Summary appraisals of the Nation's ground-water resources; Alaska
Chester Zenone, Gary S. Anderson
1978, Professional Paper 813-P
Alaska has enormous surface-water resources, but many of the streams are frozen for most of the year and most contain glacial silt that makes them unacceptable for human use. These factors lend special significance to ground water as a water-supply source, even though perennially frozen ground (permafrost) profoundly modifies ground-water...
Summary appraisals of the nation's ground-water resources – Tennessee region
Ann Zurawski
1978, Professional Paper 813-L
Ground water is an abundant and little-used resource in the Tennessee Region, a 41,000 square mile area dominated by the Tennessee River system and including parts of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. One-fifth to one-fourth of the precipitation that falls on the region enters the ground-water...
Summary appraisals of the nation's ground-water resources – Souris-Red-Rainy region
Harold O. Reeder
1978, Professional Paper 813-K
A broad-perspective analysis of the ground-water resources and present and possible future water development and management in the Souris-Red-Rainy Region is presented. The region includes the basins of the Souris River within Montana and North Dakota; the Red River of the North in South Dakota, North Dakota, and Minnesota; and...
Understanding natural systems; a perspective for land-use planning in Appalachian Kentucky
Wayne L. Newell
1978, Bulletin 1438
An eight-county area at the headwaters of the Kentucky River has been designated the Kentucky River Area Development District (KRADD) by the Appalachian Regional Commission. The objective of the project described in this report has been to provide materials to KRADD planners in a format and containing terminology usable by...
Water resources data for Iowa, water year 1977
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1978, Water Data Report IA-77-1
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 S. W. Wiitala, District Chief, and Alfred Clebsch, Jr., Regional Hydrologist, Central Region. It was done in cooperation with the State of Iowa and with other...
Water resources of the coastal drainage basins of southeastern Massachusetts, northwest shore of Buzzards Bay
John R. Williams
1978, Hydrologic Atlas 560
Water-resources investigations of the U.S. Geological Survey in Montana, October 1977 through September 1978
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1978, Open-File Report 78-436
The U.S. Geological Survey was established as an agency in the Department of the Interior on March 3, 1879, 30 years to the day after establishment of the Department itself. The initial purpose of the Survey was to prepare a plan that would secure the best possible results at the...
Hydrologic data for Mountain Creek, Trinity River basin, Texas, 1976
H.D. Buckner
1978, Open-File Report 77-800
The total drainage area of Mountain Creek, Texas, is 304 sq mi. The stream-gaging stations on Mountain Creek near Cedar Hill and Walnut Creek near Mansfield provide hydrologic data to define runoff characteristics from small drainage basins. They also serve as index stations for inflow into the reservoir and provide...
Water resources data for California, water year 1976; Volume 4: Northern Central Valley basins and the Great Basin from Honey Lake basin to Oregon State line
California District of the Water Resources Division
1978, Water Data Report CA-76-4
Water-resources data for the 1976 water year for California consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage, contents, and water quality of lakes and reservoirs; records of water levels in selected observation wells; and selected chemical analyses of ground water. Records for a few pertinent streamflow...
Hydrologic data in Bear Creek Basin and western Jackson County, Oregon, 1976-77
Loren A. Wittenberg, Stuart W. McKenzie
1978, Open-File Report 78-230
To determine irrigation return flow impacts on Meyer Creek and Griffin Creek, 12 sites were sampled prior to and during the irrigation season. Thirty-three sets of samples, consisting of irrigation inflow and outflow samples on farms, were collected to determine if the use of irrigation water was improving or degrading...
Susceptibility of coastal plain aquifers to contamination, Fairfax County, Virginia; a computer composite map
Richard H. Johnston, J. Nicholas Van Driel
1978, Open-File Report 78-265
A map is presented that classifies the Coastal Plain of Fairfax County, Virginia according to the susceptibility of the principal sand aquifers to contamination from surface sources. The following classification is used: (1) areas where leachate can readily enter the principal sand aquifers, (2) areas offering great natural protection against...
Linear ground-water flow, flood-wave response program for programmable calculators
John Michael Kernodle
1978, Open-File Report 78-356
Two programs are documented which solve a discretized analytical equation derived to determine head changes at a point in a one-dimensional ground-water flow system. The programs, written for programmable calculators, are in widely divergent but commonly encountered languages and serve to illustrate the adaptability of the linear model to use...
New Windsor Quadrangle, Maryland; geology, hydrology, and mineral resources
E. G. Otton, and others
1978, Open-File Report 78-769
Climate variation and its effects on our land and water : Part A, Earth science in climate research
George I. Smith, editor(s)
1978, Circular 776-A
To better coordinate information being generated by the U.S. Geological Survey, a workshop was convened near Denver, Colo., on December 7-9, 1976, to exchange ideas about research that is oriented toward climate, climate variation, and the effects of climate on the Nation 's land and water resources. This is the...
Hydrologic overlay maps of the False Cape Quadrangle, Brevard County, FLorida
James M. Frazee Jr., Charles P. Laughlin
1978, Open-File Report 78-196
Water resources data for California, water year 1977; Volume 3: Southern Central Valley basins and the Great Basin from Walker River to Truckee River
California District of the Water Resources Division
1978, Water Data Report CA-77-3
Water-resources data for the 1977 water year for California consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage, contents, and water quality of lakes and reservoirs; records of water levels in selected observation wells; and selected chemical analyses of ground water. Records for a few pertinent streamflow...
Two-dimensional and three-dimensional digital flow models of the Salinas Valley ground-water basin, California
T. J. Durbin, G.W. Kapple, J. R. Freckleton
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-113
The Salinas Valley ground-water basin is in central coastal California. The ground-water basin extends from Monterey Bay southeastward along the Salinas River to San Ardo, a distance of about 70 miles, and has a maximum thickness of about 2,000 feet. Annual recharge to the ground-water basin, which is derived mostly...
Computer modeling of ground-water availability in the Pootatuck River Valley, Newtown, Connecticut
F.P. Haeni, Elinor H. Handman
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-77
A hydrologic analysis of the stratified drift in Newtown, Conn., based on available data, test drilling, seismic refraction profiling, and the stream-aquifer connection was performed using a digital computer model. Simulated pumping indicates that a total of 4.0 million gallons of water per day (Mgal/d) can be withdrawn from the...
Water resources data for California, water year 1977; Volume 4: Northern Central Valley basins and the Great Basin from Honey Lake basin to Oregon state line
California District of the Water Resources Division
1978, Water Data Report CA-77-4
Water-resources data for the 1977 water year for California consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage, contents, and water quality of lakes and reservoirs; records of water levels in selected observation wells; and selected chemical analyses of ground water. Records for a few pertinent streamflow...
Appraisal of shallow ground-water resources and management alternatives in the Upper Peace and Eastern Alafia River Basins, Florida
C. B. Hutchinson
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-124
In southwest Florida, the shallow aquifer system underlying the 1,250-square-mile upper Peace and eastern Alafia River basins is a relatively untapped source of supply. The aquifer system ranges between 50 and 300 feet thick and is composed of a surficial sand unit underlain by a limestone unit. Sand and clay...
Progress report on hydrologic investigations of small drainage areas in New Hampshire: preliminary relations for estimating peak discharges on rural, unregulated streams
Denis R. LeBlanc
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-47
The magnitude and frequency of floods on rural, unregulated streams in New Hampshire with drainage areas between 0.27 and 622 square miles may be estimated from drainage area, main-channel slope, and a precipitation intensity index. Based on multiple-regression analyses of data from 59 gaged sites in New Hampshire and adjacent...
Interpretation of well logs in a carbonate aquifer
L.M. MacCary
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-88
This report describes the log analysis of the Randolph and Sabial core holes in the Edwards aquifer in Texas, with particular attention to the principles that can be applied generally to any carbonate system. The geologic and hydrologic data were obtained during the drilling of the two holes, from extensive...
Hydrologic monitoring of a deep-well waste-injection system near Pensacola, Florida, March 1970 - March 1977
Charles A. Pascale, J.B. Martin
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-27
This report presents hydraulic and chemical data collected at a deep-well waste-injection system near Pensacola, Florida. Since injection began in July 1963, about 13.3 billion gallons of industrial acidic waste containing nitric acid, inorganic salts and numerous organic compounds have been injected into a saline-water-filled limestone aquifer. Wellhead pressure at...
Hydrologic, geologic, and water-quality data, Ochlockonee River basin area, Florida
Charles A. Pascale, Jeffrey R. Wagner, James E. Sohm
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-97
This report presents hydrologic, geologic, and water-quality data collected within the Ochlockonee River basin area, in the panhandle of northwest Florida. The data are presented in graphs and tables. Surface-water data include streamflow measurements and analyses of water collected at 58 sites; ground-water data include descriptions of 360 wells and...
Flood hydrology of Butte Basin, 1973-77 water years, Sacramento Valley, California
R.G. Simpson
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-86
Flooding in Butte Basin, CA., is caused primarily by overflow from the Sacramento River on the western boundary. Stage and discharge data were collected during 1973-77 at 6 recording and 45 crest-stage gages within the basin and combined with discharge records on the main channel of the Sacramento River to...
