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Ground-water Hydrology of the Hollister and San Juan Valleys, San Benito County, California, 1913-68

Chabot Kilburn | August 31st, 1972


The Hollister and San Juan Valleys are within the Gilroy-Hollister ground-water basin. That part of the ground-water basin underlying the valleys consists of three sub-basins, each of which contains two or more ground-water sub-units. The subbasin and subunit boundaries are formed by known or postulated faults, folded sedimentary rocks, and igneous rocks.

The principal water-bearing units are lenticular beds of sand and gravel interbedded with clay, silt, sand, and gravel, or their locally consolidated equivalents, which range from Pliocene to Holocene in age.

Ground water occurs mainly under artesian or semiartesian conditions but also under unconfined (water-table) conditions in areas adjacent to most surface streams and, locally, under perched or semi-perched conditions.

In 1968 the depth to water in wells ranged from approximately 20 feet above land surface to more than 200 feet below land surface. Water-level differences in wells across the boundaries of adjacent subunits ranged from about 10 to more than 100 feet.

Keywords

Groundwater Exchange