Ground-water resources and geology of northern and central Johnson County, Wyoming
Harold A. Whitcomb, T. Ray Cummings, Richard A. McCullough
1966, Water Supply Paper 1806
Northern and central Johnson County, Wyo., is an area of about 2,600 square miles that lies principally in the western part of the Powder River structural basin but also includes the east flank of the Bighorn Mountains. Sedimentary rocks exposed range in age from Cambrian to Recent and have an...
Salinity of the ground water in western Pinal County, Arizona
Lester Ray Kister, W. F. Hardt
1966, Water Supply Paper 1819-E
The chemical quality of the ground water in western Pinal County is nonuniform areally and stratigraphically. The main areas of highly mineralized water are near Casa Grande and near Coolidge. Striking differences have been noted in the quality of water from different depths in the same well. Water from one...
Salt-water encroachment in southern Nassau and southeastern Queens Counties, Long Island, New York
N.J. Lusczynski, Wolfgang V. Swarzenski
1966, Water Supply Paper 1613-F
Test drilling, extraction of water from cores, electric logging, water sampling, and water-level measurements from 1958 to 1961 provided a suitable basis for a substantial refinement in the definition of the positions, chloride concentrations, and rates of movement of salty water in the intermediate and deep deposits of southern Nassau...
Arizona Water
John William Harshbarger, D.D. Lewis, H.E. Skibitzke, W. L. Heckler, L. R. Kister, H. L. Revised by Baldwin
1966, Water Supply Paper 1648
Reservoirs in the United States
R.O.R. Martin, Ronald L. Hanson
1966, Water Supply Paper 1838
This report summarizes the storage capacities and related data of reservoirs and controlled natural lakes for the contermimous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Data are given for all storage facilities having a usable capacity of 5,000 acre-feet or more and completed or under construction as...
Fluvial sediment in the little Arkansas River basin, Kansas
C.D. Albert, G.J. Stramel
1966, Water Supply Paper 1798-B
Characteristics and transport of sediment in the Little Arkansas River basin in south-central Kansas were studied to determine if the water from the river could be used as a supplemental source for municipal supply or would provide adequate recharge to aquifers that are sources of municipal and agricultural water supplies....
Water resources of Fort Huachuca Military Reservation, southeastern Arizona
S. G. Brown, E. S. Davidson, L. R. Kister, B. W. Thomsen
1966, Water Supply Paper 1819-D
The Fort Huachuca Military Reservation, on the northeast flank of the Huachuca Mountains, is in the southern part of the San Pedro River drainage in the Basin and Range physiographic province in Arizona. The main sources of water available in the reservation area are ground water stored in two unconsolidated...
Quality of surface waters for irrigation, Western States, 1962
S. K. Love
1966, Water Supply Paper 1946
Velocity-head coefficients in open channels
Harry Hulsing, Winchell Smith, Ernest D. Cobb
1966, Water Supply Paper 1869-C
Ground-water resources of Sheridan County, Wyoming
Marlin E. Lowry, T. Ray Cummings
1966, Water Supply Paper 1807
Sheridan County is in the north-central part of Wyoming and is an area of about 2,500 square miles. The western part of the county is in the Bighorn Mountains, and the eastern part is in the Powder River structural basin. Principal streams are the Powder and Tongue Rivers, which are...
Special sediment investigations Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri, 1961-63
Cloyd H. Scott, Howard D. Stephens
1966, Water Supply Paper 1819-J
Four sets of comprehensive hydraulic and sediment data were obtained during 1961-63 for the Mississippi River at St. Louis at ranges of mean velocity from 3.3 to 5.6 feet per second, of mean depth from 22 to 37 feet, of width from 1,570 to 1,670 feet, of mean water-surface slope...
Chemical composition of rainfall, eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia
Arlo W. Gambell, Donald W. Fisher
1966, Water Supply Paper 1535-K
No abstract available....
Availability of ground water upper Pawcatuck River basin Rhode Island
William Burrows Allen, Glenn Walter Hahn, Richard A. Brackley
1966, Water Supply Paper 1821
The upper Pawcatuck River basin is a 70-square-mile area in southcentral Rhode Island consisting of broad, rolling hills and narrow valleys in the north and fiat-floored plains in the south. It is drained by the Pawcatuck River and its two major tributaries, the Usquepaug-Queen River and the Chipuxet River. Analysis...
Bibliography of hydrology of the United States 1963
J.R. Randolph, Ruth G. Deike
1966, Water Supply Paper 1863
Magnitude and frequency of floods in the United States: Part 9. Colorado River Basin
James L. Patterson, William P. Somers
1966, Water Supply Paper 1683
This report outlines methods by which the magnitude and frequency of expected floods of any recurrence interval from 1.1 to 50 years can be determined at most points in the Colorado River basin.Composite frequency curves were drawn showing the relation of the mean annual flood to floods having recurrence intervals...
Geology and water resources of Winnebago County, Wisconsin
Perry C. Olcott
1966, Water Supply Paper 1814
Sources or water in Winnebago County include surface water from the Fox and Wolf Rivers and their associated lakes, and ground water from sandstone, dolomite, and sand and gravel deposits. Surface water is hard and generally requires treatment, but is then suitable for municipal and most industrial uses. Pollution is...
The occurrence, chemical quality and use of ground water in the Tabulbah area, Tunisia
L.C. Dutcher, H. E. Thomas
1966, Water Supply Paper 1757-E
Hydrology of the cavernous limestones of the Mammoth Cave area, Kentucky
Richmond F. Brown
1966, Water Supply Paper 1837
The Mammoth Cave National Park in central Kentucky offers a unique opportunity to study the occurrence of ground water in limestone under natural conditions. Ground water occurs as perched and semiperched bodies in alternate sandstone, shale, and limestone formations and under water-table conditions at the approximate level of the Green...
Water in the Humboldt River Valley near Winnemucca, Nevada
Philip M. Cohen
1966, Water Supply Paper 1816
Most of the work of the interagency Humboldt River Research Project in the Winnemucca reach of the Humboldt River valley has been completed. More than a dozen State and Federal agencies and several private organizations and individuals participated in the study. The major objective of the project, which began in...
Magnitude and frequency of floods in the United States: Part 6-A. Missouri River basin above Sioux City, Iowa
James L. Patterson
1966, Water Supply Paper 1679
No abstract available....
Induced recharge of an artesian glacial-drift aquifer at Kalamazoo, Michigan
J.E. Reed, Morris Deutsch, S.W. Wiitala
1966, Water Supply Paper 1594-D
As part of a program for managing its ground-water supply, the city of Kalamazoo has constructed induced-recharge facilities at the sites of several of its well fields. To determine the benefits of induced recharge in a water-management program, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the city, conducted a series...
Ground water in Huerfano County, Colorado
Thad Gerald McLaughlin
1966, Water Supply Paper 1805
Water-quality characteristics of New Jersey streams
Peter W. Anderson, John R. George
1966, Water Supply Paper 1819-G
No abstract available....
Reconnaissance of the geology and ground-water resources in the Aurora area, St. Louis county, Minnesota
Robert W. Maclay
1966, Water Supply Paper 1809-U
The Aurora area is a glaciated upland of drift-mantled slopes, channels, swamps, and glacial-lake plains. It covers about 24 square miles of the eastern part of the Mesabi Iron Range in northeastern Minnesota. A deep narrow channel along the Embarrass River, the principal outlet of a former large glacial lake...
Hydrology of the alluvial deposits in the Ohio River valley in Kentucky
John T. Gallaher, William Evans Price
1966, Water Supply Paper 1818
