Polychlorinated biphenyl concentrations in Hudson River water and treated drinking water at Waterford, New York
R. A. Schroeder, C.R. Barnes
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4188
Past discharge of PCBs into the Hudson River has resulted in contaminant concentrations of a few tenths of a microgram per liter in the water. Waterford is one of two large municipal users of the Hudson River for drinking-water supply. The treatment scheme at the Waterford plant, which processes approximately...
Water resources of the Truk Islands
Otto Van der Brug
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-4082
The Truk Islands, part of the Caroline Islands in the western Pacific, consist of 19 volcanic islands and about 65 coral islets. The volcanic islands and some of the coral islets are scattered in an 820-square-mile lagoon enclosed by a 125-mile long barrier reef. Moen, although not the largest, is...
Water resources of the Fort Union coal region, east-central Montana
S.E. Slagle
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4151
The shallow ground-water system in the Fort Union coal region overlies the Upper Cretaceous Bearpaw Shale. It includes the Upper Cretaceous Fox Hills Sandstone and the overlying Hell Creek Formation, Paleocene Fort Union Formation, and Pleistocene and Holocene glacial deposits, terrace deposits, and alluvium. Two general flow patterns are present...
Water quality of Somerville Lake, south-central Texas
Emma McPherson, H.B. Mendieta
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-4124
Somerville Lake in south-central Texas is a shallow lake, with a mean depth of 14 feet. The maximum depth of the submerged channel of Yegua Creek is usually less than 35 feet and in most areas of the lake the depth is less than 10 feet. Several factors including thermal circulation...
Hydrology of an abandoned coal-mining area near McCurtain, Haskell County, Oklahoma
L. J. Slack
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4202
Water quality was investigated from October 1980 to May 1983 in an area of abandoned coal mines in Haskell county, Oklahoma. Bedrock in the area is shale, siltstone, sandstone, and the McAlester (Stigler) and Hartshorne coals of the McAlester Formation and Hartshorne Sandstone of Pennsylvanian age. The two coal beds,...
Computer simulation model of the Pleistocene valley-fill aquifer in southwestern Essex and southeastern Morris counties, New Jersey
Harold Meisler
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4028
Mean annual runoff and peak flow estimates based on channel geometry of streams in southeastern Montana
R. J. Omang, Charles Parrett, J. A. Hull
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-4092
Equations using channel-geometry measurements were developed for estimating mean runoff and peak flows of ungaged streams in southeastern Montana. Two separate sets of esitmating equations were developed for determining mean annual runoff: one for perennial streams and one for ephemeral and intermittent streams. Data from 29 gaged sites on perennial...
Trends in polychlorinated biphenyl concentrations in Hudson River water five years after elimination of point sources
R. A. Schroeder, C.R. Barnes
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4206
Industrial discharge of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) to the Hudson River from 1950 to the mid-1970 's has resulted in serious degradation of the water. Contaminated river-bottom sediments continue to contribute PCBs to the river water. Concentrations in the sediment range from several hundred micrograms per gram near the outfall to...
Ground-water hydrology before, during, and after coal strip mining of a small watershed in Coshocton County, Ohio
A. C. Razem
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4155
Ground-water conditions before, during, and after surface mining of a small watershed are described as part of a study to determine the effects of mining on hydrologic systems. The watershed was underlain by stratified sedimentary rocks containing three aquifers. The top and middle aquifers were perched above clay beds that...
Geohydrology of the proposed Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site, Los Medanos area, southeastern New Mexico
Jerry W. Mercer
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4016
Geohydrologic data have been collected in the Los Medanos area at the U.S. Department of Energy 's proposed Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site in southeastern New Mexico since 1975 as part of an intensive study evaluating the feasibility of storing defense-associated nuclear wastes within the bedded salt of the...
Problems of rising ground-water levels in urban areas with special reference to the Louisville, Kentucky area
D. V. Whitesides, R.J. Faust, D.D. Zettwoch
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4233
Rising ground-water levels are a problem for cities such as San Bernadino, California; Greely and Fort Collins, Colorado; New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens; and Louisville, Kentucky. Ground-water levels showed a steeply rising trend in the alluvial aquifer underlying Louisville during the early and middle 1970 's in...
Flood estimates for ungaged streams in Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks, Montana
R. J. Omang, Charles Parrett, J. A. Hull
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4147
Estimates of 100-year discharges were made at 59 sites in Glacier National Park and 21 sites in Yellowstone National Park to assist the National Park Services in quantifying stream inflow and outflow in the Parks. The estimates were made using regression equations previously developed for Montana. The resulting 100-year discharges...
Geologic and well-construction data for the H-10 borehole complex near the proposed Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site, southeastern New Mexico
J.G. Wells, S.L. Drellack
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4124
The H-10 borehole complex, a group of three closely spaced boreholes, is located 3 1/2 miles southeast of the proposed Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in west-central Lea County, New Mexico. The geological data presented in this report are part of a site-characterization study for the possible storage of defense-associated...
Statistical summary of daily values data and trend analysis of dissolved-solids data at National Stream Quality Accounting Network (NASQAN) stations
F.C. Wells, T. L. Schertz
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4172
A statistical summary is provided of the available continuous and once-daily discharge, specific-conductance, dissolved oxygen , water temperature, and pH data collected at NASQAN stations during the 1973-81 water years and documents the period of record on which the statistical calculations were based. In addition, dissolved-solids data are examined by...
Plan of study for the regional aquifer systems analysis of the Upper Colorado River Basin in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Arizona
O.J. Taylor, J. W. Hood, E. A. Zimmerman
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4184
Conveyance characteristics of the Nueces River, Cotulla to Simmons, Texas
Bernard C. Massey, William E. Reeves
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4004
Analysis of discharge hydrographs for streamflow-gaging stations on the Nueces River at Cotulla, Tilden, and Simmons indicate that significant water losses occur along the 108-mile reach from Cotulla to Simmon during storm-runoff periods. Computed losses along the 83-mile reach from Cotulla to Tilden for 15 storm periods range from 32...
Evaluation of water levels in major aquifers of the New Jersey coastal plain, 1978
R.L. Walker
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-4077
Increased withdrawals from the major artesian aquifers that underlie the New Jersey Coastal Plain have caused water-level declines and large regional cones of depression. These cones of depression are delineated on detailed potentiometric surface maps produced from water-level data collected in the field in 1978. Water levels for 1978 are...
Regional hydrology of the Dolores River basin, eastern Paradox Basin, Colorado and Utah
James E. Weir Jr., E. Blair Maxfield, Everett Alfred Zimmerman
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4217
Reconnaissance of the geohydrology of the Moab-Monticello area, western Paradox basin, Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah
J. E. Weir Jr., E. B. Maxfield, I. M. Hart
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4098
No abstract available....
Reconnaissance study of stream sedimentation, southern Guam
P.J. Shade
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4212
This study uses limited available data to estimate sediment yields for three basins in southern Guam. The flow-duration sediment-rating curve method, reservoir survey data, and Pacific southwest Inter-Agency Committee (PSIAC) formula were used. Daily suspended-sediment samples were collected at USGS gaging stations on the Ylig and Ugum Rivers for one...
Hydrology of the Little Androscoggin River Valley aquifer, Oxford County, Maine
D. J. Morrissey
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4018
The Little Androscoggin River valley aquifer, a 15-square-mile sand and gravel valley-fill aquifer in southwestern Maine, is the source of water for the towns of Norway, Oxford, and South Paris. Estimated inflows to the aquifer during the 1981 water year were 16.4 cubic feet per second from precipitation directly on...
Numerical simulation of ground-water flow in lower Satus Creek Basin, Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington
E. A. Prych
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-4065
A multilayer numerical model of steady-state ground-water flow in lower Satus Creek basin was constructed, calibrated using time-averaged data, and used to estimate the long-term effects of proposed irrigation-water management plans on ground-water levels in the area. Model computations showed that irrigation of new lands in the Satus uplands would...
Hydrology of Area 61, Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountain Coal Provinces, Colorado and New Mexico
P.O. Abbott, Arthur L. Geldon, Doug Cain, Alan P. Hall, Patrick Edelmann
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-132
Area 61 is located on the Colorado-New Mexico boundary in Huerfano and Las Animas Counties, Colorado, and Colfax County, New Mexico, and includes the Raton Mesa coal region. The 5 ,900-square-mile area is an asymmetrical structural trough bounded by the Rocky Mountains on the west and the Great Plains on...
Habitat Suitability Index Models: Longnose sucker
Elizabeth A. Edwards
1983, FWS/OBS 82/10.35
A review and synthesis of existing information were used to develop riverine and lacustrine habitat models for Longnose sucker (Catostomus catostomus), a freshwater fish. The models are scaled to produce an index of habitat suitability between 0 (unsuitable habitat) to 1 (optimally suitable habitat) for freshwater areas of the continental...
Habitat Suitability Index Models: Fisher
Arthur W. Allen
1983, FWS/OBS 82/10.45
The fisher (Martes pennanti) is the largest member of its genus and is found only i n North America (Powell 1982). Within the contiguous United States, indigenous and reintroduced populations presently inhabit portions of the Appalachian Mountains from New England south to West Virginia in the east; northern Wisconsin, Minnesota,...
