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...
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...
Floods in Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas, September 12-13, 1977
Leland D. Hauth, William J. Carswell Jr.
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-63
The storm of September 12-13, 1977, produced as much as 16 inches of rainfall in the Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas area, left 25 persons dead, many homeless, and caused over 50 million dollars in damages.Data from National Weather Service recording rain gages indicate the storm came in two bursts within 24...
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...
Land use, land cover, and drainage on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula, Eastern North Carolina, 1974
C.C. Daniel
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-134
A land use, land cover, and drainage map of the 2,000-square-mile Albermarle-Pamlico peninsula of eastern North Carolina has been prepared, at a scale of 1:125,000, as part of a larger study of the effects of large-scale land clearing on regional hydrology. The peninsula includes the most extensive area of wetland...
Source, use, and disposition of water in Florida, 1975
Stanley D. Leach
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-17
On the average, 18,420 million gallons of water was withdrawn for use in Florida each day in 1975--an increase of 3,107 million gallons per day (Mgal/d) rate since 1970. The 1975 daily total was made up of 11,502 million gallons of saline water and 6,918 million gallons of freshwater. The...
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...
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...
An analysis of stream temperatures, Green River Basin, Wyoming
H. W. Lowham
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-13
A method for estimating temperatures of streams in the Green River basin, Wyoming, utilizes a regional model for estimating mean daily temperatures of streams at unmeasured sites. The regional model was developed by describing annual temperature patterns at 43 measured sites and by applying the harmonic function T = M...
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...
A rainfall-runoff modeling procedure for improving estimates of T-year (annual) floods for small drainage basins
Robert W. Lichty, Fred Liscum
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-7
Maps depicting the influence of a climatic factor, C, on the magnitude of synthetic T-year (annual) floods were prepared for a large portion of the eastern United States. The climatic factors were developed by regression analysis of flood data using a parametric rainfall-runoff model and long-term rainfall records. Map estimates...
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...
Predictive analyses of ground-water discharges in the Willow Creek Watershed, northeast Nebraska
Jack T. Dugan, Eric G. Lappala
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-67
Ground-water discharge to Willow Creek, which drains a 204 mi2 watershed in northeast Nebraska was predicted for six combinations of conditions of climate and ground-water development. A digital model of the ground water/surface-water system was stressed with recharge and withdrawal functions determined from a linear reservoir model of the soil...
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,...
Ground-water conditions in the Eureka area, Humboldt County, California, 1975
Michael J. Johnson
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-127
Ground-water conditions in the Eureka area, Calif., were evaluated during 1975 to determine whether significant changes had occurred since 1952, when an earlier reconnaissance was made. No major changes in water levels or water quality were noted at 1975 pumping rates. Recharge to the ground-water system compensates for both artificial...
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...
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...
Chemical and physical quality of selected public water supplies in Florida, August-September 1976
G. A. Irwin, Henry G. Healy
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-21
Results of a 1976 water-quality reconnaissance made by the U.S. Geological Survey indicated that, with few exceptions, all public water supplies in Florida are of high quality and meet the standards set forth in the National Interim Primary Drinking Water Regulations. Occasionally the concentrations of fluoride, turbidity, cadmium, chromium, and...
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...
Water-quality assessment of runoff from a rural highway bridge near Tallahassee, Florida
G. A. Irwin, Gerald T. Losey
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-1
Runoff from a rural highway bridge on U.S. 27 near Tallahassee, Florida, was found to have an insignificant water-quality loading impact on the Ochlockonee River. Potential annual-runoff loads on the bridge surface for virtually all constituents studied were less than one percent of those transported by the river at the...
Water-supply potential of the lower Hillsborough River, Florida, 1976
Carole L. Goetz, Ronald C. Reichenbaugh, Junior K. Ogle
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-29
The Tampa Reservoir Dam, constructed in 1945 on the lower Hillsborough River 10 miles above the mouth, provides 12.5 miles of natural channel storage for city water supply. Flow of the lower Hillsborough River and storage in Tampa Reservoir become deficient during annual dry periods. Excluding dead storage, Tampa Reservoir...
Fluvial sediment study of Fishtrap and Dewey Lakes drainage basins, Kentucky-Virginia
William F. Curtis, Russell F. Flint, Frederick H. George, John F. Santos
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-123
Fourteen drainage basins above Fishtrap and Dewey Lakes in the Levisa Fork and Johns Creek drainage basins of eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia were studied to determine sedimentation rates and origin of sediment entering the two lakes. The basins ranged in size from 1.68 to 297 square miles. Sediment yields...
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...
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...
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...
