Title
Regional assessment of the ground-water resources in eastern Kankakee and northern Iroquois counties
Document Type
Reports
Publication Date
4-1989
Abstract
"A regional ground-water quantity assessment was conducted in 1987 and 1988 on the ground-
water resources of eastern Kankakee and northern Iroquois Counties. Ground water has been used for
irrigation for more than 50 years in this region, and development is increasing. Ground-water withdrawals
by irrigation wells during the drought of 1988 increased by 167 percent over withdrawals in 1987. Irrigation
wells in the study area obtain their ground water from the Silurian Dolomite aquifer, the principal bedrock
aquifer underlying the unconsolidated deposits of the region. The Silurian Dolomite aquifer is recharged
primarily by vertical leakage of ground water from overlying unconsolidated deposits and by influent
stretches of the Kankakee and Iroquois Rivers. Response of the Silurian Dolomite during several aquifer tests was isotropic. Transmissivities from pumping and aquifer tests ranged from 14,000 to 122,000 gallons per day per square foot. Coefficient of storage of the aquiferranged from 4 x 10-5 to 6 x 10-4. Model simulations were used for initial ground-water modeling of the dolomite aquifer and to evaluate the effects of hypothetical pumping wells located in hydrologically different locations. Ground-water management options are discussed, along with current legislative mandates governing the region's ground-water resources."
Recommended Citation
Cravens, Stuart J.; Wilson, Steven D.; and Barry, Robert C., "Regional assessment of the ground-water resources in eastern Kankakee and northern Iroquois counties" (1989). J.R. Black Kankakee River Materials. 25.
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