seepage.study: Stream Seepage Study

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Description

A Wood River Valley stream seepage study with streamflow measurements made during the months of August 2012, October 2012, and March 2013.

Usage

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Format

An object of SpatialPointsDataFrame class containing 82 points with the following variables:

Order

index used to preserve the downstream order of measurement sites.

Name

local name for the measurement site.

SiteNo

unique identifier for the measurement site within the National Water Information System (NWIS).

Type

the type of measurement site: “Big Wood River”, “Willow Creek”, “Spring fed creeks”, “Silver Creek”, “Diversion”, “Exchange well inflow”, “Return”, and “Tributary”.

Comments

abbreviated site name

Aug

volumetric flow rate measured during August 2012, in cubic meters per day.

Oct

volumetric flow rate measured during October 2012, in cubic meters per day.

Mar

volumetric flow rate measured during March 2013, in cubic meters per day.

Geographic coordinates are in units of meters, in conformance with the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83), and placed in the Idaho Transverse Mercator projection (IDTM).

Source

Derived from Bartolino (2014) seepage study, Idaho Department of Water Resources, Water District 37 and 37M flow records.

References

Bartolino, J.R., 2014, Stream seepage and groundwater levels, Wood River Valley, south-central Idaho, 2012–13: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5151, 34 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20145151.

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