Groundwater-fed rivers can lose water to wells during pumping.

Evidence

But that, Schlichtmann discovered, was not the case. The two measurements were not equal. They showed that the river’s flow did indeed decline by six hundred gallons a minute. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 2046

Categorization

• SHARE: A nerdy hydrology detail — the six-hundred-gallons-a-minute measurement — that only someone who cares about groundwater modeling would care about.
• XREF: connects to: A thick peat riverbed can seal a river off from an underlying aquifer. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action , 1996

Broader Connections

• A thick peat riverbed can seal a river off from an underlying aquifer. #complicates (0.95) — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 1996