Water resources of Prince William Forest Park, Virginia
G. Allan Brown
1981, Open-File Report 80-964
Prince William Forest Park is in the southern part of Prince William County, Va. Its natural beauty and nearness to Washington, D.C. have made it one of the most popular recreation areas in northern Virginia. To help the National Park Service plan the development of new facilities and effectively manage...
Hydrologic monitoring in the area of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Mississippi-Alabama
D.J. Tomaszewski
1981, Open-File Report 81-546
Ground-water potential of the glacial deposits near Logansport, Cass County, Indiana
Daniel C. Gillies
1981, Water-Resources Investigations Report 81-7
The glacial deposits underlying a 260 square-mile area near Logansport, Indiana, range in thickness from 0 to 300 feet and consist of three semiconfined sand and gravel aquifer units separated and overlain by three semiconfining till units. The ground-water development potential of the lowest of the sand and gravel aquifers...
Generalized geologic map and hydrologic properties of Potter Creek area, Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska
Henry R. Schmoll, Richard P. Emanuel
1981, Open-File Report 81-1168
Water resources data for Iowa, water year 1980
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1981, Water Data Report IA-80-1
This report was prepared by personnel of the Iowa district of the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey under the supervision of D. K. Leifeste, District Chief, and Alfred Clebsch Jr., Regional Hydrologist, Central Region. It was done in cooperation with the State of Iowa and with other agencies. This report is one...
Floods of September 16, 1975 in the Tallaboa Valley, Puerto Rico
Karl G. Johnson
1981, Open-File Report 80-1283
This report provides a record of the flood of September 16, 1975, and associated hydrologic data. These data can be used in making rational decisions in formulating effective flood-plain regulations that would minimize flood problems in the Tallaboa Valley.The Tallaboa Valley (fig. 1) lies on the southwestern coast of Puerto...
Generalized thickness of the Floridan aquifer, Southwest Florida Water Management District
R. M. Wolansky, J.M. Garbade
1981, Open-File Report 80-1288
This map report presents the thickness of the Floridan aquifer in the Southwest Florida Water Management District. The Floridan aquifer ranges in thickness from 600 feet in the northern part of the District to 2,400 feet in the southern part. It is composed chiefly of limestone and dolomite beds that...
Effects of placer mining on hydrologic systems in Alaska; status of knowledge
R. J. Madison
1981, Open-File Report 81-217
The report briefly summarizes the current state of knowledge regarding placer mining in Alaska. A review of literature indicates that nearly all of the significant information on the effects of placer mining on the hydrologic system in Alaska is referenced in available reports. The addition of sediment, as well as...
Hydrologic reconnaissance of the Beluga, Peters Creek, and Healy coal areas, Alaska
David R. Scully, Andrea P. Krumhardt, Donald R. Kernodle
1981, Water-Resources Investigations Report 81-56
The Beluga, Peters Creek, and Healy coal areas in Alaska were studied during 1975-78, with major emphasis on surface-water hydrology and water quality.In the Beluga coal area, mean annual discharge is estimated to range from 2.2 to 3.4 cubic feet per second per square mile of drainage area. The 7-day...
Drainage areas of surface water bodies of the Penobscot River basin in central Maine
Richard A. Fontaine
1981, Open-File Report 78-556-F
The report contains drainage-area values for: lakes and ponds included in the MIDAS (Maine Informational Display Analysis System) File 906-Z, streams that drain an area greater than 25 square miles, dam sites, and locations where hydrologic data are available. Supplemental information includes State and Federal location systems used to identify...
Water resources data for Utah, water year 1980
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1981, Water Data Report UT-80-1
Water resources data for the 1980 water year for Utah consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage and contents of lakes and reservoirs; and water levels and water quality of ground water. This report contains discharge records for 294 gaging stations; stage and contents for...
Hydrologic characteristics and possible effects of surface mining in the northwestern part of West Branch Antelope Creek basin, Mercer County, North Dakota
Mark E. Crawley, Douglas G. Emerson
1981, Water-Resources Investigations Report 81-79
Lignite beds and abundant discontinuous sandstone beds of the Paleocene Sentinel Butte Member of the Fort Union Formation and sand and gravel beds in the Quarternary glaciofluvial deposits (Antelope Creek aquifer) are the most important aquifers for domestic and livestock water supplies in the West Branch Antelope Creek basin. In...
Selected hydrologic relationships for Soldier Creek, northeastern Kansas
William J. Carswell Jr.
1981, Water-Resources Investigations Report 81-8
Hydrologic data from Soldier Creek basin were compared with relations from statewide data. The quantity and quality of streamflow were affected mostly by soils, slopes, and land use. Average annual precipitation during the study (196476) was 35.12 inches, or 2.3 percent greater than the long-term (1929-76) average. The average streamflow...
Patterns of groundwater salinity changes in a deep continental-oceanic transect off the southeastern Atlantic coast of the U.S.A.
F.T. Manheim, C. K. Paull
1981, Journal of Hydrology (54) 95-105
Investigations of formation-fluid salinities in a transect from western Georgia to the edge of the Blake Plateau off the coast of Georgia show surprisingly similar hydrochemical features offshore and onshore. A fresh-brackish wedge of groundwater (<25 g/kg total dissolved solids) lies beneath the shelf to a depth of ∼ 900...
Geological considerations in hazardous waste disposal
K. Cartwright, R. H. Gilkeson, T.M. Johnson
1981, Journal of Hydrology (54) 357-369
Present regulations assume that long-term isolation of hazardous wastes - including toxic chemical, biological, radioactive, flammable and explosive wastes - may be effected by disposal in landfills that have liners of very low hydraulic conductivity. In reality, total isolation of wastes in humid areas is not possible; some migration of...
Subsurface injection of liquid waste in Florida, United States of America
John Vecchioli
1981, Science of Total Environment (21) 127-136
In 1979, liquid waste was injected into the subsurface of Florida by 10 injection systems at an aggregate average rate of 165,000 m3/d. All the systems inject into carbonate rocks that contain salty water. Extensive precautions are taken in the construction of the injection wells and in the monitoring of...
Role of numerical simulation in analysis of ground-water quality problems
Leonard F. Konikow
1981, Science of the Total Environment (21) 299-312
The increasing public awareness and concern about the hazards of toxic chemicals contaminating aquifers has created an increased need for predictive capabilities to analyze ground-water contamination problems. Several digital models to simulate the movement and concentration of ground-water contaminants have been documented recently. Most simulate the transport and dispersion of...
Reservoir analysis of the Denver earthquakes: A case of induced seismicity
Paul A. Hsieh, John D. Bredehoeft
1981, Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres (86) 903-920
Injection of fluid wastes into the fractured Precambrian crystalline bedrock beneath the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver triggered earthquakes in the 1960's. An analysis, based on the assumption that fluid flow in the fractured reservoir can be approximated by flow in a porous medium, is presented. The configuration and hydrologic...
Satellite observations of a geothermal submarine spring off Florida west coast
F. A. Kohout, R.C. Munson, R. M. Turner, W.R. Royal
Morris Deutch, Donald R. Wiesnet, Albert Rango, editor(s)
1981, Conference Paper, Satellite hydrology: proceedings of the Fifth Annual William T. Pecora Memorial Symposium on Remote Sensing, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, June 10-15, 1979
Maps for America: cartographic products of the U.S. Geological Survey and others
Morris M. Thompson
1981, Report
"Maps for America" was originally published in 1979 as a Centennial Volume commemorating the Geological Survey's hundred years of service (1879-1979) in the earth sciences. It was an eminently fitting Centennial Year publication, for, since its establishment, the Geological Survey has continuously carried on an extensive program of mapping to...
Selected irrigation acreage estimates in northern Florida from Landsat data
K. B. Webster, J. R. Lucas, R. J. Musgrove, A.L. Higer
1981, Conference Paper, Satellite hydrology: Proceedings of the Fifth Annual William T. Pecora Memorial Symposium on Remote Sensing
No abstract available....
Results of a modeling workshop concerning preservation and protection of wetlands in North Dakota
Austin K. Andrews, Gregor T. Auble, Richard A. Ellison, David B. Hamilton, James E. Roelle
1981, Report
In a recently signed letter, the Governor of North Dakota and the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks charged a joint state-federal study group with examination of two separate questions: 1) mitigation for the Garrison Diversion Project; and 2) planning for long-range protection and preservation...
Two examples of seismic zonation in the San Francisco Bay region
W. J. Kockelman, E. E. Brabb
1981, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (13) 80-84
The science of earthquakes in complex, requiring data and research in seismology, geology, soil mechanics, geophysics, hydrology, and engineering. Nevertheless, if earthquake hazards are to be reduced, earth science information must be translated from scientific and technical language into a form that can be effectively used by planners and decisionmakers. Out...
Impacts and management of steepland erosion: A review
Mary Ann Madej
1981, Journal of Hydrology (20) 108-111
Role of solute-transport models in the analysis of groundwater salinity problems in agricultural areas
Leonard F. Konikow
1981, Agricultural Water Management (4) 187-205
Undesirable salinity increases occur in both groundwater and surface water and are commonly related to agricultural practices. Groundwater recharge from precipitation or irrigation will transport and disperse residual salts concentrated by evapotranspiration, salts leached from soil and aquifer materials, as well as some dissolved fertilizers and pesticides. Where stream salinity...
