Quality and movement of ground water in Otter Creek - Dry Creek basin, Cortland County, New York
William Buller, Wallace J. Nichols, J. F. Harsh
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-3
A steady increase in the chloride and nitrate content of water in a sand and gravel aquifer of glacial origin in the Cortland, N.Y., area prompted a study to obtain data on the extent and source of these constituents. Chloride concentration in the upper part of the aquifer increased generally...
Digital-model simulation of the glacial-outwash aquifer, Otter Creek-Dry Creek basin, Cortland County, New York
O. J. Cosner, J. F. Harsh
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-71
The city of Cortland, New York, and surrounding areas obtain water from the highly productive glacial-outwash aquifer underlying the Otter Creek-Dry Creek basin. Pumpage from the aquifer in 1976 was approximately 6.3 million gallons per day and is expected to increase as a result of population growth and urbanization. A...
Map showing ground-water conditions in the House Rock area, Coconino County, Arizona-- 1976
G. W. Levings, C. D. Farrar
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-15
The House Rock area includes about 1,500 sq mi in north-central Arizona. Ground water is present in several aquifers that are made up of one or more formations. In the Paria Plateau and Wahweap areas ground water is obtained from the N aquifer, which includes the Navajo Sandstone, Kayenta Formation,...
Dissolved-solids budget of Lake Okeechobee, Florida, October 1964 to September 1974
David V. Maddy
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-97
Lake Okeechobee is a major surface-water storage facility for south Florida. A dissolved-solids budget for Lake Okeechobee was computed for Oct. 1964 to Sept. 1974, a 10-year budget period. Calculations were based on records of daily discharge, daily specific conductance measurements, and regression equations relating dissolved-solids concentrations and specific conductance....
Source, use, and disposition of water in Florida, 1975
Stanley D. Leach
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-17
On the average, 18,420 million gallons of water was withdrawn for use in Florida each day in 1975--an increase of 3,107 million gallons per day (Mgal/d) rate since 1970. The 1975 daily total was made up of 11,502 million gallons of saline water and 6,918 million gallons of freshwater. The...
Computer modeling of ground-water availability in the Pootatuck River Valley, Newtown, Connecticut
F.P. Haeni, Elinor H. Handman
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-77
A hydrologic analysis of the stratified drift in Newtown, Conn., based on available data, test drilling, seismic refraction profiling, and the stream-aquifer connection was performed using a digital computer model. Simulated pumping indicates that a total of 4.0 million gallons of water per day (Mgal/d) can be withdrawn from the...
Geologic map of the Black Canyon 15-minute quadrangle, Mohave County, Arizona, and Clark County, Nevada
R. Ernest Anderson
1978, Geologic Quadrangle 1394
No abstract available....
Appraisal of uncontrolled flowing artesian wells in Florida
Henry G. Healy
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-95
An estimated 15,000 uncontrolled flowing wells, many discharging water of poor quality are wastefully discharging about 790 million gallons per day by surface and internal flow. Internal flow in principal problem areas have been identified in Brevard, Charlotte, Clay, De Soto, Duval, Flagler, Glades, Hendry, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Nassau,...
A rainfall-runoff modeling procedure for improving estimates of T-year (annual) floods for small drainage basins
Robert W. Lichty, Fred Liscum
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-7
Maps depicting the influence of a climatic factor, C, on the magnitude of synthetic T-year (annual) floods were prepared for a large portion of the eastern United States. The climatic factors were developed by regression analysis of flood data using a parametric rainfall-runoff model and long-term rainfall records. Map estimates...
Geologic map of the Campton quadrangle, east-central Kentucky
T. Dennis Coskren, Harry P. Hoge
1978, Geologic Quadrangle 1502
Geohydrology of the northern Louisiana salt-dome basin pertinent to the storage of radioactive wastes; a progress report
R. L. Hosman
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-104
Salt domes in northern Louisiana are being considered as possible storage sites for nuclear wastes. The domes are in an area that received regional sedimentation through early Tertiary (Eocene) time with lesser amounts of Quaternary deposits. The Cretaceous-Tertiary accumulation is a few thousand feet thick; the major sands are regional...
Ground-water quality near the northwest 58th Street solid-waste disposal facility, Dade County, Florida
H. C. Mattraw Jr., John E. Hull, Howard Klein
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-45
The Northwest 58th Street solid-waste disposal facility, 3 miles west of a major Dade County municipal water-supply well field, overlays the Biscayne aquifer, a permeable, solution-riddled limestone which transmits leachates eastward at a calculated rate of 2.9 feet per day. A discrete, identifiable leachate plume has been recognized under and...
Altitude and configuration of the top of the Floridan Aquifer, Duval County, Florida
G.W. Leve
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-114
Structural contours on the top of the Floridan aquifer in Duval County, Florida, show that the top of the aquifer ranges from less than 300 feet below sea level to more than 600 feet below sea level. Two inferred concealed faults occur in the aquifer; one trending northeast-southwest in the...
Floods in Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas, September 12-13, 1977
Leland D. Hauth, William J. Carswell Jr.
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-63
The storm of September 12-13, 1977, produced as much as 16 inches of rainfall in the Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas area, left 25 persons dead, many homeless, and caused over 50 million dollars in damages.Data from National Weather Service recording rain gages indicate the storm came in two bursts within 24...
Nitrogen, phosphorus, organic carbon, and biochemical oxygen demand: in Florida surface waters, 1972
Matthew I. Kaufman, J.E. Dysart
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-43
Water samples were collected during spring and autumn 1972 from about 100 surface-water sites in Florida. The samples were analyzed for the plant nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus. In most waters, nitrogen concentrations are less than 2.0 milligrams per liter as nitrogen, and organic nitrogen is dominant. Median total nitrogen concentration...
Map showing bedrock topography and subcrop of selected beds beneath alluvial deposits of the Livermore quadrangle, western Kentucky
A. E. Smith, R.E. Sergeant
1978, IMAP 1085
Water-resources appraisal of the Wet Mountain Valley, in parts of Custer and Fremont counties, Colorado
C.J. Londquist, R.K. Livingston
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-1
The Wet Mountain Valley is an intermontane trough filled to a depth of at least 6,700 feet with unconsolidated deposits. Ground water occurs under both artesian and water-table conditions within the basin-fill aquifer and ground-water moverment is toward Grape and Texas Creeks. The depth to the water table is less...
Configuration of the top of the Floridan aquifer, Southwest Florida Water Management District and adjacent areas
A. Buono, A. T. Rutledge
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-34
This map depicts the approximate top of the rock that composes the Floridan aquifer. The contours represent the elevation of the top of the Floridan aquifer to mean sea level. Rock units recognized to be part of the Floridan aquifer are limestone and dolomite ranging from middle Eocene to early...
Geologic map of the El Capitan Mountain quadrangle, Gila and Pinal counties, Arizona
Henry Rowland Cornwall, Medora Louise Hooper Krieger
1978, Geologic Quadrangle 1442
Geologic map of the McCarthy C-8 quadrangle, Alaska
E. M. MacKevett
1978, Geologic Quadrangle 1418
Technique for estimating magnitude and frequency of floods in Virginia
Earley M. Miller
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-5
A technique is presented for estimating the magnitude and frequency of floods in Virginia. For 299 gaged sites, the magnitudes of floods having recurrence intervals of 2 to 100 years are provided in tables. For ungaged sites, regression relations are presented that allow the estimation of flood magnitudes based on...
Geologic map of the Vest quadrangle, eastern Kentucky
Walter Danilchik, H.A. Waldrop
1978, Geologic Quadrangle 1441
Geologic map of the Grassy Lake Reservoir quadrangle, Yellowstone National Park and vicinity, Wyoming
Robert L. Christiansen
1978, Geologic Quadrangle 1459
Progress report on hydrologic investigations of small drainage areas in New Hampshire: preliminary relations for estimating peak discharges on rural, unregulated streams
Denis R. LeBlanc
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-47
The magnitude and frequency of floods on rural, unregulated streams in New Hampshire with drainage areas between 0.27 and 622 square miles may be estimated from drainage area, main-channel slope, and a precipitation intensity index. Based on multiple-regression analyses of data from 59 gaged sites in New Hampshire and adjacent...
Land use and land cover and associated maps for Rocks Springs, Wyoming; Colorado, and Utah
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1978, Open-File Report 78-244
