Due Diligence Tip #9

Contaminants do not respect property boundaries. Contaminated groundwater flow will travel according to hydrogeologic principles regardless of tax maps, metes and bounds descriptions, and fence lines. Groundwater flows from areas of recharge to discharge which often corresponds with topography. Overall, groundwater flow is quite slow and most often measured in inches (or fractions of inches) per year. Hydrogeologists call this hydraulic conductivity, or the K-value.