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Reconnaissance of Lake Chackachamna, Alaska
Arthur Johnson
1950, Open-File Report 50-112
The purpose of this brief investigation was to obtain general information on Lake Chackachamna and its water-power possibilities which would serve as a guide in planning and executing future studies. Field investigation consisted of a flight to the lake in a small float plane (see Plate I-B) by the writer...
Water power resources of Scenery Creek near Petersburg, Alaska
Fred F. Lawrence
1950, Open-File Report 50-113
Due to high unit runoff, a good storage site, and a high concentration of fall, Scenery Lake presents a favorable power site. By building a tunnel three miles long from Scenery Grove to tap Scenery Lake at elevation 900 feet and a dam to raise Scenery Lake to elevation 1020...
Ground-water conditions in Whisky Flat, Mineral County, Nevada
T.E. Eakin, T. W. Robinson
1950, Open-File Report 50-70
As a part of the State-wide cooperative program between the Office of the State Engineer of Nevada and the U.S. Geological Survey, the Ground Water Branch of the Geological Survey made a reconnaissance study of ground-water conditions in Whisky Flat, Mineral County, Nevada....
Mineral constituents in water and their significance
T.B. Dover
1950, Open-File Report 50-69
Pure water does not exist in nature. Because water is a powerful solvent, every drop of rain water carries dissolved or suspended material - dust, pollen, and smoke, as well as the atmospheric gases, oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide. When rain falls, the water running over the rocks and percolating...
Bibliography of publications relating to ground water in Connecticut
R.V. Cushman
1950, Open-File Report 50-67
The United States Geological Survey is currently investigating the ground-water resources of Connecticut in cooperation with the State Water Commission. As part of this cooperative project, in order to summarize the knowledge already gained about ground water in the State, a bibliography of reports dealing with ground water in Connecticut...
Cooperative ground-water investigations in Massachusetts by the United States Geological Survey, 1938-50
M.L. Brashears Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-61
The United States Geological Survey in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Public Works in 1938 began an investigation of the ground-water conditions in Massachusetts. This work is part of a larger cooperative program that includes surface-water investigations, geologic studies, and topographic mapping. The purpose of the ground-water studies is...
Ground-water conditions at the Veterans Facility, Castle Point, New York
M.L. Brashears Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-60
The rock aquifers in the vicinity of the Castle Point Veterans Hospital yield limited quantities of water which, in general, are sufficient for domestic and farm purposes only. The possibility of obtaining the stated quantity requirements of about 200,000 gallons daily or more from the bedrock formations seems poor with...
Relation of ground water to stream flow at Battle Creek, Mich.
G.E. Eddy, J.G. Ferris
1950, Open-File Report 50-71
This is a summary of statements made by G.E. Eddy, State Geologist of Michigan, and J.G. Ferris, district engineer, Ground Water Branch, U.S. Geological Survey, Lansing, Mich., in a conference during the fall of 1949 with John Spoden, Chief of the Maintenance and Fold Control Division of the district office...
Ground-water data collected in the Missouri River basin units in Kansas during 1949
Delmar W. Berry
1950, Open-File Report 50-55
Ground-water studies in the Missouri River Basin were begun by the United States Geological Survey during the fall of 1945 as a part of the program for development of the resources of the basin by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and other Federal Agencies. The studies of the ground-water resources...
Raccoons of North and Middle America
Edward A. Goldman, Hartley H.T. Jackson
1950, North American Fauna 60
The raccoons, genus Procyon, colloquially known as “coons,” belong to the carnivorous family Procyonidae, which also includes the American genera Nasua, Nasuella, Bassaricyon, and Potos, and the Old World genera Ailurus and Ailuropoda of the subfamily Ailurinae. The members of the Procyon lotor group (subgenus Procyon), with a transcontinental range from...
Probable effects on ground-water resources from construction of the proposed Grand River cut-off channel west of Lansing, Mich.
John G. Ferris
1950, Open-File Report 50-72
This memorandum summarize information brought out in correspondence between the office of the District Engineer of the Milwaukee District, U.S. Corps of Engineers, and the District Office of the Ground Water Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey at Lansing, Mich., concerning the probable effects on the ground-water resources of the...