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Kentucky Groundwater Data Repository
The Kentucky Groundwater Data Repository was initiated in 1990 by the Kentucky Geological Survey under mandate from the Kentucky legislature (KRS 151:035). The repository was established to archive and disseminate groundwater data collected by State agencies, other organizations, and independent researchers.
The repository database currently contains information for over 56,000 water wells, 4,000 springs, 350 dye traces, and 45,000 water-quality analyses. Included in these data are general water-well information such as location, usage, total depth, and static water level; well-construction information; water-quality data such as major and minor ionic constituents, pesticides, metals, volatile organic compounds, isotopic analyses, trace-organic analyses, and bacterial analyses; spring data; discharge measurements; and groundwater dye-trace data.
The general public, industry personnel, environmental geologists and engineers, regulatory agencies, state and local government agencies, land-use planners, farmers, agriculturists and soil scientists, construction engineers, architectural designers, geologists and hydrologists, drillers, research organizations, academic institutions, and students could benefit from the data in the repository..
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