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Geology and ground-water resources of the Lake Dakota Plain area, South Dakota
William B. Hopkins, Lester R. Petri
1963, Water Supply Paper 1539-T
The Lake Dakota plain area is a nearly flat surface that includes parts of Spink, Brown, Marshall, and Day Counties in northeastern South Dakota. Agriculture is the principal occupation. Because precipitation often is insufficient for maximum crop production, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has developed a plan for irrigation of...
Specific Yield--Column drainage and centrifuge moisture content
A.I. Johnson, R.C. Prill, D. A. Morris
1963, Water Supply Paper 1662-A
The specific yield of a rock or soil, with respect to water, is the ratio of (1) the volume of water which, after being saturated, it will yield by gravity to (2) its own volume. Specific retention represents the water retained against gravity drainage. The specific yield and retention when...
Geology and ground-water conditions in the southern part of the Camp Ripley Military Reservation, Morrison County, Minnesota
J.R. Jones, P.D. Akin, Robert Schneider
1963, Water Supply Paper 1669-A
The southern part of the Camp Ripley Military Reservation, in central Minnesota, includes an area of about 20 square miles. This investigation was conducted to assist the U.S. National Guard Bureau in locating adequate water supplies for expansion and standby needs. Bedrock in the area consists of Precambrian phyllite which is...
Geology and ground-water resources of Montgomery County, Alabama
Doyle Blewer Knowles, H. L. Reade, J. C. Scott
1963, Water Supply Paper 1606
Montgomery County includes an area of 790 square miles in east-central Alabama. The economy of Montgomery County is related primarily to the growing and processing of agricultural products.The county is in the northern part of the Coastal Plain. It consists of parts of four divisions of the Coastal Plain: the...
Ground-water geology of Edwards County, Texas
Archie T. Long
1963, Water Supply Paper 1619-J
Edwards County occupies 2,075 square miles of the southern part of the Edwards Plateau in southwest Texas. In 1950 it had a population of 2,908. Its thin limestone soil supports the characteristic flora of a semiarid region. The county is underlain by nearly flat-lying beds of limestone and a few...
Hydrologic and biotic characteristics of grazed and ungrazed watersheds of the Badger Wash basin in western Colorado, 1953-58
Gregg C. Lusby, George C. Lusby, George T. Turner, J. R. Thompson, Vincent H. Reid
1963, Water Supply Paper 1532-B
A comprehensive study of the hydrologic and biotic characteristics of small drainage basins on the Colorado Plateau and the effect of grazing on these characteristics vas begun in 1953. This report presents data obtained during the first 5 years of the proposed 20-year study. Periodic observations were made at permanent...
The role of ground water in the national water situation: With state summaries based on reports by District Offices of Ground Water Branch
Charles Lee McGuinness
1963, Water Supply Paper 1800
Ground water in the United States has emerged from a quantitatively minor (though incalculably valuable) water source, whose chief role was in the settlement of primitive areas, to a major source now accounting for one-fifth to one-sixth of the Nation's total withdrawal requirements for water. With the growth in ground-water...
Ground water in the Raft River Basin, Idaho, with special reference to irrigation use, 1956-60
Maurice John Mundorff, H.G. Sisco
1963, Water Supply Paper 1619-CC
In the Raft River basin in south-central Idaho, ground-water withdrawals for irrigation have more than doubled since 1955, when data were compiled for a comprehensive report on the area. The present report summerizes data on the ground-water use and changes in the water regimen during the intervening 5 years. Water...
Water resources of Red River Parish, Louisiana
Roy Newcome, Leland Vernon Page
1963, Water Supply Paper 1614
Red River Parish is on the eastern flank of the Sabine uplift in northwestern Louisiana. The 'area is underlain by lignitic clay and sand of Paleocene and Eocene age which dip to the east at the rate of about 30 feet per mile. The Red River is entrenched in these...