Well Volume Calculator
Our tool makes it fast and simple to calculate the volume, thus saving time in the field.
Groundwater Development
Groundwater Development is one of our specialties. Whether you need to provide clean, fresh, potable water for a new community, increase supply to an existing town, or provide irrigation, Hydro-Terra Group can help meet your water demand.
Our Hydro-Terra Group Geologists, Engineers, and Designers have over 30 years of experience working in the Mid-Atlantic Region providing new drinking water sources for many townships, boroughs, and developments.
Groundwater Development
Groundwater Development is one of our specialties. Whether you need to provide clean, fresh, potable water for a new community, increase supply to an existing town, or provide irrigation, Hydro-Terra Group can help meet your water demand.
Our Hydro-Terra Group Geologists, Engineers, and Designers have over 30 years of experience working in the Mid-Atlantic Region providing new drinking water sources for many townships, boroughs, and developments.
What is Ground Water?
When rain falls to the ground, the water does not stop moving.
Some of it flows along the land surface to streams or lakes, some is used by plants, some evaporates and returns to the atmosphere, and some seeps into the ground. Water seeps into the ground much like a glass of water poured onto a pile of sand.
As water seeps into the ground, some of it clings to particles of soil or to roots of plants just below the land surface. This moisture provides plants with the water they need to grow. Water not used by plants moves deeper into the ground. The water moves downward through empty spaces or cracks in the soil, sand, or rocks until it reaches a layer of rock through which water cannot easily move. The water then fills the empty spaces and cracks above that layer. The top of the water in the soil, sand, or rocks is called the water table and the water that fills the empty spaces and cracks is called ground water.
What is Ground Water?
When rain falls to the ground, the water does not stop moving.
Some of it flows along the land surface to streams or lakes, some is used by plants, some evaporates and returns to the atmosphere, and some seeps into the ground. Water seeps into the ground much like a glass of water poured onto a pile of sand.
As water seeps into the ground, some of it clings to particles of soil or to roots of plants just below the land surface. This moisture provides plants with the water they need to grow. Water not used by plants moves deeper into the ground. The water moves downward through empty spaces or cracks in the soil, sand, or rocks until it reaches a layer of rock through which water cannot easily move. The water then fills the empty spaces and cracks above that layer. The top of the water in the soil, sand, or rocks is called the water table and the water that fills the empty spaces and cracks is called ground water.
Water Supply
There is no more precious natural resource on the planet than the Earth’s drinking water, and we are dedicated to finding technologically-innovative solutions to the challenges of water supply management.
- Well design, construction, and testing
- Water balance analyses and appropriation permits
- Streamflow monitoring and analyses
- Potable water treatment system design and permitting
- Pumping and irrigation supply systems
- Watershed restoration, planning, and monitoring
- Small scale infrastructure design/build for municipal water resources
- Water supply permit assistance – MDE, SRBC, PADEP, DRBC, DNREC, VADEQ Withdrawal, NPDES, and Construction Permits
Water Supply
There is no more precious natural resource on the planet than the Earth’s drinking water, and we are dedicated to finding technologically-innovative solutions to the challenges of water supply management.
- Well design, construction, and testing
- Water balance analyses and appropriation permits
- Streamflow monitoring and analyses
- Potable water treatment system design and permitting
- Pumping and irrigation supply systems
- Watershed restoration, planning, and monitoring
- Small scale infrastructure design/build for municipal water resources
- Water supply permit assistance – MDE, SRBC, PADEP, DRBC, DNREC, VADEQ Withdrawal, NPDES, and Construction Permits
Aquifer Testing
Finding the water is only the beginning of the process.
Hydro-Terra Group can also evaluate the sustainable capacity and water quality of a newly developed groundwater source. Our scientists and environmental engineers can set up comprehensive monitoring plans, capture the raw data during testing using state-of-the art data-logging and remote monitoring, and interpret and model the data to expedite regulatory agency approvals.
Aquifer Testing
Finding the water is only the beginning.
Hydro-Terra Group can also evaluate the sustainable capacity and water quality of a newly developed groundwater source. Our scientists and environmental engineers can set up comprehensive monitoring plans, capture the raw data during testing using state-of-the art data-logging and remote monitoring, and interpret and model the data to expedite regulatory agency approvals.
100 gallons
The average American uses over
100 gallons of water per day.
40%
Approximately 40% of the lakes
in America are too polluted for fishing,
aquatic life, or swimming.
EPA Water Facts
- It takes, on average, 39,090 gallons of water to manufacture a new car and its four tires.
- 62,600 gallons of water are needed to produce one ton of steel; 1,500 gallons to process one barrel of beer; and 9.3 gallons to process one can of fruit or vegetables.
- On average, 50-70% of household water is used outdoors (watering lawns, washing cars).
- The average American uses over 100 gallons of water per day; the average residence uses over 100,000 gallons during a year.
- Americans drink more than 1 billion glasses of tap water per day.
- The average cost for water supplied to a home in the U.S. is about $2.00 for 1,000 gallons, which equals about 5 gallons for a penny.
- It costs over $3.5 billion to operate water systems throughout the United States each year.
100 gallons
The average American uses over 100 gallons of water per day.
40%
Approximately 40% of the lakes in America are too polluted for fishing, aquatic life, or swimming.
EPA Water Facts
- It takes, on average, 39,090 gallons of water to manufacture a new car and its four tires.
- 62,600 gallons of water are needed to produce one ton of steel; 1,500 gallons to process one barrel of beer; and 9.3 gallons to process one can of fruit or vegetables.
- On average, 50-70% of household water is used outdoors (watering lawns, washing cars).
- The average American uses over 100 gallons of water per day; the average residence uses over 100,000 gallons during a year.
- Americans drink more than 1 billion glasses of tap water per day.
- The average cost for water supplied to a home in the U.S. is about $2.00 for 1,000 gallons, which equals about 5 gallons for a penny.
- It costs over $3.5 billion to operate water systems throughout the United States each year.
Surface Water: Streams, Creeks, and Rivers
The quality and condition of our surface water is often linked to the overall health of the entire ecosystem.
Our scientists and engineers offer a host of surface water evaluation services to help gauge the health of creeks, streams and rivers. Hydro-Terra Group scientists have broad experience in measuring total stream flow, bedload sampling, suspended sediment sampling, channel mapping, long-term monitoring of temperature & stream stage as well as many other physical factors that affect stream health.
For compliance monitoring for maintenance of nominal Streamflow, HTG can site, design, permit, and construct stream gauging stations with flow capacities ranging form a few gallons per minute to over 100 cubic feet per second.
In addition to the physical stream characteristics, our staff tests, monitors, and samples for various important chemical quality parameters. Our field data collection includes dissolved oxygen, salinity, pH, iron, hardness, free chlorine, dissolved solids, and temperature as well as developing specific testing procedures for other chemicals suspected of being introduced into streams. In this, HTG provides grab and automated sampling services.
HTG staff have designed, permitted, and constructed numerous water pumping and treatment systems. These have included commercial systems for shopping centers and manufacturing plants, municipal pump houses and treatment facilities, manufacturing plants, and assumption systems for supply and management of irrigation water. Parameters we have successfully treated include pH, hardness, nitrates, iron and manganese, volatile organic compounds, and radon.
50-70%
On average, 50-70% of
household water is used outdoors
(watering lawns, washing cars).
1.2 trillion gallons
Each year 1.2 trillion gallons
of untreated sewage, stormwater, and
industrial waste are dumped into US water.
5,000 people
Across the globe, 5,000 people die
every day as a result of drinking unclean water.
50-70%
On average, 50-70% of household water is used outdoors (watering lawns, washing cars).
1.2 trillion
Each year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are dumped into US water.
5,000 people
Across the globe, 5,000 people die every day as a result of drinking unclean water.
50-70%
On average, 50-70% of household water is used outdoors (watering lawns, washing cars).
1.2 trillion gallons
Each year 1.2 trillion gallons
of untreated sewage, stormwater, and
industrial waste are dumped into US water.
5,000 people
Across the globe, 5,000 people die
every day as a result of drinking unclean water.
Hydro-Terra Group
Resources
Materials Calculator
Our tool makes it fast and simple to calculate the volume and weight, thus saving time in the field.
Drinking Water
Sample Checklist
The Hydro-Terra Group is
ready to assist you with your
sampling needs.
Environmental Water Sample Checklist
A handy reminder when going out into the field for sampling.