42 U.S.C. § 1962d–7 — Delmarva Peninsula hydrologic study; duties of Secretary of the Interior

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The Secretary of the Interior must study the Delmarva Peninsula’s water resources and future freshwater needs. The study must examine surface water, groundwater, aquifers, saltwater intrusion, drought and flood conditions, and information useful to State and local planning.

The Secretary of the Interior must comprehensively study and investigate the Delmarva Peninsula’s water resources. The purposes are to determine whether enough freshwater will be available for expected future needs and the most hydrologically effective ways to protect and develop freshwater sources. The Secretary must: (1) assess water use, needs, and trends and determine available stream and underground water across the peninsula; (2) determine major aquifers’ depths, thicknesses, permeability, perennial yield, recharge characteristics, and expected water quality; (3) determine the continuity and extent of important groundwater-bearing formations; (4) determine stream-system yields under natural flow and different storage levels, and the amount and quality available during droughts, floods, and intermediate conditions; (5) determine whether seawater has moved inland into heavily pumped coastal aquifers; (6) give special attention to conditions that could allow seawater into freshwater supplies; (7) compile and provide appropriate results to State and local officials for long-range water-supply planning, development, and management; (8) cooperate with State and local agencies to use available information and data; and (9) consider other matters the Secretary finds appropriate.

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The Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the “Secretary”) is authorized and directed to make a comprehensive study and investigation of the water resources of the Delmarva Peninsula with a view to determining the availability of fresh water supplies needed to meet the anticipated future water requirements of the Delmarva Peninsula area, and with a view to determining the most effective means from the standpoint of hydrologic feasibility of protecting and developing fresh water sources so as to insure, insofar as practicable, the availability of adequate water supplies in the future. In carrying out such study and investigation with respect to the Delmarva Peninsula, the Secretary shall—

(1)

appraise the water use, requirements, and trends, and determine the availability of water in the streams and underground sources for the entire peninsula;

(2)

determine the depths, thicknesses, and permeabilities, the perennial yield, and the recharge characteristics of major aquifers, and the quality characteristics to be expected from each such major aquifer;

(3)

determine with respect to ground water resources the continuity and extent of important water-bearing formations;

(4)

determine the yield from stream systems under natural flow conditions and under varying degrees of storage and the amounts and quality of waters available from such systems during drought, flood, and intermediate conditions;

(5)

determine whether sea water has moved inland into heavily pumped coastal aquifers;

(6)

give special consideration to conditions which may invite the invasion of sea water into fresh-water supplies;

(7)

compile and make available to appropriate State and local officials any results of this study and investigation that would be appropriate for their use in long-range planning, development, and management of water supplies;

(8)

cooperate with State and local agencies for the purpose of using any information and data available to carry out the purposes of this study; and

(9)

consider such other matters as the Secretary may deem appropriate to the study and investigation herein authorized.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 89–618, § 1, Oct. 4, 1966, 80 Stat. 870.)

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1966Enacted · Pub. L. 89-618 · 80 Stat. 870

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