Hydrologic data for urban studies in the Dallas, Texas, metropolitan area, 1977
B.B. Hampton, C.M. Wood
1979, Open-File Report 79-562
In August 1961, the Geological Survey, in cooperation with the city of Dallas, began a program of investigations designed to evaluate hydrologic factors affecting floods on several small streams in Dallas. During the 1977 water year, the original program was expanded to include the greater Dallas metropolitan area....
Summary of hydrologic data for Tampa Bypass Canal System, July 1974 to September 1976
Kennedy W. Causseaux, H.C. Rollins
1979, Open-File Report 79-1297
The Tampa Bypass Canal is part of a flood-control project east of the city of Tampa under construction by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It will divert floodwater from the Hillsborough River at points upstream from Tampa through a canal system to McKay Bay. The U.S. Geological Survey began...
Summary of U.S. Geological Survey investigations and hydrologic conditions in the Southwest Florida Water Management District for 1978
Robert Lloyd Knutilla, H.C. Rollins
1979, Open-File Report 79-1257
This report summarizes water-resources investigations in the Southwest Florida Water Management District performed by the U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, for fiscal year 1978. The investigations are part of the Federal program of appraising the nation 's water resources. The cooperative program for fiscal year 1978 included 37 interpretive...
Drainage areas of surface water bodies of the Androscoggin River basin in southwestern Maine
Richard A. Fontaine
1979, Open-File Report 78-556-C
The report contains drainage-area values for: lakes and ponds included in the Maine Informational Display Analysis System (MIDAS) File 906-Z, streams that drain an area greater than 25 mi2, dams, and hydrologic data collection sites. Supplemental information in the report includes State and Federal location systems used to identify these...
Drainage areas of surface water bodies of southern Maine coastal river basins
Richard A. Fontaine
1979, Open-File Report 78-556-D
The report contains drainage-area values for: lakes and ponds included in the Maine Informational Display Analysis System (MIDAS) File 906-Z, streams that drain areas greater than 25 mil2, dams, and locations where hydrologic data are collected. Supplemental information includes State and Federal location systems used to identify these lakes and...
Water-resources investigations of the U.S. Geological Survey in Colorado; fiscal year 1979
1979, Open-File Report 79-402
Water-resources investigations of the U.S. Geological Survey in Colorado consist of collecting water-resources data and conducting interpretive hydrologic investigations. The water-resources data and the results of the investigations are published or released by either the U.S. Geological Survey or by cooperating agen-cies. This report describes the water-resources investigations in Colorado...
Hydrologic and human aspects of the 1976-77 drought
Howard F. Matthai
1979, Professional Paper 1130
The drought of 1976-77 was the most severe in at least 50 years in many parts of the United States. Record low amounts of rainfall, snowfall, and runoff, and increased withdrawals of ground water were prevalent. The use of carry-over storage in reservoirs during 1976 maintained streamflow at near normal...
Progress report to the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Commission for year ending September 30, 1978
Marion S. Hines
1979, Open-File Report 79-523
The economic design of bridges and culverts requires a knowledge of the magnitude and frequency of floods for all size drainage basins. In addition, an analysis of the hydrologic and hydraulic characteristics at specific sites where unusual circumstances exist is a prerequisite to design.The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Commission...
A one-dimensional, steady-state, dissolved-oxygen model and waste-load assimilation study for West Fork Blue River, Washington County, Indiana
James G. Peters, William G. Wilber, Charles G. Crawford, Frank P. Girardi
1979, Open-File Report 79-1479
The Indiana State Board of Health is developing a water-quality management plan that includes establishing limits for wastewater effluents discharged into Indiana streams. A digital model calibrated to conditions in West Fork Blue River was used to predict alternatives for future waste loadings that would be compatible with Indiana stream...
Ground-water data for Michigan, 1977
G.C. Huffman
1979, Open-File Report 79-332
The purpose of this report is to make available the 1977 records of water levels and related data for the principal aquifers of the State. These records and data provide a means for evaluating available ground-water supplies. Long- term records serve as a framework to which short-term records may be...
In situ bulk density and porosity estimates from borehole gravity data in limestones of the Madison Group; test well No. 1, Crook County, Wyoming
Bruce A. Kososki, Stephen L. Robbins
1979, Open-File Report 79-1514
In 1975 the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Old West Regional Commission, prepared a plan of study (U.S. Geological Survey, 1975) for evaluating the water-supply potential of limestone of the Madison Group and associated rocks. To obtain better subsurface hydrologic and geologic information it was recognized that Madison...
Hydrology and geochemistry of thermal springs of the Appalachians
W.A. Hobba Jr., D.W. Fisher, F. J. Pearson Jr., J.C. Chemerys
1979, Professional Paper 1044-E
No abstract available....
Water-resources investigations in Kansas; fiscal year 1978
Harold E. McGovern, L. J. Combs
1979, Open-File Report 79-561
Hydrologic investigations in Kansas during fiscal year 1978 consisted of collecting and analyzing data to assess the State 's water resources, describe the framework of hydrologic systems , and provide quantity and quality of water data for optimum development and management. Surface-water studies were made to analyze long-term records of...
Hydrologic data for urban studies in the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area, 1977
James S. Hutchison
1979, Open-File Report 79-1294
Hydrologic investigations of urban watersheds in Texas were begun by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1954. Studies are now in progress in Austin, Dallas and Dallas County, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio.The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the city of Houston, began studies in the Houston metropolitan area...
Summary appraisals of the nation's ground-water resources – Lower Mississippi region
J. E. Terry, R. L. Hosman, C. T. Bryant
1979, Professional Paper 813-N
The Lower Mississippi Region comprises an area of 102,400 square miles (265,200 square kilometers). Almost all this area is in the physiographic province known as the Gulf Coastal Plain. Three small areas on the northwest boundary of the region are in the Interior Highlands. The Lower Mississippi Region has an abundance...
Bedrock aquifers in the lower Dirty Devil River Basin area, Utah, with special emphasis on the Navajo sandstone
J. W. Hood, T. W. Danielson
1979, Open-File Report 79-1163
The lower Dirty Devil River basin area in southeastern Utah has an area of about 4,300 square miles (11,1140 square kilometers) and ranges in altitude from about 3,700 to more than 11,000 feet (1,130 to 3,350 meters) above mean sea level. Precipitation, the main source of water in the area,...
Hydrologic data, 1974-77, Stovepipe Wells Hotel area, Death Valley National Monument, Inyo County, California
Charles Edwin Lamb, D.J. Downing
1979, Open-File Report 79-203
Ground-water levels in most wells did not change significantly from 1974 to 1977 in the Stovepipe Wells Hotel area. The average water-level decline was less than 0.10 foot between August 1974 and August 1977 in 10 observation wells. Water-level contours show a depression centered on the two pumping wells, but...
Hydrologic effects of annually diverting 131,000 acre-feet of water from Dillon Reservoir, central Colorado
William M. Alley, D. P. Bauer, J.E. Veenhuis, Robert Brennan
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-2
Because of the increased demands for water in eastern Colorado, principally in the urbanizing Denver metropolitan area, increased diversions of water from Dillon Reservoir are planned. Estimates of end-of-month storage in Dillon Reservoir, assuming the reservoir was in place and 131,000 acre-feet of water were diverted from the reservoir each...
Summary appraisals of the nation's ground-water resources – Lower Colorado region
E. S. Davidson
1979, Professional Paper 813-R
This report summarizes ground-water availability in the lower Colorado region and discusses the potential for greater ground-water development and increased efficiency of water use. The climate in the most highly developed southwestern part of the region is warm and dry and that in the northeastern part is cool and moist to...
River mileages and drainage areas for Illinois streams—Volume 1, Illinois except Illinois River basin
R. W. Healy
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-110
River mileages are presented for points of interest on Illinois streams draining 10 square miles or more. Points of interest include bridges, dams, gaging stations, county lines, hydrologic unit boundaries, and major tributaries. Drainage areas are presented for selected sites, including total drainage area for any stream draining at least...
Hydrology of major estuaries and sounds of North Carolina
G. L. Giese, Hugh B. Wilder, Garald G. Parker Jr.
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-46
Hydrology-related problems associated with North Carolina's major estuaries and sounds include contamination of some estuaries with municipal and industrial wastes and drainage from adjacent intensively-farmed areas, and nuisance-level algal blooms. In addition, there is excessive shoaling in some navigation channels, saltwater intrusion into usually fresh estuarine reaches, too-high or too-low...
Hydrologic data for Mountain Creek, Trinity River basin, Texas, 1977
F.L. Stroman
1979, Open-File Report 79-509
The collection of hydrologic data by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Mountain Creek watershed began on March 9, 1925, with the establishment of a stream-gaging station located about 2.5 miles upstream from the present site of Mountain Creek Lake Dam. The stream-gaging station was discontinued on July 5, 1933....
Effect on sediment yield and water quality of a nonrehabilitated surface mine in north-central Wyoming
Bruce H. Ringen, L. M. Shown, R. F. Hadley, T. K. Hinkley
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-47
Sediment and chemical quality of water data were collected from two adjacent drainage basins in northern Wyoming to compare hydrologic differences between an undisturbed basin and a surface-mined, virtually unrehabilitated basin. Rate of sediment accumulation in a pond in the basin that was surface mined for coal and left unrehabilitated...
Estimated drawdowns in the Floridan aquifer due to increased withdrawals, Duval County, Florida
Bernard J. Franks, G. G. Phelps
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-84
Hydrologic investigations of the Floridan aquifer in Duval County, Florida, have shown that an appropriate simplified model of the aquifer system consists of a series of sub aquifers separated by semipermeable beds. Data from more than 20 aquifer tests were reanalyzed by the Hantush modified method, which takes into account...
Hydrologic overlay maps of the Sebastian NW quadrangle, Florida
James M. Frazee Jr., Charles P. Laughlin
1979, Open-File Report 79-505
No abstract available....
