WATEQF; a FORTRAN IV version of WATEQ : a computer program for calculating chemical equilibrium of natural waters
Niel Plummer, Blair F. Jones, Alfred Hemingway Truesdell
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-13
WATEQF is a FORTRAN IV computer program that models the thermodynamic speciation of inorganic ions and complex species in solution for a given water analysis. The original version (WATEQ) was written in 1973 by A. H. Truesdell and B. F. Jones in Programming Language/one (PL/1.) With but a few exceptions,...
Water temperatures of Kentucky
John S. Zogorski, James L. Kiesler
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-86
The U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Kentucky Geological Survey has been gathering temperature data on streams throughout Kentucky under a number of different programs for several decades. Periodic water temperature observations, which were made at a frequency of approximately once per month during the past 15 years, were...
Preimpoundment water quality of Raystown Branch Juniata River and six tributary streams, south-central Pennsylvania
Donald R. Williams
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-57
The Raystown Branch Juniata River watershed, which is the main water source for Raystown Lake, is a 960-square-mile (2,490 square kilometres) drainage basin in south-central Pennsylvania. Preimpoundment water-quality data were collected on the Raystown Branch and six tributary st.reams in the basin. Specific conductance values varied inversely with water discharge....
Effects of urbanization on flood characteristics in Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee
Herman C. Wibben
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-121
Streamflow data from 14 basins in Davidson County, Tenn., were extended in time by use of a digital model of the hydrologic system. The basins ranged in size from 1.58 to 64.0 square miles and ranged in extent of manmade impervious cover from 3 to 37 percent. The flood-frequency characteristics...
Application of the U.S. Geological Survey rainfall-runoff simulation model to improve flood-frequency estimates on small Tennessee streams
Herman C. Wibben
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-120
The U.S. Geological Survey rainfall-runoff simulation model was used in conjunction with National Weather Service climatological data to improve flood-frequency estimates for 52 small drainage basins in Tennessee. The basins range in size from 0.17 to 64 square miles (0.44 to 166 square kilometers) and are distributed throughout the State....
Potentiometric surface of the Floridan aquifer in the Northwest Florida Water Management District, May 1976
J.C. Rosenau, P.E. Meadows
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-2
This map shows the potentiometric surface of the Floridan aquifer in the Florida Panhandle. Contour intervals of 10 feet show altitude at which water level would have stood in tightly cased wells. Datum is mean sea level. Locations of observation wells also are shown. (Woodard-USGS)...
Construction and testing of two waste-injection monitor wells in northwest Florida
Charles A. Pascale
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-1
No abstract available. ...
Digital model to predict effects of pumping from the Arikaree aquifer in the Dwyer area, southeastern Wyoming
G. C. Lines
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-8
Technique for estimating magnitude and frequency of floods in Kentucky
Curtis H. Hannum
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-62
Flood magnitude and frequency relations applicable to unregulated stream in Kentucky are based on flood data at 117 gaging stations in Kentucky and 14 in adjacent states having 10 or more years of record. Equations that related flood magnitude and frequency to contributing drainage area in 16 geographic areas may...
Water-resources data for deep aquifers of eastern Montana
W.B. Hopkins
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-40
Water from aquifers of Mesozoic and Paleozoic age in eastern Montana is little used. This report presents maps and tables to assist in the evaluation of the water in terms of possible utility. In the southern third of eastern Montana water from the Madison Group or from the Tensleep Sandstone...
Availability of ground water in the middle Merrimack River basin, central and southern New Hampshire
John E. Cotton
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-39
This report provides a guide for ground-water exploration and for water- and land-use planning and management. Sufficient amounts of water to supply single family homes are available from the bedrock aquifer nearly everywhere in the middle Merrimack River basin. Relatively thin and narrow, unconsolidated aquifers of sand or sand and...
Historic water-level changes and pumpage from the principal aquifers of the Memphis area, Tennessee: 1886-1975
James H. Criner, William Scott Parks
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-67
The Memphis Sand ("500-foot" sand) supplies about 95 percent of the water used in the Memphis area for municipal and industrial purposes. In general, pumpage has increased at an irregular rate since the completion of the first well to this aquifer in 1886. These withdrawals are responsible for an almost...
Reconnaissance water sampling for radium-226 in central and northern Florida, December 1974-March 1976
G. A. Irwin, C. B. Hutchinson
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-103
Analyses of 115 water samples collected from December 1974 through March 1976 in eight Florida Counties indicated that 22 samples (19 percent) had radium-226 activities equal to or in excess of 3 piC/liter (picocuries per liter), the concentration limit recommended for drinking water by the U.S. Public Health Service. The...
Ground-water quality in the Davie Landfill, Broward County, Florida
H. C. Mattraw Jr.
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-56
Ground-water adjacent to a disposal pond for septic tank sludge, oil, and grease at the Davie landfill, Broward County, Florida was tested for a variety of ground-water contaminants. Three wells adjacent to the disposal pond yielded water rich in nutrients, organic carbon and many other chemical constituents. Total coliform bacteria...
Statistical summaries of Indiana streamflow data
R.G. Horner
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 75-35
Complete statistical analyses are presented in tabular form for all gaging stations in Indiana, regardless of length of record. Each station analysis includes lowest and highest mean daily discharges, flow duration, statistics on normal monthly means, statistics on normal annual means, statistics on log monthly means, statistics on log annual...
Mathematical model of the West Bolsa Ground-water Basin, San Benito County, California
Robert E. Faye
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-71
Simulation of the West Bolsa ground-water basin hydrology in California had provided values of basin recharge and discharge and nodally distributed values of transmissivity and storage coefficient. Average net recharge from April 1945 to March 1969 was 6.2 cubic feet per second and occurred as subsurace recharge and infiltration of...
Preliminary report on water availability in the lower Ship Creek basin, Anchorage, Alaska : with special reference to the fish hatchery on Fort Richardson and a proposed fish-hatchery site near the Elmendorf Air Force base power-plant
Geoffrey W. Freethey
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 75-48
The availability of surface water and shallow ground water in the lower Ship Creek basin, Anchorage, Alaska, was examined using 28 years of streamflow records and well logs. Streamflow gains and losses were estimated from 23 seepage investigations made since May 1957. A contour map of the top of the...
A technique for estimating the time of travel of water in Indiana streams
Stephen E. Eikenberry, Leroy G. Davis
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-9
Estimates of the traveltime of waterborne particles in streams is important for pollution studies and in the event of spills of contaminants. This report provides data for the 16 Indiana streams on which time-of-travel information has been obtained and a means for estimating the velocity of any naturally flowing stream...
Water levels in artesian and nonartesian aquifers of Florida, 1973-74
Henry G. Healy
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-101
Based on measurements of water level in 675 wells selected from a network of about 1,300 observation wells, ground-water levels during May 1973 - May 1974 declined from 2 to 4 feet in the Floridan aquifer through most of north and central peninsular Florida. Hydrographs of 55 wells show the...
Dissolved solids, hardness, and orthophosphate of surface-water runoff in the Northwest Florida Water Management District
J.E. Earle
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-16
This atlas consists of three maps that show the general distribution of dissolved solids, hardness, and orthophosphate in the streams and lakes within the Northwest Florida Water Management District. The atlas was prepared in cooperation with the Water Management District to provide pertinent water-quality information relating to the objectives of...
Sediment discharge from highway cut-slopes in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California, 1972-74
Carl G. Kroll
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-19
Streamflow and fluvial-sediment discharge data were collected at selected streams and highway gutters in the Lake Tahoe basin to determine the extent of erosion from highway cuts and to attempt to evaluate the effects of various land-treatment practices to reduce erosion.Estimate of long-term annual total-sediment discharge from six streams into...
Hydrologic relations between lakes and aquifers in a recharge area near Orlando, Florida
William F. Lichtler, G.H. Hughes, F. L. Pfischner
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-65
The three lakes investigated in Orange County, Florida, gain water from adjoining water-table aquifer and lose water to Floridan aquifer by downward leakage. Net seepage (net exchange of water between lake and aquifers) can be estimated by equation S = AX + BY, where S is net seepage, X represents...
Reaeration-coefficient measurements of 10 small streams in Wisconsin using radioactive tracers : with a section on the energy-dissipation model
R. Stephen Grant
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-96
Reaeration-rate coefficients were measured for 10 small streams in Wisconsin using the radioactive-tracer method. The coefficients ranged from 2.06 to 55.2 per day (base e at 25 degrees Celsius). Stream discharges ranged from 0.3 to 37.0 cubic feet per second, most discharges being less than 10 cubic feet per second....
Land-surface subsidence in the area of Moses Lake near Texas City, Texas
R.K. Gabrysch, C.W. Bonnet
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-32
Removal of water, oil, and gas from the subsurface in Harris and Galveston Counties has caused declines in fluid pressures, which in turn have resulted in subsidence of the land surface. Subsidence of the land surface at Moses Lake in due principally to the removal of ground water in adjacent...
Sediment discharge from an area of highway construction, Applemans Run basin, Columbia County, Pennsylvania
David A. Eckhardt
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-111
The effects of highway construction on stream sediment loads were studied in Applemans Run basin, Columbia County, Pa., from October 1971 to May 1974. During the investigations, about 5,200 tons of suspended-sediment were discharged from the basin. Of this amount, about 2,700 tons, or about half the total sediment discharge,...
