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A preliminary hydrogeologic assessment of the Camp Lejeune area, North Carolina

Proceedings of the AWRA Symposium on Coastal Water Resources, Wilmington, N.C., May 22-25, 1988
By Douglas A. Harned and Orville B. Lloyd, Jr.


Abstract

The Castle Hayne aquifer is the water-supply source for the U.S. Marine Corps Base at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The aquifer consists of a series of sand and limestone beds that underlie the area to a depth of 450 feet. The aquifer appears to be hydraulically connected to the New River. The dip of the beds in the Camp Lejeune area is to the southeast at 17 feet per mile with a strike of north 79 degrees east. Thin and discontinuous clay beds make up about 15 to 25 percent of the section, indicating that the water-supply aquifer is in a leaky, confined aquifer system. In the Air Station area, there is evidence that a fault may have breached clay layers allowing saltwater to move from the New River to nearby pumping wells. Contour maps of water levels from two different water-level surveys show that the New River is a major discharge area for the Castle Hayne aquifer.


Citation:

Harned, D.A., and Lloyd, O.B., Jr., 1988, A preliminary hydrogeologic assessment of the Camp Lejeune area, North Carolina, in Lyke, W.L., and Hoban, T.J., Proceedings of the AWRA Symposium on Coastal Water Resources, Wilmington, N.C., May 22-25, 1988: Bethesda, Md., American Water Resources Association, p. 479-487.


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