Review of the Water Resources Information System of Argentina
N.E. Hutchison
1987, Open-File Report 87-226
A representative of the U.S. Geological Survey traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in November 1986, to discuss water information systems and data bank implementation in the Argentine Government Center for Water Resources Information. Software has been written by Center personnel for a minicomputer to be used to manage inventory (index)...
Ground-water levels in Anchorage, Alaska, 1985
R. L. Glass
1987, Open-File Report 87-546
Water-level data collected during 1985 for 146 Anchorage wells deeper than 40 feet are presented. Hydrographs of water levels in 20 wells for the period 1970 through 1985 are also given. The report describes groundwater conditions and seasonal fluctuations in water levels, and includes pumpage figures and well-construction data. ...
Hydrology of area 46, Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountain coal provinces, North Dakota
M.G. Croft, Orlo A. Crosby
1987, Open-File Report 84-467
This report is one of a series that describes the hydrology of coal provinces nationwide. The Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountain Coal Provinces are divided into 20 separate reporting areas which are numbered 43 to 62. This report provides general hydrologic information for Area 46 using a brief text...
Gravity observations along a PASSCAL seismic line in west-central Nevada
J. M. Glen, J. S. Lewis, D. A. Ponce
1987, Open-File Report 87-403
Preliminary hydrologic data for wells tested in Nash Draw, near the proposed Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site, southeastern New Mexico
S. F. Richey
1987, Open-File Report 87-37
Hydrologic testing was conducted at wells WIPP-25, WIPP-26, WIPP-27, WIPP-28, WIPP-29, and WIPP-30 in Nash Draw near the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in southeastern New Mexico. The three water-bearing zones tested were the Magenta Dolomite Member of the Rustler Formation, Culebra Dolomite Member of the Rustler Formation, and the...
The geology and hydrothermal alteration centers of the Snow Camp Mine-Major Hill area, central Carolina slate belt, Alamance and Chatham counties, North Carolina
E.H. Hughes
1987, Open-File Report 87-180
Louisiana ground-water quality
G. F. Huff, R.B. Fendick, C.G. Stuart, George Cramer
1987, Open-File Report 87-728
Sediment-transport curves
G.D. Glysson
1987, Open-File Report 87-218
The process of developing a sediment transport curve is discussed with respect to the choice of dependent and independent variables, procedures for developing a transport curve, and the effects that seasons, major sediment transporting events, and timing of peaks can have on the shape of sediment transport curves. Examples of...
Petroleum geology and hydrocarbon plays of the San Juan Basin petroleum province
A. C. Huffman Jr.
1987, Open-File Report 87-450-B
Base of moderately saline ground water in the Uinta Basin, Utah, with an introductory section describing the methods used in determining its position
Lewis Howells, M.S. Longson, G.L. Hunt
1987, Open-File Report 87-394
No abstract available....
Assessment of water resources in lead-zinc mined areas in Cherokee County, Kansas, and adjacent areas
Timothy B. Spruill
1987, Water Supply Paper 2268
A study was conducted to evaluate water-resources problems related to abandoned lead and zinc mines in Cherokee County, Kansas, and adjacent areas in Missouri and Oklahoma. Past mining activities have caused changes in the hydrogeology of the area. Lead and zinc mining has caused discontinuities and perforations in the confining...
Hydrologic unit maps
Paul R. Seaber, F. Paul Kapinos, George L. Knapp
1987, Water Supply Paper 2294
A set of maps depicting approved boundaries of, and numerical codes for, river-basin units of the United States has been developed by the U.S . Geological Survey. These 'Hydrologic Unit Maps' are four-color maps that present information on drainage, culture, hydrography, and hydrologic boundaries and codes of (1) the 21...
Laboratory data on coarse-sediment transport for bedload-sampler calibrations
David Wellington Hubbell, H.H. Stevens Jr., J. V. Skinner, J.P. Beverage
1987, Water Supply Paper 2299
A unique facility capable of recirculating and continuously measuring the transport rates of sediment particles ranging in size from about 1 to 75 millimeters in diameter was designed and used in an extensive program involving the calibration of bedload samplers. The facility consisted of a 9-footwide by 6-foot-deep by 272-foot-long...
Statistical analysis of surface-water-quality data in and near the coal-mining region of southwestern Indiana, 1957-80
Jeffrey D. Martin, Charles G. Crawford
1987, Water Supply Paper 2291
The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 requires that applications for coal-mining permits contain information about the water quality of streams at and near a proposed mine. To meet this need for information, streamflow, specific conductance, pH, and concentrations of total alkalinity, sulfate, dissolved solids, suspended solids, total...
Transport of dissolved and suspended material by the Potomac River at Chain Bridge, at Washington, D.C., water years 1978-81
Stephen F. Blanchard, D. C. Hahl
1987, Water Supply Paper 2234-B
The measuring station Potomac River at Chain Bridge at Washington, D.C., is located at the upstream end of the tidal Potomac River. Water-quality data were collected intensively at this site from December 1977 through September 1981 as part of a study of the tidal Potomac River and Estuary. Analysis of...
Loads of suspended sediment and nutrients from local nonpoint sources to the tidal Potomac River and Estuary, Maryland and Virginia, 1979-81 water years
R. Edward Hickman
1987, Water Supply Paper 2234-G
Loads of suspended sediment, phosphorus, nitrogen, biochemical oxygen demand, and dissolved silica discharged to the tidal Potomac River and Estuary during the !979-81 water years from three local nonpoint sources have been calculated. The loads in rain falling directly upon the tidal water surface and from overflows of the combined...
Monthly streamflow and ground-water conditions in the United States and southern Canada, water years, 1945-85
Sandra L. Holmes
1987, Water Supply Paper 2314
The Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey has been measuring streamflow since 1888 and collecting ground-water data since 1894. The monthly publication Water Resources Review (now National Water Conditions) was established in water year 1945 to provide information quickly to the public on the status of surface- and...
Relations between quality of urban runoff and quality of Lake Ellyn at Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Robert G. Striegl, Ellen A. Cowan
1987, Water Supply Paper 2301
Comparison of flow and chemical data collected at the principal inlet and at the outlets of Lake Ellynman urban lake in the Chicago metropolitan are--shows that detention storage alters the discharge and the quality of urban runoff. Peak water discharge and variation in the concentration of constituents transported by the...
Shore erosion as a sediment source to the tidal Potomac River, Maryland and Virginia
Andrew J. Miller
1987, Water Supply Paper 2234-E
The shoreline of the tidal Potomac River attained its present form as a result of the Holocene episode of sea-level rise; the drowned margins of the system are modified by wave activity in the shore zone and by slope processes on banks steepened by basal-wave erosion. Shore erosion leaves residual...
Simulation of flood hydrographs for Georgia streams
Ernest J. Inman
1987, Water Supply Paper 2317
Flood hydrographs are needed for the design of many highway drainage structures and embankments. A method for simulating these flood hydrographs at ungaged sites in Georgia is presented in this report. The O'Donnell method was used to compute unit hydrographs and lagtimes for 355 floods at 80 gaging stations. An...
Analysis of surface-water data network in Kansas for effectiveness in providing regional streamflow information; with a section on theory and application of generalized least squares
K.D. Medina, Gary D. Tasker
1987, Water Supply Paper 2303
This report documents the results of an analysis of the surface-water data network in Kansas for its effectiveness in providing regional streamflow information. The network was analyzed using generalized least squares regression. The correlation and time-sampling error of the streamflow characteristic are considered in the generalized least squares method. Unregulated...
Geohydrology of the unsaturated zone at the burial site for low-level radioactive waste near Beatty, Nye County, Nevada
William D. Nichols
1987, Water Supply Paper 2312
Low-level radioactive solid waste has been buried in trenches at a site near Beatty, Nev., since 1962. In 1976, as part of a national program, the U.S. Geological Survey began a study of the geohydrology of the waste-burial site to provide a basis for estimating the potential for radionuclide migration...
Tidal-flow, circulation, and flushing changes caused by dredge and fill in Tampa Bay, Florida
Carl R. Goodwin
1987, Water Supply Paper 2282
Tampa Bay, Florida, underwent extensive physical changes between 1880 and 1972 because of construction of causeways, islands, channels, and shoreline fills. These changes resulted in a progressive reduction in the quantity of tidal water that enters and leaves the bay. Dredging and filling also changed the magnitude and direction of...
Selected papers in the hydrologic sciences, 1986
Seymour Subitzky
1987, Water Supply Paper 2310
Water-quality data from long-term (24 years), fixed- station monitoring at the Cape Fear River at Lock 1 near Kelly, N.C., and various measures of basin development are correlated. Subbasin population, number of acres of cropland in the subbasin, number of people employed in manufacturing, and tons of fertilizer applied in...
Ground water in the southeastern Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado
Walter F. Holmes, Briant A. Kimball
1987, Water Supply Paper 2248
The potential for developing oil-shale resources in the southeastern Uinta Basin of Utah and Colorado has created the need for information on the quantity and quality of water available in the area. This report describes the availability and chemical quality of ground water, which might provide a source or supplement...
