Heat flow and near-surface radioactivity in the Australian continental crust
J.H. Sass, J.C. Jaeger, Robert J. Munroe
1976, Open-File Report 76-250
Heat-flow data have been obtained at 44 sites in various parts of Australia. These include seven sites from the old (~ 2500 m.y.) Precambrian shield of Western Australia, seventeen from the younger (~ 600- 2000 m.y.) Precambrian rocks of South Australia, the Northern Territory, and Queensland, and twenty within the...
Flood-frequency analysis for small natural streams in Georgia
Harold G. Golden, McGlone Price
1976, Open-File Report 76-511
Flood information from 104 project basins (0.1 to 20 square miles) and data available from 170 larger basins (20 to 1,500 square miles) are analyzed to provide planners and designers with relations for estimating the magnitude and frequency of flood-peak discharges on small natural streams in Georgia. More than 90...
Heat-flow data from southeastern Oregon
J.H. Sass, S.P. Galanis Jr., R. J. Munroe, T. C. Urban
1976, Open-File Report 76-217
Artificial recharge through a well in fissured carbonate rock, west St. Paul, Minnesota
Harold O. Reeder, Warren W. Wood, G. G. Ehrlich, Ren Jen Sun
1976, Water Supply Paper 2004
The Prairie du Chien Group was injected with 2,754,000 gallons (368,200 cubic feet), or 10,430 cubic metres, of municipally treated water at about 100 gallons per minute (13.4 cubic feet per minute), or 6.3 litres per second, for 20 days. The injection-pipe system was designed to utilize pipe friction rather...
Hydrologic evaluation of salinity control and reclamation projects in the Indus Plain, Pakistan--A summary
Maurice John Mundorff, P.H. Carrigan Jr., T.D. Steele, A. D. Randall
1976, Water Supply Paper 1608-Q
This report summarizes the observations and findings of a team of four specialists from the U.S. Geological Survey assigned to Pakistan under the auspices of the U.S. Agency for International Development during May to August 1972 for a hydrologic evaluation of Salinity Control and Reclamation Projects in the Indus Plain...
Radioactive mineral springs in Delta County, Colorado
Robert A. Cadigan, John N. Rosholt, J. Karen Felmlee
1976, Open-File Report 76-223
The system of springs in Delta County, Colo., contains geochemical clues to the nature and location of buried uranium-mineralized rock. The springs, which occur along the Gunnison River and a principal tributary between Delta and Paonia, are regarded as evidence of a still-functioning hydrothermal system. Associated with the springs are...
Sediment discharge in the Upper Arroyo Grande and Santa Rita Creek basins, San Luis Obispo County, California
J. M. Knott
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-64
Sediment data collected in the upper Arroyo Grande and Santa Rita Creek basins, San Luis Obispo County, California, during the 1968-73 water years were analyzed to determine total sediment discharge at four stations in the basins. Water discharge and total sediment discharge at these stations, representative of the 1943-72 period,...
Data for calibrating unsteady-flow sediment-transport models, East Fork River, Wyoming, 1975
Holly A. Mahoney, Edmund D. Andrews, William W. Emmett, Luna Bergere Leopold, Robert H. Meade, Robert M. Myrick, Carl F. Nordin
1976, Open-File Report 76-22
In 1975, data to calibrate a one-dimensional unsteady-flow and sediment-transport routing model were collected on a reach of the East Fork River of western Wyoming. The reach, 3.1 miles (5 kilometers) in length, wan immediately upstream from a previously established bedload sampling station. Nineteen channel cross sections were sounded at...
Water-quality study of a reach of the Merced River in Yosemite National Park and vicinity, California, April 1973 through September 1974
Ray J. Hoffman, Alex E. Dong, Gail L. Keeter
1976, Open-File Report 76-326
A 25-mile reach of the Merced River was studied to provide the U.S. National Park Service with water-quality data prior to the operation of a new sewage treatment plant. Water-quality variables investigated were discharge, temperature, major chemical constituents, selected trace metals, specific conductance, suspended sediment, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, pH ,...
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...
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....
Computer applications for step-backwater and floodway analyses
James O. Shearman
1976, Open-File Report 76-499
A computer program which can be used to computer water-surface profiles for gradually varied, subcritical flow is described. Profiles are computed by the standard step-backwater method. Water-surface profiles may be obtained for both existing stream conditions and for stream conditions as modified by encroachment. The user may specify encroachment patterns...
Magnitude and frequency of floods in Nebraska
Emil W. Beckman
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-109
Estimates of flood characteristics with recurrence intervals up to 100 years can be obtained at most sites in Nebraska by use of techniques presented in this report. Instructions, equations, and graphs are presented to aid the design engineer in estimating the magnitude and frequency of floods. For natural-flow streams, the estimating...
Project development and data programs for assessing the quality of the Willamette River, Oregon
David A. Rickert, Walter G. Hines, Stuart W. McKenzie
1976, Circular 715-C
For nearly half a century the Willamette River in Oregon experienced severe dissolved-oxygen problems related to large loads of organically rich waste waters from industries and municipalities. Since the mid-1950 's dissolved oxygen quality has gradually improved owing to low-flow augmentation, the achievement of basinwide secondary treatment, and the use...
Physical, chemical, and biological aspects of subsurface organic waste injection near Wilmington, North Carolina
J.A. Leenheer, Ronald L. Malcolm, W.R. White
1976, Professional Paper 987
From May 1968 to December 1972, an industrial organic waste was injected at rates of 100 to 200 gallons per minute (6.3 to 12.6 litres per second) into a sand, gravel, and limestone aquifer of Late Cretaceous age by Hercules Inc. located near Wilmington, North Carolina. This report presents both...
Low-flow characteristics of streams on the Kitsap Peninsula and selected adjacent islands, Washington
J. E. Cummans
1976, Open-File Report 76-704
Low-flow-frequency data are tabulated for 90 streamflow sites on the Kitsap Peninsula and adjacent islands, Washington. Also listed are data for 56 additional sites which have insufficient measurements for frequency analysis but which have been observed having no flow at least once during the low-flow period. The streams drain relatively...
A model for calculating effects of liquid waste disposal in deep saline aquifer
Inc. Intercomp Resource Development and Engineering
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-61
Injection of liquid industrial wastes into confined underground saline aquifers can offer a good disposal alternative from both environmental and economic considerations. One of the needs in choosing from among several disposal alternatives is a means of evaluating the influence such an injection will have on the aquifer system. This...
Finite difference model for aquifer simulation in two dimensions with results of numerical experiments
Peter C. Trescott, George Francis Pinder, S. P. Larson
1976, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations 07-C1
The model will simulate ground-water flow in an artesian aquifer, a water-table aquifer, or a combined artesian and water-table aquifer. The aquifer may be heterogeneous and anisotropic and have irregular boundaries. The source term in the flow equation may include well discharge, constant recharge, leakage from confining beds in which...
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...
Hydrology and sedimentation of Bixler Run Basin, central Pennsylvania
Lloyd A. Reed
1976, Water Supply Paper 1798-N
Rainfall, streamflow, stream chemical, and sediment discharge data were collected from Bixler Run near Loysville, Pa., during the period from February 1954 to September 1969 as part of a project to evaluate sediment discharge from an agricultural area in which soil-conservation techniques were being adopted at a moderate rate. The...
Limnological data for the major streams in Chester County, Pennsylvania
Bruce W. Lium
1976, Report
Limnological data on major streams in Chester County, Pennsylvania are tabulated to provide a base line as to the present stream conditions. As land-use patterns change and further urbanization takes place, it is anticipated that these data will serve as a basis for comparison of conditions in the future. The...
Computation of unsteady flows in rivers and estuaries by the method of characteristics
Chintu Lai, C. A. Onions
1976, Report
This report is a program documentation to the latest revision (1975) of the unsteady open-channel flow simulation model by the method of characteristics, Version 13 in the program series, which employs a multiple-reach scheme treating each subreach as a prismatic shape. A long waterway of variable cross section, properties and...
Limnological data report for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection: U.S. Geological Survey cooperative lake studies project
Derrill J. Cowing, Matthew Scott
1976, Report
The report contains physical, chemical, and biological information collected on 43 Maine lakes during the 1975 calendar year. Methods for the collection and analysis of the hydrologic data are outlined.Physical characteristics listed include drainage area, surface area, surface elevation, volume, maximum depth, mean depth, epilimnion depth, epilimnion volume, and length...
A method for estimating magnitude and frequency of floods in Montana
M. V. Johnson, R. J. Omang
1976, Open-File Report 75-650
This report provides methods for estimating flood characteristics at most natural flow sites on rural streams in Montana. It also contains significant flood data and related information for many gaged sites on Montana streams. Frequency curves are provided for 442 gaged sites as defined by log-Pearson Type III analysis. To...
Chemical and physical data for the Flaming Gorge Reservation area, Utah and Wyoming, 1973-75
E.L. Bolke
1976, Utah Basic-Data Release 27
This report presents the basic data that were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey during a study of the chemical quality of water in Flaming Gorge Reservoir. An interpretive report will follow. The basic data were collected from the reservoir during the period August 1973 to October 1975. The reservoir...
