidden River Cave Kentucky, Caren Raedts, Christopher Smart
Sinkhole Conference 2015
Karst groundwater contamination presents great challenges for efficient monitoring because of rapid, discrete transport and the diversity of contaminants. Here a low cost approach is described and applied to Hidden River Cave, Kentucky, where a long history of contamination has been experienced. Local knowledge was acquired through informal interviews and coupled with observations of contaminant residues, faunal distributions and fluorescence spectra in the cave. The resulting patterns were interpreted using Google Earth and Street View to identify specific contaminant sources in the affected sub-catchment of the cave. Despite success in matching contaminant sources with the contamination history and pattern, the …
Karst Influence In The Creation Of A Pfc Megaplume, Virginia Yingling
Karst Influence In The Creation Of A Pfc Megaplume, Virginia Yingling
Sinkhole Conference 2015
Perfluorochemicals (PFCs) are fully-fluorinated organic chemicals used to produce a wide range of industrial and commercial products. Their extreme persistence and mobility in the environment and nearly ubiquitous presence in humans and wildlife has raised serious concerns regarding their environmental and human health effects. In the 1940s to 1970s, PFC-bearing wastes were disposed of in three unlined landfills in Washington County, Minnesota. The resulting co-mingled PFC plumes created a “megaplume” that contaminated over 250 km2 of groundwater and four major drinking water aquifers; affecting eight municipal water supply systems and thousands of private wells. Site investigations revealed that karst features, …
Evaluation Of Veterinary Pharmaceuticals And Iodine For Use As A Groundwater Tracer In Hydrologic Investigation Of Contamination Related To Dairy Cattle Operations, Larry Boot Pierce, Honglin Shi
Evaluation Of Veterinary Pharmaceuticals And Iodine For Use As A Groundwater Tracer In Hydrologic Investigation Of Contamination Related To Dairy Cattle Operations, Larry Boot Pierce, Honglin Shi
Sinkhole Conference 2015
Standard groundwater tracers such as Rhodamine WT, Fluorescein, Eosin and Tinopal CBX effectively provide a snapshot of hydrological conditions over a brief period of time and in a tightly controlled setting. However, in complex environmental situations with multiple potential sources, groundwater hydrologists are often seeking groundwater tracers that have extended longevity in the natural environment and the ability to directly pinpoint source locations. After reviewing operations of the nearby dairy it was determined that emerging contaminants, specifically two bovine veterinary pharmaceuticals (antibiotics), cephapirin sodium (CEPNa) and cephapirin benzathine (CEPB), and a sanitation agent, elemental Iodine (I) may have potential as …