Geohydrology and evapotranspiration at Franklin Lake playa, Inyo County, California
Franklin Lake playa is one of the principal discharge areas of the Furnace Creek Ranch-Alkali Flat ground-water-flow system in southern Nevada and adjacent California. Yucca Mountain, Nevada, located within this flow system, is being evaluated by the US Department of Energy to determine its suitability as a potential site for a high-level nuclear-waste repository. To assist the U.S. Department of Energy with its evaluation of the Yucca Mountain site, the US Geological Survey developed a parameter-estimation model of the Furnace Creek Ranch-Alkali Flat ground-water-flow system. Results from sensitivity analyses made using the parameter-estimation model indicated that simulated rates of evapotranspiration at Franklin Lake playa had the largest effect on the calculation of transmissivity values at Yucca Mountain of all the model-boundary conditions and, therefore, that evapotranspiration required careful definition.
- Research Organization:
- US Geological Survey, Denver, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Geological Survey, Reston, VA (United States); Department of the Interior, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 604254
- Report Number(s):
- USGS-WSP-2377; ON: DE98004483; NC: NONE; TRN: 98:001680
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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