Groundwater Recharge Areas
Catoosa
Dade
Fannin
Whitfield
Walker
Towns
Union
Murray
Floyd
Pickens
Paulding
Forsyth
Haralson
Carroll
Clayton
Coweta
Heard
Henry
Pike
Meriwether
Troup
Lamar
Jones
Monroe
Sumter
Terrell
Lee
Clay
Dougherty
Mitchell
Miller
Treutlen
Wheeler
Turner
Coffee
Tift
Decatur
Grady
Thomas
Cook
Brooks
Bulloch
Effingham
Evans
Tattnall
Bryan
Appling
Long
McIntosh
Pierce
Glynn
Ware
Camden
Clinch
Lowndes
Liberty
Wayne
Bacon
Brantley
Lanier
Seminole
Toombs
Atkinson
Berrien
Colquitt
Montgomery
Jeff Davis
Irwin
Worth
Candler
Telfair
Ben Hill
Baker
Early
Dodge
Wilcox
Crisp
Calhoun
Laurens
Bleckley
Pulaski
Dooly
Randolph
Johnson
Screven
Emanuel
Schley
Quitman
Burke
Jenkins
Macon
Webster
Richmond
Jefferson
Washington
Peach
Marion
McDuffie
Glascock
Twiggs
Houston
Stewart
Hancock
Columbia
Wilkinson
Crawford
Taylor
Chattahoochee
Taliaferro
Baldwin
Bibb
Talbot
Muscogee
Greene
Putnam
Jasper
Upson
Harris
Lincoln
Warren
Butts
Spalding
MajorRiversLakes
Elbert
Wilkes
Morgan
Newton
Probable areas of thick soils
Oglethorpe
Oconee
Rockdale
Fayette
Clarke
Walton
Floridan/Jacksonian aquifer system
Miocene/Pliocene-Recent unconfined aquifers
Unconfined aquifers
Hart
Madison
Barrow
DeKalb
Fulton
Franklin
Jackson
Gwinnett
Cretaceous-Tertiary aquifer system
Stephens
Banks
Hall
Cobb
Douglas
Habersham
Dawson
Cherokee
Bartow
Polk
White
Lumpkin
Gordon
Claiborne aquifer system
Rabun
Clayton aquifer system
Gilmer
Chattooga
AQUIFER
Charlton
Echols
Data Source: Georgia Geologic Survey
This database identifies approximately 13,000 square miles (23 percent) of Georgia's
land surface through which the most significant natural ground-water recharge occurs, as
described in Georgia Geologic Survey Hydologic Atlas 18: "Most Significant
Ground-Water Recharge Areas of Georgia," published in 1989.
This database was intended to delimit those recharge areas where the State of Georgia should direct ground-water
protection efforts. Potential users of this database are advised of the following specific cautions:
1.) Mapping at the 1:500,000 scale means that only the larger recharge areas could be included. Important smaller recharge
areas cannot be shown at this scale;
2.) Since about nine-tenths of the land surface of Georgia is a recharge area, the limit of 23 percent on the most significant
echarge areas is arbitrary. Areas not mapped may be locally or regionally significant.
3.) Areas mapped as recharge areas may include small areas of impermeable soils that limit recharge.
The data source for the GIS database was the publication mylars (black separate linework) from Hydrologic Atlas 18.
http://epd.georgia.gov/epd-test-document
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