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  2. List of aquifers in the United States - Wikipedia

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    One of the largest aquifers in the Western United States. The state of Washington has numerous large aquifers, as shown in this map of the Hydrogeology of Washington State. Spokane Valley–Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer [6] covers 325 square miles (842 km 2) in eastern Washington and Idaho. It provides drinking water for some 700,000 people.

  3. Ogallala Aquifer - Wikipedia

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    The Ogallala Aquifer (oh-gə-LAH-lə) is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States. As one of the world's largest aquifers, it underlies an area of approximately 174,000 sq mi (450,000 km 2) in portions of eight states (South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas). [1]

  4. List of aquifers - Wikipedia

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    Englishtown aquifer; Floridan aquifer; Great Miami aquifer; Kirkwood–Cohansey aquifer; Lloyd aquifer; Magothy aquiferlargest of Long Island's aquifers; Mahomet Aquifer; Medina aquifer; Mt. Laurel–Wenonah aquifer; Ogallala Aquifer, also known as the High Plains Aquifer; Ozark Plateau aquifer; Patapsco aquifer; Permian Sea; Potomac ...

  5. What is the Ogallala Aquifer and why is it running out ... - AOL

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    The Ogallala Aquifer accounts for nearly a third of the crop and animal production in the country. But we’re using too much of its water.

  6. Floridan aquifer - Wikipedia

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    The Floridan aquifer system, composed of the Upper and Lower Floridan aquifers, is a sequence of Paleogene carbonate rock which spans an area of about 100,000 square miles (260,000 km 2) in the southeastern United States.

  7. California is letting billions of gallons of stormwater wash ...

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    The Rio Hondo Coastal Basin Spreading Grounds are Los Angeles County Public Works' largest aquifer recharge facility and cover about 570 acres. ... across the United States — or roughly 53 ...

  8. Why One of the Largest Aquifers in the World Is Disappearing

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  9. Aquifer - Wikipedia

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    The Ogallala Aquifer of the central United States is one of the world's great aquifers, but in places it is being rapidly depleted by growing municipal use, and continuing agricultural use. This huge aquifer, which underlies portions of eight states, contains primarily fossil water from the time of the last glaciation. Annual recharge, in the ...