Post on 20-Aug-2018
Large Capacity Well Information in Michigan
Steve Miller Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
Michigan State University
7 / 58
Glacial Aquifer Characterization
Confining material dominates Marginal aquifer material mixed with partially confining material dominates Marginal aquifer material dominates
Aquifer material dominates
Map developed using lithologic information from ~280,000 water
well records in the Wellogic database.
Each lithology was classified as: Confining, partially confining, marginal,
or aquifer material.
Well information You can get scanned well logs off of the internet (1999 and older) by Township and section at:
www.deq.state.mi.us/well-logs Well logs that are 2000 and newer are available on WELLOGIC at:
http://wellviewer.rsgis.msu.edu/