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  2. Mahomet Aquifer - Wikipedia

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    Most of the sand and gravel of the Mahomet Aquifer is from the lower half of the Banner Formation and belongs to the Mahomet Sand Member which is buried 100 to 200 feet (30 to 61 m) below the ground surface. The aquifer underlies 1,260,000 acres (510,000 hectares) of land in east-central Illinois and spans 15 counties (Panno and Korab, 2000).

  3. List of aquifers in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Kirkwood–Cohansey Aquifer, is located under the Pine Barrens (New Jersey) of southern New Jersey, contains 17 trillion US gallons (64 km 3) of some of the purest water in the United States. Mahomet Aquifer supplies water to some 800,000 people in central Illinois and contains approximately four trillion US gallons (15 km 3) of water.

  4. Sankoty Aquifer - Wikipedia

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    The Sankoty aquifer is an aquifer in the U.S. state of Illinois that provides groundwater to a number of communities in northwestern and central Illinois. It is an unconsolidated deposit lying in a bedrock valley formerly occupied by the ancestral Mississippi River .

  5. In about a third of the 542 aquifers where researchers were able to analyze several decades of data, they found that depletion has been more severe in the 21st century than in the last 20 years of ...

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  7. List of aquifers - Wikipedia

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    The following is a partial list of aquifers around the world. A category-based list of aquifers is also available. Africa. Bas Saharan Basin;

  8. Watersheds of Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Watersheds of Illinois is a list of basins or catchment areas into which the State of Illinois can be divided based on the place to which water flows.. At the simplest level, in pre-settlement times, Illinois had two watersheds: the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, with almost the entire State draining to the Mississippi, except for a small area within a few miles of the Lake.

  9. Geography of Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois side includes Henry County, Mercer County, and Rock Island County. [4] In extreme northwestern Illinois the Driftless Zone, a region of unglaciated and therefore higher and more rugged topography, occupies a small part of the state. Charles Mound, located in this region, is the state's highest elevation above sea level.