Kim Reynolds. Bedrock aquifers are underground rock formations that can store water. The layers of limestone, dolomite and sandstone that make up Iowa's aquifers range from 5,200 feet deep in ...

Wells drilled down into the sand and bedrock aquifers would produce artesian conditions, where the groundwater is under sufficient pressure—fed by geometry or elevation differences—to cause ...

The deep sandstone aquifer receives little natural recharge ... aquifer , an underground layer that is made up of permeable bedrock — Abrams predicts that wells in the southwest suburbs ...

Giant new oil and gas wells that require astonishing volumes of water to fracture bedrock are threatening America’s fragile aquifers. Increasingly complex oil wells are sweeping across Texas ...

The water in our rivers, streams, lakes, and aquifers, Iowa law says, is “public water and public wealth of the people of the state.” Water is for all of us—it is our public wealth—because ...

It’s also home to aquifers unlike any others in Arizona—or the lack of them. In the northern end of the state, bedrock aquifers are made up of rocks like those found in the region’s iconic ...

The report states that Iowa has two types of aquifers - alluvial and bedrock aquifers; alluvial aquifers are near the surface and recharge relatively quickly with regular precipitation ...

Nearly all — 90 percent — of the water used for ethanol production comes from bedrock aquifers, which take hundreds to thousands of years to recharge, the Sierra Club reported. Iowa also has ...

Researchers have discovered an aquifer that was much bigger than they ever expected. “It is all locked up in fractures in the bedrock but it’s what we call active groundwater, meaning it’s ...

Water exits the aquifer faster than it can recharge. Underground, all the way to the solid bedrock roughly 1,500 feet below, there are different layers of earth. Clay and silt hold water but do ...