Water quality in the upper Shoal Creek basin, southwestern Missouri, 1999-2000
John G. Schumacher
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4181
Results of a water-quality investigation of the upper Shoal Creek Basin in southwestern Missouri indicate that concentrations of total nitrite plus nitrate as nitrogen (NO2t+NO3t) in water samples from Shoal Creek were unusually large [mean of 2.90 mg/L (milligrams per liter), n (sample size)=60] compared to other Missouri streams (mean of 1.02...
Hydrogeologic framework of Antelope Valley and Bedell Flat, Washoe County, west-central Nevada
D.L. Berger, D. A. Ponce, W.C. Ross
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4220
Description of the hydrogeologic framework of Antelope Valley and Bedell Flat in west-central Nevada adds to the general knowledge of regional ground-water flow north of the Reno-Sparks metropolitan area. The hydrogeologic framework is defined by the rocks and deposits that transmit ground water or impede its movement and by the...
Evaluation of ground-water/surface-water relations, Chapman Creek,West-Central Ohio, by means of multiple methods
Denise H. Dumouchelle
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001–4202
Chapman Creek, a tributary to the Mad River, passes within about 500 feet of a landfill near Tremont City, in Clark County, west-central Ohio. In autumn 2000, the ground-water/surface-water relation was investigated by use of piezometers, seepage meters, temperature monitors, and a gain-loss study. Four piezometers were installed in the...
Selected ground-water data for Yucca Mountain region, southern Nevada and eastern California, through December 1998
Glenn L. Locke
2001, Open-File Report 99-250
The U.S. Geological Survey, in support of the U.S. Department of Energy, Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project, collects, compiles, and summarizes hydrologic data in the Yucca Mountain region. The data are collected to allow assessments of ground-water resources during studies to determine the potential suitability of Yucca Mountain for storing...
Effects of urban development on stormwater runoff characteristics for the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area
Fred Liscum
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4071
A study was done to estimate the effects of urban development in the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area on nine stormwater runoff characteristics. Three of the nine characteristics define the magnitude of stormwater runoff, and the remaining six characteristics describe the shape and duration of a storm hydrograph. Multiple linear regression...
Selected ground-water data for Yucca Mountain region, southern Nevada and eastern California, through December 1999
G.L. Locke
2001, Open-File Report 2000-479
The U.S. Geological Survey, in support of the U.S. Department of Energy, Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project, collects, compiles, and summarizes hydrologic data in the Yucca Mountain region. The data are collected to allow assessments of ground-water resources during studies to determine the potential suitability of Yucca Mountain for storing...
Preliminary assessment of streamflow characteristics for selected streams at Fort Gordon, Georgia, 1999-2000
Timothy C. Stamey
2001, Open-File Report 2001-296
In 1999, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon, began collection of periodic streamflow data at four streams on the military base to assess and estimate streamflow characteristics of those streams for potential water-supply sources. Simple and reliable methods of determining streamflow...
Potentiometric surface, carbonate-rock province, southern Nevada and southeastern California, 1998-2000
J.W. Wilson
2001, Open-File Report 2001-335
The carbonate-rock aquifer that underlies most of southern Nevada occupies part of what is known as the carbonate-rock province, a physiographic region that encompasses the eastern two-thirds of the Great Basin. The potential for development of water resources in this aquifer has prompted Federal, State, and local authorities to seek...
Interpretive geologic cross sections for the Death Valley regional flow system and surrounding areas, Nevada and California
D. S. Sweetkind, R. P. Dickerson, R.J. Blakely, Paul Denning
2001, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 2370
This report presents a network of 28 geologic cross sections that portray subsurface geologic relations within the Death Valley regional ground-water system, a ground-water basin that encompasses a 3? x 3? area (approximately 70,000 km2) in southern Nevada and eastern California. The cross sections transect that part of the southern...
Estimated flow-duration curves for selected ungaged sites in Kansas
S.E. Studley
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4142
Flow-duration curves for 1968-98 were estimated for 32 ungaged sites in the Missouri, Smoky Hill-Saline, Solomon, Marais des Cygnes, Walnut, Verdigris, and Neosho River Basins in Kansas. Also included from a previous report are estimated flow-duration curves for 16 ungaged sites in the Cimarron and lower Arkansas River Basins in...
Methods to quantify seepage beneath Levee 30, Miami-Dade County, Florida
R.S. Sonenshein
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4074
A two-dimensional, cross-sectional, finite-difference, ground-water flow model and a simple application of Darcy?s law were used to quantify ground-water flow (from a wetlands) beneath Levee 30 in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Geologic and geophysical data, vertical seepage data from the wetlands, canal discharge data, ground-water-level data, and surface-water-stage data collected during...
Selected hydrologic and water-quality data for Kamas Valley and vicinity, Summit County, Utah, 1997-2000
Peter L. Haraden, L.E. Spangler, L.E. Brooks, Bernard J. Stolp
2001, Open-File Report 2001-155
This report contains hydrologic and water-quality data collected in the Kamas Valley vicinity during a study from 1997 to 2000. The study area is in Summit County in north-central Utah and is part of the Middle Rocky Mountains Physiographic Province described by Fenneman (1931). Data were collected in Kamas Valley...
The Kiowa core, a continuous drill core through the Denver Basin bedrock aquifers at Kiowa, Elbert County, Colorado
Robert G.H. Raynolds, Kirk R. Johnson, L. Rick Arnold, Timothy M. Farnham, R. Farley Fleming, Jason F. Hicks, Shari A. Kelley, Laura A. Lapey, Douglas J. Nichols, John D. Obradovich, Michael D. Wilson
2001, Open-File Report 2001-185
The Kiowa core was obtained as a component of the Denver Basin Project, a cooperative research effort to study the evolution of the Denver Basin, Colorado. The Kiowa core provides a virtually continuous stratigraphic record of the Upper Cretaceous and lower Tertiary strata of the Denver Basin. The upper portion...
Calibration and validation of a two-dimensional hydrodynamic model of the Ohio River, Jefferson County, Kentucky
C. R. Wagner, D. S. Mueller
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4091
The quantification of current patterns is an essential component of a Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program (WASP) application in a riverine environment. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provided a field validated two-dimensional Resource Management Associates-2 (RMA-2) hydrodynamic model capable of quantifying the steady-flowpatterns in the Ohio River extending from river...
Measuring Taylor Slough boundary and internal flows, Everglades National Park, Florida
G.M. Tillis
2001, Open-File Report 2001-225
Four intensive data-collection efforts, intended to represent the spectrum of precipitation events and associated flow conditions, were conducted during 1997 and 1998 in the Taylor Slough Basin, Everglades National Park. Flow velocities were measured by newly developed, portable Acoustic Doppler Velocity meters along three transects bisecting the Taylor Slough Basin...
Low-flow characteristics of streams in Ohio through water year 1997
David E. Straub
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001–4140
This report presents selected low-flow and flow-duration characteristics for 386 sites throughout Ohio. These sites include 195 long-term continuous- record stations with streamflow data through water year 1997 (October 1 to September 30) and for 191 low-flow partial-record stations with measurements into water year 1999. The characteristics presented for the...
Evaluation of the streamflow-gaging network of Texas and a proposed core network
Raymond M. Slade Jr., Teresa Howard, Roberto Anaya
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4155
The U.S. Geological Survey streamflowgaging network in Texas is operated as part of the National Streamgaging Program and is jointly funded by the Geological Survey and Federal, State, and local agencies. This report documents an evaluation of the existing (as of October 1, 1999) network with regard to four major objectives of streamflow data; and on the...
Petroleum geology and resources of the North Ustyurt Basin, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
Gregory F. Ulmishek
2001, Bulletin 2201-D
The triangular-shaped North Ustyurt basin is located between the Caspian Sea and the Aral Lake in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and extends offshore both on the west and east. Along all its sides, the basin is bounded by the late Paleozoic and Triassic foldbelts that are partially overlain by Jurassic and...
Hydrogeologic framework and geochemistry of the intermediate aquifer system in parts of Charlotte, De Soto, and Sarasota counties, Florida
A. E. Torres, L. A. Sacks, D. K. Yobbi, L. A. Knochenmus, B. G. Katz
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4015
The hydrogeologic framework underlying the 600-square-mile study area in Charlotte, De Soto, and Sarasota Counties, Florida, consists of the surficial aquifer system, the intermediate aquifer system, and the Upper Floridan aquifer. The hydrogeologic framework and the geochemical processes controlling ground-water composition were evaluated for the study area. Particular emphasis was...
Salt-front movement in the Hudson River estuary, New York — Simulations by one-dimensional flow and solute-transport models
M. Peter de Vries, Lawrence A. Weiss
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4024
The Hudson River is being considered for use as a supplemental source of water supply for New York City during droughts. One proposal entails withdrawal of Hudson River water from locations near Newburgh, Chelsea, or Kingston, but the extent to which this could cause the salt front to advance upstream...
Pond-aquifer interaction at South Pond of Lake Cochituate, Natick, Massachusetts
Paul J. Friesz, Peter E. Church
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4040
A U.S. Army facility on a peninsula in South Pond of Lake Cochituate was designated a Superfund site by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1994 because contaminated ground water was detected at the facility, which is near the Natick Springvale public-supply wellfield. The interaction between South Pond and the...
Nutrients and organic compounds in Deer Creek and south branch Plum Creek in southwestern Pennsylvania, April 1996 through September 1998
D.R. Williams, M.E. Clark
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4061
This report presents results of an analysis of nutrient and pesticide data from two surface-water sites and volatile organic compound (VOC) data from one of the sites that are within the Allegheny and Monongahela River Basins study unit of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program of the U.S. Geological Survey. The...
Concentrations and loads of cadmium, lead, and zinc measured on the ascending and descending limbs of the 1999 snowmelt-runoff hydrographs for nine water-quality stations, Coeur d'Alene River basin, Idaho
Paul F. Woods
2001, Open-File Report 2000-310
The Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency within the Spokane River Basin of northern Idaho and eastern Washington included extensive data-collection activities to determine the nature and extent of trace-element contamination within the basin. The U.S. Geological Survey designed and implemented synoptic sampling of a high-flow...
Analytical versus numerical estimates of water-level declines caused by pumping, and a case study of the Iao Aquifer, Maui, Hawaii
Delwyn S. Oki, William Meyer
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4244
Comparisons were made between model-calculated water levels from a one-dimensional analytical model referred to as RAM (Robust Analytical Model) and those from numerical ground-water flow models using a sharp-interface model code. RAM incorporates the horizontal-flow assumption and the Ghyben-Herzberg relation to represent flow in a one-dimensional unconfined aquifer that contains...
Analysis of borehole-radar reflection logs from selected HC boreholes at the Project Shoal area, Churchill County, Nevada
J.W. Lane Jr., P. K. Joesten, G.M. Pohll, Todd Mihevic
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4014
Single-hole borehole-radar reflection logs were collected and interpreted in support of a study to characterize ground-water flow and transport at the Project Shoal Area (PSA) in Churchill County, Nevada. Radar logging was conducted in six boreholes using 60-MHz omni-directional electric-dipole antennas and a 60-MHz magnetic-dipole directional receiving antenna.Radar data from...
