Descriptions and chemical analyses for selected wells in the Tehama-Colusa Canal Service Area, Sacramento Valley, California
Ronald P. Fogelman
1975, Report
The Tehama-Colusa Canal Service Area is in the northwestern part of the Sacramento Valley, in parts of Yolo, Colusa, Glenn, and Tehama Counties. The area includes 450 square miles (1,160 square kilometres). The boundaries are: West, the eastern slopes of the Coast Ranges; north, Elder Creek; northeast, the Sacramento River...
Water resources of the Root River watershed, southeastern Minnesota
W.L. Broussard, D.F. Farrell, H. W. Anderson Jr., P.E. Felsheim
1975, Hydrologic Atlas 548
This Hydrologic Atlas is one of a series describing the 39 watersheds in Minnesota. The Root River watershed includes Houston, Winona, and parts of the surrounding counties. The 2 ,570 square miles in the watershed varies from gently rolling prairie in the west to an area of plateaus separated by...
Evaluation of recharge potential near Indio, California
Joe A. Moreland
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 74-33
The U.S. Geological Survey evaluated the feasibility of utilizing 8,000 acre-feet (9.9 cubic hectometres) of sewage effluent per year to recharge the ground water in a 25-square mile (65-square kilometre) area northwest of Indio, Calif. The depth to water in the area studied ranged from about 50 feet (15 metres)...
Flood of April 1975 at Williamston, Michigan
R. L. Knutilla, L.A. Swallow
1975, Open-File Report 75-289
On April 18 between 5 p.m. and 12 p.m. the city of Williamston experienced an intense rain storm that caused the Red Cedar River and the many small streams in the area to overflow their banks and resulted in the most devastating flood since at least 1904. Local officials estimated...
Flood-prone areas of Gadsden County, Florida
Roger P. Rumenik, C.A. Pascale, D.F. Tucker
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 75-31
Gadsden County is an area of 508 square miles in northwest Florida. The topography of the county is diverse and ranges in altitude from about 50 to 300 feet above mean sea level. Well drained steep hillsides and narrow ridgetops give way to broad, nearly level, poorly drained plateaus which...
Interim report on petroleum resource potential and geologic hazards in the outer continental shelf of the Gulf of Alaska Tertiary province
George Plafker, Terry R. Bruns, Robert A. Page
1975, Open-File Report 75-592
The potential for discovering large accumulations of petroleum on the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Alaska Tertiary Province cannot be evaluated with much confidence at present because of the inadequacies of the available offshore geological and geophysical data. The 22 deep test wells that have been drilled since...
Low-flow Characteristics of Eau Claire River Basin near Antigo, Wisconsin
B. K. Holmstrom
1975, Open-File Report 75-336
This report presents low-flow characteristics at six sites on streams in the Eau Claire River basin near Antigo, Wis., where applications for irrigation permits were made. The low-flow characteristics presented are the annual minimum 7-day mean flows at the 2-year recurrence interval and 10-year recurrence interval. A seepage run made...
Assessment of geothermal resources of the United States, 1975
David L. Williams
Donald Edward White, editor(s)
1975, Circular 726
This assessment of geothermal resources of the United States consists of two major parts: (1) estimates of total heat in the ground to a depth of 10 km and (2) estimates of the part of this total heat that is recoverable with present technology, regardless of price. No attempt has...
Digital-simulation and projection of water-level declines in basalt aquifers of the Odessa-Lind area, east-central Washington
J. E. Luzier, James A. Skrivan
1975, Water Supply Paper 2036
A digital computer program using finite-difference techniques simulates an intensively pumped, multilayered basalt-aquifer system near Odessa. The aquifers now developed are in the upper 1,000 feet of a regionally extensive series of southwesterly dipping basalt flows of the Columbia River Group. Most of the aquifers are confined. Those in the...
Geologic map and coal resources of the White Butte NE quadrangle, Stark and Hettinger Counties, North Dakota
Kenneth S. Soward
1975, Coal Map 72
The White Butte NE, NW, East, and West quadrangles, were mapped as part of the U.S. Geological Survey program of classifying Federal lands and to make a systemic study and evaluation of the coal resources. Economic resources in the White Butte quadrangles consist of coal, oil and gas, sodium chloride, limestone,...
Geologic map and coal resources of the White Butte East quadrangle, Hettinger County, North Dakota
Kenneth S. Soward
1975, Coal Map 70
No abstract available....
Digital models of a glacial outwash aquifer in the Pearl-Sallie Lakes area, west-central Minnesota
S. P. Larson, Mark S. McBride, R. J. Wolf
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 75-40
-p^e need for study of lake-ground-water interchange has been accentuated by eutrophication of lakes in the Pearl-Sallie Lakes area of west-central Minnesota. The local ground-water flow system is dominated by an outwash aquifer that is sandwiched between two till layers in the western part of the area and exposed at...
Preliminary bedrock geologic map of the East Brookfield quadrangle, Worcester County, Massachusetts
John S. Pomeroy
1975, Open-File Report 75-530
No abstract available....
Sediment characteristics of streams in the eastern Piedmont and western Coastal Plain regions of North Carolina
Clyde E. Simmons
1975, Open-File Report 75-291
The sediment-transport characteristics of streams were determined in a 6,000-square-mile (15,500-square-kilometre) area of the Coastal Plain and Piedmont regions of eastern North Carolina during 1969-73. The study covered all or parts of 21 counties and included data for 28 sediment-sampling stations located in parts of 4 major river basins, the...
Preliminary geologic map of east half of Vernal 1° by 2° quadrangle, Colorado
Ogden Tweto
1975, Open-File Report 75-588
No abstract available....
The geologic story of Arches National Park
Stanley William Lohman
1975, Bulletin 1393
According to former Superintendent Bates Wilson (1956), Prof. Lawrence M. Gould, of the University of Michigan, was the first to recognize the geologic and scenic values of the Arches area in eastern Utah and to urge its creation as a national monument. Mrs. Faun McConkie Tanner told me that Professor...
Hydrology of three sinkhole basins in southwestern Seminole County, Florida
Warren Anderson, G.H. Hughes
1975, Open-File Report 75-27
The southwestern part of Seminole County--in east-central Florida-is characterized by sinkholes formed by the subsidence of surficial deposits into solution cavities in the underlying limestone deposits. The area includes three sinkhole basins created by such subsidence: Cranes Roost, Palm Springs, and Grace Lake.Cranes Roost basin (drainage area, 5.02 square miles)...
Hydrology for land-use planning: The Hillside area, Anchorage, Alaska
Larry L. Dearborn, William W. Barnwell
1975, Open-File Report 75-105
Rapid residential growth of the Hillside area, Anchorage, Alaska, may cause depletion of aquifers and a change in quality of water resources as a result of extensive development of small-lot tracts. Ground-water yields are low and may be locally inadequate for single family requirements where wells produce from bedrock in...
A general outline of the water resources of the Toppenish Creek basin, Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington
Dean O. Gregg, Leslie Bostwick Laird
1975, Open-File Report 75-19
Increasing demands for water supplies, plans for irrigating new lands, proposals to divert water from the Yakima River by users downstream from the reservation, and ground-water problems have made an accounting of the overall availability of water very important to water management on the reservation. This report, which broadly outlines...
Floods in east Baton Rouge Parish and adjacent areas, Louisiana, for the period 1953-74
Alfred S. Lowe
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 74-44
Flood damage resulting from development in flood plains in East Baton Rouge Parish, La., and adjacent areas has caused economic losses, making governmental officials and planners aware of the need for flood maps. Based on information in private and official files, flood maps have been prepared for 7 1/2-minute topographic...
Sediments, structural framework, petroleum potential, environmental conditions, and operational considerations of the United States South Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1975, Open-File Report 75-411
The area designated for possible oil and gas lease sale in Bureau of Land Management memorandum 3310 #43 (722) and referred to therein as part of the United States South Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) contains about 98,000 square kilometres of the continental margin seaward of the 3 mile offshore...
Sediments, structural framework, petroleum potential, environmental conditions, and operational considerations of the United States North Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1975, Open-File Report 75-353
The area designated for possible oil and gas lease sale as modified from BLM memorandum 3310 #42 (722) and referred to therein as the North Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) contains about 58,300 sq km of shelf beneath water depths of less than 200 m and lies chiefly within the...
Time-of-travel study: Lake Erie-Niagara River basins
Bernard Dunn
1975, Open-File Report 66-32
Time of travel was determined for 80.54 stream miles on Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Ellicott, Murder, and Tonawanda Creeks; Cazenovia Creek basin; and the Buffalo River. Two or three runs at different discharge rates were made in 13 subreaches on the 7 streams except for a subreach of Ellicott ·creek. In the Ellicott Creek subreach from...
A predictive computer model of the Lower Cretaceous aquifer, Franklin area, southeastern Virginia
O. J. Cosner
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 51-74
The Lower Cretaceous aquifer of Southeastern Virginia is simulated in this study. The aquifer is only a few feet thick along the Fall Line, where it is near or at the surface, but it thickens and dips to the east. At Franklin where the top of the aquifer is 220...
Stream reconnaissance for nutrients and other water-quality parameters, Greater Pittsburgh Region, Pennsylvania
Robert M. Beall
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 50-74
Eighty-five stream sites in and near the six-county Greater Pittsburgh Region were sampled in mid-June 1971 in mid-October 1972. Data are reported for 89 sites because 4 substitute sites were sampled in the second period. Drainage areas of the basins sampled ranged from 4.1 to 19,5000 square miles (10.6 to...
