Temperature in streams of New Mexico for the period October 1964 to September 1969
Ralph W. Clement
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-140
Harmonic equations were developed to describe stream temperatures at 144 sites in New Mexico using periodically observed water temperatures collected from October 1964 through September 1969. The harmonic equations explained at least 80 percent of the variability at 70 of the sites. Standard errors of estimate ranged from 1.3 to...
Appraisal of shallow ground-water resources and management alternatives in the Upper Peace and Eastern Alafia River Basins, Florida
C. B. Hutchinson
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-124
In southwest Florida, the shallow aquifer system underlying the 1,250-square-mile upper Peace and eastern Alafia River basins is a relatively untapped source of supply. The aquifer system ranges between 50 and 300 feet thick and is composed of a surficial sand unit underlain by a limestone unit. Sand and clay...
Ground-water quality near the northwest 58th Street solid-waste disposal facility, Dade County, Florida
H. C. Mattraw Jr., John E. Hull, Howard Klein
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-45
The Northwest 58th Street solid-waste disposal facility, 3 miles west of a major Dade County municipal water-supply well field, overlays the Biscayne aquifer, a permeable, solution-riddled limestone which transmits leachates eastward at a calculated rate of 2.9 feet per day. A discrete, identifiable leachate plume has been recognized under and...
Chemical quality of ground water in the central Sacramento Valley, California
Ronald P. Fogelman
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-133
The study area of this report includes about 1,200 square miles in the central Sacramento Valley adjacent to the Sacramento River from Knights Landing to Los Molinos. With recent agricultural development in the area, additional land has been brought under irrigation from land which had been used primarily for dry...
Appraisal of uncontrolled flowing artesian wells in Florida
Henry G. Healy
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-95
An estimated 15,000 uncontrolled flowing wells, many discharging water of poor quality are wastefully discharging about 790 million gallons per day by surface and internal flow. Internal flow in principal problem areas have been identified in Brevard, Charlotte, Clay, De Soto, Duval, Flagler, Glades, Hendry, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Nassau,...
Nitrogen, phosphorus, organic carbon, and biochemical oxygen demand: in Florida surface waters, 1972
Matthew I. Kaufman, J.E. Dysart
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-43
Water samples were collected during spring and autumn 1972 from about 100 surface-water sites in Florida. The samples were analyzed for the plant nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus. In most waters, nitrogen concentrations are less than 2.0 milligrams per liter as nitrogen, and organic nitrogen is dominant. Median total nitrogen concentration...
Interpretation of well logs in a carbonate aquifer
L.M. MacCary
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-88
This report describes the log analysis of the Randolph and Sabial core holes in the Edwards aquifer in Texas, with particular attention to the principles that can be applied generally to any carbonate system. The geologic and hydrologic data were obtained during the drilling of the two holes, from extensive...
Ten-year low mean monthly discharge determinations for ungaged streams near waste-stabilization ponds in Wisconsin
Stephen J. Field
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-49
Communities that use fill-and-draw waste-water treatment lagoons or waste-stabilization ponds are required to discharge during the spring and fall of the year at a rate that does not exceed the assimilative capacity of the receiving stream. The 10-year low mean monthly discharge (MMQ10) for October, November, April, and May for...
Chemical analyses of surface water in Illinois, 1958–74—Volume I, Des Plaines River basin and Lake Michigan
R. W. Healy, L.G. Toler
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-22
Samples of surface water were collected and analyzed by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and its predecessor, the Stream Pollution Control Bureau of the Illinois Department of Public Health. The results for the period 1958 to 1974 are presented in tabular form and the history of sampling and analytical methods...
Sediment discharge from highway construction near Port Carbon, Pennsylvania
Robert E. Helm
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-35
The effects of highway construction on suspended-sediment loads were studied in the upper reaches of the Schuylkill River basin, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, from April 1975 to March 1977. From March 1975 to October 1976, 4.3 miles of State Route 209 was relocated through the upper reaches of the basin, a...
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...
Ground-water storage in the Johnson Valley area, San Bernardino County, California
James J. French
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-130
The Mojave Water Agency includes several desert basins where ground water in storage is many times as great as the average annual recharge. The Johnson Valley area in San Bernardino County, Calif., was evaluated for (1) the quantity of ground water in storage, (2) the chemical quality of the ground...
Preliminary appraisal of the geohydrologic aspects of drainage wells, Orlando area, central Florida
Joel O. Kimrey
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-37
The Floridan aquifer contains two highly transmissive cavernous zones in the Orlando area: an upper producing zone about 150-600 feet below land surface; and a lower producing zone about 1,100-1,500 feet below land surface. Natural head differences are downward and there is hydraulic connection between the two producing zones. Drainage...
Transit losses and traveltimes of reservoir releases along the Arkansas River from Pueblo Reservoir to John Martin Reservoir, southeastern Colorado
Russell K. Livingston
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-75
The need for accurate information regarding the transit losses and traveltimes associated with releases from Pueblo Reservoir has been stimulated by construction of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Fryingpan-Arkansas Project and a proposed winter-water storage program in Pueblo Reservoir. To meet this need, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with...
Distribution of dissolved nitrate and fluoride in ground water, Highland-East Highlands, San Bernardino County, California
Lawrence A. Eccles, John M. Klein
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-14
In the Highland-East Highlands area of southern California, concentrations of nitrate in water from many wells exceed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 's and the California Department of Health 's recommended limit for public water supplies. The nitrate standards for public water supplies in the study area are commonly met...
Unsteady solute-transport simulation in streamflow using a finite-difference model
Larry F. Land
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-18
This report documents a rather simple, general purpose, one-dimensional, one-parameter, mass-transport model for field use. The model assumes a well-mixed conservative solute that may be coming from an unsteady source and is moving in unsteady streamflow. The quantity of solute being transported is in the units of concentration. Results are...
Quantitative hydrogeology of the Upper Republican Natural Resources District, southwest Nebraska
Eric G. Lappala
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-38
Ground-water use for irrigation from the Ogallala Formation }'as in-creased rapidly in the Upper Republican Natural Resources District in southwest Nebraska. Water levels declined as much as 16 feet between 1952 and 1975. Discharge of the aquifer to streams was reduced by as much as 19 percent between 1967 and...
Interim report on streamflow, sediment discharge, and water quality in the Calabazas Creek Basin, Santa Clara County, California
J. M. Knott, G.L. Pederson, Robert F. Middelburg
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-2
Streamflow, sediment-discharge, and water-quality data are being collected in the Calabazas Creek basin, Santa Clara County, Calif., to determine annual water and sediment discharge at base-line conditions that are representative of a basin prior to urbanization. Results of the first 3 years of the study (1973-75) are given in this...
Water-resources appraisal of the Wet Mountain Valley, in parts of Custer and Fremont counties, Colorado
C.J. Londquist, R.K. Livingston
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-1
The Wet Mountain Valley is an intermontane trough filled to a depth of at least 6,700 feet with unconsolidated deposits. Ground water occurs under both artesian and water-table conditions within the basin-fill aquifer and ground-water moverment is toward Grape and Texas Creeks. The depth to the water table is less...
Availability and quality of ground water in the Lake George area, southeastern Park County, Colorado
Kimball E. Goddard
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-50
Water for domestic use in the Lake George area, Colo., is produced from four aquifers. Two of the aquifers, fractured-cyrstalline and volcanic rocks, have a water table ranging from 10 to 100 feet below land surface and well yields range from 0.08 to 6 gallons per minute. The consolidated sedimentary-rock...
Effects of urban development on the flood-flow characteristics of the Walnut Creek Basin, Des Moines Metropolitan area, Iowa
Oscar G. Lara
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-11
This report deals with the probable impact of urban development on the magnitude and frequency of flooding in the lower reach of the Walnut creek Basin.Stream-modeling techniques, which include complete definition of unit hydroqraphs and precipitation loss-rate criteria, were utilized to evaluate the effects of urban development as measured by...
Limnology of Taylor Creek impoundment with reference to other water bodies in Upper St. Johns River Basin, Florida
Donald A. Goolsby, Benjamin F. McPherson
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-91
Taylor Creek Impoundment was constructed on the western side of the upper St. Johns River basin as part of a plan for flood control and water regulation. The impoundment, which has a surface area of about 4,000 acres, was initially filled late in 1969. Water of relatively poor quality was...
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...
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...
Observation of water quality in the mixed reach below the confluence of the Sacramento and Feather Rivers, California, August and November 1975
Rodger F. Ferreira, Ray J. Hoffman
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-91
The area near the confluence of the Sacramento and Feather Rivers was selected for study of water-quality changes that occur when two large rivers mix. Water-quality measurements were made during August 13-14 and November 4-5, 1975. Considering the concentrations of most of the properties and constituents measured, the mixing of...
