The town of Olean is located in Cattaraugus County, New York. Previous USGS reports here include Water- Resource Investigations Report 87-4043 (Yager and Bergeron, 1998), Water- Resource Investigations Report 85-4082 (Bergeron, 1987), and Water- Resource Investigations Report 85-4157 (Zarriello and Reynolds, 1987). The five child pages below break the data up into georeferenced and digitized previous report data, interpreted geologic information, well logs, supplemental point data, and interpolation statistics.

This dataset includes georeferenced TIFF files from three separate reports for the Olean study area that have been digitized into feature classes within ArcGIS. Not all digitized and georeferenced data was necessarily used in the final interpolations, however they may have contributed to understanding the local hydrogeology.

This dataset includes "smoothing points" used in the creation of the Olean hydrogeologic framework. Smoothing points were manually added and were used to enhance interpolated layers using geologic assumptions and include: smoothing points for the upper and lower lacustrine confining surfaces, valley edge points, centerline bedrock points, bedrock contour points, and bedrock SSURGO points used in both the valley and upland interpolations.

This data release shows the digital hydrogeologic datasets were developed for the eight study areas in upstate New York in cooperation with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. These datasets define the hydrogeologic framework of the valley-fill aquifer and surrounding till-covered uplands within the four study areas. Also included within are the input data that was necessary to create and interpolate the hydrogeologic framework. The input data is provided as point feature classes, and previously published report georeferenced files along with the digitized data as line or polygon feature classes. The data release is broken into eight child item pages; one for each model area. Each child item contains the data pertaining to that study area. In addition to shapefiles, feature classes were provided for convenience to some users. These feature class datasets were not explicitly outlined in the data release and may have subtle differences to shapefiles due to inherent differences in file types (i.e. character limitations in shapefiles vs feature class files).

Digital hydrogeologic datasets were developed for the Jamestown study area in upstate New York in cooperation with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. These datasets define the hydrogeologic framework of the valley-fill aquifer and surrounding till-covered uplands within the study area. Datasets include: bedrock elevation raster, lacustrine silt and clay top and bottom elevation rasters (where present), LIDAR minimum elevation raster, lacustrine extent polygon, valley-fill extent polygon, and surficial geology polygons. Elevation layers were interpolated at 125-foot discretization to match what was done in previous work.