National Water-Well Database (NWWDB): Harmonized and Quality-Assured State Water-Well Records for Minnesota
Description
This Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) GeoPackage (.gpkg) contains water-well point features and associated tables for the state of Minnesota that have been reformatted based on a USGS profile of the OGC GroundWaterML2 (GWML2) standard (https://docs.ogc.org/is/19-013/19-013.html). Additionally, the water-well records have been quality-assured to remove or nullify parts of water-well records found to be erroneous or logically inconsistent, harmonized via the assignment of common data codes in the lithologic log, and supplemented with estimates of transmissivity from the analysis of specific-capacity data.
The National Water-Well Database (NWWDB) is a compilation of water-well records from state-managed databases that have been standardized to a common format for consistency across state and administrative boundaries. Water-well completion reports that are submitted to permitting state agencies by licensed drillers constitute a large source of hydrogeologic information, including the locations and distribution of water wells, construction materials and completion depths, lithologic logs, groundwater levels, and the results of pumping or aquifer tests.
Resources
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Description |
Link |
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.63064679d34e3b967a8bd795.xml |
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ME4BO7 |
Tags
- environment
- geography
- groundwater
- usgs-63064679d34e3b967a8bd795
- unconsolidated-deposits
- stratigraphy
- united-states
- bedrock-geologic-units
- geoscientificinformation
- water-budget
- data-integration
- inlandwaters
- hydrogeology
- north-america
- groundwater-level
- minnesota
- well-drilling