Water Levels and Water-level Contour Maps for Southwestern Louisiana 1958 and 1959

Water Levels and Water-level Contour Maps for Southwestern Louisiana 1958 and 1959
Author: Alfred Harry Harder
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Total Pages: 110
Release: 1960
Genre: Groundwater
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Southwestern Louisiana is known as the "rice-bowl" of the nation. Of the 1,421,000 acres of rice grown in the United States in 1958, 28 percent or about 398,000 acres were harvested in southwestern Louisiana. Of this amount 202,000 acres (51 percent) were irrigated with ground water.

Summary of Ground-water Conditions in Southwestern Louisiana, 1957 and 1958

Summary of Ground-water Conditions in Southwestern Louisiana, 1957 and 1958
Author: Alcee Nicholas Turcan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1959
Genre: Groundwater
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During the period 1946-57 an average of 56+0 million gallons of water was pumped daily from wells in southwestern Louisiana. This withdrawals from the principal sands of the Chicot aquifer amounts to about half the total ground water pumped in Louisiana Since 1946 the rate of average ground-water withdrawals for industrial purposes in southwestern Louisiana has increased from 50 mgd to 110 mgd (million gallons per day). Of this total 60 percent is from industrial wells in the Lake Charles area. In 1957 the average ground-water pumpage for all purposes in southwestern Louisiana was 577 mgd, or 1,770 acre-feet per day.