Water quality of streams in the Neshaminy Creek basin, Pennsylvania
Edward F. McCarren
1972, Water Supply Paper 1999-O
The Neshaminy has carved a scenic route on its way to the Delaware River, thereby helping to increase the value of land. The unabated growth of nearby metropolitan areas and the multiplying needs for water and open space for water storage and recreation in southeastern Pennsylvania have become impelling forces...
Hydrologic interpretations based on infrared imagery of Long Island, New York
Edward J. Pluhowski
1972, Water Supply Paper 2009-B
Six remote-sensing flights over Long Island's north and south shores were made during the period July 13, 1967, to February 25, 1970. Infrared imagery in the 8- to 14-micrometer range was obtained; results varied from poor to excellent in quality. The ability of the RS 7 and Reconofax IV imagers...
Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1967, Parts 7 and 8, Lower Mississippi River basin and western Gulf of Mexico basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1972, Water Supply Paper 2014
Ground-water in the Teresina-Campo Maior area, Piaui, Brazil
Harry G. Rodis, Edison F. Suszczynski
1972, Water Supply Paper 1663-G
The Teresina-Campo Maior area lies in a presently developing farming and grazing region near the margin of drought-prone northeast Brazil where irrigated farming offers the best potential for economic development. The area comprises 9,700 square kilometers largely of catinga-covered tabular uplands which are drained by the perennial Rio Parnatba. The...
Ground-water levels in the United States, 1966-70, Southwestern states
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1972, Water Supply Paper 2010
Measurement of salt-wedge excursion distance in the Duwamish River Estuary, Seattle, Washington, by means of the dissolved-oxygen gradient
William A. Dawson, L. J. Tilley
1972, Water Supply Paper 1873-D
The Duwamish River estuary has been the object of a series of comprehensive studies undertaken to predict the effects of the changing character of waste-water inputs on the water quality of the estuary. This report discusses the fresh- and salt-water relations of the estuary. The distance that the salt-water wedge...
Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1967, Parts 9-11, Colorado River basin to Pacific Slope basin in California
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1972, Water Supply Paper 2015
Geohydrology of the lower Verdigris River valley between Muskogee and Catoosa, Oklahoma
H.H. Tanaka
1972, Water Supply Paper 1999-A
Alluvium is the principal aquifer along the Verdigris River between Muskogee and Catoosa, Okla. Yields of 1 to 10 gallons of water per minute, adequate for most domestic and stock uses, are available in almost all areas underlain by alluvium. In places where the proportion of gravel to fine material...
Runoff characteristics of California streams
S. E. Rantz
1972, Water Supply Paper 2009-A
California streams exhibit a wide range of runoff characteristics that are related to the climatologic, topographic, and geologic characteristics of the basins they drain. The annual volume of runoff of a stream, expressed in inches, may be large or small, and daily discharge rates may be highly variable or relatively...
Geology and water resources of the Bitterroot Valley, southwestern Montana, with a section on chemical quality of water
R. G. McMurtrey, Richard L. Konizeski, M. V. Johnson, John H. Bartells, H. A. Swenson
1972, Water Supply Paper 1889
The Bitterroot Valley is a Late Cretaceous structural basin that was partly filled at its deepest point by more than 1,640 feet of Tertiary sediments. These sediments grade valleyward from coarse colluvial deposits along the edges of the valley to fine-grained deposits and then to coarse channel deposits of the...
Fluvial sediment in Hocking River subwatershed 1 (North Branch Hunters Run), Ohio
R.F. Flint
1972, Water Supply Paper 1798-I
From May 1956 to May 1962, Hocking River subwatershed 1 of Upper Hocking River Pilot Watershed had an average annual sediment yield from its contributing area of 0.94 square mile of 1,195 tons per square mile. Annual suspended-sediment yield at the outlet, expressed in tons per acre-foot of outflow, decreased...
Determination of mass balance and entrainment in the stratified Duwamish River Estuary, King County, Washington
J.D. Stoner
1972, Water Supply Paper 1873-F
During a study of the effects of waste-water input on the stratified Duwamish River estuary, intensive water-velocity and salinity measurements were made in both the lower salt wedge and the upper fresher water layer for tidal-cycle periods. The net movement of water and salt mass past a cross section during...
Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1968, Part 11, Pacific slope basin in California
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1972, Water Supply Paper 2099
Surface water supply of the United States, 1966-70, Part 3, Ohio River basin, v. 2, Ohio River basin from Kanawha River to Louisville, Kentucky
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1972, Water Supply Paper 2108
Chemical quality of the water in the Tucson basin, Arizona
R. L. Laney
1972, Water Supply Paper 1939-D
The Tucson basin is a broad mountain-rimmed area of about 1,000 square miles in the Basin and Range physiographic province in southeastern Arizona. The altitude ranges from 2,000 feet in the basin to as much as 8,000 feat in the mountains. The major streams in the area are the Santa...
Electrical-analog analysis of the hydrologic system, Tucson basin, southeastern Arizona
T. W. Anderson
1972, Water Supply Paper 1939-C
The water supply for the Tucson basin, Arizona, is derived entirely from ground water. The average annual pumpage for 1962-64 was about 165,000 acre-feet and was greater than the natural rate of ground-water recharge. Water-level declines of as much as 70 feet occurred from spring 1940 to spring 1965 as...
Model hydrographs
W. D. Mitchell
1972, Water Supply Paper 2005
Model hydrographs are composed of pairs of dimensionless ratios, arrayed in tabular form, which, when modified by the appropriate values of rainfall exceed and by the time and areal characteristics of the drainage basin, satisfactorily represent the flood hydrograph for the basin. Model bydrographs are developed from a dimensionless translation...
Ground-water levels in the United States, 1966-70, northwestern states
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1972, Water Supply Paper 1980
No abstract available....
Sediment transport in a Mississippi River distributary — Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana
W. Harry Doyle
1972, Water Supply Paper 2008
The installation of a pumping plant at Donaldsonville, La., in 1955 to solve a water-supply problem for the residents along Bayou Lafourche created a sedimentation problem in the bayou. Prior to 1904, when the bayou functioned as a distributary, floodflows periodically scoured the sediment deposited in the channel at lower...
Effect of aging on aluminum hydroxide complexes in dilute aqueous solutions
Ross Wilbert Smith, John David Hem
1972, Water Supply Paper 1827-D
Aqueous aluminum solutions containing 4?10 -5 mole/liter aluminum and a constant total ionic strength of 10 -2, but with varying ratios of hydroxide to aluminum (OH:Al), were prepared. Progress of these solutions toward equilibrium conditions over aging periods of as much as 2 years was studied by determining the composition...
Electric analog studies of flow to wells in the Punjab aquifer of West Pakistan
Maurice John Mundorff, G.D. Bennett, Masood Ahmad
1972, Water Supply Paper 1608-N
A series of experiments was performed with a steady-state electric analog simulating a cylindrical segment of the aquifer underlying the plains of the Punjab region of West Pakistan. In most of the experiments recharge was assumed to be from the surface, within a specified radius of influence, and distributed uniformly...
Summary of floods in the United States during 1967
J.O. Rostvedt
1972, Water Supply Paper 1880-C
This report describes the most outstanding floods in the United States during 1967. The two most destructive floods occurred in August in east-central Alaska and in September and October in southern Texas. In east-central Alaska, heavy rain on August 8-17 produced record-breaking floods near Fairbanks. Peak discharges on some streams...
Significance of ground-water chemistry in performance of North Sahara Tube wells in Algeria and Tunisia
Frank Eldridge Clarke, Blair F. Jones
1972, Water Supply Paper 1757-M
Nine ground-water samples from the principal shallow and deep North Sahara aquifers of Algeria and Tunisia were examined to determine the relation of their chemical composition to corrosion and mineral encrustation thought to be contributing to observed decline in well capacities within a UNESCO/UNDP Special Fund Project area. Although the...
Sediment transport in the western tributaries of the Sacramento River, California
Benjamin L. Jones, N.L. Hawley, John R. Crippen
1972, Water Supply Paper 1798-J
Estimating steady-state evaporation rates from bare soils under conditions of high water table
C.D. Ripple, Jacob Rubin, T. E. A. Van Hylckama
1972, Water Supply Paper 2019-A
