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 ,...
Water resources data for New Mexico, water year 1975
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1976, Water Data Report NM-75-1
Water resources data for the 1975 water year for New Mexico consist of records of discharge and water quality of streams; stage, contents and water quality of lakes and reservoirs; and water levels and water quality in wells and springs. This report contains discharge records for 201 gaging stations; stage...
Water resources data for Connecticut, water year 1975
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1976, Water Data Report CT-75-1
Water resources data for the 1975 water year for Connecticut consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; contents and water quality of lakes and reservoirs; and water levels and water quality of ground water. This report contains discharge records for 56 gaging stations; tidal volume for...
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....
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...
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...
Availability of ground water near Carmel, Hamilton County, Indiana
D. C. Gillies
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-46
A study of the hydraulic characteristics of the unconsolidated glacial deposits near the city of Carmel in central Indiana shows that 21.3 million gallons per day (933 litres per second) of additional water could be withdrawn from the aquifer for an indefinite period of time . This pumpage is approximately...
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...
Water resources data for Georgia, water year 1975
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1976, Water Data Report GA-75-1
Water resources data for the 1975 water year for Georgia consists of records of stage, discharge, · and water quality of streams; stage and contents of lakes and reservoirs. This report contains discharge records for 91 gaging stations; stage only records for one gaging station; stage and contents for 16...
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...
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,...
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...
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
Geohydrology of the Anza-Terwilliger area, Riverside County, California
W. R. Moyle Jr.
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-10
The Anza-Terwilliger area consists of about 96 square miles (24-9 square kilometres) in the upper parts of the Santa Margarita River and Coyote Creek drainage basins in Riverside County, Calif., about 90 miles (145 kilometres) southeast of Los Angeles. This report deals with geology, steady state and transient state of...
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...
History of irrigation and characteristics of streamflow in Nebraska, part of the North and South Platte River basins
F. Butler Shaffer
1976, Open-File Report 76-167
More than 80 years of streamflow records have been collected in Nebraska. Such records are essential in planning water developments and managing water resources. Their value can be enhanced if the records are analyzed statistically. This report presents statistics on the flow of streams in the North and South Platte...
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...
Water resources of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Oregon
J. H. Robison, Antonius Laenen
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-26
Water-resources data for the 1,000-square-mile Warm Springs Indian Reservation in north-central Oregon were obtained and evaluated. The area is bounded on the west by the crest of the Cascade Range and on the south and east by the Metolius and Deschutes Rivers. The mountainous western part is underlain by young...
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...
Selected hydrologic data, Clarion River and Redbank Creek basins, northwestern Pennsylvania: an interim report
Harry E. Koester, Joseph B. Lescinsky
1976, Open-File Report 76-445
This report presents basic hydrologic data collected for part of a water-resources study and supplements an interpretive report which will be published separately. The report summarizes discharge data from 140 stream collection sites, contains tables of about 800 chemical analyses from 164 stream sites and 107 analyses from 91 abandoned...
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...
Time-of-travel studies, Susquehanna River, Binghamton, New York, to Clarks Ferry, Pennsylvania
C.D. Kauffman, J.T. Armbruster, Andrew Voytik
1976, Open-File Report 76-247
Results of time-of-travel studies are presented in both tabular and graphical form for several flow conditions in the Susquehanna River from Binghamton, N.Y., to Clarks Ferry, Pa. This reach is approximately 240 miles (386 kilometres) long, measured along the center of the channel, and has a drainage area of about...
Water resources of the Bighorn basin, northwestern Wyoming
Marlin E. Lowry, H. W. Lowham, Gregory C. Lines
1976, Hydrologic Atlas 512
This 2-sheet map report includes the part of the Bighorn Basin and adjacent mountains in northwestern Wyoming. Water-bearing properties of the geologic units are summarized. The hydrogeologic map illustrates the distribution of wells in the different units and gives basic data on the yields of wells, depth of wells, depth...
Technical manual for estimating low-flow frequency characteristics of streams in the Susquehanna River basin
Jeffrey T. Armbruster
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-51
This report presents procedures for estimating low-flow frequency characteristics for streams in the Susquehanna River basin. The techniques can be used at ungaged sites as well as sites where insufficient data are available to make a reliable estimate. Streams have been divided intp two types--major and minor. Major streams are...
