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    Domestic Wells

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     Groundwater and the Butte County Water Cycle

     Positive Benefits of Our Rural Watersheds

Two series of newsletters relating to groundwater are being released by the University of California Cooperative Extension and the University of California.

The first is a series of six newsletters discussing topics related to groundwater, water wells and pumping plants.  The links to each newsletter are below.

• Seeking and Understanding the Groundwater Aquifers Systems in the Northern Sacramento Valley
  
  
• Incentives for Groundwater Management in the Northern Sacramento Valley
  
  
• Possible Approaches to Groundwater Management in the Northern Sacramento Valley
  
  
• Groundwater Level Monitoring:  What is it?  How is it done?  Why do it?
  
  
• Water Well Design, Construction, and Development:  Important Considerations Before Making the Investment
  
  
• Pumping Plants and Pumping Plant Efficiency:  Basics Worth Remembering  

The second set is a series of five to be published in 2005/2006 discussing topics related to groundwater and water wells in the northern Sacramento Valley.  The links to each newsletter are below.

• Seeking an understanding of the groundwater aquifer systems in the northern Sacramento Valley:  An update  
  
  
• Conjunctive Water Management:  What is it?  Why consider it? What are the challenges?   
  
  
• Land Subsidence:  What Is It and Why Is It An Important Aspect of Groundwater Management?  

   

• Monitoring Groundwater Quality:  An Important Aspect of Groundwater Management  
  
  
• Working to Understand Groundwater Quality in the Northern Sacramento Valley