Slug test data for Viequense deep well, Utuado, Puerto Rico

Description

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, completed a study to determine whether a relation exists between the extent of forest cover and the magnitude of base flow at two sets of paired drainage basins in the highlands of the municipalities of Adjuntas and Utuado within the mountainous interior of Puerto Rico. One set of paired basins includes the Río Guaónica and Río Tanamá, both tributaries of the Río Grande de Arecibo. The other set includes two smaller basins in the drainage basin of the Río Coabey, which is a tributary of the Río Tanamá. The paired basins in each set have similar rainfall patterns, geologic substrate, and aspect; the principal difference identified in the study is the extent of forest cover and related land uses such as the cultivation of shade and sun coffee. Data describing the hydrology, hydrogeology, and streamflow were used in the analysis. The principal objective of the study was to compare base flow per unit area among basins having different areal extents of forest cover and land uses such as shade coffee and sun coffee cultivation.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/F7N58JG5
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.58515a22e4b0f99207c4f050.xml

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  • puerto-rico
  • slug-test
  • usgs-58515a22e4b0f99207c4f050
  • well
  • utuado
  • adjuntas

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