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Bruce G Campbell

Bruce Campbell is a Physical Scientist at the South Atlantic Water Science Center.

Currently serves as a Hydrologist for the USGS South Atlantic Water Science Center in Columbia, SC. Have 35+ years experience in geology and groundwater hydrology and have specialized in numerical simulation of groundwater flow and solute transport. Much of this work has focused on the groundwater resources of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Have had several overseas assignments including a 2 year project in Cyprus and a project in Saudia Arabia.

 

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Well drilling truck, South Carolina groundwater availability project.

Update for the South Carolina Atlantic Coastal Plain Groundwater Availability Model

Groundwater use from the Atlantic Coastal Plain aquifers in South Carolina has increased during the past 70 years as the population has increased along with demands for municipal, industrial, and agricultural water needs. While South Carolina works to increase development of water supplies in response to the rapid population growth, the State is facing a number of unanswered questions regarding...
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Update for the South Carolina Atlantic Coastal Plain Groundwater Availability Model

Groundwater use from the Atlantic Coastal Plain aquifers in South Carolina has increased during the past 70 years as the population has increased along with demands for municipal, industrial, and agricultural water needs. While South Carolina works to increase development of water supplies in response to the rapid population growth, the State is facing a number of unanswered questions regarding...
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Study area - Assessment of Groundwater Availability in Aiken County, South Carolina

Assessment of Groundwater Availability in Aiken County, South Carolina

The objective of this project is to develop a groundwater-flow model that can be used by Aiken County water managers to manage current and projected reported and unreported demands on groundwater resource and to ensure the highest quality of groundwater. Project Chief: Bruce Campbell Cooperator: Aiken County, Gilbert-Summit Rural Water District, City of Aiken, Breezy Hill Water and Sewer and...
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Assessment of Groundwater Availability in Aiken County, South Carolina

The objective of this project is to develop a groundwater-flow model that can be used by Aiken County water managers to manage current and projected reported and unreported demands on groundwater resource and to ensure the highest quality of groundwater. Project Chief: Bruce Campbell Cooperator: Aiken County, Gilbert-Summit Rural Water District, City of Aiken, Breezy Hill Water and Sewer and...
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Map of Edisto River Basin, South Carolina

Groundwater Modeling of the Edisto River Basin, South Carolina

The USGS SAWSC in cooperation with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) will use an existing, published groundwater-flow model of the South Carolina Coastal Plain aquifers and confining units to simulate current groundwater conditions and future water-use scenarios developed by SCDNR. The published groundwater-flow model was constructed using existing hydrogeologic and...
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Groundwater Modeling of the Edisto River Basin, South Carolina

The USGS SAWSC in cooperation with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) will use an existing, published groundwater-flow model of the South Carolina Coastal Plain aquifers and confining units to simulate current groundwater conditions and future water-use scenarios developed by SCDNR. The published groundwater-flow model was constructed using existing hydrogeologic and...
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USGS Hydrologist collecting data from a groundwater production well in the Chesterfield County study area

Development and Application of a Groundwater Flow and Management Model and Assessment of Groundwater Contamination, Chesterfield County Region, South Carolina

The objective of the investigation was to develop and apply a groundwater flow and groundwater management model that can be used to better manage the groundwater resources in the Chesterfield County, S.C. area. Objectives of these better management practices would be to help assure sustainability of the groundwater resources in the area. A groundwater-flow model was developed for the Coastal Plain...
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Development and Application of a Groundwater Flow and Management Model and Assessment of Groundwater Contamination, Chesterfield County Region, South Carolina

The objective of the investigation was to develop and apply a groundwater flow and groundwater management model that can be used to better manage the groundwater resources in the Chesterfield County, S.C. area. Objectives of these better management practices would be to help assure sustainability of the groundwater resources in the area. A groundwater-flow model was developed for the Coastal Plain...
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MODFLOW-2000 data sets used in two predictive scenarios of groundwater flow and pumping (1900-2050) near Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

An existing three-dimensional model (MODFLOW-2000) by Fine, Petkewich, and Campbell (2017) (https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20175128) was slightly updated to evaluate two water-management scenarios and predict the effects of increased pumpage on the groundwater flow and groundwater-level conditions in the Mount Pleasant, South Carolina area. This model was originally developed in 2007, by...
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MODFLOW-NWT and MODPATH5 used to evaluate groundwater availability, geochemistry, and flow pathways to public-supply wells in the Atlantic Coastal Plain and bedrock aquifers, Aiken County and part of Lexington County, South Carolina, 2015-2019

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Aiken County; City of Aiken; Breezy Hill Water and Sewer Company, Inc.; Montmorenci-Couchton Water and Sewer District, Inc.; and Gilbert-Summit Rural Water District developed a model for use with MODFLOW-NWT and MODPATH5 to evaluate groundwater flow and advective transport under pre- and post-development conditions in the Atlantic Coastal...
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Groundwater availability, geochemistry, and flow pathways to public-supply wells in the Atlantic Coastal Plain and bedrock aquifers, Aiken County and part of Lexington County, South Carolina, 2015–2019

Between 2015 and 2019, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) studied concerns related to projected increases in demand for groundwater, in collaboration with municipal water providers and county managers within the study area, Aiken County and part of Lexington County, South Carolina. A three-dimensional (3D), numerical groundwater-flow model of the Atlantic Coastal Plain (ACP) aquifers...
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Bruce G. Campbell, James E. Landmeyer
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Water Resources Mission Area, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)

Implications of refining vertical resolution of hydraulic conductivity in the numerical modeling of groundwater flow to surface water, NAS Whiting Field, Florida

Naval Air Station Whiting Field is located near Milton, Florida and is one of the Navy's two primary pilot training bases. Commissioned in 1943, historic operations at Whiting Field generated industrial wastes that contaminated soil and the water-table aquifer. The Environmental Protection Agency placed Whiting Field on the Superfund program’s National Priorities List of contaminated...
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Eric D. Swain, Bruce G. Campbell, James Landmeyer
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Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center (CFWSC)

Simulation of groundwater flow and pumping scenarios for 1900–2050 near Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Groundwater withdrawals from the Upper Cretaceous-age Middendorf aquifer in South Carolina have created a large, regional cone of depression in the potentiometric surface of the Middendorf aquifer in Charleston and Berkeley Counties, South Carolina. Groundwater-level declines of as much as 249 feet have been observed in wells over the past 125 years and are a result of groundwater use...
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Jason M. Fine, Matthew D. Petkewich, Bruce G. Campbell
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Water Resources Mission Area, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)

Assessment of ethylene dibromide, dibromochloropropane, other volatile organic compounds, radium isotopes, radon, and inorganic compounds in groundwater and spring water from the Crouch Branch and McQueen Branch aquifers near McBee, South Carolina, 2010-2

Public-supply wells near the rural town of McBee, in southwestern Chesterfield County, South Carolina, have provided potable water to more than 35,000 residents throughout Chesterfield County since the early 1990s. Groundwater samples collected between 2002 and 2008 in the McBee area by South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) officials indicated that...
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James Landmeyer, Bruce G. Campbell
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Water Resources Mission Area, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)

Groundwater availability in the Crouch Branch and McQueen Branch aquifers, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, 1900-2012

Chesterfield County is located in the northeastern part of South Carolina along the southern border of North Carolina and is primarily underlain by unconsolidated sediments of Late Cretaceous age and younger of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Approximately 20 percent of Chesterfield County is in the Piedmont Physiographic Province, and this area of the county is not included in this study...
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Bruce G. Campbell, James Landmeyer
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Water Resources Mission Area, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)

Modeling the long-term fate of agricultural nitrate in groundwater in the San Joaquin Valley, California

Nitrate contamination of groundwater systems used for human water supplies is a major environmental problem in many parts of the world. Fertilizers containing a variety of reduced nitrogen compounds are commonly added to soils to increase agricultural yields. But the amount of nitrogen added during fertilization typically exceeds the amount of nitrogen taken up by crops. Oxidation of...
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Francis H. Chapelle, Bruce G. Campbell, Mark A. Widdowson, Mathew K. Landon
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Water Resources Mission Area, Ecosystems Mission Area, Toxic Substances Hydrology, Environmental Health Program, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)

Investigation of the potential source area, contamination pathway, and probable release history of chlorinated-solvent-contaminated groundwater at the Capital City Plume Site, Montgomery, Alabama, 2008-2010

Detection of the organic solvent perchloroethylene (PCE) in a shallow public-supply well in 1991 and exposure of workers in 1993 to solvent vapors during excavation activities to depths near the water table provided evidence that the shallow aquifer beneath the capital city of Montgomery, Alabama, was contaminated. Investigations conducted from 1993 to 1999 by State and Federal agencies...
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James Landmeyer, Scott Miller, Bruce G. Campbell, Don A. Vroblesky, Amy C. Gill, Athena P. Clark
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Water Resources Mission Area, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)

Groundwater availability in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of North and South Carolina

The Atlantic Coastal Plain aquifers and confining units of North and South Carolina are composed of crystalline carbonate rocks, sand, clay, silt, and gravel and contain large volumes of high-quality groundwater. The aquifers have a long history of use dating back to the earliest days of European settlement in the late 1600s. Although extensive areas of some of the aquifers have or...
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Bruce G. Campbell, Alissa L. Coes
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Water Resources Mission Area, Water Availability and Use Science Program, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)

Development of a conceptual model of groundwater flow, Chesterfield County, South Carolina

Chesterfield County is located in the north central part of South Carolina (SC) and is adjacent to the North Carolina border. The County lies along the Fall Line, the geologic boundary between the Atlantic Coastal Plain (ACP) and Piedmont physiographic provinces. Between 2000 and 2007, the population increased from 42,768 to 43,191 people (U.S. Census Bureau, 2007). Associated with this...
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Bruce G. Campbell, James Landmeyer
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Water Resources Mission Area, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)

Contamination of groundwater by the fumigants ethylene dibromide (EDB) and dibromochloropropane (DBCP) near McBee, South Carolina

McBee is a small town of about 700 people located in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, in the Sandhills region of the upper Coastal Plain. The halogenated organic compounds ethylene dibromide (EDB) and dibromochloropropane (DBCP) have been detected in several public and domestic supply and irrigation wells since 2002 at concentrations above their U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
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James Landmeyer, Bruce G. Campbell
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Water Resources Mission Area, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)

Simulation of Reclaimed-Water Injection and Pumping Scenarios and Particle-Tracking Analysis near Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

The effect of injecting reclaimed water into the Middendorf aquifer beneath Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, was simulated using a groundwater-flow model of the Coastal Plain Physiographic Province of South Carolina and parts of Georgia and North Carolina. Reclaimed water, also known as recycled water, is wastewater or stormwater that has been treated to an appropriate level so that the...
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Matthew D. Petkewich, Bruce G. Campbell
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Water Resources Mission Area, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)

Hydrogeology and simulation of ground-water flow near Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Predevelopment, 2004, and predicted scenarios for 2030

Heavy water use from the Cretaceous Middendorf aquifer in South Carolina has created a large, regional cone of depression in the potentiometric surface of the Middendorf aquifer in Charleston and Berkeley Counties, South Carolina. Water-level declines of up to 249 feet have been observed in wells over the past 125 years and are a result of ground-water use for public-water supply...
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Matthew D. Petkewich, Bruce G. Campbell
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Water Resources Mission Area, South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC)

Non-USGS Publications**

Campbell, B.G., and A.L. Coes, 2007, Numerical Simulation of Ground-Water Flow within the Atlantic Coastal Plain Aquifers of North and South Carolina (abstract): Clemson University Hydrogeological Symposium
Halford. K.J., and B.G. Campbell, 2004, A unique approach to estimating lateral anisotropy in complex geohydrologic environments: Journal of Hydraulic Research, vol. 42, p. 70-79.
Campbell, B.G., and T.R. Campbell, 2000, Hydrogeology and numerical simulation of ground-water flow in the surficial aquifer at the former Naval Station Charleston, SC: Pacific Environmental Restoration Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 10pp.http://www.perc2000.org/private/proceedings/GWCostEst.htm
Mirecki, J.E., B.G. Campbell, K.J. Conlon and, M.D. Petkewich 1998, Solute changes during aquifer storage recovery testing in a limestone/clastic aquifer: Ground Water, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 394-403.
Campbell, B.G., J.E. Mirecki, K.J. Conlon, and M.D. Petkewich, 1997, Evaluation of aquifer storage recovery within the Santee Limestone / Black Mingo aquifer near Charleston, South Carolina 1993-95: American Water Resources Association Proceedings, Conjunctive Use of Water Resources: Aquifer Storage Recovery, Long Beach, California, pp.231-240.
Campbell, B.G., M.D. Petkewich, J.E. Landmeyer and F.H. Chapelle, 1995, Hydrogeology and intrinsic bioremediation potential of a manufactured gas plant site, Charleston, South Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1108.
Mirecki, J.E., K.J. Conlon and B.G. Campbell, 1995, Geochemical evolution of injected municipal water during an aquifer storage and recovery project, Charleston, South Carolina: American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, Maryland.
Campbell, B.G., 1992, Water-level declines in the Middendorf aquifer, Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties, South Carolina: American Water Resources Association National Symposium on the Future Availability of Ground Water Resources, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Gohn, G.S. and B.G. Campbell, 1991, Stratigraphic analysis of Cretaceous aquifers in the greater Charleston, South Carolina area: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs vol. 23.
Gohn ,G.S. and B.G. Campbell, 1991, Recent revisions to the stratigraphy of subsurface Cretaceous sediments in the Charleston, South Carolina area: South Carolina Geology vol. 34, nos. 1 and 2.

**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.

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