BWMA launches modeling projects to assess municipal groundwater supplies

For the past two years, the Columbia Basin Ground Water Area (GWMA) has been developing a sophisticated computational groundwater model of four Columbia Basin Counties – Adams, Franklin, Grant and Lincoln.

This year the state appropriated $1 million for GWMA “to use the model to help answer critical questions about ground water supply, recharge and aquifer storage,” according to Paul Stoker, GWMA Executive Director.

The 2011-2012 GWMA groundwater projects are:

• Construction of hydrologic assessment of each municipal water supply - GWMA will assess the future groundwater supply for each of the...