Water quality in the New River from Calexico to the Salton Sea, Imperial County, California
James G. Setmire
1984, Water Supply Paper 2212
The New River enters the United States at Calexico, Calif., after it crosses the international boundary. Water-quality data from routine collection indicated that the New River was degraded by high organic and bacterial content. Intensive sampling for chemical and physical constituents and properties of the river was done May 9-13,...
Appearance and water quality of turbidity plumes produced by dredging in Tampa Bay, Florida
Carl R. Goodwin, D.M. Michaelis
1984, Water Supply Paper 2192
Turbidity plumes in Tampa Bay, Florida, produced during ship-channel dredging operations from February 1977 to August 1978, were monitored in order to document plume appearance and water quality, evaluate plume influence on the characteristics of Tampa Bay water, and provide a data base for comparison with other areas that have...
Hydrologic characteristics of Nebraska soils
Jack T. Dugan
1984, Water Supply Paper 2222
The influence of the physical characteristics of soil on hydrology is frequently neglected. In this report, the effects of five characteristics on the hydrologic responses of soils in Nebraska are evaluated quantitatively, soils are grouped through use of a simplified coding system according to similarities in hydrologic responses, and are...
Nutrient and detritus transport in the Apalachicola River, Florida
Harold C. Mattraw, John F. Elder
1984, Water Supply Paper 2196-C
The Apalachicola River in northwest Florida flows 172 kilometers southward from Jim Woodruff Dam near the Florida-Georgia border to Apalachicola Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. The basin is composed of two 3,100-squarekilometer subbasins, the Chipola and the Apalachicola. The Apalachicola subbasin includes a 454-square-kilometer bottom-land hardwood flood plain that...
Development of a model to predict the adsorption of lead from solution on a natural streambed sediment
David Wayne Brown, John David Hem
1984, Water Supply Paper 2187
Adsorption of solutes by solid mineral surfaces commonly influences the dissolved ionic composition of natural waters. A model based on electrical double-layer theory has been developed which appears to be capable of characterizing the surface chemical behavior of a natural fine-grained sediment containing mostly quartz and feldspar. This variable surface...
Ground-water monitoring at Santa Barbara, California: Phase 2 — Effects of pumping on water levels and on water quality in the Santa Barbara ground-water basin
Peter Martin
1984, Water Supply Paper 2197
From July 1978 to January 1980, water levels in the southern part of the Santa Barbara ground-water basin declined more than 100 feet. These water-level declines resulted from increases in municipal pumping since July 1978. The increase in municipal pumping was part of a basin-testing program designed to determine the...
Floods of November 1978 to March 1979 in Arizona and west-central New Mexico
Byron Neil Aldridge, T.A. Hales
1984, Water Supply Paper 2241
Severe flooding occurred in parts of the Little Colorado and Gila River basins as a result of a storm that occurred December 17-20, 1978. The central highlands received 3 to 10 inches of precipitation that was augmented by snowmelt to altitudes of 10,000 feet. The storm was preceded by extremely...
Cost effectiveness of the stream-gaging program in Maine; A prototype for nationwide implementation
Richard A. Fontaine, M. E. Moss, J.A. Smath, W. O. Thomas
1984, Water Supply Paper 2244
This report documents the results of a cost-effectiveness study of the stream-gaging program in Maine. Data uses and funding sources were identified for the 51 continuous stream gages currently being operated in Maine with a budget of \$211,000. Three stream gages were identified as producing data no longer sufficiently needed...
Ground-water regions of the United States
Ralph C. Heath
1984, Water Supply Paper 2242
Use of the routing procedure to study dye and gas transport in the West Fork Trinity River, Texas
Harvey E. Jobson, R. E. Rathbun
1984, Water Supply Paper 2252
Rhodamine-WT dye, ethylene, and propane were injected at three sites along a 21.6-kilometer reach of the West Fork Trinity River below Fort Worth, Texas. Complete dye concentration versus time curves and peak gas concentrations were measured at three cross sections below each injection. The peak dye concentrations were located and...
Mapping of forested wetland: Use of seasat radar images to complement conventional sources
John L. Place
1984, Open-File Report 84-312
Distinguishing forested wetland from dry forest using aerial photographs has been handicapped because photographs often do not reveal the presence of water below the tree canopies. Images obtained during the summer months of 1978 by the Seasat satellite's L-band (23-cm) radar reveal forested wetland as patterns of high radar reflection in the Atlantic coastal...
Intensity survey of the Borah Peak, Idaho, earthquake of October 28, 1983
Glen Reagor, F. W. Baldwin
1984, Open-File Report 84-166
Improved digital filters for the calculation of Schlumberger sounding curves by convolution
Yutaka Murakami, Andrea Zerilli, R.J. Bisdorf
1984, Open-File Report 84-280
Structural geology and petrology of a part of the Bitterroot Lobe of the Idaho batholith, Idaho County, Idaho, and Missoula and Ravalli Counties, Montana
R.R. Reid
1984, Open-File Report 84-517
Effects of brine on the chemical quality of water in parts of Creek, Lincoln, Okfuskee, Payne, Pottawatomie, and Seminole counties, Oklahoma
Robert B. Morton
1984, Open-File Report 84-445
A study of water-quality degradation due to brine contamination was made in an area of about 1,700 square miles in east-central Oklahoma. The study area coincides, in part, with the outcrop of the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer of Pennsylvanian age.Water samples collected from 180 wells completed in the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer, and at...
Report of the annual yield of the Arkansas River basin for the Arkansas River Basin Compact, Arkansas-Oklahoma,1983 water year
M. A. Moore, T.E. Lamb
1984, Open-File Report 84-598
The computed annual yield and deficiency of the subbasins as defined in the Arkansas River Compact, Arkansas-Oklahoma, are given in tables. Actual runoff from the subbasins and depletion caused by major reservoirs in the compact area are also given in tabular form. Monthly, maximum, minimum, and mean discharges are shown...
Nature and origin of "vent gases" in the LaSalle area, northeastern Colorado
D. D. Rice, C. N. Threlkeld, April Vuletich
1984, Open-File Report 84-220
Changes in permeability and fluid chemistry of the Topopah Spring Member of the Paintbrush Tuff (Nevada Test Site) when held in a temperature gradient; summary of results
Diane E. Moore, C.A. Morrow, J.D. Byerlee
1984, Open-File Report 84-273
Public supply water use, Palm Beach County, Florida, 1978-82
W. L. Miller, J.A. Alvarez
1984, Open-File Report 84-240
Public supply water-use data are listed for 32 utilities in Palm Beach County, Florida, for 1978 through 1982. The data are tabulated as monthly and yearly untreated water withdrawals from each public supply utility. Utilities using ground water as a source are listed separately from those using surface-water sources. In...
Surficial deposits of the Bridger Wilderness, Wyoming
G.M. Richmond
1984, Open-File Report 84-493
Parameters related to the identification of paleosols in the geologic record
Robert A. Miller, Wayne R. Sigleo
1984, Open-File Report 83-776
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An Evaluation of Landsat 3 Return Beam Vidicon Imagery for Land Cover Mapping and Change Detection
Valerie A. Milazzo
1984, Open-File Report 83-886
Effects of urbanization on the magnitude and frequency of floods on small streams in Tennessee; basic data report No. 3
C. H. Robbins
1984, Open-File Report 84-242
Rainfall and discharge data collected at 21 urban hydrology sites in Tennessee from July 1977 to September 1983 are summarized. These rainfall-runoff data will be used to calibrate a U.S. Geological Survey Rainfall-Runoff Model. The results of the model calibrations will then be used to develop reliable methods for determining...
A hydrogeochemical survey in Clover, Delamar, Meadow Valley, and Mormon Mountains, Lincoln County, Nevada
J. B. McHugh, W. H. Ficklin
1984, Open-File Report 84-354
Ideas for clear technical writing
B.P. Robinson
1984, Open-File Report 83-867
The three greatest obstacles to clear technical-report writing are probably (1) imprecise words, (2) wordiness, and (3) poorly constructed sentences. Examples of category 1 include abstract words, jargon, and vogue words; of category 2, sentences containing impersonal construction superfluous words; and of category 3, sentences lacking parallel construction and proper...
