CHANGES IN THE HYDROLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT OF CHOCTAW COUNTY MISSISSIPPI SINCE 1995

A growing population and new industrial complexes in Choctaw County can strain water supplies. Choctaw County primarily utilizes groundwater from the Wilcox Group of aquifers in the Mississippi Embayment as their water supply. These aquifers include the Meridian Upper-Wilcox Aquifer, the Middle Wilcox Aquifer, and the Lower Wilcox aquifer. This thesis examines the changes that have occurred to the surface and ground water systems.

This project presents evidence to show that, since 1995, a significant drop in the potentiometric surface has occurred to these three aquifer systems, as well as changes in the chemical constituents that are monitored as part of the Clean Water Act.