Ground water in the Hartford, Stamford, Salisbury, Willimantic and Saybrook areas, Connecticut (1916) (14782724372)
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Identifier: groundwaterinhar00greg (find matches)
Title: Ground water in the Hartford, Stamford, Salisbury, Willimantic and Saybrook areas, Connecticut
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Gregory, Herbert E. (Herbert Ernest), 1869-1952 Ellis, Arthur Jackson, 1885- joint author State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut
Subjects: Water-supply
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the water level in wells.The assistance thus received is acknowledged with thanks. Free use has been made of the technical literature deahng withwater supplies and credit is given for specific facts taken from thesesources, but the report contains also material gathered from thereports of previous investigations, some of which can not be rightlyattributed to any one author. AREAS SELECTED FOR STUDY. The areas with which this report is concerned represent the typicalgeologic conditions of Connecticut. (See fig. 1.) The Hartfordarea mcludes the towns of Hartford, West Hartford, Newington,Wethersfield, East Hartford, Manchester, Windsor, East Windsor, 12 r.ROUND WATER IN THE HARTFOEO AXD OTHER AREAS, CONN, oissviy± NVDiAoayo QNV d^aiO QNV NvidQiNVD Diozoanvd o i.......-i ^ o i/> i >- Q. •o I. U 1_ rapO -00 ^~ -Q -o => Vl- h 05 1) l-> 0) X -1- nj CD O ° m — CO ro
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RELIABILITY OF DATA. 13 South Windsor, and Bloomfield. It lies in the Connecticut Rivervalley and is imderlain by Triassic sediments and lavas. The Stamford area mcludes the towns of Stamford and Greenwich.It hes in the southwest corner of the State and is underlain by crystal-luie rocks. The SaUsbury area is in the northwest corner of the State andincludes the towns of Sahsbury, Canaan, and North Canaan. Thelowlands in this area are underlam by hmestone. The to\\ns of Windham and Frankhn are designated hi this reportas the Willimantic area. They are situated in the eastern highlandsand are underlain by metamorphic rocks of various types, on whicha highly varied topography has been developed. Saybrook, Essex, Westbrook, and Old Lyme, which comprise theSaybrook area, are at the mouth of Connecticut River, where theland is low and comparatively flat and where the presence of saltwater is a feature of ground-water problems. RELIABILITY OF DATA. The principal well data are given in tables
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