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<br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />METHODS <br />The study area for this project was Little Dry Creek <br />upstream from university Avenue to Long Road, a distance of <br />approximately 1 mile. Three staff gauges in Little Dry Creek <br />were installed in late April 1992 in the locations shown in <br />Figure 1, and three or four groundwater monitoring wells were <br />installed by hand in each location. Two wells were installed on <br />each side of the creek so that the wells and staff gauge formed a <br />string perpendicular to the flow of the river. The exact <br />location and elevation of all wells and staff gauges were <br />surveyed and water levels were recorded frequently, sometimes <br />daily, from May through November of 1992 by staff of the <br />Greenwood Village Engineer's Office. The raw data set is <br />provided in Appendix 1. <br />The vegetation was examined several times during the summer <br />of 1992 to determine its composition, whether reproduction was <br />occurring, and to determine the overall characteristics of the <br />site. <br /> <br />The ground water and surface water relationships were <br />analyzed by plotting water elevations in relation to ground <br />elevations to produce hydrographs and by producing transect <br />ground and water elevation profiles. In addition, correlation <br />analysis was used to compare the data record for wells and staff <br />gauges to determine which wells had similar water level rises and <br />falls to which staff gauge during the period of record. Pearson <br />product moment correlation coefficients (r) are calculated to <br />measure the linear association of two variables; ego one <br />monitoring well, and one staff gauge. Each well and staff gauge <br />was correlated to all other wells and gauges. <br /> <br />3 <br />