Progress report on the ground-water investigation in Solano County, California
G.F. Worts Jr., and others
1950, Open-File Report 50-111
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...
Notes to accompany preliminary geologic map of Fairfax, Virginia and (part) Seneca, Virginia-Maryland quadrangles
Allan P. Bennison, Charles Milton
1950, Open-File Report 50-11
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...
Geology and ground-water hydrology of the Lake Hefner area in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
P.E. Dennis
1950, Open-File Report 50-68
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...
Ground-water conditions in the Rincon and Mesilla Valleys and adjacent areas in New Mexico
C.S. Conover
1950, Open-File Report 50-66
Ground water in the vicinity of Healy and Homer, Alaska
D.J. Cedarstrom, Clyde Wahrhaftig, F.F. Barnes
1950, Open-File Report 50-64
A list of references on the occurrence, availability, and character of ground water in the Missouri River Basin
Eldon A. Busch (compiler)
1950, Open-File Report 50-63
This compilation of ground-water references was prepared as an aid to the field men engaged in ground-water investigations in the Missouri River Basin. It is thought that an acquaintance with the available literature on the area in which a field man is working may on occasion not only save him...
Some aspects of the development of ground water in the United States and in North Dakota
P.D. Akin
1950, Open-File Report 50-53
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 in the vicinity of the Veterans Hospital, Castle Point, Dutchess County, New York
M.L. Brashears Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-1
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...
Average daily withdrawals of water for public supply in Kings, Queens, and Nassau Counties, New York
M.L. Brashears Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-59
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 Water Authority, and the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors has conducted studies dealing with the occurrence, movement, quantity, quality, and temperature of...
The piezometric surface of the Lloyd sand member of the Raritan formation, Long Island, New York, in 1947
M.L. Brashears Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-58
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...
Supplementary report on surface-water and ground-water surveys, Nueces River Basin, Texas
W. L. Broadhurst, C.E. Ellsworth
1950, Open-File Report 50-62
A report on the ground-water and surface-water surveys of the Nueces River Basin was included in a report by the Bureau of Reclamation, entitled "Comprehensive plan for water-resources development of the Nueces River Basin project planning report number 5-14.04-3, February 1946"....
Contour map showing altitude of bedrock surface in southern Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
J.B. Graham
1950, Open-File Report 50-73
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...
Estimated use of ground water in the United States, 1945
W.F. Guyton
1950, Open-File Report 50-74
Water-supply investigation of Sanastee area, Navajo Indian Reservation, San Juan County, New Mexico
L.C. Halpenny, J. W. Harshbarger, J.D. Hem
1950, Open-File Report 50-75