Chemical composition of Texas surface waters, 1949
Burdge Irelan
1950, Open-File Report 50-78
This report is the fifth the a series of publications by the Texas Board of Water Engineers giving chemical analyses of the surface waters in the State of Texas. The samples for which data are given were collected between October 1, 1948 and September 30, 1949. During the water year...
Water supply of the United States
Carl G. Paulsen
1950, Open-File Report 50-89
The front pages of the press throughout the country during the past several weeks have dramatized the critical water shortages in many parts of the Nation. The concerns that has grown in recent years over the future of our water supplies has been forcibly brought to the attention of the...
Bibliography of publications relating to ground water in Connecticut
R.V. Cushman
1950, Open-File Report 50-67
The United States Geological Survey is currently investigating the ground-water resources of Connecticut in cooperation with the State Water Commission. As part of this cooperative project, in order to summarize the knowledge already gained about ground water in the State, a bibliography of reports dealing with ground water in Connecticut...
Supplementary report on surface-water and ground-water surveys, Nueces River Basin, Texas
W. L. Broadhurst, C.E. Ellsworth
1950, Open-File Report 50-62
A report on the ground-water and surface-water surveys of the Nueces River Basin was included in a report by the Bureau of Reclamation, entitled "Comprehensive plan for water-resources development of the Nueces River Basin project planning report number 5-14.04-3, February 1946"....
Additional water wells at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Allen Sinnott
1950, Open-File Report 50-96
Ground-water data collected in the Missouri River basin units in Kansas during 1949
Delmar W. Berry
1950, Open-File Report 50-55
Ground-water studies in the Missouri River Basin were begun by the United States Geological Survey during the fall of 1945 as a part of the program for development of the resources of the basin by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and other Federal Agencies. The studies of the ground-water resources...
Progress report: chemical character of surface waters in the Devils Lake Basin, North Dakota
Herbert A. Swenson
1950, Open-File Report 50-98
Devils Lake in northeastern North Dakota was at one time the most popular summer resort in the state. With decline in lake level the lake has become a shallow body pf vary saline water, which scenic value and recreational appeal completely destroyed. Under the Missouri River development program, it is...
Water levels in observation wells in Santa Barbara County, California, in 1948
M.A. Warren
1950, Open-File Report 50-105
Surface water supply of the United States, 1947, Part XIII, Snake River basin
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1950, Water Supply Paper 1093
Memorandum on location of proposed well 15 miles north of Crown Point, McKinley County, New Mexico
H.A. Whitcomb, C.A. Repenning
1950, Open-File Report 50-10
Memorandum on possibility of developing ground water for irrigation along Toc Chinlin Wash near Emmanuel Mission, Navajo Indian Reservation, Apache County, Arizona
H.A. Whitcomb, C.A. Repenning
1950, Open-File Report 50-109
On November 21, 1949, the writers accompanied Mr. Chester Wilson of the Navajo Service Water Supply Office to Emmanuel Mission, Arizona, to investigate the adequacy of ground-water supplies adequate for irrigation along Toc Chinlin Wash. The investigation was made as part of the ground-water studies of the Geological Survey on...
Reconnaissance of Lake Chackachamna, Alaska
Arthur Johnson
1950, Open-File Report 50-112
The purpose of this brief investigation was to obtain general information on Lake Chackachamna and its water-power possibilities which would serve as a guide in planning and executing future studies. Field investigation consisted of a flight to the lake in a small float plane (see Plate I-B) by the writer...
Chloride content of water from wells screened in the Lloyd sand member of the Raritan formation on Long Island, New York
C.M. Roberts
1950, Open-File Report 50-93
Since 1932 the United States Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New York Power and Control Commission, the Nassau County Department of Public Works, the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, and later also the Suffolk County Water Authority, has been making general and specific studies dealing with the occurrence, movement,...
Piezometric levels from 1948 through 1950 for wells screened in the Lloyd sand member of the Raritan formation on Long Island, New York
Norbert J. Lusczynski
1950, Open-File Report 50-84
Since 1932, the United States Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New York Water Power and Control Commission, the Nassau County Department of Public Works, the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, and later also with the Suffolk County Water Authority, has been making both general and detailed studied dealing with...
Geology and oil shale resources of the eastern side of the Piceance Creek Basin, Rio Blanco and Garfield counties, Colorado
Donald Cave Duncan, Carl Belser
1950, Open-File Report 50-12
Water resources of the United States
Albert N. Sayre
1950, Open-File Report 50-95
The concerns that has grown gradually in recent years over the future of our water supplies has been forcefully dramatized by the water shortage that New York City is now experiencing. This shortage is not the first that has affected an American community and it is not the most serious....
Second progress report on the cooperative investigation of springs and stream flow in the Tecolote Tunnel area of Santa Barbara County, California
Harold C. Troxell, C.E. Burgess
1950, Open-File Report 50-101
This report represents the second of a series of progress reports giving the results of discharge measurements made at more than 100 locations in the Santa Ynez Mountains from the Refugio Canyon on the west to the San Marcos Pass and Painted Cave area on the east. The flow in...
Memorandum on pumping test at Ambridge, Pennsylvania
D. W. Van Tuyl
1950, Open-File Report 50-103
By arrangment with Mr. J. Z. Columbia, Superintendent of the Ambridge Water Works, the United States Geological Survey conducted a "pumping test" in the Ambridge well field on November 10, 1949. As used in this report, "pumping test" means pumping a well at a fixed rate to determine the hydrologic...
Salinity of ground water at sampling wells located in southeastern Nassau County, Long Island, New York
Norbert J. Lusczynski
1950, Open-File Report 50-82
In 1939, a special program for the systematic collection of chloride data in southeastern Nassau County was inaugurated in which three agencies participated. The Nassau County Department of Public Works constructed the sampling wells, the Ground Water Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey began to collect at period intervals water...
Water-supply investigation of Sanastee area, Navajo Indian Reservation, San Juan County, New Mexico
L.C. Halpenny, J. W. Harshbarger, J.D. Hem
1950, Open-File Report 50-75
Ground water in the vicinity of Healy and Homer, Alaska
D.J. Cedarstrom, Clyde Wahrhaftig, F.F. Barnes
1950, Open-File Report 50-64
A list of references on the occurrence, availability, and character of ground water in the Missouri River Basin
Eldon A. Busch (compiler)
1950, Open-File Report 50-63
This compilation of ground-water references was prepared as an aid to the field men engaged in ground-water investigations in the Missouri River Basin. It is thought that an acquaintance with the available literature on the area in which a field man is working may on occasion not only save him...
Water power resources of Scenery Creek near Petersburg, Alaska
Fred F. Lawrence
1950, Open-File Report 50-113
Due to high unit runoff, a good storage site, and a high concentration of fall, Scenery Lake presents a favorable power site. By building a tunnel three miles long from Scenery Grove to tap Scenery Lake at elevation 900 feet and a dam to raise Scenery Lake to elevation 1020...
Cooperative ground-water investigations in Massachusetts by the United States Geological Survey, 1938-50
M.L. Brashears Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-61
The United States Geological Survey in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Public Works in 1938 began an investigation of the ground-water conditions in Massachusetts. This work is part of a larger cooperative program that includes surface-water investigations, geologic studies, and topographic mapping. The purpose of the ground-water studies is...
Ground-water conditions at the Veterans Facility, Castle Point, New York
M.L. Brashears Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-60
The rock aquifers in the vicinity of the Castle Point Veterans Hospital yield limited quantities of water which, in general, are sufficient for domestic and farm purposes only. The possibility of obtaining the stated quantity requirements of about 200,000 gallons daily or more from the bedrock formations seems poor with...
