The Application of a Digital Model for Evaluating the Bedrock Water Resources of the Maumee River Basin, Northwestern Ohioa.

Abstract

Increasing population and industrial development in northwestern Ohio indicated the need for an evaluation of the bedrock ground-water resources of the region. A digital ground-water model was designed and used as a tool for predicting water-level declines resulting from projected ground-water withdrawal. Potentiometric surfaces, keyed to historic, accelerated, and peak projected ground-water withdrawals, were predicted by decades to the year 2036. These withdrawals at the calculated rates will cause severe overdrafts at Lima, Toledo, and Findlay, Ohio, and at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, by the year 2036.