Consortium helps Army find water at remote training area
- Author:
- Frisinger, Jim
- Title:
- Consortium helps Army find water at remote training area
- Periodical:
- Public Works Digest
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- April/May/June 2017
- Subject:
- Pohakuloa Training Area Water supply Ground water Mauna Kea Hydrology Mauna Kea University of Hawaii at Hilo
- Summary:
- Dr. Donald Thomas of UH Hilo and his research crew drill holes on Mauna Kea to locate aquifers amid a porous geologic zone and to understand why the water is there. The research was funded by U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii through Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) National Network, a consortium of 15 federal land-managing agencies with universities, museums and other non-profit organizations. Two aquifers have been found, one was a perched groundwater pocket, at the 6,000-foot level, just 700 feet down. The other was huge and hot - 280 degrees F.
- Label:
- Pohakuloa
- URL:
- http://www.spa.usace.army.mil/Portals/16/docs/Library/Public_Works_Digest%20A_M_J_2017.pdf
- Date:
- April/May/June 2017
- Collection:
- Periodicals