Hydrologic analysis of the U.S. Bureau of Mines' underground oil-shale research-facility site, Piceance Creek Basin, Rio Blanco County, Colorado
R. H. Dale, John B. Weeks
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-28
The U.S. Bureau of Mines plans to develop an underground oil-shale research facility near the center of Piceance Creek basin in Colorado. The oil-shale zone, which is to be penetrated by a shaft, is overlain by 1,400 feet of sedimentary rocks, primarily sandstone and marlstone, consisting of two aquifers separated...
Comparison of the radioactive and modified techniques for measurement of stream reaeration coefficients
R. E. Rathbun, R. Stephen Grant
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-68
The radioactive and modified tracer techniques were used to measure the reaeration coefficients of two reaches each of Black Earth Creek and the Madison Effluent Channel near Madison, Wis. Comparison of the results showed that coefficients measured with the modified technique ranged from -8.96 to +3.61 and from +15.7 to...
Mineral resources of the Charles Sheldon wilderness study area, Humboldt and Washoe Counties, Nevada, and Lake and Harney Counties, Oregon
John B. Cathrall, R. C. Greene, Donald Plouff, D. F. Siems, G. L. Crenshaw, E.F. Cooley, E.T. Techek, F.J. Johnson, M. D. Conyac
1978, Open-File Report 78-1002
A mineral survey of the Charles Sheldon wilderness study area, located in Humboldt and Washoe Counties, Nevada, and Lake and Harney Counties, Oregon was conducted in 1974 and 1975 (fig. 1A, 1B, 1C). The mineral resource potential was evaluated by geological, geochemical, and geophysical studies by the U.S. Geological Survey,...
Land use and land cover information and air-quality planning
W.E. Reed, J.E. Lewis
1978, Professional Paper 1099-B
The land use and land cover information developed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Central Atlantic Regional Ecological Test Site project has been proven useful when used in an improved technique for estimating emissions, diffusion, and impact patterns of sulfur dioxide (S02) and particulate matter. Implementation of plans to...
Computer modeling of ground-water availability in the Pootatuck River Valley, Newtown, Connecticut
F.P. Haeni, Elinor H. Handman
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-77
A hydrologic analysis of the stratified drift in Newtown, Conn., based on available data, test drilling, seismic refraction profiling, and the stream-aquifer connection was performed using a digital computer model. Simulated pumping indicates that a total of 4.0 million gallons of water per day (Mgal/d) can be withdrawn from the...
Unsteady streamflow simulation using a linear implicit finite-difference model
Larry F. Land
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-59
A computer program for simulating one-dimensional subcritical, gradually varied, unsteady flow in a stream has been developed and documented. Given upstream and downstream boundary conditions and channel geometry data, roughness coefficients, stage, and discharge can be calculated anywhere within the reach as a function of time.The program uses a linear...
Water chemistry of the Redwood Creek and Mill Creek basins, Redwood National Park, Humboldt and Del Norte Counties, California
Wesley L. Bradford, Rick T. Iwatsubo
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-115
A 2-year study was made in the Redwood Creek and Mill Creek drainage basins of Redwood National Park to determine existing chemical water-quality conditions and to identify the effects of logging on water quality in the main stems and tributaries of the two basins. Overall, the chemical water quality of...
Quality and movement of ground water in Otter Creek - Dry Creek basin, Cortland County, New York
William Buller, Wallace J. Nichols, J. F. Harsh
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-3
A steady increase in the chloride and nitrate content of water in a sand and gravel aquifer of glacial origin in the Cortland, N.Y., area prompted a study to obtain data on the extent and source of these constituents. Chloride concentration in the upper part of the aquifer increased generally...
Digital-model simulation of the glacial-outwash aquifer, Otter Creek-Dry Creek basin, Cortland County, New York
O. J. Cosner, J. F. Harsh
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-71
The city of Cortland, New York, and surrounding areas obtain water from the highly productive glacial-outwash aquifer underlying the Otter Creek-Dry Creek basin. Pumpage from the aquifer in 1976 was approximately 6.3 million gallons per day and is expected to increase as a result of population growth and urbanization. A...
Summary appraisals of the Nation's ground-water resources; Alaska
Chester Zenone, Gary S. Anderson
1978, Professional Paper 813-P
Alaska has enormous surface-water resources, but many of the streams are frozen for most of the year and most contain glacial silt that makes them unacceptable for human use. These factors lend special significance to ground water as a water-supply source, even though perennially frozen ground (permafrost) profoundly modifies ground-water...
Well-response model of the confined area, Bunker Hill ground-water basin, San Bernardino County, California
Timothy J. Durbin, Charles O. Morgan
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-129
The Bunker Hill ground-water basin, in the vicinity of San Bernardino, Calif., is being artificially recharged with imported water. Current and future artificial recharge of the basin may cause the potentiometric surface in an area of confined ground water to rise above land surface and water to flow from uncapped...
A guide to mathematical models used in steam electric power plant environmental impact assessment
Sanford G. Bloom, Barney W. Cornaby, William E. Martin
1978, FWS/OBS 78/01
Stream channel modification in Hawaii. Part D: summary report
J.D. Parrish
1978, FWS/OBS 78/19
Stream channel modification in Hawaii. Part C: tolerance of native stream species to observed levels of environmental variability
C.B. Hathaway
1978, FWS/OBS 78/18
Stream channel modification in Hawaii. Part B: effect of channelization on the distribution and abundance of fauna in selected streams
S.E. Norton
1978, FWS/OBS 78/17
Stream channel modification in Hawaii. Part A: statewide inventory of streams, habitat factors, and associated biota
A.A. Timal
1978, FWS/OBS 78/16
An empirical transport model for evaluating entrainment of aquatic organisms by power plants
John Boreman, C. Phillip Goodyear, Sigurd W. Christensen
1978, FWS/OBS 78/90
Hydrologic evaluation of part of central Volusia County, Florida
P. W. Bush
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-89
Municipal wells close to the Atlantic Coast cannot be expected to supply the steadily increasing population of Volusia County, Florida, indefinitely without causing saltwater intrusion problems. Therefore, new wells will be drilled away from the coast. The source of water for the planned artesian aquifer well field will be leakage...
Two-dimensional and three-dimensional digital flow models of the Salinas Valley ground-water basin, California
T. J. Durbin, G.W. Kapple, J. R. Freckleton
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-113
The Salinas Valley ground-water basin is in central coastal California. The ground-water basin extends from Monterey Bay southeastward along the Salinas River to San Ardo, a distance of about 70 miles, and has a maximum thickness of about 2,000 feet. Annual recharge to the ground-water basin, which is derived mostly...
Preliminary hydrologic budget of the sand-and-gravel aquifer under unstressed conditions: with a section on water-quality monitoring, Pensacola, Florida
Henry Trapp Jr.
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-96
The sand-and-gravel aquifer is the only freshwater aquifer in southern Escambia County, Fla. Problems related to the development of the aquifer include sustained yield, contamination, and saltwater intrusion. A digital model was applied to the sand-and-gravel aquifer in central and southern Escambia County treating the aquifer 's 'main producing zone...
Predicted water-level and water-quality effects of artificial recharge in the Upper Coachella Valley, California, using a finite-element digital model
Lindsay A. Swain
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-29
From 1936 to 1974, water levels declined more than 100 feet in the Palm Springs area and 60 feet in the Palm Desert area of the upper Coachella Valley, Calif. Water from the Colorado River Aqueduct is presently being recharged to the basin. The dissolved-solids concentration of native ground water...
Gas-driven pump for ground-water samples
Donald C. Signor
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-72
Observation wells installed for artificial-recharge research and other wells used in different ground-water programs are frequently cased with small-diameter steel pipe. To obtain samples from these small-diameter wells in order to monitor water quality, and to calibrate solute-transport models, a small-diameter pump with unique operating characteristics is required that causes...
Summary appraisals of the nation's ground-water resources – Great Lakes region
William G. Weist Jr.
1978, Professional Paper 813-J
The Great Lakes Regions, as a whole, has abundant supplies of water. Nearly 805,000 billion cubic feet of water is contained in the Great Lakes. An additional 35,000 billion cubic feet of potable ground water is available from storage in the region. Estimated ground-water discharge to the streams and lakes...
Reaeration capacity of the Rock River between Lake Koshkonong, Wisconsin and Rockton, Illinois
R. Stephen Grant
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-128
The reaeration capacity of the Rock River from Lake Koshkonong, Wisconsin, to Rockton, Illinois, was determined using the energy-dissipation model. The model was calibrated using data from radioactive-tracer measurements in the study reach. Reaeration coefficients (K2) were computed for the annual minimum 7-day mean discharge that occurs on the average...
Digital model of ground-water flow in the Piceance Basin, Rio Blanco and Garfield Counties, Colorado
John B. Weeks
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-46
The digital model used to simulate ground-water flow in the aquifer system in the basin drained by Piceance and Yellow Creeks in northwestern Colorado is described in detail. The model is quasi three-dimensional in that it simulates ground-water flow in a multiaquifer system by assuming horizontal flow in the aquifers...
