Flood information for flood-plain planning
Conrad D. Bue
1967, Circular 539
Floods are natural and normal phenomena. They are catastrophic simply because man occupies the flood plain, the highwater channel of a river. Man occupies flood plains because it is convenient and profitable to do so, but he must purchase his occupancy at a price-either sustain flood damage, or provide flood-control...
Uranium reserves and progress in exploration and development
Arthur Pierce Butler
1967, Circular 547
Water resources of Pulaski and Saline Counties, Arkansas
Raymond O. Plebuch, Marion S. Hines
1967, Water Supply Paper 1839-B
Ground water of the Piedmont and Blue Ridge provinces in the Southeastern States
H. E. LeGrand
1967, Circular 538
Geology and ground-water resources of Laramie County, Wyoming
Marlin E. Lowry, Marvin A. Crist, John R. Tilstra
1967, Water Supply Paper 1834
Laramie County, an area of 2,709 square miles, is in the southeast corner of Wyoming. Rocks exposed there range in age from Precambrian to Recent. The most extensive aquifers in the county are the White River Formation of Oligocene age, which is as much as 500 feet thick and consists...
Water requirements of the iron and steel industry
Faulkner B. Walling, Louis Ethelbert Otts Jr.
1967, Water Supply Paper 1330-H
Twenty-nine steel plants surveyed during 1957 and 1958 withdrew from various sources about 1,400 billion gallons of water annually and produced 40.8 million tons of ingot steel. This is equivalent to about 34,000 gallons of water per ton of steel. Fifteen iron ore mines and fifteen ore concentration plants together...
Geology and hydrology between Lake McMillan and Carlsbad Springs, Eddy County, New Mexico
Edward Riley Cox
1967, Water Supply Paper 1828
The hydrology of the Pecos River valley between Lake McMillan and Carlsbad Springs, Eddy County, N. Mex., is influenced by facies changes in rocks of Permian age. Water stored for irrigation leaks from Lake McMillan into evaporite rocks, principally gypsum, of the Seven Rivers Formation and from Lake Avalon into...
Roughness characteristics of natural channels
Harry Hawthorne Barnes
1967, Water Supply Paper 1849
Color photographs and descriptive data are presented for 50 stream channels for which roughness coefficients have been determined. All hydraulic computations involving flow in open channels require an evaluation of the roughness characteristics of the channel. In the absence of a satisfactory quantitative procedure this evaluation remains chiefly an art....
Ground-water conditions and geologic reconnaissance of the Upper Sevier River basin, Utah
Carl H. Carpenter, Gerald B. Robinson, Louis Jay Bjorklund
1967, Water Supply Paper 1836
The upper Sevier River basin is in south-central Utah and includes an area of about 2,400 .square miles of high plateaus and valleys. It comprises the entire Sevier River drainage basin above Kingston, including the East Fork Sevier River and its tributaries. The basin was investigated to determine general ground-water...
Ground-water hydrology of the Punjab region of West Pakistan, with emphasis on problems caused by canal irrigation
D.W. Greenman, W.V. Swarzenski, G.D. Bennett
1967, Water Supply Paper 1608-H
Rising water tables and the salinization of land as the result of canal irrigation threaten the agricultural economy of the Punjab. Since 1954 the Water and Soils Investigation Division of the West Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority has inventoried the water and soils resources of the Punjab and investigated...
Water resources of the Marquette Iron Range area, Michigan
Sulo Werner Wiitala, Thomas Gwyn Newport, Earl L. Skinner
1967, Water Supply Paper 1842
Large quantities of water are needed in the beneficiation and pelletizing processes by which the ore mined from low-grade iron-formations is upgraded into an excellent raw material for the iron and steel industry. Extensive reserves of low-grade iron-formation available for development herald an intensification of the demands upon the area's...
Occurrence of selected minor elements in the waters of California
William Dudley Silvey
1967, Water Supply Paper 1535-L
Reconnaissance of the chemical quality of surface waters of the Neches River basin, Texas
Leon S. Hughes, Donald K. Leifeste
1967, Water Supply Paper 1839-A
The kinds and quantities of minerals dissolved in the surface water of the Neches River basin result from such environmental factors as geology, streamflow patterns and characteristics, and industrial influences. As a result of high rainfall in the basin, much of the readily soluble material has been leached from the...
Ground-water levels in the United States, 1960-64, south-central states
C. L. McGuinness
1967, Water Supply Paper 1824
Ground water in the Eola-Amity Hills area, northern Willamette Valley, Oregon
Don Price
1967, Water Supply Paper 1847
The Eola-Amity Hills area ,comprises about 230 square miles on the west side of the Willamette Valley between Salem and McMinnville, Oreg. The area is largely rural, and agriculture is the principal occupation. Rocks ranging in age from Eocene to Recent underlie the area. The oldest rocks are a sequence...
Analysis of aquifer tests in the Punjab region of West Pakistan
Gordon D. Bennett, Ata-Ur-Rehman, Ijaz Ahmed Sheikh, Sabire Alr
1967, Water Supply Paper 1608-G
The results of 141 pumping tests in the Punjab Plain of West Pakistan are reported. Methods of test analysis are described in detail, and an outline of the theory underlying these methods is given. The lateral permeability of the screened interval is given for all tests; the specific yield of...
Availability of ground water in York County, Nebraska
Charles Franklin Keech, V. H. Dreeszen, Philip A. Emery
1967, Water Supply Paper 1839-F
York County, an area of 575 square miles, is situated on an upland plain in southeast Nebraska. Although tributaries of the Big Blue River have eroded valleys into this plain, much of the original surface is still intact and is characterized by broad shallow undrained depressions. The economy is based...
Geohydrology of the Souris River Valley in the vicinity of Minot, North Dakota
Wayne A. Pettyjohn
1967, Water Supply Paper 1844
The Minot area is in the north-central part of North Dakota and includes part of the Souris River valley. The region is covered by glacial drift of late Wisconsin age except in small areas where the Fort Union Formation of Tertiary age crops out. Thickness of the drift is controlled...
Annual variations in chemical composition of atmospheric precipitation, eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia
Donald W. Fisher
1967, Water Supply Paper 1535-M
A 2-year study of precipitation composition over eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia has been completed. Chemical analyses were made of the major ions in monthly rainfall samples from each of 12 sampling locations. Areal and seasonal distributions were determined for chloride, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, sulfate, and nitrate. Annual...
Geology and ground water of the Savannah River Plant and vicinity, South Carolina
George E. Siple
1967, Water Supply Paper 1841
The area described in this report covers approximately 2,600 square miles in west-central South Carolina and includes the site of the Savannah River Plant, a major production facility of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The climate, surface drainage, and land forms of the study area are typical of the southern...
Summary of hydrologic and physical properties of rock and soil materials, as analyzed by the hydrologic laboratory of the U.S. Geological Survey, 1948-60
D. A. Morris, A.I. Johnson
1967, Water Supply Paper 1839-D
The Hydrologic Laboratory was established in 1948 to serve as the central testing laboratory for the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey. Since then, thousands of samples of rock and soil materials have been analyzed in the laboratory. Analytical data on samples from 42 States and for the...
Correlation and analysis of water-temperature data for Oregon streams
A.M. Moore
1967, Water Supply Paper 1819-K
Quality of surface waters for irrigation, Western states, 1963
S. K. Love
1967, Water Supply Paper 1952
Surface-water hydrology of California coastal basins between San Francisco Bay and Eel River
S. E. Rantz, T. H. Thompson
1967, Water Supply Paper 1851
Development of ground-water supplies at Mississippi test facility, Hancock County, Mississippi
Roy Newcome
1967, Water Supply Paper 1839-H
Potable and industrial water supplies at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mississippi Test Facility in Hancock County, Miss., are obtained from large-capacity wells that tap southward-dipping water-bearing sands of Miocene and Pliocene age. The fresh-water-bearing section is 2,000-3,000 feet thick in the area, and individual aquifers are as thick...
