USGS/USDOE Cooperative Studies in Nevada
Water-Use Wells
Nevada Test Site and Vicinity
Click on an area below to view well information and data.
Area 1 || Area 2 || Area 3 || Area 5 || Area 6 || Area 15 || Area 16 || Area 18 || Area 19 || Area 20 || Area 22 || Area 25 || Southeast Regional Area
Ground-Water Pumpage
USGS in cooperation with DOE developed a transient ground-water flow model of the Death Valley region of southern Nevada and southeastern California to examine the impact of NTS activities on the regional ground-water system. Because ground-water pumpage is the most significant anthropogenic activity affecting regional ground-water flow paths, an initial digital database of spatially and temporally distributed ground-water pumpage throughout the Death Valley region through 1998 was completed (Moreo and others, 2003 http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/wrir034245/).
Renewed pumping and increases in the number of water-use applications for large ground-water withdrawals from areas directly south and east of the NTS has occurred in response to population growth in Las Vegas and Pahrump. In anticipation of efforts to evaluate the impact of increased pumpage on regional flow paths, the objective of this study is to extend the pumpage database to include the most recent pumpage data through 2003 (dvrfs_withdrawals_2005_public.zip*).
* Zip file contains a Microsoft Access 2003 database. If you cannot access the database, please contact the Nevada Water Science Center Public Information Assistant by phone (775-887-7649) or email (GS-W-NVpublic-info@usgs.gov)
