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Detection and Quality of Previously Undetermined Floridan Aquifer System Discharge to the St Detection and Quality of Previously Undetermined Floridan Aquifer System Discharge to the St. Johns River, Jacksonville, to Green Cove Springs, Northeastern Florida by Rick M. Spechler U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4257 Prepared in cooperation with the CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, and the ST. JOHNS RIVER WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT Tallahassee, Florida 1996 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE BABBITT, Secretary U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Gordon P. Eaton, Director The use of trade, product, industry, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. For additional information write to: Copies of this report can be purchased from: District Chief U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Geological Survey, WRD Branch of Information Services 227 North Bronough Street Box 25286 Suite 3015 Denver Federal Center Tallahassee, FL 32301 Denver, CO 80225 CONTENTS Abstract...........................................................................................^ 1 Introduction...............................................................................^ 1 Purpose and scope....................................................................................................................................................... 2 Previous investigations ............................................................................................................................................... 2 Description of the study area ...................................................................................................................................... 2 Acknowledgments....................................................................................................................................................... 4 Geologic framework ............................................................................................................................................................. 4 Hydrogeology..........................................................^ 5 Surficial aquifer system............................................................................................................................................... 5 Intermediate confining unit......................................................................................................................................... 6 Floridan aquifer system............................................................................................................................................... 6 Methods..............................................................................................................._ 10 Detection of spring discharge...................................................................................................................................... 10 Hydrogeologic methods and field reconnaissance............................................................................................ 10 Thermal infrared imagery ................................................................................................................................. 11 Continuous seismic reflection........................................................................................................................... 13 Water quality sampling ............................................................................................................................................... 13 Detection of ground-water discharge.................................................................................................................................... 14 Field verification of suspected ground-water discharge........................................................................................................ 18 Water quality of springs ........................................................................................................................................................ 21 Summary and conclusions .................................................................................................................................................... 26 Selected references...................................................................................................................^ 27 FIGURES 1. Map showing location of study area...................................................................................................................... 3 2. Generalized geology and hydrogeology of northeastern Florida.......................................................................... 5 3-6. Maps showing: 3. Generalized thickness of the intermediate confining unit........................................................................... 7 4. Altitude of the top of the Floridan aquifer system...................................................................................... 8 5. Potentiometric surface of the Upper Floridan aquifer, September 1992.................................................... 9 6. Location of thermal infrared imagery and seismic reflection surveys........................................................ 12 7. Photograph of thermal infrared imagery showing discharge of water from a submerged spring in the St. Johns River....................................................................................................................................................... 15 8. Map showing location of wastewater treatment plant outfalls to the St. Johns River........................................... 17 9. Photographs of thermal infrared imagery showing discharge of treated wastewater effluent into the St. Johns River......................................^ 19 10. Seismic record showing collapse features along the St. Johns River near Orangedale, St. Johns County ........... 20 11. Trilinear diagram showing major dissolved-constituent ratio in water from springs............................................ 24 TABLES 1. Record of springs in the study area........................................................................................................................... 14 2. Domestic and industrial wastewater treatment facilities that discharge directly into the St. Johns River................ 18 3. Chemical and physical analyses of water from springs in the study area................................................................. 23 4. Seawater 87Sr/86Sr ratios and corresponding age ..................................................................................................... 25 CONTENTS III CONVERSION FACTORS, VERTICAL DATUM, AND ABBREVIATIONS Multiply By To obtain Length inch (in.) 25.4 millimeter foot (ft) 0.3048 meter mile (mi) 1.609 kilometer Volume cubic foot (ft3 ) 0.02832 cubic meter Flow foot per year (ft/y) 0.3048 meter per year cubic foot per second (ft- /s) 0.02832 cubic meter per second gallon per second (gal/s) 3.785 liter per second gallon per minute (gal/min) 0.06309 liter per second million gallons per day (Mgal/d) 0.04381 cubic meter per second Leakance foot per day per foot [(ft/d)/ft] 1.000 meter per day per meter Sea level: In this report "sea level" refers to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 a geodetic datum derived from a general adjustment of the first-order level nets of the United States and Canada, fonnerly called Sea Level Datum of 1929. Equations for temperature conversion between degrees Celsius (°C) and degrees Fahrenheit (°F): °C = 5/9(°F-32) T = 9/5 (°C) + 32 Altitude, as used in this report, refers to distance above or below sea level. Transmissivity: The standard unit for transmissivity is cubic foot per day per square foot times foot of aquifer thickness [(fr/d)/ft"]ft. In this report, the mathematically reduced form, foot squared per day (ft2/d), is used for convenience. Additional abbreviations Hz hertz jim micrometer kHz kilohertz |uS/cm microsiemens per centimeter at 25 degrees Celsius jig/L micrograms per liter mg/L milligrams per liter Acronyms PVC polyvinylchloride SJRWMD St. Johns River Water Management District RASA Regional Aquifer-System Analysis USGS United States Geological Survey SCUBA Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus IV CONTENTS Detection and Quality of Previously Undetermined Floridan Aquifer System Discharge to the St. Johns River, Jacksonville, to Green Cove Springs, Northeastern Florida By Rick M. Spechler Abstract the Hawthorn Formation that underlie the river probably do not consist of continuous beds. Potentiometric surface maps of the Upper The collapse or deformation of the Hawthorn Floridan aquifer show two depressions around the Formation or the presence of permeable sediments St. Johns River from the city of Jacksonville south of localized extent could create zones of relatively toward Green Cove Springs. These depressions, high vertical leakance. This could provide a more depending on their locations, are the result of with­ direct hydraulic connection between the Upper drawals from agricultural, industrial, domestic and Floridan aquifer and the river. public-supply wells, diffuse upward leakage, and discharge from springs. Water samples collected from the only sub­ Submerged springs that discharge into the merged spring in the St. Johns River within the St. Johns River between Jacksonville and Green Jacksonville-Green Cove Springs reach indicate Cove Springs have been thought to exist, but locat­ that the source of the water is the Floridan aquifer ing and evaluating these springs had not been system. Chloride and sulfate concentrations were attempted
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