There are 9 article(s) tagged CAESER:

• September 2023

  • Here’s what $5 million and five years of research taught Memphis about the aquifer

    With all this new information about one of the city’s most important resources, what happens now? 

    By Keely Brewer September 22, 2023

• July 2023

  • Aquifer study to be released in August

    Rate increases funded research, which showed MLGW’s concerns were warranted. It found there are more holes, or breaches, in the aquifer’s protective clay layer than previously thought.

    By Keely Brewer July 26, 2023

• April 2023

  • Memphis aquifer’s protective layer looking ‘more like Swiss cheese’

    A five-year, $5 million study of the Memphis aquifer is nearing completion; it already has identified 23 previously undetected breaches in the aquifer’s protective clay layer. 

    By Keely Brewer April 14, 2023

• December 2022

  • NASA pinpoints vulnerabilities in aquifer

    In some areas of West Tennessee, water is being pumped from the Memphis Sand Aquifer more quickly than it’s being replenished by rainfall. 

    By Keely Brewer December 23, 2022

• January 2020

  • Water supply study slowed by negotiations between MLGW, CAESER

    A five-year, $5 million study of potential threats to Memphis’ drinking water supply has been slowed by protracted contract negotiations between MLGW and a University of Memphis research unit. 

    By Wayne Risher January 02, 2020

• August 2019

  • International Paper hosting company leaders to help support U of M’s CAESER

    International Paper will host company leaders from across the greater Memphis to help support the work of U of M's Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research. 

    By Natalie Pilgrim August 08, 2019

• July 2019

  • In swampy heat on the Wolf River, canoeists dip in for aquifer research

    University of Memphis researchers use seepage meters to study possible breaches into the Memphis Aquifer along the Wolf River. 

    By Jane Roberts July 27, 2019

• June 2019

  • Short-term aquifer effort moves to long-term objectives

    As a University of Memphis effort to better map the Memphis aquifer's breaches gets underway, others calling attention to threats to the underground water source want to see a groundwater authority for the region.

    By Bill Dries June 07, 2019

• April 2019

  • University of Memphis begins five-year aquifer research project

    The effort to map breaches in the clay layers protecting the city's underground water supply will also include longer-term goals like the best placement of wells and how the aquifers move.

    By Bill Dries April 09, 2019