System requirements specification for the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water Information System II
Sharon B. Mathey, editor(s)
1991, Open-File Report 91-525
The U.S. Geological Survey's Water Resources Division is designing and developing a new computer software system for processing and storing hydrologic data. This system, the National Water Information System (NWIS-II) will replace the current water-data and information systems: the National Water Data Storage and Retrieval System (WATSTORE), the National Water...
Reconnaissance investigation of water quality, bottom sediment, and biota associated with irrigation drainage in the Klamath Basin, California and Oregon, 1988-89
S. K. Sorenson, S.E. Schwarzbach
1991, Water-Resources Investigations Report 90-4203
No abstract available....
Hydrology and potential effects of mining in the Quitchupah and Pines coal-lease tracts, central Utah
Susan A. Thiros, G. E. Cordy
1991, Water-Resources Investigations Report 90-4084
Bydrologic data were collected for the proposed Quitchupah and Pines coal-lease tracts in Sevier and Bnery Counties, Utah, in order to describe the hydrology and potential effects of mining on the hydrologic system. The Quitchupah and Pines coal-lease tracts are near the Southern Utah Fuel Company coal mine in an...
Delineation of recharge areas for selected wells in the St. Peter-Prairie du Chien-Jordan Aquifer, Rochester, Minnesota
G. N. Delin, James Edward Almendinger
1991, Open-File Report 90-397
Accurate delineation of recharge areas for wells is an important requisite to protecting ground-water quality. Zones of transport and zones of contribution are two types of recharge areas that can be delineated. Analytical-calculation, numerical-modeling, and hydrogeologic-mapping methods were used to delineate recharge areas for two high-capacity (greater than about 200...
Hydrologic monitoring in the area of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Mississippi-Alabama, fiscal year 1989
Fred Morris III
1991, Open-File Report 91-520
U.S .Geological Survey toxic substance hydrology program: Proceedings of the technical meeting, Monterey, California, March 11-15, 1991
D. A. Aronson
G.E. Mallard, editor(s)
1991, Water-Resources Investigations Report 91-4034
No abstract available. ...
Time-courses in the retention of food material in the bivalves Potamocorbula amurensis and Macoma balthica significance to the absorption of carbon and chromium
Alan W. Decho, Samuel N. Luoma
1991, Marine Ecology Progress Series (78) 303-314
Time courses for ingestion, retention and release via feces of microbial food was investigated using 2 bivalves with different feeding strategies, Potamocorbula amurensis and Macoma balthica. The results showed 2 pathways for the uptake of food material in these clams. The first is represented by an initial label pulse in the feces. The...
A modeling assessment of the thermal regime for an urban sport fishery
John M. Bartholow
1991, Environmental Management (15) 833-845
Water temperature is almost certainly a limiting factor in the maintenance of a self-sustaining rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss, formerly Salmo gairdneri) and brown trout (Salmo trutta) fishery in the lower reaches of the Cache la Poudre River near Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Irrigation diversions dewater portions of the river, but...
Global warming and prairie wetlands: potential consequences for waterfowl habitat
Karen A. Poiani, W. Carter Johnson
1991, BioScience (41) 611-618
The accumulation of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere is expected to warm the earth's climate at an unprecedented rate (Ramanathan 1988, Schneider 1989). If the climate models are correct, within 100 years the earth will not only be warmer than it has been during the past million years, but...
Geochemistry of dissolved inorganic carbon in a Coastal Plain aquifer. 2. Modeling carbon sources, sinks, and δ13C evolution
Peter B. McMahon, Francis H. Chapelle
1991, Journal of Hydrology (127) 109-135
Stable isotope data for dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), carbonate shell material and cements, and microbial CO2 were combined with organic and inorganic chemical data from aquifer and confining-bed pore waters to construct geochemical reaction models along a flowpath in the Black Creek aquifer of South Carolina. Carbon-isotope fractionation between DIC...
Ground-penetrating radar: A tool for mapping reservoirs and lakes
C.C. Truman, L.E. Asmussen, H.D. Allison
1991, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (46) 370-373
Ground-penetrating radar was evaluated as a tool for mapping reservoir and lake bottoms and providing stage-storage information. An impulse radar was used on a 1.4-ha (3.5-acre) reservoir with 31 transects located 6.1 m (20 feet) apart. Depth of water and lateral extent of the lake bottom were accurately measured by...
Hydrologic pathways and chemical composition of runoff during snowmelt in Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA
A. Scott Denning, Jill Baron, M. Alisa Mast, Mary Arthur
1991, Water, Air, & Soil Pollution (59) 107-123
Intensive sampling of a stream draining an alpine-subalpine basin revealed that depressions in pH and acid neutralizing capacity (ANC) of surface water at the beginning of the spring snowmelt in 1987 and 1988 were not accompanied by increases in strong acid anions, and that surface waters did not become acidic...
Water-resources development and its influence on the water budget for the aquifer system in the Salinas to Patillas area
Vicente Quinones-Aponte
Fernando Gomez-Gomez, A.I. Johnson, editor(s)
1991, Conference Paper, Regional aquifer systems of the United States, aquifers of the Caribbean Islands : papers presented at AWRA International Symposium on Tropical Hydrology
Quartz dissolution in organic-rich aqueous systems
Philip C. Bennett
1991, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (55) 1781-1797
Organic electrolytes are a common component of natural waters and are known to be important in many rock-water interactions. The influence of organic electrolytes on silica mobility, quartz solubility, and quartz dissolution kinetics, however, is less well understood. While there is mounting evidence supporting the presence of an aqueous organic-silica...
Evaluation of hydraulic conductivities calculated from multi-port permeameter measurements
Steven H. Wolf, Michael A. Celia, Kathryn M. Hess
1991, Groundwater (29) 516-525
A multiport permeameter was developed for use in estimating hydraulic conductivity over intact sections of aquifer core using the core liner as the permeameter body. Six cores obtained from one borehole through the upper 9 m of a stratified glacial-outwash aquifer were used to evaluate the reliability of the permeameter....
Mechanisms controlling the transport of organic chemicals in subsurface environments
G. R. Aiken, P. D. Capel, E. T. Furlong, M. F. Hult, K. A. Thorn
1991, Book chapter, U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program---Proceedings of the technical meeting, Monterey, California, March 11-15, 1991
No abstract available....
Centrifugal techniques for measuring saturated hydraulic conductivity
John R. Nimmo, Karen A. Mello
1991, Water Resources Research (27) 1263-1269
Centrifugal force is an alternative to large pressure gradients for the measurement of low values of saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat). With a head of water above a porous medium in a centrifuge bucket, both constant-head and falling-head measurements are practical at forces up to at least 1800 times normal gravity....
Agricultural research to improve water quality
C.A. Onstad, M. R. Burkart, G.D. Bubenzer
1991, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (46) 184-188
ime courses for ingest~on, retention and release via feces of microbial food was investigatedusing 2 b~valves w~th d~fferent feeding strategies, Potamocorbula amurensis and Macomabalthica. The results showed 2 pathways for the uptake of food material in these clams. The first isrepresented by an initlal label pulse in the feces....
Extent of reaction in open systems with multiple heterogeneous reactions
John C. Friedly
1991, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (37) 687-693
The familiar batch concept of extent of reaction is reexamined for systems of reactions occurring in open systems. Because species concentrations change as a result of transport processes as well as reactions in open systems, the extent of reaction has been less useful in practice in...
Large-scale natural gradient tracer test in sand and gravel, Cape Cod, Massachusetts: 1. Experimental design and observed tracer movement
Denis R. LeBlanc, Stephen P. Garabedian, Kathryn M. Hess, Lynn W. Gelhar, Richard D. Quadri, Kenneth G. Stollenwerk, Warren W. Wood
1991, Water Resources Research (27) 895-910
A large-scale natural gradient tracer experiment was conducted on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to examine the transport and dispersion of solutes in a sand and gravel aquifer. The nonreactive tracer, bromide, and the reactive tracers, lithium and molybdate, were injected as a pulse in July 1985 and monitored in three dimensions...
Large-scale natural gradient tracer test in sand and gravel, Cape Cod, Massachusetts: 2. Analysis of spatial moments for a nonreactive tracer
Stephen P. Garabedian, Dennis R. LeBlanc, Lynn W. Gelhar, Michael A. Celia
1991, Water Resources Research (27) 911-924
A large-scale natural gradient tracer test was conducted to examine the transport of reactive and nonreactive tracers in a sand and gravel aquifer on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. As part of this test the transport of bromide, a nonreactive tracer, was monitored for about 280 m and quantified using spatial moments....
Neotectonic effects on sinuosity and channel migration, Belle Fourche River, Western South Dakota
Basil Gomez, Donna C. Marron
1991, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (16) 227-235
Short-term instability in the behaviour of a small, meandering alluvial channel is identified from the relation between sinuosity and either floodplain slope or channel slope within 17 reaches along an 81-kilometre section of the Belle Fourche River in western South Dakota. In reaches 1 to 4 and 11 to 17...
Sampling design for groundwater solute transport: Tests of methods and analysis of Cape Cod tracer test data
Debra S. Knopman, Clifford I. Voss, Stephen P. Garabedian
1991, Water Resources Research (27) 925-949
Tests of a one-dimensional sampling design methodology on measurements of bromide concentration collected during the natural gradient tracer test conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, demonstrate its efficacy for field studies of solute transport in groundwater and the utility of one-dimensional analysis. The methodology was applied...
Comment on the treatment of residual water content in “A consistent set of parametric models for the two-phase flow of immiscible fluids in the subsurface” by L. Luckner et al.
John R. Nimmo
1991, Water Resources Research (27) 661-662
Luckner et al. [1989] (hereinafter LVN) present a clear summary and generalization of popular formulations used for convenient representation of porous media fluid flow characteristics, including water content (θ) related to suction (h) and hydraulic conductivity (K) related to θ or h. One essential but problematic element in the LVN...
Hydrochemistry of the south coastal plain aquifer system of Puerto Rico and its relation to surface water recharge
Fernando Gomez-Gomez
Fernando Gomez-Gomez, Vicente Quinones-Aponte, A.I. Johnson, editor(s)
1991, Conference Paper, International Symposium on Tropical Hydrology
