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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.
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]
Englishtown aquifer; Floridan aquifer; Great Miami aquifer; Kirkwood–Cohansey aquifer; Lloyd aquifer; Magothy aquifer – largest 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 ...
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.
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All of this comes as, outside of the Kankakee Aquifer, the Microsoft Corp. has plans for two local data centers: one on more than 900 acres of the former St. Joe Farm in Granger that it just ...
In parts of the United States, sixty years of the profitable business of intensive farming using huge center-pivot irrigators has emptied parts of the Ogallala Aquifer (also known as the High Plains Aquifer). [10] One of the world's largest aquifers, it covers an area of approximately 450,000 km 2 (170,000 sq mi) in portions of the eight states ...