The Death Valley Flow System (DVFS) consists of highly fractured mostly carbonate-rock aquifers that form a
regional groundwater flow system covering hundreds of square km and extending from inferred recharge areas associated
with Central Nevada Uplands and the Spring Mountains to large discharge springs in Amargosa Valley and the Furnace
Creek area of Death Valley. Groundwater flows north and west from the Spring Mountains recharge area and southwest
from Central Nevada Uplands to discharge at Ash Meadows in central Amargosa Valley (Fig. 1). Some groundwater is
thought to continue to flow beneath Ash Meadows into southern Amargosa Valley and then through the Funeral
Mountains to the Furnace Creek area of Death Valley (Fig. 1). As groundwater flows from Ash Meadows to Death Valley,
it also likely combines with other groundwater in Amargosa Valley. For a detailed description of the hydrogeology, water