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...
Salt-water encroachment, geology, and ground-water resources of Savannah area, Georgia and South Carolina
H. B. Counts, Ellis Donsky
1963, Water Supply Paper 1611
The Savannah area consists of about 2,300 square miles of the Coastal Plain along the coast of eastern Georgia and southeastern South Carolina. Savannah is near the center of the area. Most of the large ground-water developments are in or near Savannah. About 98 percent of the approximately 60 mgd...
Principles of siphons with respect to the artificial recharge studies in the Grand Prairie region, Arkansas
Richard T. Sniegocki, J.E. Reed
1963, Water Supply Paper 1615-D
Specific yield and particle-size relations of Quaternary alluvium, Humboldt River Valley, Nevada
Philip M. Cohen
1963, Water Supply Paper 1669-M
Floods of December 1955–January 1956 in the far Western States; part 1. Description
Walter Hofmann, S. E. Rantz
1963, Water Supply Paper 1650-A
No abstract available....
Evaporation control research, 1959-60
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1963, Water Supply Paper 1692
Two hundred and forty-five dispersions of long-chain alkanols were formulated by using various emulsifiers and alkanols. The dispensing and spreading ability of each of these formulations was tested. The most promising emulsifier that could be used with any of the alkanols was glyceryl monostearate (self-emulsifying). However, the concentration of the...
Factors influencing the occurrence of floods in a humid region of diverse terrain
M. A. Benson
1963, Water Supply Paper 1580-B
This report describes relations between flood peaks and hydrologic factors in a humid region with limited climatic variation but a diversity of terrain. Statistical multiple-regression techniques have been applied to hydrologic data on New England. Many topographic and climatic factors have been evaluated. and their relations to flood peaks have...
Ground-water geology of Grayson County, Texas
E.T. Baker
1963, Water Supply Paper 1646
Grayson County in north-central Texas is near the north edge of the West Gulf Coastal Plain. The county has an area of 927 square miles and had an estimated population of 79,500 in 1957. The major town is Sherman, which has an estimated population of 31,000. The northern two-thirds of...
Ground-water reconnaissance of American Samoa
Daniel Arthur Davis
1963, Water Supply Paper 1608-C
The principal islands of American Samoa are Tutuila, Aunuu, Ofu, Olosega, and Ta'u, which have a total area of about 72 square miles and a population of about 20,000. The mean annual rainfall is 150 to 200 inches. The islands are volcanic in origin and are composed of lava flows,...
Water regimen of the Inner Valley of the San Pedro River near Mammoth, Arizona (A pilot study)
Harry G. Page
1963, Water Supply Paper 1669-I
Ground-water exploration in Al Marj area, Cyrenaica, United Kingdom of Libya
T.G. Newport, Yousef Haddor
1963, Water Supply Paper 1757-A
The present report, based largely on fieldwork during 1959-61, describes the results of reconnaissance hydrogeologic studies and exploratory drilling to evaluate the general water-bearing properties of the rocks and the availability of groundwater supplies for irrigation, stock, and village uses in Al Marj area. These studies and the drilling were...
Water-resources reconnaissance in southeastern part of Honey Lake Valley, Lassen County, California
George Stockbridge Hilton
1963, Water Supply Paper 1619-Z
No abstract available....
Geology and water resources of the Santa Fe area, New Mexico
Zane Spiegel, Brewster Baldwin
1963, Water Supply Paper 1525
No abstract available....
Hydrogeologic reconnaissance of San Nicolas Island, California
W. L. Burnhan, Fred Kunkel, Walter Hofmann, W. C. Peterson
1963, Water Supply Paper 1539-O
No abstract available....
Geology and ground-water resources of Hays County, Texas
Kenneth James DeCook
1963, Water Supply Paper 1612
The Edwards limestone of Early Cretaceous age is the chief aquifer for San Marcos Springs and about 160 other springs and wells in Hays County, along the Balcones fault zone in South-central Texas. Hays County is underlain by a basement of Paleozoic rocks; and in the southeastern part of the county...
Ground-water movements and bank storage due to flood stages in surface streams
H.H. Cooper, M. I. Rorabaugh
1963, Water Supply Paper 1536-J
Ground-water resources of the Bryce Canyon National Park area, Utah, with a section on the drilling of a test well
I. Wendell Marine
1963, Water Supply Paper 1475-M
The water need at Bryce Canyon National Park in 1957 was about 1.3 million cubic feet for a tourist season that lasted from the middle of May to the middle of October. To evaluate the adequacy of water-supply sources, a hypothetical future need of 5 million cubic feet of water...
Determination of beta activity in water
F. B. Barker, B.P. Robinson
1963, Water Supply Paper 1696-A
Many elements have one or more naturally radioactive isotopes, and several hundred other radionuclides have been produced artificially. Radioactive substances may be present in natural water as a result of geochemical processes or the release of radioactive waste and other nuclear debris to the environment. The Geological Survey has developed...
Geology and ground-water resources of Dougherty County, Georgia
Robert L. Wait
1963, Water Supply Paper 1539-P
Problems of utilizing ground water in the West-Side Business District of Portland, Oregon
S. G. Brown
1963, Water Supply Paper 1619-O
Geology and ground-water conditions in southern Nassau and southeastern Queens Counties, Long Island, N.Y.
N. M. Perlmutter, J. J. Geraghty
1963, Water Supply Paper 1613-A
Test drilling, electrical logging, and water sampling of 'outpost' and other wells have revealed the existence of a deep confined body of salt water in the Magothy(?) formation beneath southwestern Nassau and southeastern Queens Counties, Long Island, N.Y. In connection with a test-drilling program, cooperatively sponsored by the U.S. Geological...
Ground-water contamination and legal controls in Michigan
Morris Deutsch
1963, Water Supply Paper 1691
The great importance of the fresh ground-water resources of Michigan is evident because 90 percent of the rural and about 70 percent of the total population of the State exclusive of the Detroit metropolitan area are supplied from underground sources. The water-supply and public-health problems that have been caused by...
Ground-water conditions in the Fernley-Wadsworth area, Churchill, Lyon, Storey and Washoe Counties, Nevada
William C. Sinclair, Omar J. Loeltz
1963, Water Supply Paper 1619-AA
No abstract available....
Correlation of water-level fluctuations with climatic cycles in the Oklahoma Panhandle
I. Wendell Marine
1963, Water Supply Paper 1669-K
Ground-water conditions in the vicinity of the Lake Mead base, Las Vegas Valley, Nevada
Omar J. Loeltz
1963, Water Supply Paper 1669-Q
