Direct-push sediment cores, resistivity profiles, and depth-averaged resistivity collected for Platte River Recovery and Implementation Program in Phelps County, Nebraska

Time Period

2016-05-04

Time Period

2016-09-13

Time Period

2016-09-21

Time Period

2016-09-22

Publication Date

2017-03-01

Hobza, C.M., and Hall, B.M., 2017, Direct-push sediment cores, resistivity profiles, and depth-averaged resistivity collected for Platte River Recovery and Implementation Program in Phelps County, Nebraska: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F70R9MKP.

Intentional recharge is increasingly being used to increase stream flow and to strategically retime base flow to the Platte River. To properly site and construct berms or check structures for intentional recharge additional subsurface information is often needed. Surface geophysical data, when combined with sediment core information, can provide the needed data to estimate the thickness of fine-grained deposits, allowing for the determination of the location and permeability of fluvial and gravel deposits in a given project area. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in collaboration with the Platte River Recovery and Implementation Program, collected capacitively coupled (CC) resistivity data and six direct push sediment cores to identify the coarsest alluvial deposits underlying the Morse properties in central Nebraska to supplement the subsurface geologic information, for the purposes of proper siting of intentional recharge structures, and to improve current understanding of groundwater movement.

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• USGS Nebraska Water Science Center

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