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6550173 
Journal Article 
Recharging Ground Water 
Bouwer, H; Pyne, RG; Goodrich, JA 
1990 
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Civil Engineering (Reston)
ISSN: 0885-7024 
American Society of Civil Engineers 
60 
6 (Jun 1990) 
63. 
Excess precipitation and runoff from weather-modification projects have been known to occur. Such surpluses can be stored in surface reservoirs or underground through artificial recharge of suitable aquifers. Some advantages of underground storage are high storage capacity, low cost, simplicity, and no loss from evaporation. In 1988, some 558 of the 719 injection wells surveyed in 14 states were recharging aquifers. The fastest growing type of recharge in 1990 is the aquifer storage recovery well. This type of well both stores and recovers water from the same wells according to supply and demand. In areas where geologic conditions are suitable and land is available, surface recharge is the least-cost approach. To protect high-quality native ground water and nearby drinking-water wells, soil-aquifer treatment systems are designed as recharge-recovery systems where recharge water is pumped out of the aquifer again with strategically located interceptors. 
Aquifers; Civil Engineering; Wells; Underground Storage; Geohydrology; Groundwater; Artificial Recharge; Reservoirs; Groundwater Recharge