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Documentation of a dissolved-solids model of the Tongue River, southeastern Montana

Open-File Report 81-479
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr81479

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Abstract

A model has been developed for assessing potential increases in dissolved solids of the Tongue River as a result of leaching of overburden materials used to backfill pits in surface coal-mining operations. The model allows spatial and temporal simulation of streamflow and dissolved-solids loads and concentrations under user-defined scenarios of surface coal mining and agricultural development. The model routes an input quantity of streamflow and dissolved solids from the upstream end to the downstream end of a stream reach while algebraically accounting for gains and losses of streamflow and dissolved solids within the stream reach. Input data needed to operate the model include the following: simulation number, designation of hydrologic conditions for each simulated month, either user-defined or regression-defined concentrations of dissolved solids input by the Tongue River Reservoir, number of irrigated acres, number of mined acres, dissolved-solids concentration of mine leachates and quantity of other water losses. A listing of the Fortran computer program, definitions of all variables in the model, and an example output permit use of the model by interested persons. (USGS)

Suggested Citation

Woods, P.F., 1981, Documentation of a dissolved-solids model of the Tongue River, southeastern Montana: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-479, iii, 45 p. :ill., map ;28 cm., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr81479.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Documentation of a dissolved-solids model of the Tongue River, southeastern Montana
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 81-479
DOI 10.3133/ofr81479
Year Published 1981
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey,
Description iii, 45 p. :ill., map ;28 cm.
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