ABSTRACT
This chapter presents several examples of the ways in which a groundwater database can be used effectively to both protect the groundwater and the environment and assist in the investigation of a suspected pollution problem. It provides education, motivation, and perhaps inspiration to the potential users of a groundwater database. The development of land for industrial facilities is an ongoing process in the US To protect the well and groundwater, the wells should be grouted properly and the well casing set at a level or in a geologic strata that could isolate upper shallow aquifers from the lower aquifer used for the water source. The groundwater database can address some preliminary concerns. The clay layers found at the site do offer some protection to the site. Well construction records were extracted from the groundwater database and indicated that the glacial drift material was composed of mostly permeable sand and gravel material over a sandstone aquifer.
