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Fort Bend Subsidence District, and Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District

Water-Level Altitudes 2005 and Water-Level Changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper Aquifers and Compaction 1973–2004 in the Chicot and Evangeline Aquifers, Houston-Galveston Region, Texas

By Mark C. Kasmarek and Natalie A. Houston

U.S. Geological Survey
Open-File Report 2005–1128

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Contents

Introduction

Geohydrology

Water-Level Measurements

Measured Compaction

References

Plates

Plates as a complete set of zipped 11" X 17" pdf files (17.3 MB)
Plates as a complete set of zipped 8.5" X 11" pdf files (18.1 MB)

1–12. Maps showing:
1. 
Approximate water-level altitudes in the Chicot aquifer, Houston-Galveston region, Texas, January–March 2005
or pdf version 17" X 22" (1.37 MB)
2
Water-level changes in the Chicot aquifer, Houston-Galveston region, Texas, 2004–05
or pdf version 17" X 22"  (1.29 MB) 
3. 
Approximate water-level changes in the Chicot aquifer, Houston-Galveston region, Texas, 2000–2005
or pdf version 17" X 22"  (1.74 MB) 
4
Approximate water-level changes in the Chicot aquifer, Houston-Galveston region, Texas, 1990–2005
or pdf version 17" X 22"  (1.68 MB) 
5
Approximate water-level changes in the Chicot aquifer, Houston-Galveston region, Texas, 1977–2005
or pdf version 17" X 22"  (1.30 MB) 
6
Approximate water-level altitudes in the Evangeline aquifer, Houston-Galveston region, Texas, January–March 2005
or pdf version 17" X 22"  (1.22 MB) 
7
Water-level changes in the Evangeline aquifer, Houston-Galveston region, Texas, 2004–05
or pdf version 17" X 22"  (1.81 MB) 
8
Approximate water-level changes in the Evangeline aquifer, Houston-Galveston region, Texas, 2000–2005
or pdf version 17" X 22"  (1.65 MB) 
9
Approximate water-level changes in the Evangeline aquifer, Houston-Galveston region, Texas, 1990–2005
or pdf version 17" X 22"  (1.24 MB) 
10. 
Approximate water-level changes in the Evangeline aquifer, Houston-Galveston region, Texas, 1977–2005
or pdf version 17" X 22"  (1.23 MB) 
11. 
Approximate water-level altitudes in the Jasper aquifer, greater Houston area, Texas, January–March 2005
or pdf version 17" X 22"  (1.23 MB) 
12. 
Water-level changes in the Jasper aquifer, greater Houston area, Texas, 2004–05
or pdf version 17" X 22"  (1.20 MB) 
13.  Water-level changes in the Jasper aquifer, greater Houston area, Texas, 2000–2005
or pdf version 17" X 22"  (1.22 MB) 
14.  Location of borehole extensometer sites, Houston-Galveston region, Texas
or pdf version 17" X 22"  (1.18 MB) 
15. Graphs showing measured compaction of subsurface material, 1973–2004, at borehole extensometer sites shown in figure 14
or
pdf version 22" X 17"  (190 KB) 

VERTICAL DATUM

Vertical coordinate information is referenced to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29).


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