The location of the water table and the degree of saturation of the granitic rocks in the Climax stock are presently unknown. Based on existing knowledge and an extrapolation of available geohydrologic data, it appears that the water table may lie at about 1100-1200 m above mean sea level (MSL) in the northeastern part of the stock and at about 800-900 m in the southwest. A drilling program would be required to establish these levels precisely. The degree of saturation at a given underground elevation may be approximated by a detailed inventory of seeps at that level. Wore precise determination of degree of saturation will require a water budget.

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Mathematical modeling of regional unconfined ground‐water flow is most often accomplished by using a linearized Dupuit‐Forchheimer (DF) equation. The depth of flow, h, in the general DF equation appears as a squared (h3) term and also as a linear term (h). Linearization of the DF equation is generally accomplished with the first method of linearization presented by Polubarinova‐Kochina (PK), in which h2 is replaced with h times some average depth of flow. The resulting equation is then linear in h. The second method of linearization described by PK is accomplished by replacing h with h2 divided by an average flow depth, and hence the resulting equation becomes linear in h2. If the second method of linearization is used, the same “heat conduction type” equation is obtained as that from the first method of linearization, but it tends to yield more accurate predictions of water‐table locations. Furthermore, by simply altering the numerical values of boundary condition constants, most existing mathematical models, based on the first method of linearization, can be easily converted to yield solutions to the more accurate equation linearized by the second method.