Interim report on the ground-water resources of the McMullen Valley area, Maricopa, Yavapai, and Yuma Counties, Arizona
William Kam
1957, Open-File Report 57-59
Water levels in observation wells in Nebraska during 1956
C.F. Keech
1957, Open-File Report 57-61
The Objective of the observation-well program in Nebraska is to provide an evaluation of the status of the ground-water supplies. Many uses tor water-level data are known but not all potential uses can be foreseen. Among the important uses are the following: (1) To indicate the status of ground water in storage or in transit...
Irrigation in northeastern Mississippi
J.W. Lang, E. H. Boswell
1957, Open-File Report 57-63
The phenomenal increase in the use of water for agriculture, industry, and public water supply in the past few years has been an important factor in bringing about the current accelerated inventory and appraisal of the water resources of Mississippi. As a result of severe droughts during the past several...
Reconnaissance of the water resources of the Lonesome Valley area, Yavapai County, Arizona
Donald G. Metzger
1957, Open-File Report 57-68
In accordance with a request from its cooperating agency, the Arizona State Land Department, the U.S. Geological Survey has made a brief reconnaissance of the water resources of the Lonesome Valley area, Yavapai County, Ariz., to determine the probable hydrologic effects of a proposed dam on Lynx Creek. The construction...
Supplemental irrigation in Maryland in 1957
Gerald Meyer
1957, Open-File Report 57-71
This memorandum was prepared to accommodate requests for information on the extent and amount of supplemental irrigation in Maryland and the sources of water used for this purpose....
Texas floods of September and October 1955
D.L. Milliken, W.H. Goines
1957, Open-File Report 57-74
This report on the floods of September and and October 1955 in the Nueces, Brazos, and Pecos River basins, Texas, was prepared in the Texas District Office, Surface Water Branch, under the direction of Trigg Twichell, District Engineer.Records of discharge were collected and compiled in cooperation with the Texas State...
Correlative estimates of discharge of Lackawaxen River and Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania
J.L. Molloy
1957, Open-File Report 57-75
Development of ground water from the Carrizo sand and Wilcox group in Dimmit, Zavala, Maverick, Frio, Atacosa, Median, Bexar, Live Oak, McMullen, La Salle, and Webb Counties, Texas
E. A. Moulder
1957, Open-File Report 57-77
The development of ground water for irrigation from the Carrizo sand south and southwest of San Antonio, Tex., has increased rapidly during the past few years. Declining pumping water levels in irrigation wells, caused by increased withdrawals, have caused considerable concern among the residents of the area. In response, the...
Correlative estimates of discharge of East Fork Bruneau River below Three Creek, near Three Creek, Idaho, for water years 1911-15, 1949-55
Thomas R. Newell
1957, Open-File Report 57-82
Streamflow East Fork Bruneau River below Three Creek, near Three Creek, Idaho
Thomas R. Newell
1957, Open-File Report 57-83
No abstract available....
Floods of July 1956 in Clarke County, Alabama
L.B. Peirce
1957, Open-File Report 57-87
A weak tropical disturbance formed just off the coast of Alabama on July 5, 1956. Moving inland over the southeastern part of the State, the storm produced heavy rains on the 7th and the morning of the 8th before it dissipated and moved out toward the north....
Ground-water conditions, Maynard Ordnance Test Station and vicinity, Sudbury, Massachusetts
N. M. Perlmutter
1957, Open-File Report 57-88
Seventh progress report on the cooperative investigation of springs and streamflow in the Tecolote tunnel area of Santa Barbara County, California
W. C. Peterson
1957, Open-File Report 57-89
This report is the seventh in a a continuing series of progress reports giving the results of discharge measurements made at selected springs and streams in the Tecolote Tunnel are area of the Santa Ynez Mountains. The mountains. The measurement program was begun on its present scale in the...
Hydrology and water law: what is their future common ground?
Arthur M. Piper, Harold E. Thomas
1957, Open-File Report 57-90
We live in an age of social and economic evolution--evolution so deep reaching and rapid it constitutes ad revolution in numerous fields of human concern. Long-standing concepts of what is appropriate and orderly face drastic modification if they are to survive. To this situation the principles of applied hydrology and...
Surface-water hydrology of small basins in California between Russian and Eel Rivers
S. E. Rantz
1957, Open-File Report 57-93
Surface water supply of eastern and central North Carolina
Edward B. Rice
1957, Open-File Report 57-96
None of the many factors that influence the economic growth of eastern and central North Carolina plays a more important role than water. Adequate water supply for municipal, rural domestic, industrial, and agricultural uses, is a basic need of any region....
Feasibility of obtaining domestic ground-water supplies in the YU Bench and Emblem Bench areas, Bighorn and Park Counties, Wyoming
C.J. Robinove
1957, Open-File Report 57-97
Application and evaluation of the Sargent-Malmstadt Automatic Titrator to argentimetric and mercurimetric chloride titrations
M. W. Skougstad
1957, Open-File Report 57-101
Flame photometric determination of strontium in water
Marvin W. Skougstad
1957, Open-File Report 57-102
Preliminary search of reported methods of Sr analysis revealed several investigations which have been made for the determination of Sr with the flame photometer, both at relatively low concentrations (0 to 50 ppm Sr) and at higher concentrations. Generally the procedures described involved measurement of Sr emission at either 460.7...
Determination of suspended discharge of streams in California
D.E. Sloan
1957, Open-File Report 57-103
Progress report on studies of artificial recharge in the Grand Prairie region, Arkansas, 1956
R. T. Sniegocki
1957, Open-File Report 57-104
Drainage area data for Alabama streams
J.S. Stallings, L.B. Peirce
1957, Open-File Report 57-106
The drainage area of a river basin is an important parameter in many engineering equations used for hydrologic design. It is not a parameter, however, that always requires precise measurement. Factors in the hydrologic cycle such as rainfall, runoff, transpiration, and infiltration cannot be measured nearly as closely as drainage...
The spacing of pumped wells
C.V. Theis
1957, Open-File Report 57-108
No abstract available....
Continued utilization of ground-water storage basins
H. E. Thomas
1957, Open-File Report 57-109
Doubtless most of you are more familiar with surface reservoirs, their capabilities and limitations, than you are with ground-water reservoirs. I believe that this is true of people in general, even the experts. And because of our inadequate knowledge of ground-water reservoirs, our use of them creates problems that are...
United Geophysical Company geophysical cross sections and profiles in Naval Petroleum Reserve No. and adjoining areas
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1957, Open-File Report 57-112