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Definition of Groundwater level
1. Noun. Underground surface below which the ground is wholly saturated with water. "Spring rains had raised the water table"
Definition of Groundwater level
1. Noun. (context: construction) (at a particular site) the level, below which the subsoil and rock masses of the earth are fully saturated with water. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Groundwater Level
Literary usage of Groundwater level
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"Obliteration by lowering of groundwater level. — As noted elsewhere, the lake
surface may coincide with the groundwater level. ..."
2. The New World of Science: Its Development During the War by Robert Mearns Yerkes (1920)
"An engi who drove a tunnel just above the groundwater level at ... David determ
not merely the groundwater level for a given time, but variations of the ..."
3. Highways Green Book by American Automobile Association (1920)
"The remedy in both cases is tile underdrains alongside the road to lower the
groundwater level so that it cannot effect the road surface. ..."
4. The Genesis of Ore Deposits by František Pošepný (1902)
"Mr. Weed, in his general statement, says that the part of the veins "below the
permanent groundwater level consists of the unaltered sulphides which compose ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1902)
"The results observed usually cease at the groundwater-level because at that ...
But the actual lowering of the groundwater-level, by a change of surface ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"The groundwater level in spring occurs at a depth of only 15 to 20 cm., ...
Near these the groundwater level sinks gradually to the level of the water in ..."
7. Elements of Engineering Geology, by H. Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1921)
"Obliteration by lowering of groundwater level. — As noted elsewhere, the lake
surface may coincide with the groundwater level. ..."
8. Bulletin by Tennessee Division of Geology, Geological Survey, Division of Geology, Tennessee (1913)
"Below groundwater level the ore is generally hard. The quantity of the soft ore
is small as compared to that of the hard ore, and owing to its higher ..."
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