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Statistical Analysis of Water Levels in the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer in Missouri from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources' Well Information Management System (WIMS)

An objective review (Asquith and others, 2018 and 2020) of the distribution of the first two significant figures of a water-level measurement (depth below land surface) was done on the 10,295 measurements (one per well) that met the threshold criteria. The purpose of this review was to ascertain the degree to which substantial rounding of values might exist in the dataset. It was evident that the dataset has a large number of values rounded to the nearest integer foot with a tendency for more rounding towards even integers. For values between 10 and 99 feet, there is a large number of values rounded to the even 10 feet and for values less than about 35 feet, there are an excessive number of values rounded the nearest. There are also numerous values of 12 and 14. This suggests that considerable estimation or rounding of water levels have been made probably by use of apparatus other than graduate tapes. Systematic review of original data sources is not possible and insufficient metadata exist for a manual of each value in the data set. However, the database is large and offers an opportunity for data mining and machine learning to foster further review. A large, objective, technically-demanding, and rigorous spatial-temporal review of the water-level data, expressed in altitude, was made for the 10,295 water level records comprising this data release.

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Author(s) David C Smith orcid, Ronald C Seanor orcid, William H Asquith orcid
Publication Date 2020-06-12
Beginning Date of Data 1984-11-11
Ending Date of Data 2016-07-27
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/F7PR7V63
Citation Smith, D.C., Seanor, R.C., and Asquith, W.H., 2020, Statistical Analysis of Water Levels in the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer in Missouri from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources' Well Information Management System (WIMS): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7PR7V63.
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Metadata Date 2020-08-13
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