Homeowner Communication Strategies Vary with the Weather

摘要

You've heard "Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." This witty remark often credited to Mark Twain actually came from his friend and neighbor, Charles Dudley Warner. While the groundwater industry may not be able to do anything about the weather, it's on the front lines for helping society deal with its vagaries-a role that changes with the weather. Let's start with times of flooding. As rivers rise, water moves laterally through the riverbank into the groundwater system as bank storage. If the stream stage overtops the banks, large areas of the land surface may become flooded. While water in bank storage may return to the stream over a period of days or weeks, it may take months or years for water recharged over floodplains to return to the stream.