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Influences of Industrial Contributions to Water Levels in the Sand Creek Drainage Abstract The Sand Creek Drainage Basin is located approximately five miles southwest of Butte, Montana. Stresses on the local aquifer of this drainage basin arise from industrial influences. These influences include Rhodia Inc, a leading producer in specialty chemicals. Another industrial influence began in May 1998 when ASiMI, a silicon manufacturing plant, began discharging 388,000 gallons of water per day down Sheep Gulch, located in the Sand Creek Drainage Basin. Documentation of current conditions in the Sand Creek Drainage will be conducted, and will be compared with changes over the past several years. To do this, four rounds of groundwater level data from wells will be collected near the Rhodia and ASiMI sites in May, September and November of 2006 and in January, 2007. These data will be evaluated to discover how the current normal precipitation year has affected the influences from the previous eight year drought. Finally, all the existing data will be compiled into one database to produce hydrographs. The plotting of water elevation verses time, for all wells in the database from 1998 to present. Biography
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