{"id":158,"date":"2012-04-18T14:27:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T18:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/groundwater-levels-red.html"},"modified":"2012-04-18T14:27:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T18:27:14","slug":"groundwater-levels-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/groundwater-levels-red.html","title":{"rendered":"Groundwater levels: red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case anybody thinks the recent rains have done away with the drought in Georgia, take a look at this\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groundwaterwatch.usgs.gov\/default.asp\">USGS map of groundwater levels today:<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/groundwaterwatch.usgs.gov\/default.asp\" title=\"USGS Active Groundwater Network map 18 April 2012\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341cb65b53ef0168ea51a0c6970c\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a00d8341cb65b53ef0168ea51a0c6970c-pi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"USGS Active Groundwater Network map 18 April 2012\"  \/><\/a> <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/groundwaterwatch.usgs.gov\/default.asp\" title=\"USGS Active Groundwater Network map 18 April 2012\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341cb65b53ef0168ea51a0d1970c\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a00d8341cb65b53ef0168ea51a0d1970c-pi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Legend for USGS Active Groundwater Network map 18 April 2012\" align=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Georgia, all red and orange. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/groundwaterwatch.usgs.gov\/StateMaps\/GA.html\">more detail.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth remembering that while our Floridan Aquifer does recharge somewhat, that much of its water <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ngeo\/journal\/v3\/n10\/full\/ngeo956.html\"> has been there since the last ice age.<\/a> So if we keep mining water at a rapid rate, the aquifer will keep falling.<\/p>\n<p>-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In case anybody thinks the recent rains have done away with the drought in Georgia, take a look at this USGS map of groundwater levels today: South Georgia, all red and orange. Here&#8217;s more detail. It&#8217;s also worth remembering that while our Floridan Aquifer does recharge somewhat, that much of its water has been there [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[509,224,73,74],"tags":[145,2828,3,510,456,2810,2790,2791],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floridan-aquifer","category-river","category-science","category-water","tag-drought","tag-floridan-aquifer","tag-georgia","tag-meteoric-recharge","tag-rain","tag-river","tag-science","tag-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-2y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}