Setting goals for the project was one of our first steps to help guide our focus. (discuss slide)
Numerical computer models will be used in the Coastal Plain aquifers where most groundwater is withdrawn, the groundwater withdrawals have caused some unacceptable impacts, and forecasts suggest there will be increases in future withdrawals. The model that will be used is MODFLOW and the aquifers that will be modeled are the Upper Floridian aquifer in Tift County area, the Cretaceous aquifer between Macon and Augusta, the Claiborne aquifer in southwestern Georgia, and the Upper Floridian aquifer in eastern Coastal Plain. Water balance models in the north Georgia for the crystalline and Paleozoic rock aquifers where less groundwater is withdrawn.