At the time, 24 wells pumped water from the surficial aquifer system about 100-300 feet underground to over 19,000 customers. In 2019, the city reopened the wells after building an ionic exchange ...

The water-treatment facility uses a traditional lime-softening process to treat water drawn from the Surficial Aquifer System, 100-300 feet underground, according to the South Florida Water ...

There are over 50 sinkhole lakes and ponds which are directly connected to the aquifer, including Big Blue Lake where the surficial aquifer seeps out around the shoreline, a unique habitat in Florida.

SC needs legal reforms to protect and manage its groundwater resources, which can be harmed by over-pumping; the state needs ...

For a while, the city had a vision to eventually find an alternative water source to the surficial aquifer, a shallow freshwater aquifer, and to upgrade its water-treatment plant, Hogarth said ...

When miners dig into sand deposits, water from the surficial aquifer pours in. To collect minerals, the crew must pump this water out and into storage ponds, where it will evaporate.

Each aquifer’s water has its own chemistry, and every treatment plant matches the treatment with the chemistry of the water, he says.“The surficial water is high in iron and hardness ...

The representatives repeated their projections, based on U.S. Geological Survey data, that aquifer depths would fall by up to 19 feet near the wells and by less than 10 feet outside a 5-mile ...