Recharge Area: An area where rainwater soaks through the ground to reach an aquifer.
Recharge Area: A land area in which water reaches the zone of saturation from surface infiltration, e.g., where rainwater soaks through the earth to reach an aquifer.
Recharge area: Area of land allowing water to pass through it into an aquifer by surface infiltration.
Recharge Area: land area over which precipitation infiltrates into soil and percolates downward to replenish an aquifer.
RECHARGE AREA The part of a flow system where precipitation percolates downward. red tide ...
recharge area. Generally, an area that is connected with the underground aquifer(s) by a highly porous soil or rock layer. Water entering a recharge area may travel for miles underground.
aquifer recharge area An area of land above or remote from an aquifer that allows infiltration of water to that aquifer.
Recharge Area/Zone: Area in the aquifer where there are downward components of hydraulic head. In this area, infiltration travels downward into the deeper sections of the aquifer.
Recharge Area The land area through or over which rainwater and other surface water soaks through the earth to replenish an aquifer, lake, stream, river or marsh. Record of decision (ROD) ...
See also: Water, Recharge, Aquifer, Soil, Filtration
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