Aaron Pena RodriguezMay 2020While the reduction of the groundwater available volume in the state of Texas of urban, agricultural, and industrial use has been dealt with in different ways, the first step is to assess the current and future behavior of the aquifers that supply it. For this the Texas Water Development Board created the […]
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Drainage Reuse Initiative Project Report
January 1, 1970
2017Binkley, B., D. Hamilton, T. Calvin, L. Chen, G.R. Miller, Z. Sheng, R. Kaiser, J. Seifert, J. Davis (2017) “Drainage Reuse Initiative Feasibility Study: Phase I” for the Harris County Flood Control District and the Harris County Precinct 4 Commissioner’s Office.
Numerical Modeling of Water Flux Interactions Between the Brazos River Alluvium Aquifer and the Brazos River: Testing of Alternative Conceptual Models
Mehmood, Tayyab (2018), Numerical Modeling of Water Flux Interactions Between the Brazos River Alluvium Aquifer and the Brazos River: Testing of Alternative Conceptual Models. Master’s Thesis, Texas A&M University: College Station, TX. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174042 Quantitative characterization of the dynamics of water exchange fluxes between rivers and aquifers is necessary for water resources management, water quality, environment and […]
Feasibility Study and Numerical Modeling on Managed Aquifer Recharge Using Dry Wells in Harris County, Texas
Tao, L. (2018), Feasibility Study and Numerical Modeling on Managed Aquifer Recharge Using Dry Wells in Harris County, Texas. Master’s Thesis, Texas A&M University: College Station, TX. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174069 Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) has been adopted as a modern water management strategy to store water into subsurface during surplus periods for future recovery. As one application of […]
Improving Adoption of Aquifer Storage and Recovery in Texas
Smith, W. Benjamin (2018). Improving Adoption of Aquifer Storage and Recovery in Texas. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A & M University: College Station, TX. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/173533 The first study identifies hydrogeologically feasible locations for ASR across the Gulf Coast and Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer systems in Texas, using transmissivity, hydraulic gradient, well density, depth to aquifer, and depth to […]
Simulating groundwater uptake and hydraulic redistribution by phreatophytes in a high-resolution, coupled subsurface-land surface model
Gou, S., Miller, G. R., Saville, C., Maxwell, R. M., & Ferguson, I. M. (2018). Simulating groundwater uptake and hydraulic redistribution by phreatophytes in a high-resolution, coupled subsurface-land surface model. Advances in Water Resources, 121, 245-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2018.08.008. Highlights Belowground processes in Earth system models continue to present challenges. ParFlow.CLM modified to include more realistic root […]
Understanding and measuring plant water use
Miller, G.R. (2018) Ch 1: Understanding and measuring plant water use, in Water Management for Sustainable Agriculture, ed. Theib Oweis, Burleigh-Dodds Publishing, Cambridge, UK, doi:10.19103/AS.2017.0037.01. Plant uptake of water is controlled by two interconnected balances at the land surface: the partitioning of energy arriving as solar radiation and the partitioning of water arriving as precipitation. […]
The Importance of Bank Storage in Supplying Baseflow to Rivers Flowing Through Compartmentalized, Alluvial Aquifers
Rhodes, K. A., Proffitt, T., Rowley, T., Knappett, P. S. K., Montiel, D., Dimova, N., Tebo, D. Miller, G. R. (2017). The importance of bank storage in supplying baseflow to rivers flowing through compartmentalized, alluvial aquifers. Water Resources Research, 53, 10,539-10,557. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017WR021619 Abstract As water grows scarcer in semiarid and arid regions around the world, new tools are needed to quantify fluxes of water and chemicals […]
Assessing aquifer storage and recovery feasibility in the Gulf Coastal Plains of Texas
Smith, W. B.*, G.R. Miller, and Z. Sheng (2017). Assessing aquifer storage and recovery feasibility in the Gulf Coastal Plains of Texas, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 14:92-108, doi:10.1016/j.ejrh.2017.10.007. Abstract Study region The Gulf Coast and Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer systems in the Gulf Coastal Plains of Texas. Study focus Aquifer storage and recovery is a water storage […]
Earth Systems Modeling in the Brazos River Alluvium Aquifer: Improvement of Computational Methods and Development of Conceptual Model
Merket, Courtney B. (2017). Earth Systems Modeling in the Brazos River Alluvium Aquifer: Improvement of Computational Methods and Development of Conceptual Model. Master’s thesis, Texas A & M University. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/173043 Traditional hydrologic modeling has compartmentalized the water cycle into distinct components (e.g. rainfall-runoff, river routing, or groundwater flow models). In river valley alluvium aquifers, these […]