Deep beneath the surface of Virginia’s vast, undulating coastal plain, ancient aquifers are being drained at unprecedented rates to slake the thirst of hundreds of thousands of residents and a ...

The Potomac aquifer is the source of most groundwater withdrawn in the Virginia Coastal Plain, making it key to understanding how to manage subsidence in the region. To assist partner agencies in ...

About 60 percent of coastal aquifers are contaminated by seawater intrusion, a generalised phenomenon in 20 percent of cases. Experts have found viable solutions implying not so much investment ...

Groundwater is an "invisible resource," writes environmental engineer Debra Perrone. It "flows slowly under our feet through cracks in rocks and spaces in sediments," she says, contrasting it with ...

But nothing on the surface quite captured the scale of the project like hydrogeologist Dan Holloway’s hand-drawn diagram of the Virginia Coastal Plain ... to the Potomac aquifer — a few ...

Saline groundwater results from seawater intrusion into coastal aquifers, shifting the fresh-saline water interface upward and landward, and replaces fresh groundwater with saline groundwater.

An unexpected source may have the potential to provide some relief: offshore aquifers, giant undersea ... could benefit but also water-intensive coastal metropolises. Person published a paper ...

ANNAPOLIS Two aquifers in the Mid-Shore region have widespread concentrations of naturally occurring arsenic, according to a report released Tuesday. Tags ...