Geophysical Investigation for Groundwater Resources at the Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras

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Abstract:

A geophysical investigation was undertaken to explore the potential f or further ground water development around the Soto Cano air base, Honduras. Electrical resistivity vertical sounding and horizontal profiling were utilized. The main ground-water aquifer in the area, a buried river channel now filled with gravel, was clearly defined. A tributary to this aquifer was also detected. Currently, the main ground-water aquifer has reached its capacity in the driest part of the year and additional water resources are needed at the current level of demand. A location southeast of the air base was determined for an exploratory water well which has possible yields of 20 to 60 gpm. Similar capacities may be achieved with a carefully located well in the tributary channel aquifer under the air base. Additional geophysical studies are recommended to determine the precise location of the tributary channel aquifer, locate another aquifer at the east edge of the Comayagua valley and Rio Canquigue, and investigate the feasibility of a deep 1000 meters well. It is also recommended that an aquifer management program be initiated where withdrawal flows are metered-and charted, monitoring wells are installed, and the aquifer drawdown observed and projected.

Author(s):
Lewis, Richard D. ; Simms, Janet E.
Author Organization(s):
ARMY ENGINEER WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION VICKSBURG MS GEOTECHNICAL LAB
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.
Pagination:
0067

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RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
WES/TR/GL-92-21
Contract/Grant Number(s):
MIPR-E87920142
Monitor Series:
COE
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_4.6_Engineering; JCA_4.6.1_General Engineering; JCA_4.7.2_Installation Services; JCA_4.7_Base and Installations Support; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_1.2.7_Experimentation; JCA_1.2.3_Educating; JCA_6.1_Information Transport; JCA_6.2.1_Information Sharing; JCA_6.2.2_Computing Services; JCA_6.2.3_Core Enterprise Services; JCA_6.2.4_Position Navigation and Timing
Modernization Areas:
Fully Networked C3
Communities of Interest:
Human Systems
Descriptor(s):
*GROUND WATER, *RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, *GEOPHYSICS, *WATER RESOURCES, MONITORING, CHANNELS, SOUNDING, HONDURAS, WATER WELLS, ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY, RIVERS, YIELD, AQUIFERS
Field(s)/Group(s):
Administration and Management, Hydrology, Limnology and Potamology
Keyword(s):
SOTO CANO AIR BASE(HONDURAS)
Report Date:
1992 Dec 01