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Meet Your Drinking Water Self Reflection
Survey
Answer the following questions as a means
of uncovering what you already know about
groundwater and wetlands:
1. Which of the following have you experienced or
observed?
a. An underground cave
b. A spring
c. A wetland (or marsh or swamp)
Whether it is
from a bottle
or the tap,
our drinking
water
comes from
the same
place and
undergoes
similar
processing
and
monitoring
to make it
safe.
The Good Earth/Chapter 12: Groundwater and Wetlands
Meet Your Drinking Water
dry
• Woburn, Mass – a
cleaning chemicals case of groundwater
pollution with extreme
trucking consequences
− Several potential
plastics sources of pollution
tannery
− Children diagnosed with
leukemia after their
mothers drank water
from two polluted wells
while they were
pregnant
National Priorities List – over 1500 sites in the U.S. where contamination
is likely by companies that are out of business or unknown
About ¼ of the U.S. population lives within 4 miles of an NPL site
The Good Earth/Chapter 12: Groundwater and Wetlands
Holes in Earth Materials
There’s more water underground than in lakes and streams on
Earth’s surface (about 70% more!)
Most groundwater is in billions of tiny spaces between mineral
grains or in narrow cracks.
The amount of groundwater at any location depends on the
porosity and permeability of materials beneath the surface.
A)
B)
C)
a) 10 months
b) 8 years
c) 16 years
d) 40 years
Groundwater is stored
in bodies of rock
and/or sediment called
aquifers, which are
composed of sufficient
saturated permeable
material to yield
significant quantities of
water.
Aquifers can be
composed of
sands, gravels,
sandstone with
good porosity
and permeability,
and fractured
rocks.
The top of the saturated zone is the water table, and it is highest under
hills and lowest in valleys. Water flows down the slope of the water table
(hydraulic gradient). When the water table intersects the land surface a
stream, lake, or spring will occur.
The Good Earth/Chapter 12: Groundwater and Wetlands
Groundwater Systems
a) Location A
b) Location B
c) Location C
d) Location D
a) Well A
b) Well B
c) Well C
Look at
these graphs
– which one
do you think
is a gaining
stream?
Why?
• Rapid population
growth = greater need for
groundwater
Goundwater overdraft - the
supply cannot replenish as
fast as we extract it for
human use
• Decline in water table
The water table
surrounding a well can
decline if water is pumped
out too fast. The surface of
Trying to pump groundwater is like sucking up a
the depleted water table spilled drink from a table. No matter how big a
forms a cone of depression straw you use, most of the drink stays on the table
around the well. top. The Good Earth/Chapter 12: Groundwater and Wetlands
Groundwater Systems Checkpoint 12.9
Two wells (A and B) are drilled in rocks that
have the same porosity, but the rocks
around well A have a higher permeability
than those around well B. Suppose both
wells are pumped at the same rate. Which
statement is true?
a) Well A will have a larger cone of depression.
b) Well B will have a larger cone of depression.
c) The cone of depression will be the same for both
wells.
a. Point source
b. Nonpoint source