Introduction

 

The Seymour Aquifer is an alluvial aquifer that is spread out over north-central Texas in over 20 different counties. There are 23 separate alluvium areas noted within the upper Brazos River and Red Basins. Deriving from the Quaternary age, the Seymour formation consists of poorly sorted gravel, conglomerate, silt-clay, and sand deposits. The areas of the aquifer are within the Central Lowland Physiographic Province, which is one of five different parts of the Great Plains Province. Aquifers in Texas are used for many different reasons like drinking water and municipal recreation but 90% of the Seymour is used for irrigational supply to help maintain large agricultural yields.

 

The purpose of this term project is to show many different characteristics of the Seymour Aquifer with studied sites of major coincidence in Knox and Haskell Counties, where the aquifer is the largest and yields the most use for production.  (Ryder, 1996)