zones: Monitoring Zones

In mlms: Multilevel Monitoring System Data for Wells in the USGS INL Aquifer Monitoring Network

Monitoring Zones

Description

A dataset describing the locations of depth-discrete monitoring zones within the multilevel completions of wells in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) aquifer-monitoring network, Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho. These zones enable precise measurements at various depths, where groundwater is vertically isolated between upper and lower packers within each well.

Usage

zones

Format

A data frame with the following variables:

site_nm

Local site name for a MLMS well.

zone_nu

Identifier for the depth-discrete monitoring zone, where groundwater in this zone is vertically isolated between upper and lower packers.

zone_top_va

Depth to the bottom of the uppermost adjacent packer, in feet below land surface (ft bls).

zone_bot_va

Depth to the top of the lowermost adjacent packer, in ft bls.

zone_top_alt_va

Altitude of the bottom of the uppermost adjacent packer, in feet above the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88).

zone_bot_alt_va

Altitude of the top of the lowermost adjacent packer, in feet above the NAVD 88.

zone_len_va

Distance between packer seals or zone, length in feet.

nports

Number of measurement ports within monitoring zone.

Source

The dataset originates from the USGS INL Project Office and underwent processing using the read_mlms_json function.

Examples

str(zones)

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