Assessment and Compilation of Groundwater Quality Data for Mississippi

摘要

The State of Mississippi has a great reliance on its groundwater resources to supply water for drinking, agriculture and industry. Previously, that groundwater quality data in the state was stored primarily in paper files and virtually no water management or assessment use was made of this information. In recent years, the legislature of the State of Mississippi mandated the development of a centralized water database management system to help rectify this. The project was part of the initial response to this requirement. The primary task of this work was the compilation and electronic storage of the historic groundwater quality data. This was achieved by merging computerized data obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey with data from paper files of the Mississippi Departments of Health and Natural Resources. A secondary objective was the development of a computer-based system which would allow data access and management.