Ware

Burke

Clinch

Hall

Laurens

Early

Glynn

Floyd

Lee

Worth

Bulloch

WayneCoffee

CamdenCharlton

Liberty

Tift

Fulton

Long

ScrevenHarris

Emanuel

Decatur

Troup

Carroll

Bryan

Irwin

Dodge

Grady

Telfair

Wilkes

Polk

Colquitt

Brooks

Chatham

Dooly

Bartow

Tattnall

Appling

Sumter

Thomas

Gilmer

Mitchell

Walker

Jones

Talbot

Cobb

Elbert

Taylor

Berrien

McIntosh

Hart

Echols

Stewart

Macon

Coweta

Baker

Fannin Rabun

WashingtonJefferson

Union

Wilcox

Bibb

Jasper

Lowndes

Hancock

Henry

Greene

Terrell

Brantley

Marion

Crisp

Pierce

Monroe

Miller

Twiggs

Murray

Upson

Pike

Gwinnett

Heard

Gordon

Walton

Clay

Effingham

Wilkinson

Morgan

Putnam

Toombs

Jenkins

Meriwether

Cherokee

Houston

Randolph

Bacon

Turner

Cook

White

Jackson

Oglethorpe

Warren

Atkinson

Banks

DeKalb

Newton

Butts

Lincoln

Paulding

JohnsonCrawford

Wheeler

Whitfield

Pulaski

Lumpkin

Madison

Baldwin

Franklin

Jeff Davis

Forsyth

Calhoun

Dade

Richmond

Columbia

Ben Hill

Haralson

Dougherty

Candler

Lanier

Chattooga

McDuffie

Pickens

Evans

Lamar

Towns

Dawson

Seminole

Fayette

Bleckley

Webster

Schley

Treutlen

Douglas

Habersham

Oconee

Peach

Barrow

Spalding

Taliaferro

Muscogee

Catoosa

Stephens

Clayton

Clarke

Quitman

Chattahoochee

Glascock

Montgomery

Rockdale

Groundwater Recharge Areas

Data Source: Georgia Geologic SurveyThis database identifies approximately 13,000 square miles (23 percent) of Georgia'sland surface through which the most significant natural ground-water recharge occurs, asdescribed in Georgia Geologic Survey Hydologic Atlas 18: "Most SignificantGround-Water Recharge Areas of Georgia," published in 1989.This database was intended to delimit those recharge areas where the State of Georgia should direct ground-waterprotection efforts. Potential users of this database are advised of the following specific cautions:1.) Mapping at the 1:500,000 scale means that only the larger recharge areas could be included. Important smaller rechargeareas cannot be shown at this scale;2.) Since about nine-tenths of the land surface of Georgia is a recharge area, the limit of 23 percent on the most significant echarge areas is arbitrary. Areas not mapped may be locally or regionally significant.3.) Areas mapped as recharge areas may include small areas of impermeable soils that limit recharge.The data source for the GIS database was the publication mylars (black separate linework) from Hydrologic Atlas 18.http://epd.georgia.gov/epd-test-document

AQUIFERClaiborne aquifer systemClayton aquifer systemCretaceous-Tertiary aquifer systemFloridan/Jacksonian aquifer systemMiocene/Pliocene-Recent unconfined aquifersUnconfined aquifersProbable areas of thick soilsMajorRiversLakes