{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Utah Water Science Center", "hasEmail": "mailto:rrowland@usgs.gov"}, "description": "An existing three-dimensional groundwater flow model of northern Utah County \n(https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20095049), was updated for use with the Groundwater \nManagement Process(GWM) for MODFLOW-2005, to evaluate the optimal \nmanaged aquifer recharge scenarios with the objective of maintaining acceptable \nreductions in simulated discharge at 12 groundwater discharge areas along Utah \nLake. Groundwater is a primary source of drinking water in northern Utah County.  \nBy 2066, the amount of groundwater withdrawn is estimated to be roughly 65 \npercent of annual average recharge. To prepare for anticipated future increases in \ngroundwater withdrawals, local cities have identified 16 locations as feasible for \nmanaged aquifer recharge. The GWM Process for MODFLOW-2005 was used to \ninvestigate optimal managed aquifer recharge scenarios with the objective of \nmaintaining acceptable reductions in simulated discharge at 12 groundwater \ndischarge areas and flowing wells along Utah Lake. The Groundwater-Management \nProcess is applied to a 50-year (2017\u201366) projection of groundwater conditions \nusing average recharge conditions and a linear increase of approximately 750 acre-\nfeet per year of municipal groundwater withdrawals. Two sets of discharge \nconstraints were applied. The first scenario constrains discharge to greater than \nor equal to 80 percent of the 2016 simulated groundwater discharge along Utah \nLake. The constraint was met with a total managed aquifer recharge rate of roughly\n 7,300 acre-feet per year during 2042\u201356, and 15,600 acre-feet per year during \n2057\u201366. A second scenario constrains discharge to greater than or equal to 90 \npercent of the 2016 simulated discharge. This constraint can only be met at 8 of \nthe 12 discharge areas along Utah Lake. This required a managed aquifer \nrecharge rate of roughly 10,000 acre-feet per year during 2042\u201356 and 15,400 \nacre-feet per year during 2057\u201366. This USGS data release contains all of the \ninput and output files for the simulations described in the associated model \ndocumentation report (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20215010).", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P99HK8T5", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.2d5e02fd-9e22-4580-9f8f-8f2d5f021b15.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_2d5e02fd-9e22-4580-9f8f-8f2d5f021b15", "keyword": ["Alpine", "American Fork", "Central Utah Water Conservancy District", "Groundwater", "Groundwater Management", "Groundwater Model", "Highland", "InlandWaters", "Lehi", "MODFLOW-2005", "North Utah County Aquifer Council [NUCAC]", "Pleasant Grove", "USGS:2d5e02fd-9e22-4580-9f8f-8f2d5f021b15", "Utah", "Utah County", "environment", "geoscientificInformation", "gwm2005", "inlandWaters", "usgsgroundwatermodel"], "modified": "2021-04-28T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-112.050386, 40.117395, -111.425376, 40.579836", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "MODFLOW2005 and GWM-2005 used to optimize managed aquifer recharge in an Updated Version of the Three-Dimensional Numerical Groundwater Flow Model in Northern Utah Valley, Utah County, Utah"}