This information is used by NYSDEC Division of Water and others for delineation of groundwater contributing areas, assessing potential threats to aquifers from both point and non-point sources, responding to contamination from spills or leaks from underground storage facilities, and providing information to assess the need to permit new or expanded public water supplies.
The objective of the study is to investigate the hydrogeology of the Fairport-Lyons channel and inter-drumlin outwash channels. The hydrogeologic setting of the Fairport-Lyons channel aquifer system is different from those previously studied in New York because sand and gravel deposits within drumlin fields are very uncommon, and few hydrogeologic investigations have been completed in this type of geologic setting. Lidar-derived DEMs and hillshades are a critical tool for delineating the spatial extent and hydrogeologic framework of this valley-fill aquifer system.
Douglas Freehafer
