Ground-Water Availability in the South Metropolitan Atlanta Region, Georgia

Proceedings of the 1991 Georgia Water Resources Conference, March 19-20, 1991, Athens, Georgia.An investigation examining the availability of ground-water resources in south metropolitan Atlanta region (south metro region) was conducted because of an increasing demand for additional water supplies, and concern that surface-water supplies may not satisfy future requirements. In response to this concern, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Division, Geologic Survey Branch, conducted a study to provide a general evaluation of the ground-water resources of the south metro region and their development potential. This involved estimating ground-water recharge in the upper Flint River Basin and providing a description of existing ground-water supplies in the region, including wells and springs; their yield, hydrogeologic and topographic setting, and construction specifications. Much of the 2,808 square mile study area lies in the upper Flint River basin in the Piedmont physiographic province (Figure 1). The extreme southern part of the study area is in the Coastal Plain physiographic province.Sponsored by U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, and Georgia Institute of Technology.This book was published by the Institute of Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 with partial funding provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, through the Georgia Water Research Institute as authorized by the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 (P.L. 98242). The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of The University of Georgia or the U.S. Geological Survey or the conference sponsors