Water Resources Data, California, Water Year 1993. Volume 4. Northern Central Valley Basins and the Great Basin from Honey Lake Basin to Oregon State Line
J.R. Mullen, M.F. Friebel, K.L. Markham, S.W. Anderson
1994, Water Data Report CA-93-4
Water-resources data for the 1993 water year for California consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams, stage and contents in lakes and reservoirs, and water levels and water quality in wells. Volume 4 contains discharge records for 190 gaging stations, stage and contents for 41 lakes...
Water resources data, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, water year 1993
R.S. Gadoury, R.S. Socolow, G.G. Girouard, L.R. Ramsbey
1994, Water Data Report MA-RI-93-1
Water resources data for the 1993 water year for Massachusetts and Rhode Island consists of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; contents of lakes and reservoirs; and ground-water levels. This report contains discharge records for 77 gaging stations, month end contents of five lakes and reservoirs, water...
Hydrogeologic characterization of a proposed landfill expansion in Pickens County near Easley, South Carolina
W. J. Stringfield
1994, Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4146
This report presents the results of a hydrogeologic study in the Piedmont physiographic province of South Carolina to obtain geologic, hydrologic, and water-quality data from the site of a proposed landfill expansion in Pickens County near Easley, South Carolina. The geology of the study area is typical of the...
Water-resources activities in New England, fiscal year 1993
M.F. Orlando
1994, Open-File Report 94-339
The U.S. Geological Survey has 82 active or complete-except-report projects of hydrologic investigations ongoing within the New England Program Area. Of this total, 23 are data projects. Data projects contain statistics and data on the conditions of surface water, ground water, water quality and (or) water use for the study...
Stream-aquifer interactions in the Straight River area, Becker and Hubbard counties, Minnesota
J. R. Stark, David S. Armstrong, Daniel R. Zwilling
1994, Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4009
The Straight River, in north-central Minnesota, is a trout stream having cold, clear water. The 75-square-mile Straight River watershed contributes flow to the stream. The watershed is underlain by highly transmissive surficial and confined-drift aquifers. Ground-water discharge from these aquifers sustains flow in the Straight River, and the cold water...
Estimation of water withdrawal and distribution, water use, and wastewater collection and return flow in Cumberland, Rhode Island, 1988
M.A. Horn, P. A. Craft, Lisa Bratton
1994, Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4023
Water-use data collected in Rhode Island by different State agencies or maintained by different public suppliers and wastewater- treatment facilities need to be integrated if these data are to be used in making water- resource management decisions. Water-use data for the town of Cumberland, a small area in northeastern...
Effects of controlled burning of chaparral on streamflow and sediment characteristics, East Fork Sycamore Creek, central Arizona
Stanley Baldys, H. W. Hjalmarson
1994, Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4102
The effects of controlled burning of part of a chaparral-covered drainage basin on streamflow and sediment characteristics were studied in the upper reaches of the Sycamore Creek basin in central Arizona. A paired-watershed method was used to analyze data collected in two phases separated by the controlled burning of 45...
Hydrogeology and potential effects of changes in water use, Carson Desert agricultural area, Churchill County, Nevada
Douglas K. Maurer, Ann K. Johnson, Alan H. Welch
1994, Open-File Report 93-463
Operating Criteria and Procedures established in 1988 for delivery of water for irrigation in the Newlands Project area include regulations and methods to increase Project efficiency. Public Law 101-618 of 1990 includes a target of 75-percent Project efficiency and a program of water-rights acquisition for wetlands maintenance. The directives could...
Irrigation water supply and demand data for 1976, 1980, and 1984 for the western San Joaquin Valley, California
W. E. Templin, T.C. Haltom
1994, Open-File Report 94-335
This report presents the irrigation water supply and demand data for 1976, 1980, and 1984 for 32 water districts in the western San Joaquin Valley, California. Data are provided for each water district or each of the three years if the data were available. The complete data base is given...
Annual replenishment of bed material by sediment transport in the Wind River near Riverton, Wyoming
M.L. Smalley, W. W. Emmett, A.M. Wacker
1994, Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4007
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Wyoming Department of Transportation, conducted a study during 1985-87 to determine the annual replenishment of sand and gravel along a point bar in the Wind River near Riverton, Wyoming. Hydraulic- geometry relations determined from streamflow measurements; streamflow characteristics determined from 45 years...
Water Resources Data, California, Water Year 1993. Volume 2. Pacific Slope Basins from Arroyo Grande to Oregon State Line except Central Valley
J. R. Palmer, M.F. Friebel, L.F. Trujillo, K.L. Markham
1994, Water Data Report CA-93-2
Water resources data for the 1993 water year for California consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage and contents in lakes and reservoirs; and water levels and water quality in wells. Volume 2 contains discharge records for 119 streamflow-gaging stations, 1 low-flow partial-record streamflow station,...
The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989 — Hydrologic disturbances
Stuart A. Rojstaczer, editor(s)
1994, Professional Paper 1551-E
Seismic events have long been known to cause changes in the level of oceans, streams, lakes, and the water table. The great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 induced significant hydrologic changes that were qualitatively similar to those changes observed for the Loma Prieta earthquake. What is different is that the...
Determination of traveltime in the Delaware River, Hancock, New York, to the Delaware Water Gap by use of a conservative dye tracer
K. E. White, T.W. Kratzer
1994, Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4203
Traveltime of a soluble substance was determined for a 120-mile reach of the Delaware River from the confluence of the East Branch Delaware River and the West Branch Delaware River at Hancock, N.Y. to the Delaware Water Gap. Dye studies were conducted at the 85-95 percent and the 25-30 percent...
Effects of surficial geology, lakes and swamps, and annual water availability on low flows of streams in central New England, and their use in low-flow estimation
S. William Wandle Jr., Allan D. Randall
1994, Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4092
Equations developed by multiple-regression analysis of data from 49 drainage basins in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and southwestern Maine indicate that low flow of streams in this region is largely a function of the amount of water available to the basin and the extent of surficial sand and...
An interactive code (NETPATH) for modeling NET geochemical reactions along a flow PATH, version 2.0
Niel Plummer, Eric C. Prestemon, David L. Parkhurst
1994, Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4169
NETPATH is an interactive Fortran 77 computer program used to interpret net geochemical mass-balance reactions between an initial and final water along a hydrologic flow path. Alternatively, NETPATH computes the mixing proportions of two to five initial waters and net geochemical reactions that can account for the observed composition of...
Analysis of the results of hydraulic-fracture stimulation of two crystalline bedrock boreholes, Grand Portage, Minnesota
Fredrick L. Paillet, James D. Olson
1994, Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4044
Hydraulic fracture-stimulation procedures typical of those provided by contractors in the water-well industry were applied to two boreholes in basaltic and gabbroic rocks near Grand Portage, Minnesota.These boreholes were considered incapable of supplying adequate ground water for even a single household although geophysical logs showed both boreholes were intersected by...
Stream velocities and reaeration coefficients for the South Umpqua River between Tiller and Roseburg, Oregon, 1991
Antonius Laenen, W. H. Woo
1994, Water-Resources Investigations Report 92-4191
Dye-tracer and gas-tracer studies were done in July and September 1991 during low flows on four reaches of the South Umpqua River between Tiller and Roseburg, Oregon. For a stream flow of 435 cubic feet per second at the Brockway streamflow monitoring site (14312000), the average stream velocity between Tiller...
Selected data on characteristics of glacial-deposit and carbonate-rock aquifers, Midwestern Basin and Arches region
R. L. Joseph, S. M. Eberts
1994, Open-File Report 93-627
In 1988, the Geological Survey (USGS) began study to examine the hydrogeologic framework, ground-water-flow systems, water chemistry, and withdrawal response of aquifers in glacial deposits and carbonate rock in the Midwestern Basins and Arches Region in western Ohio and eastern Indiana. As part of this study, data from pumped-well tests...
Water-quality data for the South Umpqua River Basin, Oregon, 1990-92
Chauncey W. Anderson, Dwight Q. Tanner, Douglas B. Lee
1994, Open-File Report 94-40
Data are presented from a study of algal and nutrient dynamics in the South Umpqua River Basin in southwestern Oregon during summer, low-flow periods from September 1990 to October 1992. The study was done to assist local and state regulatory agencies in determining total maximum daily loads of nutrients for...
Hydrogeology and simulation of ground-water flow near the Lantana Landfill, Palm Beach County, Florida
G.M. Russell, E. J. Wexler
1993, Water-Resources Investigations Report 92-4107
The Lantana landfill in Palm Beach County has a surface that is 40 to 50 feet above original ground level and consists of about 250 acres of compacted garbage and trash. Parts of the landfill are below the water table. Surface-resistivity measurements and water-quality analyses indicate that leachate-enriched ground water...
1993 Annual Report: San Francisco estuary regional monitoring program for trace substances
B. Thompson, Jessica Lacy, Dane Hardin, Tom Grovhaug, K. Taberski, Alan D. Jassby, James E. Cloern, J. Caffrey, B. Cole, David H. Schoellhamer
1993, Report
This first annual report of the San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program contains the results of monitoring measurements made in 1993. Measurements of conventional water quality parameters and trace contaminant concentrations were made at 16 stations throughout the Estuary three times during the year: the wet period (March), during declining...
Water Resources Data, New Jersey, Water Year 1992, Volume 1. Surface-Water Data
W.R. Bauersfeld, E.W. Moshinsky, C.E. Gurney
1993, Water Data Report NJ-92-1
Water resources data for the 1992 water year for New Jersey consists of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage, contents, and water quality of lakes and reservoirs; and water levels and water quality of ground water. This volume of the report contains discharge records for 99...
Water Resources Data, California, Water Year 1992. Volume 4. Northern Central Valley Basins and the Great Basin from Honey Lake Basin to Oregon State Line
S.W. Anderson, J.R. Mullen, M.F. Friebel, K.L. Markham
1993, Water Data Report CA-92-4
Water resources data for the 1992 water year for California consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage and contents in lakes and reservoirs; and water levels and water quality in wells. Volume 4 contains discharge records for 190 gaging stations; stage and contents for 44...
Hydrogeologic setting and hydrologic data of the Smoke Creek Desert basin, Washoe County, Nevada, and Lassen County, California, water years 1988-90
D. K. Maurer
1993, Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4043
Smoke Creek Desert is a potential source of water for urban development in Washoe County, Nevada. Hydrogeologic data were collected from 1988 to 1990 to learn more about surface- and ground-water flow in the basin. Impermeable rocks form a boundary to ground-water flow on the east side of the basin...
Estimating design-flood discharges for streams in Iowa using drainage-basin and channel-geometry characteristics
D. A. Eash
1993, Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4062
Drainage-basin and channel-geometry multiple-regression equations are presented for estimating design-flood discharges having recurrence intervals of 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 years at stream sites on rural, unregulated streams in Iowa. Design-flood discharge estimates determined by Pearson Type-Ill analyses using data collected through the 1990 water year are reported...
