Links to information on Groundwater

Groundwater and surface water are so intertwined that they are essentially a single resource. See the lists below for information on a wide variety of water topics that are related to groundwater, and for organizations that are involved with groundwater.

Information from the Pa. Department of Environmental Protection

Bureau of Watershed Management

Includes information on:

• private wells
• source water protection
• groundwater protection
• drought information
• State Water Plan
• water conservation

Also:

Public Drinking Water Information

• Pennsylvania public drinking water standards - maximum contaminant levels

Information from the U.S. Geological Survey

• Pennsylvania groundwater data
• Estimates of groundwater recharge based on streamflow-hydrograph methods
• Regression method for estimating long-term mean annual ground-water recharge rates from base flow in Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania real-time groundwater data
• Pennsylvania surface and groundwater data
• Water use in the United States
• Ground water atlas of the United States
• Low-flow statistics for Pennsylvania streams
   

Information from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water
• STORET (EPA's computerized environmental data system)
   

Organizations

• The Groundwater Foundation
• Ground Water Protection Council
• National Ground Water Association
• Pennsylvania Ground Water Association
• American Ground Water Trust
• Susquehanna River Basin Commission
• Delaware River Basin Commission