Groundwater resources of Guam: occurrence and development
Mink JF. 1976. Groundwater resources of Guam: occurrence and development. Water and Environmental Research Institute Technical report 1. University of Guam. Mangilao, Guam
Since 1964 the Government of Guam has been engaged in the development of groundwater to supply the domestic needs of the civil sector of the island. Demand has grown in excess of projections, requiring intensive effort on the part of the Public Utility Agency and its groundwater supply contractor, Singer-Layne International, to satisfy the increasing call for water all over the island but especially in the north. The Government's actions to meet demand have generally been based on careful consideration of the nature of groundwater, but the pace of development has been so rapid that no time had been devoted to comprehensively documenting and evaluating the groundwater resources based upon the working experience of the last decade. Based primarily on the information which has accumulated the last 10 years in conjunction with earlier documentations and analyses, this report attempts to provide an evaluation of the groundwater resources of Guam, in particular those of northern Guam.