Friday, June 26, 2009

The Piedmont and Mountain Aquifer Compartment

Ground-water conditions are easier to analyze
If we first outline a compartment as to size
A compartment is a distinctive topographic space
Among similar ones on the ground we can trace.

It is the aquifer system lying beneath a hilltop and creek
It may be further bounded by small lateral spurs that peak.
Compartments represent slopes and gentle topographic lows
Into which local insulated ground water gathers and flows.

Not naturally affected by adjoining compartments,
Each has its own distinctive but similar departments.
Thus, there are thousands of mini-aquifers in each county
Some similarities of each can represent a study bounty.

Knowledge of general factors of a compartment to a degree
Offers transfer knowledge to other compartments, we see
We should not collect data about a compartment uselessly
If our generalized model shows equivalent information readily.