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USGS Arizona Program
Notes on a John Hoffman presentation about USGS Arizona Program and Hydrology
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1. What we learnt:
a. physical setting: offices, funding, staff, hydrology;
b. programs: laws influencing them, examples of progrmas;
c. consumptive and renewable water supply by water resources region;
d. importance of groundwater to the US West;e. groundwater resources of Arizona (alluvial deposits, consolidated rocks, precipitation contour);
f. basins;
g. flow system conceptual model (Colorado Plateau).
2. Highlights / Remarks:
a. no competition with the private sector;
b. investigation in the long term;
c. Arizona is the US faster growing state;
d. USGS as substantial database and resources provider to communities for planning and operation purposes;
e. 47% funding comes from cooperators (reimbursable matched and unmatched).
