New Products

• State Topographic and Orthophotographic Map Viewer (DVD-1) - $30

By: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (GADNR), Environmental Protection Division

Release date: March 3, 2006

With this DVD-ROM viewers can quickly and easily navigate across the enitre State. TopoViewer users may search among a list of thousands of locations for counties, towns, water bodies, schools, fire stations, and other geographic features and locatoins.

Data on the DVD-Rom includes: all 1017 USGS 1:24,000-scale topographic maps covering Georgia, Geogrphic names, Resampled 1999 color-infrared USGS digital orthophoto quadrangles, the Georgia Department of Transportation State highway map, USGS and GaDNR 1:500,000-scale State topographic map, Geographic names, and Georgia Department of Community Affairs "community facilities."

This will be useful to educational institutions, businesses, government agencies, and the general public.

• Ground-Water Quality in the Piedmont / Blue Ridge Unconfined Aquifer System of Georgia. (C-12U) 

By: John C. Donahue and Susan R. Kibler

Release Date: April 13, 2007

This report, covering the period December 2005 through December 2006, is the second in a series of summaries to examine potential ground-water impairment within specific areas of Georgia or involving specific types of wells.  The previous series of summaries of the Circular 12 series, nineteen in all, dealt with the chemical quality of ground water Statewide.