Chemical and physical characteristics of water in estuaries of Texas; October 1978-September 1983
J.C. Fisher, R.U. Grozier
1985, Open-File Report 85-408
The Texas Water Plan (Texas Water Development Board, 1968) proposed development and utilization of water resources in Texas and included a provision for the use and preservation of water in the estuaries of the State. Management of estuarine waters requires knowledge of the hydrodynamics and of the continuing changes in...
Play analysis of undiscovered oil and gas resources on onshore Federal lands, Phase I: Atlantic Coastal Plain
Jan Libby-French
1985, Open-File Report 87-450-C
No abstract available....
PBDAT200; a computer program for processing raw Pb-U-Th isotope data
K.R. Ludwig
1985, Open-File Report 85-547
ISOPLOT200; a plotting and regression program for isotope geochemists, for use with HP Series 200 computers
K.R. Ludwig
1985, Open-File Report 85-513
Mineral deposit models; theory and practice
Steve Ludington, Paul B. Barton Jr., Kathleen M. Johnson
1985, Open-File Report 85-391
Ground-water quality data for Oklahoma; 1982-84
D. M. Ferree
1985, Open-File Report 85-417
The U.S. Geological Survey has collected data on Oklahoma's ground-water resources since 1934. Most of these data were collected as part of specific ground-water studies conducted in cooperation with various federal, state, and local agencies. Ground-water quality data, as well as data on construction, yield, water levels, and other physical...
Map of faulting accompanying the 1966 Parkfield, California, earthquake
J. J. Lienkaemper, R.D. Brown
1985, Open-File Report 85-661
Current water resources activities in Arkansas, 1984-85
B.L. Louthian, E. E. Gann
1985, Open-File Report 85-554
This report describes water resources activities conducted by the Arkansas District of the U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, during fiscal years 1984 and 1985. Activities included surface water, groundwater, water quality, and water-use investigations. Twenty-five projects were funded during 1984 and 1985. For each project, a description of the...
Analytical results for 186 water samples collected in Berks, Bucks, Chester, Lancaster, and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania
W. H. Ficklin, J. B. McHugh, J.M. McNeal
1985, Open-File Report 85-667
Landslides and debris flows east of Mount Pleasant, Utah, 1983 and 1984
E.W. Lips
1985, Open-File Report 85-382
Report of the River Master of the Delaware River for the period December 1, 1983 - November 30, 1984
F.T. Schaefer, W. E. Harkness, R.W. Baebenroth, D.W. Speight
1985, Open-File Report 85-339
A Decree of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954 established the position of Delaware River Master. The Decree authorizes diversions of water from the Delaware River basin and requires compensating releases from certain reservoirs of the City of New York to be made under the supervision and direction of the...
Traveltime and dispersion in the Potomac River, Cumberland, Maryland, to Washington, D.C.
Kenneth R. Taylor, Robert W. James Jr., Bernard M. Helinsky
1985, Water Supply Paper 2257
A travel-time and dispersion study using rhodamine dye was conducted on the Potomac River between Cumberland, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., a distance of 189 miles. The flow during the study was at approximately the 90-percent flow-duration level. A similar study was conducted by Wilson and Forrest in 1964 at a...
Hydrology of major estuaries and sounds of North Carolina
G. L. Giese, Hugh B. Wilder, Garald G. Parker Jr.
1985, Water Supply Paper 2221
Hydrology-related problems associated with North Carolina 's major estuaries and sounds include contamination of some estuaries with municipal and industrial wastes and drainage from adjacent, intensively farmed areas, and nuisance-level algal blooms. In addition, there is excessive shoaling in some navigation channels, salt-water intrusion into usually fresh estuarine reaches, too...
Subsurface storage of freshwater in South Florida; a digital model analysis of recoverability
Michael L. Merritt
1985, Water Supply Paper 2261
As part of a study of the feasibility of recovering freshwater injected and stored underground in south Florida, a digital solute-transport model was used to investigate the relation of recovery efficiency to the variety of hydrogeologic conditions that could prevail in brackish artesian aquifers and to a variety of management...
Controls on phosphorus mobility in the Potomac River near the Blue Plains wastewater treatment plant
Hearn Jr.
1985, Water Supply Paper 2231
The Blue Plains wastewater treatment plant is the largest point source of phosphorus in the Potomac River basin, discharging an average of 2 metric tons of phosphorus into the river each day in 1980. An intensive study of the water and sediments in the vicinity of the treatment plant was...
Distribution and abundance of submersed aquatic vegetation in the tidal Potomac River and Estuary, Maryland and Virginia, May 1978 to November 1981
Virginia Carter, James E. Paschal, Nancy C. Bartow
1985, Water Supply Paper 2234-A
No abstract available....
Study and interpretation of the chemical characteristics of natural water
John David Hem
1985, Water Supply Paper 2254
The chemical composition of natural water is derived from many different sources of solutes, including gases and aerosols from the atmosphere, weathering and erosion of rocks and soil, solution or precipitation reactions occurring below the land surface, and cultural effects resulting from human activities. Broad interrelationships among these processes and...
Distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls in the Housatonic River and adjacent aquifer, Massachusetts
Frederick B. Gay, Michael H. Frimpter
1985, Water Supply Paper 2266
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) are sorbed to the fine-grained stream-bottom sediments along the Housatonic River from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, southward to the Massachusetts-Connecticut boundary. The highest PCB concentrations, up to 140,000 micrograms per kilogram, were found in samples of bottom material from a reach of the river between Pittsfield and Woods Pond...
Geohydrology and model analysis of stream-aquifer system along the Arkansas River in Kearny and Finney Counties, southwestern Kansas
L. E. Dunlap, Richard J. Lindgren, C. G. Sauer
1985, Water Supply Paper 2253
A study was made, in cooperation with the Division of Water Resources, Kansas State Board of Agriculture, to determine geohydrologic conditions in an area comprising nearly 850,000 acres along the Arkansas River valley in Kearny and Finney Counties, southwestern Kansas. The Arkansas River meanders atop and interacts hydraulically with the...
Simulating unsteady transport of nitrogen, biochemical oxygen demand, and dissolved oxygen in the Chattahoochee River downstream from Atlanta, Georgia
Harvey E. Jobson
1985, Water Supply Paper 2264
As part of an intensive water-quality assessment of the Chattahoochee River, repetitive water-quality measurements were made at 12 sites along a 69-kilometer reach of the river downstream of Atlanta, Georgia. Concentrations of seven constituents (temperature, dissolved oxygen, ultimate carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), organic nitrogen, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate) were...
Pesticides in the nation's rivers, 1975-1980, and implications for future monitoring
Robert J. Gilliom, Richard B. Alexander, Richard A. Smith
1985, Water Supply Paper 2271
Water samples were taken four times per year and bed-sediment samples two times per year during 1975-80 at 160 to 180 stations on major rivers of the United States. Samples were analyzed for 18 insecticides and 4 herbicides, which together accounted for about one-third of the total amount of all...
Evaluation of major dike-impounded ground-water reservoirs, Island of Oahu
Kiyoshi J. Takasaki, John Francis Mink
1985, Water Supply Paper 2217
Ground-water reservoirs impounded by volcanic dikes receive a substantial part of the total recharge to ground water on the island of Oahu because they generally underlie the rainiest areas. These reservoirs accumulate the infiltration from rainfall, store it temporarily, and steadily leak it to abutting basal reservoirs or to streams...
The ground-water system and possible effects of underground coal mining in the Trail Mountain area, central Utah
Gregory C. Lines
1985, Water Supply Paper 2259
The ground-water system was studied in the Trail Mountain area in order to provide hydrologic information needed to assess the hydrologic effects of underground coal mining. Well testing and spring data indicate that water occurs in several aquifers. The coal-bearing Blackhawk-Star Point aquifer is regional in nature and is the...
Simulation of an aquifer test on the Tesuque Pueblo Grant, New Mexico
Glenn A. Hearne
1985, Water Supply Paper 2206
An aquifer test was designed and conducted in the anisotropic dipping beds of the Tesuque Formation on the Tesuque Pueblo Grant, New Mexico. The three-dimensional digital model used to analyze the test approximated the response to the test. The analysis of the geohydrology of the test site in combination with...
Geohydrology and water resources of the Papago Farms-Great Plain area, Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona, and the upper Rio Sonoyta area, Sonora, Mexico
Kenneth J. Hollett
1985, Water Supply Paper 2258
The Papago Farms-Great Plain and upper Rio Sonoyta study area includes about 490 square miles in south-central Arizona and north-central Sonora, Mexico. The area is characterized by a broad, deep, sediment-filled basin bounded by low, jagged fault-block mountains. The climate is arid to semiarid. The climate and abundant ground water...
