Rodent repellency
J.B. DeWitt, J.F. Welch, E. Bellack
1950, Modern Packaging (23) 123-126
In the course of studies involving more than 2,500 chemical repellents, it has been found that certain groups of- compounds containing nitrogen or sulfur are repellent to rats under the , test conditions and it appears probable that some of these compounds might be used for the protection of packaged...
Notes on some winter birds of north central New Mexico
R. W. Allen
1950, The Auk (67) 252-253
The observations recorded below were made in Santa Fe, Sandoval and Rio Arriba counties during the winter of 1939-1940. Occasional specimens, 54 in all, collected for racial identification, are deposited in the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan....
Full scale maps to accompany the Uravan mineral belt
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1950, Trace Elements Investigations 109
No abstract available....
Trace Elements Investigations Report No. 136
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1950, Trace Elements Investigations 136
No abstract available...
Trace Elements Investigations Report No. 122
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1950, Trace Elements Investigations 122
No abstract available....
Geologic investigation at the site of the post office building, Welch, West Virginia
Harold Horatio Hawkins
1950, Open-File Report 50-36
Statement of Problem: Cracking in the interior and exterior walls of the post office building at Welch, West Virginia, developed in the summer of 1947. This cracking appeared about two months after the patching of similar cracks that had developed in 1946. The Public Buildings Administration was requested to investigate the...
A comparative study of mean-section and mid-section methods for computation of discharge measurements
Kenneth B. Young
1950, Open-File Report 53-277
In February, 1949, Mr. J. V. B. Wells, Chief of the Surface Water Branch, appointed a committee of three hydraulic engineers assigned to the Washington office to make a comparative study of the relative merits of the mean-section and mid-section methods of computing discharge measurements. this was done in order...
Water resources of the Cumberland area, Maryland-West Virginia
R. R. Bennett, F. F. LeFever, R. O. R. Martin, E. G. Otton
1950, Open-File Report 50-80
The area covered by this report consists of Garrett and Allegany Counties, the two most westernmost counties of Maryland, and Mineral County, West Virginia. The city of Cumberland, population 37,732 (1950 census), which is the economic and commercial center of the area, is on the North Branch pf the Potomac...
Progress report on the geology and ground-water hydrology of part of the Oahe Unit, James River Division, South Dakota
Gerald A. Waring, W.H. Bush
1950, Open-File Report 50-104
The Oahe Unit, in the James River basin in eastern South Dakota, extends for about 100 miles north and south and is 20 to 80 miles wide, having the river as its east border. The Oahe irrigation project is planned to supply water to 750,000 to 1,500,000 acres of...
Geologic interpretations of seismic data: Braintree-Weymouth by-pass stations 29-56, Liberty Street grade separation in Braintree, Massachusetts
James E. May, Daniel Linehan
1950, Open-File Report 50-42
At the request of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, seismic and geologic studies were made for the projected Braintree-Weymouth By-Pass grade separation at Liberty Street in Braintree, Massachusetts. The work was performed in order to furnish data that would aid the engineers in preparing estimates of the quantity of...
Water levels in observation wells in Santa Barbara County, California, in 1949
H.D. Wilson Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-110
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...
Memorandum on geologic reconnaissance of six sites for water wells, western part of Navajo Counties, Arizona
H.A. Whitcomb, C.A. Repenning
1950, Open-File Report 50-108
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
Delivery of water in the Brazos River from Possum Kingdom Reservoir to Richmond, Texas during August and September, 1948
D. E. Havelka
1950, Open-File Report 50-76
Unusual drought conditions in the summer of 1948 led the irrigators in the lower Brazos River Valley to request releases from Possum Kingdom Reservoir primarily for the irrigation of rice.The purpose of this study is to determine the time of travel. The first release is identified as that passing the...
Some aspects of the ground-water future in Iowa
H.G. Hershey
1950, Open-File Report 50-77
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...
Memorandum on ground-water conditions in the Huachipato-Talcahuano area near Concepcion, Chile
P.H. Jones
1950, Open-File Report 50-79
The relation of ground water to irrigation
S. W. Lohman
1950, Open-File Report 50-81
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...
Withdrawal of ground water and pond water on Long Island from 1904 to 1949
Norbert J. Lusczynski
1950, Open-File Report 50-83
For more than 50 years the highly productive and readily replenishable water-bearing sands and gravels on Long Island -- capable of yielding an average of at least 1,000 million gallons a day -- and also some surface streams and ponds have been utilized on a large scale of public water...
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...
Progress report on the geology and ground-water hydrology of the Riverton Irrigation Project, Wyoming
D. A. Morris, W. H. Durum
1950, Open-File Report 50-85
Progress report on ground-water investigation in Ashley Valley, Uintah County, Utah
W.B. Nelson, B. E. Lofgren
1950, Open-File Report 50-86
No abstract available....
Water-supply investigations of the Buell Park-Sawmill area, Navajo Indian Reservation, Apache County, Arizona
H.A. Whitcomb, L.C. Halpenny, J.D. Hem
1950, Open-File Report 50-107