Water resources data for Hawaii and other Pacific areas, water year 1978: Volume 1. Hawaii
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1979, Water Data Report HI-78-1
Volume 1 of water resources data for the 1978 water year for Hawaii and other Pacific Areas consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; and water levels and water quality in wells and springs. This report contains discharge records for 114 gaging stations; water quality for...
Water resources data for Hawaii and other Pacific areas, water year 1978: Volume 2. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Northern Mariana Islands
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1979, Water Data Report HI-78-2
Volume 2 of water resources data for the 1978 water year for other Pacific areas consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage of a reservoir; and water levels in wells and springs. This report contains discharge records for 44 gaging stations; stage only record for...
Streamflow statistical summaries for Colorado streams through September 30, 1975: Volume 1: Missouri River, Arkansas River, and Rio Grande Basins
Harold E. Petsch
1979, Open-File Report 79-681
Statistical summaries of daily streamflow data for 246 stations east of the Continental Divide in Colorado and adjacent States are presented in this report. Duration tables, high-flow sequence tables, and low-flow sequence tables provide information about daily mean discharge. The mean, variance, standard deviation, skewness, and coefficient of variation are...
Geology, geochronology, and potential volcanic hazards in the Lava Ridge-Hells Half Acre area, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho
Mel A. Kuntz, G. Brent Dalrymple
1979, Open-File Report 79-1657
The evaluation of volcanic hazards for the proposed Safety Test Reactor Facility (STF) at the Argonne National Laboratory-West (ANLW) site, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL), Idaho, involves an analysis of the geology of the Lava Ridge-Hells Half Acre area and of K-At age determinations on lava flows in cored drill...
Preliminary report on the geology and geophysics of drill hole UE25a-1, Yucca Mountain, Nevada Test Site
Richard W. Spengler, D.C. Muller, R.B. Livermore
1979, Open-File Report 79-1244
A subsurface geologic study in connection with the Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations has furnished detailed stratigraphic and structural information about tuffs underlying northeastern Yucca Mountain on the Nevada Test Site. Drill hole UE25a-1 penetrated thick sequences of nonwelded to densely welded ash-flow and bedded tuffs of Tertiary age. Stratigraphic...
Nonpoint-source discharges in Pequea Creek Basin, Pennsylvania, 1977
Janice R. Ward, David A. Eckhardt
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-88
A study of Pequea Creek included measurement of streamflow and collection of water and bottom-material samples during selected base-flow and storm periods from February to December 1977. Samples were analyzed for nitrogen and phosphorus species, suspended sediment, organic carbon, and pesticides. Daily mean constituent concentrations and discharges transported from the...
Low-flow characteristics of streams in the Pecatonica-Sugar River basin, Wisconsin
D.A. Stedfast
1979, Open-File Report 79-1274-Pecatonica River, Sugar River
The purpose of this report is to describe low-flow characteristics of streams in the Pecatonica-Sugar River basin, Wisconsin, where streamflow data have been collected, and to present equations for estimating low-flow characteristics at ungaged sites. Low-flow characteristics were estimated for 11 gaging stations, 25 low-flow partial-record stations, and 207 miscellaneous sites...
Streamflow simulation studies of the Hillsborough, Alafia, and Anclote Rivers, west-central Florida
J.F. Turner Jr.
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-102
A modified version of the Georgia Tech Watershed Model was applied for the purpose of flow simulation in three large river basins of west-central Florida. The model was calibrated for six streamflow stations located in these basins using 4 years of historical and current rainfall, runoff, and estimated evapotranspiration data....
Quantity and quality of urban runoff from three localities in the Denver Metropolitan area, Colorado
Sherman R. Ellis, William M. Alley
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-64
Considerable variation in constituent concentrations was shown in urban runoff data for 1975-77 from three metropolitan Denver drainage basins. Constituent concentrations, greatest during initial rainfall runoff, generally peaked midday of snowmelt runoff, corresponding with maximum melting and runoff. Instantaneous loads of constituents were largely a function of discharge. Days since...
Small-stream flood investigations in Minnesota, October 1958 to September 1977
George H. Carlson, Kurt T. Gunard
1979, Open-File Report 79-1061
An investigation of flood flows from small drainage basins in Minnesota is being made to aid in the design of bridges, culverts and other highway drainage structures. Results of the investigation provide peak-flow data on streams generally with drainage areas less than 50 square miles, placing particular emphasis on those...
Water quality of selected streams in the coal area of east-central Montana
P. W. McKinley
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-142
In October 1975 the U.S. Geological Survey established a network of nine data-collection stations on eight streams in Montana to monitor water quality in potential coal-mining areas. The report summarizes and evaluates the water-quality data that have been collected during the first 2 years (3 years for 1 station) of...
Statistical summaries of Arizona streamflow data
T. W. Anderson, Natalie D. White
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-5
The report includes statistical summaries of streamflow data for 143 gaging stations in Arizona. Statistical summaries are given for all active streamflow-gaging stations at which flow is unregulated, for discontinued stations that have at least 5 years of record, and for a few stations at which the flow is partly...
Tertiary volcanic rocks of the Mineral Mountain and Teapot Mountain quadrangles, Pinal County, Arizona
William J. Keith, Ted G. Theodore
1979, Open-File Report 79-716
The widespread distribution of Tertiary volcanic rocks in south-central Arizona is controlled in part by prevolcanic structures along which volcanic vents were localized. Volcanic rocks in the Mineral Mountain and Teapot Mountain quadrangles mark the site of a major northwest-trending structural hingeline. This hingeline divides an older Precambrian X terrane...
Floods in Georgia, magnitude and frequency: Techniques for estimating the magnitude and frequency of floods in Georgia with compilation of flood data through 1974
McGlone Price
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-137
Regional relations are defined for estimating the magnitude and frequency of floods having recurrence intervals of 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 years on streams with natural flow in Georgia. Multiple-regression analyses were used to define the relationship between the flood-discharge frequency of annual peak discharges for streams draining...
Sediment discharge and channel change in the North Fork Teton River, 1977-78, Fremont and Madison counties, Idaho
Rhea P. Williams
1979, Open-File Report 79-1335
The Teton Dam failure flood of June 5, 1976, severely disrupted the geomorphic character of North Fork Teton River in Idaho. Extensive channel restoration was required to contain expected normal spring flows. Six principal sites were established on the 17-mile reach of the river to study sediment transport and channel...
Water quality in the Merced River above and below the El Portal sewage treatment plant near Yosemite National Park, California, 1975-77
Ray J. Hoffman
1979, Open-File Report 79-679
A study was made to evaluate the effects that treated sewage has on some characteristics of water quality in a reach of the Merced River near Yosemite National Park. Streamflow and water-quality data were collected from July through October 1975 and from July through November 1977 at five stations on...
Traveltime, unit-concentration, longitudinal-dispersion, and reaeration characteristics of upstream reaches of the Yampa and Little Snake Rivers, Colorado and Wyoming
Daniel P. Bauer, R. E. Rathbun, H. W. Lowham
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-122
Measurements were made along a 58-mile reach of the Yampa River in Colorado and a 77-mile reach of the Little Snake River in Colorado and Wyoming to determine traveltime, unit-concentration , and longitudinal-dispersion characteristics. Two traveltime, unit-concentration, and dispersion analyses were made along the Yampa River when its average streamflow...
Water resources of the Port Madison Indian Reservation, Washington
W. E. Lum II
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-112
The study summarized in this report was made to provide Suquamish Tribal leaders with information on the reservation's surface- and ground-water resources. The Tribal leaders need this information to help them manage and protect their water resources against overdevelopment. The quantity of ground water that is estimated to be available...
Water resources of the Nisqually Lake area, Pierce County, Washington
H. E. Pearson, N. P. Dion
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-101
This report presents data assembled during a July 1975 to August 1977 study of the water resources of an area within, and adjacent to, a part of the Fort Lewis Military Reservation that prior to 1917 was included in the Nisqually Indian Reservation. Because the area is within or near...
Major and trace element data with partition coefficients for lava flows from the San Francisco volcanic field
Karen J. Wenrich-Verbeek
1979, Open-File Report 79-998
Major and trace element data from San Francisco Mountain (a stratovolcano), as well as major element data from representative flows of the surrounding volcanic field (figure 1), are presented in this report. Also included are conventional and normalized partition coefficients for trace elements in each of the coexisting mineral phases...
Regional stochastic generation of streamflows using an ARIMA (1,0,1) process and disaggregation
Jeffrey T. Armbruster
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-3
An ARIMA (1,0,1) model was calibrated and used to generate long annual flow sequences at three sites in the Juniata River basin, Pennsylvania. The model preserves the mean, variance, and cross correlations of the observed station data. In addition, it has a desirable blend of both high and low frequency...
A summary of measured hydraulic data for the series of steady and unsteady flow experiments over patterned roughness
Dannie L. Collins, Kathleen M. Flynn
1979, Open-File Report 79-1260
This report summarizes and makes available to other investigators the measured hydraulic data collected during a series of experiments designed to study the effect of patterned bed roughness on steady and unsteady open-channel flow. The patterned effect of the roughness was obtained by clear-cut mowing of designated areas of an...
Simulated changes in ground-water levels and streamflow resulting from future development (1970 to 2020) in the Platte River basin, Nebraska
E.G. Lappala, P. A. Emery, F.J. Otradovsky
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-26
Future changes in ground-water levels and streamflow caused by a limited set of water-resources development conditions were simulated with digital models of stream-aquifer systems within the Platte River Basin, Nebraska. Simulated water-resources use in the basin included private development of ground water for irrigation, Federal development of surface-water systems for...
Hydrologic data from urban watersheds in the Tampa Bay area, Florida
Miguel A. Lopez, D.M. Michaelis
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-125
Hydrologic data are being collected in 10 urbanized watersheds located in the Tampa Bay area, Florida. The gaged watersheds have impervious areas that range from 19 percent for a residential watershed in north Tampa to nearly 100 percent for a downtown Tampa watershed. Land-use types, including roads, residential, commercial, industrial,...
Field verification of reconstructed dam-break flood, Laurel Run, Pennsylvania
Cheng-lung Chen, Jeffrey T. Armbruster
1979, Open-File Report 79-1483
A one-dimensional dam-break flood routing model is verified by using observed data on the flash flood resulting from the failure of Laurel Run Reservoir Dam near Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The model has been developed on the basis of an explicit scheme of the characteristics method with specified time intervals. The model...
