Products of the Subcommittee on Ground Water are created through its work groups. All work groups are accepting volunteers. Please contact the work group leaders listed below for more information.

Monitoring Inventory

Purpose: The work group will gather information on the policies, programs, and funding for the collection, analysis, assessment, distribution, reporting, and use of ground-water data at all levels of government and in the private sector.  The work group should form two subgroups:  one to inventory ground water quantity monitoring programs and one to inventory ground water quality monitoring programs.

Data Standards and Data Management

Purpose: The Work Group will review products and activities of ACWI or ACWI subgroups and their predecessors relevant to ground-water data storage and retrieval.  The Work Group will address consistency of data storage, and data retrieval in order to facilitate data sharing.  The Work Group will draft recommendations for methods to archive and access ground-water data on a national scale.

Field Practices

Purpose: The Work Group will review products and activities of ACWI or ACWI subgroups and their predecessors relevant to ground-water data acquisition. The Work Group will develop recommendations to address data collection techniques, documentation of and standardization for these techniques, frequency of data collection, and well instrumentation, in order to facilitate data sharing.

National Monitoring Design

Purpose: Develop a draft national framework for ground-water monitoring and collaboration that will assist in assessments of the quantity of U.S. ground-water reserves, as constrained by ground water quality.  In developing the draft, the work group will also consider ground-water-quality monitoring in order to help determine water-quality-related constraints on supply and use, and for helping assess potential ecological impacts caused by changes in ground-water quantity and quality. Additionally, the work group will develop recommendations for a monitoring design that can provide a status of the Nation’s ground-water resource, how it has changed over time, and how it may change in the future The work group will review products and activities of ACWI or ACWI subgroups and their predecessors relevant to ground-water monitoring.