Sediment transported by Georgia streams
Vance C. Kennedy
1964, Water Supply Paper 1668
A reconnaissance investigation of the sediment transported by selected Georgia streams during the period December 1957 to June 1959 was made to provide a general understanding of the physical quality of stream water in Georgia and to supply facts needed in planning more detailed work. The investigation was made by...
Discharge characteristics of embankment-shaped weirs
Carl E. Kindsvater
1964, Water Supply Paper 1617-A
An embankment-shaped weir is an embankment overtopped by flood waters. Among the engineering problems frequently resulting from. this occurrence is the need to compute the peak discharge from postflood yield observations. The research described in this. report was concerned with the theoretical and experimental bases for the computation procedure. The...
Ground-water conditions in the Green Bay area, Wisconsin, 1950-60
Doyle B. Knowles
1964, Water Supply Paper 1669-J
The Green Bay area, which includes parts of Brown, Outagamie, and Shawano Counties, has an area of about 525 square miles in eastern Wisconsin at the south end of Green Bay. In 1960, it had a population estimated at 124,000; Green Bay, the largest city in the area, had a...
Water resources of the Green Bay area, Wisconsin
Doyle Blewer Knowles, F. C. Dreher, George Walter Whetstone
1964, Water Supply Paper 1499-G
The Green Bay area comprises an area of about 525 square miles in eastern Wisconsin at the south end of Green Bay. It includes the western three-fourths of Brown County and the eastern one-ninth of Outagamie County. In 1960, the population of the area was estimated at 124,000. The most prominent...
Geology and ground-water resources of the Bristol-Plainville-Southington area, Connecticut
A. M. La Sala
1964, Water Supply Paper 1578
The Bristol-Plainville-Southington area straddles the boundary between the New England Upland and the Connecticut Valley Lowland sections of the New England physiographic province. The western parts of Bristol are Southington lie in the New England Upland section, an area of rugged topography underlain by metamorphic rocks of Palezoic age. The...
Ground-water resources of the lower Mesilla Valley, Texas and New Mexico
E. R. Leggat, M.E. Lowry, J. W. Hood
1964, Water Supply Paper 1669-AA
The lower Mesilla Valley extends southward from the vicinity of Anthony, Tex., to the gorge of the Rio Grande north of El Paso and westward from the Franklin Mountains to the east edge of La Mesa. The increase in the use of ground water for the public water supply of...
Geology and ground-water resources of Rock County, Wisconsin
E. F. LeRoux
1964, Water Supply Paper 1619-X
Rock County is in south-central Wisconsin adjacent to the Illinois State line. The county has an area of about 723 square miles and had a population of about 113,000 in 1957 ; it is one of the leading agricultural and industrial counties in the State. The total annual precipitation averages...
Water-supply characteristics of North Carolina streams
Grover Cleveland Goddard
1964, Water Supply Paper 1761
Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1962, Parts 7 and 8, Lower Mississippi River basin and western Gulf of Mexico basins
S. K. Love
1964, Water Supply Paper 1944
Evaluation of hydrogeology and hydrogeochemistry of Truckee Meadows area, Washoe County, Nevada
Philip M. Cohen, Omar J. Loeltz
1964, Water Supply Paper 1779-S
Practically all the ground water of economic importance in the Truckee Meadows area, an alluviated intermontane basin in western Nevada is in the valley fill, which consists of unconsolidated and partially consolidated sedimentary deposits. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic consolidated rocks of the mountains bordering the valley contain some water in...
Preliminary results of hydrogeologic investigations in the valley of the Humboldt River near Winnemucca, Nevada
Philip M. Cohen
1964, Water Supply Paper 1754
Most of the ground water of economic importance and nearly all the ground water closely associated with the flow o# the Humboldt River in the. 40-mile reach near Winnemucca, Nev., are in unconsolidated sedimentary deposits. These deposits range in age from Pliocene to Recent and range in character from coarse...
Geology and hydrology of the West Milton area, Saratoga County, New York
Frederick K. Mack, F. H. Pauszek, John R. Crippen
1964, Water Supply Paper 1747
This report describes the geology, ground-water conditions, streamflow characteristics, and quality of water in the West Milton area, Saratoga County, N.Y. The West Milton area is in the east-central part of New York in the hilly region that forms a transition zone between the Adirondack Mountains and the Hudson-Mohawk valley...
Ground-water geology of the Dickson, Lawrenceburg, and Waverly areas in the western Highland Rim, Tennessee
Melvin V. Marcher, Roy H. Bingham, Richard Edwin Lounsbury
1964, Water Supply Paper 1764
Ground-water supplies in the Dickson, Lawrenceburg, and Waverly areas are obtained from wells and springs in limestone and chert formations of Missisippian age. In the Dickson area most of the wells and springs are in Warsaw Limestone. In the Lawrenceburg and Waverly areas, ground-water supplies are obtained from Fort Payne...
Quality of Delaware River water at Trenton, New Jersey
Leo T. McCarthy Jr., Walter B. Keighton
1964, Water Supply Paper 1779-X
Water in the Delaware River at Trenton, NJ, is a mixture of several types--water from the mountainous headwater region, water from the coal-mining regions, and water from the limestone valleys. The quantities of these types of water, in relation to the total quantity of water at Trenton, vary with changes...
Relation of salt-water encroachment to the major aquifer zones, Savannah area, Georgia and South Carolina
M.J. McCollum, H. B. Counts
1964, Water Supply Paper 1613-D
No abstract available....
Geology and ground-water resources of Washington County, Colorado
Harold E. McGovern
1964, Water Supply Paper 1777
Washington County, in northeastern Colorado, has an area of 2,520 square miles. The eastern two-thirds of the county, part of the High Plains physiographic section, is relatively flat and has been moderately altered by the deposition of loess and dune sand, and by stream erosion. The western one-third is a...
Hydrologic studies of small watersheds, Honey Creek basin, Collin and Grayson Counties, Texas, 1953-1959
Clarence R. Gilbert, G.G. Commons, G. E. Koberg, F.W. Kennon
1964, Water Supply Paper 1779-F
This report presents the results of an investigation into the effects of floodwaterretarding structures in the 39 square miles of the Honey Creek basin above the stream-gaging station near McKinney, during the period October 1952 to September 1959. The number of such structures in the study area was increased from...
An appraisal of the possibilities of artificial recharge to ground-water supplies in part of the Roswell basin, New Mexico
Ward Sundt Motts, Robert L. Cushman
1964, Water Supply Paper 1785
Geology and ground water of San Antonio Creek Valley, Santa Barbara County, California
K. S. Muir
1964, Water Supply Paper 1664
Fluvial sediment in Kiowa Creek basin, Colorado
J. C. Mundorff
1964, Water Supply Paper 1798-A
Reconnaissance of the ground-water resources of the Arkansas Valley region, Arkansas
R.M. Cordova
1964, Water Supply Paper 1669-BB
Aspects of flow resistance and sediment transport, Rio Grande near Bernalillo, New Mexico
Carl F. Nordin
1964, Water Supply Paper 1498-H
Intracellular and extracellular concentration of manganese and other elements by aquatic organisms
Eugene T. Oborn
1964, Water Supply Paper 1667-C
Ground water in the Sirte area, Tripolitania, United Kingdom of Libya
William Ogilbee
1964, Water Supply Paper 1757-C
The present study of the ground-water conditions in the Sirte area was made during December 1961 and March-April 1962 at the request of officials of the Government of Libya. Particular attention was given to the potential of the fresh-water aquifer near Qasr Bu Itadi as a source of water for...
Water resources of the Baltimore area, Maryland
E. G. Otton, R.O.R. Martin, W. H. Durum
1964, Water Supply Paper 1499-F
