ARE RECHARGE-AREA MAPS USEFUL FOR LAND-USE PLANNING IN HUMID SETTINGS?
BRADBURY, Kenneth, Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey, 3817 Mineral Point Rd, Madison, WI 53705, krbradbu@facstaff.wisc.edu, HUNT, Randall J., Wisconsin Water Science Center, US Geological Survey, 8505 Research Way, Middleton, WI 53562, and RAYNE, Todd W., Department of Geology, Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, NY 13323 In recent years, many public planning agencies have begun including groundwater protection in local and regional land-use plans. The protection of groundwater recharge areas is often a component of such plans, and state agencies such as the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey receive frequent requests for maps or spatial data depicting recharge areas. Well-intentioned planners and civic groups seek to use such maps as a basis for environmental protection through zoning, development of wellhead-protection areas or implementation of other land-use controls, and many hydrogeologists, including the authors of this paper, have advocate
