The Objective of the observation-well program in Nebraska is to\nprovide an evaluation of the status of the ground-water supplies.\nMany uses tor water-level data are known but not all potential uses\ncan be foreseen. Among the important uses are the following:
\n(1) To indicate the status of ground water in storage or in\ntransit and the availability or supplies.
\n(2) To show the trend of ground-water supplies and the outlook\ntor the future.
\n(3) To estimate or forecast the base flow of streams.
\n(4) To indicate areas in which the water level is approaching\ntoo close to the land surface (water-logging) or is receding toward\neconomic limits of lift or toward impairment by water of poor quality.
\n(5) To provide long-term evidence for evaluating the effectiveness\nof land-management and water-conservation programs in relation to\nwater conservation actually effected, and for use in basin or \"watershed\"\nstudies.
\n(6) To provide long-term continuous records to serve as a framework\nto which short-term records collected during intensive investigation may be related.
\nThe water level in an observation well functions as a gage to\nindicate the position or the water table. The water table is defined\nas the upper surface of the zone of saturation except where that\nsurface is formed by overlying impermeable materials. The water\ntable is also the boundary between the zone of saturation and the\nzone of aeration. It is not a level surface but is a sloping surface\nthat has many irregularities, and it often conforms in a general way\nto the land surface. The irregularities are caused by several\nfactors. In places where the recharge to the ground-water reservoir\nis exceptionally large, the water table may rise to form a mound from\nwhich the water slowly spreads. Depressions or troughs in the water\ntable indicate places where the ground water is discharging, u along\nstreams that are below the normal level it the water table, or\nindicate places where water is being withdrawn by wells or vegetation.
\nThe several factors that influence the water table vary in fact\nand amount from time to time because of changes in weather and the\nwater requirements or vegetation and man; thus, the water table is\nnearly always rising or falling.
\nThe fluctuations or the water table are shown by the changes in\nwater levels in wells. Thus, the rate and amount of the fluctuation\nof the water table can be ascertained by observing the water levels\nin wells, and the magnitude or the several factors effecting the\nposition of the water table can be interpreted by analyzing the water-level\ndata.
\nWater-level measurements are given, in this report, in feet\nbelow the land surface at the well site. Water levels that are above\nland surface are preceded by a plus (+) sign in the tables, whereas\nthose below land surface have no sign but are understood to be minus\n(-). The words \"land-surface datum\" are abbreviated \"lsd'' in some\nplaces in tables of this report.
\nThe altitude above mean sea level (msl) of the land surface at\nmany of the well sites has been determined and is included in the\ntables or this report.
\nTwenty-eight observation wells in Nebraska are equipped with\nrecording gages. Each recording gage produces a continuous graph\nof water-level fluctuations in the well. Only the lowest water level\non the last day of record in each month, as recorded by the gage, is\ngiven in this report; the complete record is on file in the office of\nthe U.S. Geological Survey in Lincoln, Nebr.","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","doi":"10.3133/ofr5761","collaboration":"Prepared in cooperation with the Conservation and Survey Division of the University of Nebraska, and as part of the program of the Department of the Interior for development of the Missouri River Basin","usgsCitation":"Keech, C., 1957, Water levels in observation wells in Nebraska during 1956: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 57-61, ix, 123 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr5761.","productDescription":"ix, 123 p.","numberOfPages":"133","temporalStart":"1956-01-01","temporalEnd":"1956-12-31","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":287387,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/usgs_thumb.jpg"},{"id":287386,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1957/0061/report.pdf"}],"country":"United States","state":"Nebraska","geographicExtents":"{ \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\", \"features\": [ { \"type\": \"Feature\", \"properties\": {}, \"geometry\": { \"type\": \"Polygon\", \"coordinates\": [ [ [ -104.0535,39.9999 ], [ -104.0535,43.0017 ], [ -95.3083,43.0017 ], [ -95.3083,39.9999 ], [ -104.0535,39.9999 ] ] ] } } ] }","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e4a08e4b07f02db5f9dcd","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Keech, C.F.","contributorId":67941,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Keech","given":"C.F.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":254226,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":55774,"text":"ofr5759 - 1957 - Interim report on the ground-water resources of the McMullen Valley area, Maricopa, Yavapai, and Yuma Counties, Arizona","interactions":[{"subject":{"id":55774,"text":"ofr5759 - 1957 - Interim report on the ground-water resources of the McMullen Valley area, Maricopa, Yavapai, and Yuma Counties, Arizona","indexId":"ofr5759","publicationYear":"1957","noYear":false,"title":"Interim report on the ground-water resources of the McMullen Valley area, Maricopa, Yavapai, and Yuma Counties, Arizona"},"predicate":"SUPERSEDED_BY","object":{"id":70047893,"text":"70047893 - 1969 - Ground-water conditions in McMullen valley, Maricopa, Yuma and Yavapai Counties, Arizona","indexId":"70047893","publicationYear":"1969","noYear":false,"title":"Ground-water conditions in McMullen valley, Maricopa, Yuma and Yavapai Counties, Arizona"},"id":1}],"supersededBy":{"id":70047893,"text":"70047893 - 1969 - Ground-water conditions in McMullen valley, Maricopa, Yuma and Yavapai Counties, Arizona","indexId":"70047893","publicationYear":"1969","noYear":false,"title":"Ground-water conditions in McMullen valley, Maricopa, Yuma and Yavapai Counties, Arizona"},"lastModifiedDate":"2013-08-29T10:22:01","indexId":"ofr5759","displayToPublicDate":"1994-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1957","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":18,"text":"Report"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":5,"text":"USGS Numbered Series"},"seriesTitle":{"id":330,"text":"Open-File Report","code":"OFR","onlineIssn":"2331-1258","printIssn":"0196-1497","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":5}},"seriesNumber":"57-59","title":"Interim report on the ground-water resources of the McMullen Valley area, Maricopa, Yavapai, and Yuma Counties, Arizona","language":"ENGLISH","doi":"10.3133/ofr5759","usgsCitation":"Kam, W., 1957, Interim report on the ground-water resources of the McMullen Valley area, Maricopa, Yavapai, and Yuma Counties, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 57-59, 27 p., 1 pl., 2 figs., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr5759.","productDescription":"27 p., 1 pl., 2 figs.","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":181733,"rank":0,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/usgs_thumb.jpg"}],"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e49dbe4b07f02db5e0a50","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Kam, William","contributorId":85159,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Kam","given":"William","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":254225,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":55773,"text":"ofr5758 - 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1957 - Delivery of water from Belton Reservoir to the Brazos River gaging station at Richmond, Texas, by way of the Leon, Little, and Brazos River channels, 1956","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-08-23T15:05:50","indexId":"ofr5753","displayToPublicDate":"1994-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1957","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":18,"text":"Report"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":5,"text":"USGS Numbered Series"},"seriesTitle":{"id":330,"text":"Open-File Report","code":"OFR","onlineIssn":"2331-1258","printIssn":"0196-1497","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":5}},"seriesNumber":"57-53","title":"Delivery of water from Belton Reservoir to the Brazos River gaging station at Richmond, Texas, by way of the Leon, Little, and Brazos River channels, 1956","docAbstract":"Beginning November 1, 1956 and ending December 14, 1956, the Corps of Engineers, in cooperation with the Brazos River Authority released 73,000 acre-feet of water (as measured at the gaging station on Leon river near Belton) from the Belton Reservoir for industrial use in the vicinity of Freeport, Tex. (see fig. 1). The need for this water at Freeport came as a result of the prolonged drought conditions causing flows in the Brazos River in the vicinity of Freeport to be insufficient to satisfy the industrial and other uses of vital importance.","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","publisherLocation":"Austin, TX","doi":"10.3133/ofr5753","collaboration":"Prepared in cooperation with the Texas State Board of Water Engineers","usgsCitation":"Havelka, D., and Parten, E., 1957, Delivery of water from Belton Reservoir to the Brazos River gaging station at Richmond, Texas, by way of the Leon, Little, and Brazos River channels, 1956: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 57-53, 12 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr5753.","productDescription":"12 p.","numberOfPages":"32","temporalStart":"1956-11-01","temporalEnd":"1956-12-14","costCenters":[{"id":583,"text":"Texas Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":327743,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/ofr5753.JPG"},{"id":287380,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1957/0053/report.pdf"}],"country":"United States","state":"Texas","city":"Richmond","otherGeospatial":"Brazos River","geographicExtents":"{ \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\", \"features\": [ { \"type\": \"Feature\", \"properties\": {}, \"geometry\": { \"type\": \"Polygon\", \"coordinates\": [ [ [ -98.0,29.0 ], [ -98.0,32.0 ], [ -95.5,32.0 ], [ -95.5,29.0 ], [ -98.0,29.0 ] ] ] } } ] }","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e4ab2e4b07f02db66f455","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Havelka, D.E.","contributorId":72859,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Havelka","given":"D.E.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":254222,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Parten, E.M.","contributorId":51657,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Parten","given":"E.M.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":254221,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2}]}} ,{"id":55780,"text":"ofr5775 - 1957 - Correlative estimates of discharge of Lackawaxen River and Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2012-02-02T00:12:00","indexId":"ofr5775","displayToPublicDate":"1994-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1957","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":18,"text":"Report"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":5,"text":"USGS Numbered Series"},"seriesTitle":{"id":330,"text":"Open-File Report","code":"OFR","onlineIssn":"2331-1258","printIssn":"0196-1497","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":5}},"seriesNumber":"57-75","title":"Correlative estimates of discharge of Lackawaxen River and Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania","language":"ENGLISH","doi":"10.3133/ofr5775","usgsCitation":"Molloy, J., 1957, Correlative estimates of discharge of Lackawaxen River and Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania (5 p.): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 57-75, NA, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr5775.","productDescription":"NA","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":181840,"rank":0,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/usgs_thumb.jpg"}],"edition":"5 p.","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e4ad7e4b07f02db6844ab","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Molloy, J.L.","contributorId":34385,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Molloy","given":"J.L.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":254233,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":55770,"text":"ofr5751 - 1957 - Feasibility of recharging basalt aquifers in the Walla Walla area, Washington","interactions":[{"subject":{"id":55770,"text":"ofr5751 - 1957 - Feasibility of recharging basalt aquifers in the Walla Walla area, Washington","indexId":"ofr5751","publicationYear":"1957","noYear":false,"title":"Feasibility of recharging basalt aquifers in the Walla Walla area, Washington"},"predicate":"SUPERSEDED_BY","object":{"id":2528,"text":"wsp1594A - 1961 - Artificial recharge through a well tapping basalt aquifers, Walla Walla area, Washington","indexId":"wsp1594A","publicationYear":"1961","noYear":false,"chapter":"A","title":"Artificial recharge through a well tapping basalt aquifers, Walla Walla area, Washington"},"id":1}],"supersededBy":{"id":2528,"text":"wsp1594A - 1961 - Artificial recharge through a well tapping basalt aquifers, Walla Walla area, Washington","indexId":"wsp1594A","publicationYear":"1961","noYear":false,"title":"Artificial recharge through a well tapping basalt aquifers, Walla Walla area, Washington"},"lastModifiedDate":"2024-11-14T18:02:48.018502","indexId":"ofr5751","displayToPublicDate":"1994-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1957","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":18,"text":"Report"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":5,"text":"USGS Numbered Series"},"seriesTitle":{"id":330,"text":"Open-File Report","code":"OFR","onlineIssn":"2331-1258","printIssn":"0196-1497","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":5}},"seriesNumber":"57-51","title":"Feasibility of recharging basalt aquifers in the Walla Walla area, Washington","docAbstract":"
This report presents the results of a study made as a part of the cooperative investigation of the ground-water resources of Washington being made by the U. S. Geological Survey and the State Department of Conservation, Division of Water Resources. It describes the factors affecting the feasibility of artificially recharging the basalt aquifers in the Walla Walla area with water injected through wells. The study resulted from a request to the Department of Conservation from the city of Walla Wall, but its results will be of interest in areas of similar aquifers throughout the State.
The city of Walla Walla has been considering for several years the possibility of recharging basalt aquifers by introducing water into wells tapping those aquifers. The water-supply system of the city is easily adaptable to such a recharge program. During at least a part of the year water from Mill Creek is available for recharge. Also, one of the wells (city well 3) is only a few feet from the pipeline carrying Mill Creek water to the city's reservoir, so that installation of the required piping and metering equipment would be simple and inexpensive.
Although recharging operations and experiments have been conducted for many years in the United States and abroad, almost all have dealt with sand and gravel aquifers. At a very few places basalt aquifers have been recharged through wells, but so far as is known no controlled tests or experiments have been made to determine the effectiveness of the process and the limitations or controlling factors, in recharging basalt aquifers.
The immediate object of this report is to assemble all pertinent data and to present it in such form that it can be used effectively by officials concerned in making decisions as to the feasibility of a program of groundwater recharge using city well 3 at Walla Walla as an injection well.
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The area was visited on July 11 by Mr. Holmberg, and on July 14 by Mr. Foxworthy, both of the Geological Sruvey. Measurements of water level on city well 4 and on nearby wells were continued by them onto July 16. 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The collections, evaluation, interpretation, and publication of such data constitute the primary function of the Water Resources Division of the United States Geological Survey. Since 1895 the Congress has made appropriations to this agency for investigations of the water resources of the Nation. In 1929 the Congress adopted the policy of dollar-for-dollar cooperation with State and local governmental agencies for water-resources investigations. The Geological Survey's Federal-State cooperative program of quality-of-water investigations in Oklahoma was started in 1944 in cooperation with the Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board. Since July of this year the program has been carried on cooperatively with the newly created Oklahoma Water Resources Board.
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\nBasically, the water-supply problem at Dora Belle Campground is that the present supply obtained from a spring is not adequate to meet the present summer demand, and is of poor quality. Plans call for a considerable increase in camping facilities.. This, it is imperative that the present supply be augmented or, preferably, be replaced entirely. the Forest Service estimated the future peak demand to be about 25,00 gallons per day.
\nOn October 28, 1957, the writer examined the are in the company of C. H. Fankboner, Assistant Forest Engineer, Sierra National Forest, and Ben Dix, Construction and Maintenance Foreman, Pine Ridge District. Field work, done on October 28th and 29th, consisted of a brief geologic reconnaissance to determine the rock types and geologic structure, and a hydrologic reconnaissance consisting of a partial inventory of water walls and springs in the vicinity of the campground. A spring box near the western edge of Bell Diamond Meadow was pumped out with a Forest Service pump truck to determine its rate of recovery and potential production.
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\nFrequently the Theis nonequilibrium formula is use din the quantitative analyses that are part of many-ground-water investigations. The computations associated therewith may become quite involved and tedious, especially when dealing with predictions of the decline of water levels throughout large areas in which there are many discharging wells. The process of predicting future water-level declines can be greatly simplified and shortened by preparing a special draw-down scale for given conditions. Through use of such a scale much of the computation can be reduced to scaling the values sought from a map, on which the pumped wells have been spotted. The net drawdown effect, which is the sum of the water-level declines caused by the many individual pumped wells, can be determined readily for any desired point in the area. If the net drawdown effect is desired, a summation of the effects of all the pumped wells can be repeated for each point. By determining the water-level change at a number of points, for a given period of time, a contour map of predicted water-level changes for the multiple-well system can be drawn.
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\nObservations of the piesometric surface of the artesian water during flow tests show that three artesian wells, 30/16-1R1, 30/17-7D1, and -7F1, are hydraulically connected with a fourth, 30/16-1R2, and that well 30/16-1R2 is hydraulically connected with Ana Springs. A fifth artesian well, 30/16-12A1, did not show hydraulic connection with the other four wells during the short-term tests made.
\nMathematical constant derived from the tests permit calculations which indicate that the four wells, 30/16-1R1, -1R2, 30/17-7D1, and -7F1, when flowing at a combined rate of 4,600 gpm for 100 days, may lower the pressure head on Ana Springs by an amount equal to 2.7 feet of water, This lowering in pressure may cause a decrease in the rate of discharge of Ana Springs by about 4.4 cubic feet per second, or about 5 percent of the present wintertime rate of discharge. This diversion (5 percent) would be within the limit of error of single measurement of the the spring discharge. Chemical and temperature characteristics of thew Ana Spring water indicate it is similar to the water of the five lava-rock wells.
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\nBig Creek below Skookum Meadow near Trout Lake, Washington: Oct. 1931 to Sept. 1955
\nMeadow Creek below Lone Butte Meadow near Trout Lake, Washington: Oct. to Dec. 1928; Oct. 1931 to Sept. 1955
\nRush Creek above falls, near Cougar, Wash.: Oct. to Dec. 1928; Dec. 1931 to Sept. 1955
\nPublished records for water years 1928-31 and 1956 are included in the tabulation to provide discharge for the full period Oct. 1927 to Sept. 1956.
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The construction of this dam has been proposed by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, for recreational and fish-cultural purposes.
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Records of discharge were collected and compiled in cooperation with the Texas State Board of Water Engineers, the Pecos River Commission, and other agencies.
The isohyetal map of the upper Brazos River basin, which was the basis for figure 4, was furnished by the Corps of Engineers. The \"bucket\" survey of rainfall in the Nueces River basin was conducted by the U.S. Weather Bureau, and the \"bucket\" survey in the upper Brazos River basin was conducted by the U.S. Weather Bureau, the Corps of Engineers, and the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. The U.S. Conservation Service furnished \"A Report describing the effects of the storm of September 23-25, 1955, on the Upper Brazos River Watershed, above Possum Kingdom Dam\" from which some data in this report were taken.
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The former discovered that electrical currents and potentials were developed by certain ore deposits in Cornwall, England. Fox made measurements of these potentials and determined the resistivities of the minerals and surrounding rocks also. The latter, invented the non-polarizing electrode with which he overcame the polarizing effects of direct current, and was able to trace and extend the Comstock lode. According to Slichter (1934, p.234), F. Neumann proposed as early as 1884 determining the resistivity of the earth by a four-electrode method nearly like our present technique, and carefully developed the mathematical theory of the method. Wells (1914) followed the work of Barus with studies of the electric activity in ore deposits. Ambronn (1926) gives an extensive bibliography of the early work in geophysics.
The classical work of Wenner (1917) and, almost at the same time and independently, that of Schlumberger (1920) laid the foundations for resistivity measurements on the surface of the earth. While Schlumberger was actually making measurements of earth resistivity related to structural studies as early as 1912 in France, work in this country was slow in developing from the work of Wenner, but it was gaining adherents following the pioneering work of Kelley (1922) and Gish (1923). Probably the work of Gish and Rooney (1925) Who redesigned the apparatus of McCollum (1925) was the largest contributing cause in this country for the sudden interest and expansion of electrical methods. Their work was followed by many others in the late 1920's, some of which are: Gish (1926); Rooney and Gish (1927); Rooney (1927); Gish and Rooney (1927); Lee (1928); Hotchkiss, Rooney, and Fisher (1929); Weaver (1929); Lundberg (1929); Leonardon and. Kelley (1929); Crosby and Leonardon (1929); Carretta and Kelly (1929); Koenigsberger (1929}; Runkel (1928, 1929); Heiland (1929); and many others.
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