Unusual drought conditions in the summer of 1948 led the irrigators in the lower Brazos River Valley to request releases from Possum Kingdom Reservoir primarily for the irrigation of rice.
The purpose of this study is to determine the time of travel. The first release is identified as that passing the Palo Pinto gage, 20 miles downstream from the reservoir, from August 9 to 16, 1948; the second release is that from August 16 to 30; and the third release is that from August 30 to September 6.
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\nSamples for chemical analysis were collected daily at or near points on streams where gaging stations are maintained for measurement of discharge. Most of the analyses were made of 10-day composites of daily samples collected for a year at each sampling point. Three composite samples were usually prepared each month by mixing together equal quantities of daily samples collected for the 1st to the 10th, from the 11th to the 20th, and during the remainder of the month. Monthly composites were made at a few stations where variation in daily conductance was small. For some streams that are subject to sudden large changes in chemical composition, composite samples were made for shorter periods on the basis of the concentration of dissolved solids as indicated by measurement of specific conductance of the daily samples.
\nThe mean discharge for the composite period is reported in second-feet. Specific conductance values are expressed as \"micromhos, K x 10 at 25° C.\" Silica, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, bicarbonate, sulfate, chloride, and nitrate are reported in parts per million. The quantity of dissolved solids is given in tons per acre-foot, tons per day (if discharge records are available), and parts per million. The total and non-carbonate hardness are reported as parts per million calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
\nFor those analyses where sodium and potassium are reported separately, \"recent sodium\" will include the equivalent quantity of sodium only. In analyses where sodium and potassium were calculated and reported as a combined value, the \"percent sodium\" will include the equivalent quantity of sodium and potassium.
\nWeighted average analyses are given for most daily sampling stations. The weighted average analysis represent approximately the composition of water that would be found in a reservoir containing all the water passing a given station during the year after through mixing in the reservoir.
\nSamples were analyzed according to method regularly used by the Geological Survey. These methods are essentially the same or are modifications of methods described in recognized authoritative publications for mineral analysis of water samples.
\nThese quality of water records have been collected as part of the cooperative investigations of the water resources of Texas conducted by the Geological Survey and the Texas Board of Water Engineers. Much of the work would have been impossible without the support of the following Federal State, and local agencies The United States Bureau of Reclamation, U. S. Corps of Engineers, Brazos River Conservation and Reclamation District, Lower Colorado River Authority, Red Bluff Water Power Control District, City of Amarillo, City of Abilene, and City of Forth Worth.
\nThe investigations were under the firection of Burdge Irelan, District Chemist, Austin, Texas. Analyses of water samples were made by Clara J. Carter, Lee J. Freeman, Homer D. Smith, Dorothy M. Suttle, DeForrest E. Weaver, and Clarence T. Welborn. Calculations of weighted averages were made by James R. Avrett, Burdge Irelan, Dorothy M. Suttle, and DeForrest E. Weaver.
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W.","contributorId":45318,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Lohman","given":"S.","email":"","middleInitial":"W.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":246299,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":52962,"text":"ofr5082 - 1950 - Salinity of ground water at sampling wells located in southeastern Nassau County, Long Island, New York","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2014-04-25T08:48:41","indexId":"ofr5082","displayToPublicDate":"1994-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1950","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":"50-82","title":"Salinity of ground water at sampling wells located in southeastern Nassau County, Long Island, New York","docAbstract":"In 1939, a special program for the systematic collection of chloride data in southeastern Nassau County was inaugurated in which three agencies participated. The Nassau County Department of Public Works constructed the sampling wells, the Ground Water Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey began to collect at period intervals water samples which were analysed at the Mount Prospect Laboratory of the New York Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, The Nassau County Department of Public Works and the U.S. Geological Survey have continued financial cooperation for the maintenance of this program up to the present time.","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Suvey","publisherLocation":"Mineola, NY","doi":"10.3133/ofr5082","collaboration":"Prepared in cooperation with the Nassau County Department of Public Works and New York City Department of Water Supply Gas and Electricity","usgsCitation":"Lusczynski, N.J., 1950, Salinity of ground water at sampling wells located in southeastern Nassau County, Long Island, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 50-82, 2 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr5082.","productDescription":"2 p.","numberOfPages":"4","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":286588,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/usgs_thumb.jpg"},{"id":286587,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1950/0082/report.pdf"}],"country":"United States","state":"New York","county":"Nassau County","city":"Long Island","geographicExtents":"{ \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\", \"features\": [ { \"type\": \"Feature\", \"properties\": {}, \"geometry\": { \"type\": \"Polygon\", \"coordinates\": [ [ [ -73.766698,40.57309 ], [ -73.766698,40.946876 ], [ -73.423259,40.946876 ], [ -73.423259,40.57309 ], [ -73.766698,40.57309 ] ] ] } } ] }","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e4a0ee4b07f02db5fdfca","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Lusczynski, Norbert J.","contributorId":93465,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Lusczynski","given":"Norbert","email":"","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":246300,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":52963,"text":"ofr5083 - 1950 - Withdrawal of ground water and pond water on Long Island from 1904 to 1949","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2014-04-25T09:31:23","indexId":"ofr5083","displayToPublicDate":"1994-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1950","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":"50-83","title":"Withdrawal of ground water and pond water on Long Island from 1904 to 1949","docAbstract":"For more than 50 years the highly productive and readily replenishable water-bearing sands and gravels on Long Island -- capable of yielding an average of at least 1,000 million gallons a day -- and also some surface streams and ponds have been utilized on a large scale of public water supply and industrial, agricultural and domestic uses. During the drought months of 1949, when many surface and groundwater supplied were being depleted at an alarming rate in many localities in the Northeast, the abundant water resources of Long Island provided sufficient water for public water supply for a large number of private companies and municipalities, as well as for large emergency drafts by the City of New York. In addition they kept industrial concerns from curtailing production, saved millions of dollars of potato, cauliflower, and other Long Island crops, and even furnished, during the summer heat, comfort cooling and theatergoers.","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","publisherLocation":"Mineola, NY","doi":"10.3133/ofr5083","collaboration":"Prepared in cooperation with the New York Water Power and Control Commission, Nassau County Department of Public Works, Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, Suffolk County Water Authority","usgsCitation":"Lusczynski, N.J., 1950, Withdrawal of ground water and pond water on Long Island from 1904 to 1949: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 50-83, 5 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr5083.","productDescription":"5 p.","numberOfPages":"5","temporalStart":"1904-01-01","temporalEnd":"1949-12-31","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":286593,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/usgs_thumb.jpg"},{"id":286592,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1950/0083/report.pdf"}],"country":"United States","state":"New York","city":"Long Island","geographicExtents":"{ \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\", \"features\": [ { \"type\": \"Feature\", \"properties\": {}, \"geometry\": { \"type\": \"Polygon\", \"coordinates\": [ [ [ -74.0419,40.5418 ], [ -74.0419,41.1408 ], [ -71.8563,41.1408 ], [ -71.8563,40.5418 ], [ -74.0419,40.5418 ] ] ] } } ] }","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e49d9e4b07f02db5df9be","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Lusczynski, Norbert J.","contributorId":93465,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Lusczynski","given":"Norbert","email":"","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":246301,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":52964,"text":"ofr5084 - 1950 - Piezometric levels from 1948 through 1950 for wells screened in the Lloyd sand member of the Raritan formation on Long Island, New York","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2014-04-25T09:35:17","indexId":"ofr5084","displayToPublicDate":"1994-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1950","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":"50-84","title":"Piezometric levels from 1948 through 1950 for wells screened in the Lloyd sand member of the Raritan formation on Long Island, New York","docAbstract":"Since 1932, the United States Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New York Water Power and Control Commission, the Nassau County Department of Public Works, the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, and later also with the Suffolk County Water Authority, has been making both general and detailed studied dealing with the occurrence, movement, quantity, quality, and temperature of ground water found in the several water-bearing formations on Long Island. In the first years most of the emphasis was placed on studying the shallow water-table beds of Pleistocene age, although geologic and hydrologic information was obtained for the Lloyd sand member of the Raritan formation of upper Cretaceous age, the deepest water-bearing beds on Long Island, as well as for other artesian formations above the Lloyd.","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","publisherLocation":"Mineola, NY","doi":"10.3133/ofr5084","collaboration":"Prepared in cooperative with the New York Water Power and Control Commission, Nassau County Department of Public Works, Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, and the Suffolk County Water Authority","usgsCitation":"Lusczynski, N.J., 1950, Piezometric levels from 1948 through 1950 for wells screened in the Lloyd sand member of the Raritan formation on Long Island, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 50-84, 11 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr5084.","productDescription":"11 p.","numberOfPages":"11","temporalStart":"1948-01-01","temporalEnd":"1950-12-31","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":286596,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/usgs_thumb.jpg"},{"id":286595,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1950/0084/report.pdf"}],"country":"United States","state":"New York","city":"Long Island","otherGeospatial":"Raritan Formation","geographicExtents":"{ \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\", \"features\": [ { \"type\": \"Feature\", \"properties\": {}, \"geometry\": { \"type\": \"Polygon\", \"coordinates\": [ [ [ -74.0419,40.5418 ], [ -74.0419,41.1408 ], [ -71.8563,41.1408 ], [ -71.8563,40.5418 ], [ -74.0419,40.5418 ] ] ] } } ] }","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e4adae4b07f02db6858b5","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Lusczynski, Norbert J.","contributorId":93465,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Lusczynski","given":"Norbert","email":"","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":246302,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":52965,"text":"ofr5085 - 1950 - Progress report on the geology and ground-water hydrology of the Riverton Irrigation Project, Wyoming","interactions":[{"subject":{"id":52965,"text":"ofr5085 - 1950 - Progress report on the geology and ground-water hydrology of the Riverton Irrigation Project, Wyoming","indexId":"ofr5085","publicationYear":"1950","noYear":false,"title":"Progress report on the geology and ground-water hydrology of the Riverton Irrigation Project, Wyoming"},"predicate":"SUPERSEDED_BY","object":{"id":2336,"text":"wsp1375 - 1959 - Ground-water resources of Riverton irrigation project area, Wyoming, with a section on chemical quality of ground water","indexId":"wsp1375","publicationYear":"1959","noYear":false,"title":"Ground-water resources of Riverton irrigation project area, Wyoming, with a section on chemical quality of ground water"},"id":1}],"supersededBy":{"id":2336,"text":"wsp1375 - 1959 - Ground-water resources of Riverton irrigation project area, Wyoming, with a section on chemical quality of ground water","indexId":"wsp1375","publicationYear":"1959","noYear":false,"title":"Ground-water resources of Riverton irrigation project area, Wyoming, with a section on chemical quality of ground water"},"lastModifiedDate":"2012-02-02T00:11:44","indexId":"ofr5085","displayToPublicDate":"1994-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1950","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":"50-85","title":"Progress report on the geology and ground-water hydrology of the Riverton Irrigation Project, Wyoming","language":"ENGLISH","doi":"10.3133/ofr5085","usgsCitation":"Morris, D.A., and Durum, W.H., 1950, Progress report on the geology and ground-water hydrology of the Riverton Irrigation Project, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 50-85, 108 p., 4 plates, 12 figs., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr5085.","productDescription":"108 p., 4 plates, 12 figs.","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":177507,"rank":0,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/usgs_thumb.jpg"}],"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e4a9be4b07f02db65de17","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Morris, D. 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Devils Lake in northeastern North Dakota was at one time the most popular summer resort in the state. With decline in lake level the lake has become a shallow body pf vary saline water, which scenic value and recreational appeal completely destroyed. Under the Missouri River development program, it is proposed to restore the lake level to an altitude of 1,425 feet by diversion of Missouri River water.
\nThe chemical character of the water in Devils Lake and in other surface bodies in Devils Lake Basin is determined from the analyses of 95 samples. The physical and chemical properties of lake bed deposits are also shown. Lake water in the basin vary considerable in both concentration and composition, ranging from fresh bicarbonate waters of 300 parts per million dissolved solids to sulfate waters of over 100,000 parts per million of soluble salts. Twenty-four samples indicates the chemical character of water in the Red River of the North and its tributaries.
\nThe probable concentration of dissolved solids in water of Devils Lake at altitude 1,425 feet has been estimated as ranging from 3,000 to 7,600 parts per million. Final concentration will largely depend upon the percentage of deposited salts reentering solution and the quality of the inflow water.
\nThe possible effects of lake effluents on downstream developments, with particular reference to sanitation and pollution problems, are also discussed in this report.
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