Geology and ground-water hydrology of the Lake Hefner area in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
P.E. Dennis
1950, Open-File Report 50-68
Mineral constituents in water and their significance
T.B. Dover
1950, Open-File Report 50-69
Pure water does not exist in nature. Because water is a powerful solvent, every drop of rain water carries dissolved or suspended material - dust, pollen, and smoke, as well as the atmospheric gases, oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide. When rain falls, the water running over the rocks and percolating...
Ground-water conditions in Whisky Flat, Mineral County, Nevada
T.E. Eakin, T. W. Robinson
1950, Open-File Report 50-70
As a part of the State-wide cooperative program between the Office of the State Engineer of Nevada and the U.S. Geological Survey, the Ground Water Branch of the Geological Survey made a reconnaissance study of ground-water conditions in Whisky Flat, Mineral County, Nevada....
Relation of ground water to stream flow at Battle Creek, Mich.
G.E. Eddy, J.G. Ferris
1950, Open-File Report 50-71
This is a summary of statements made by G.E. Eddy, State Geologist of Michigan, and J.G. Ferris, district engineer, Ground Water Branch, U.S. Geological Survey, Lansing, Mich., in a conference during the fall of 1949 with John Spoden, Chief of the Maintenance and Fold Control Division of the district office...
Probable effects on ground-water resources from construction of the proposed Grand River cut-off channel west of Lansing, Mich.
John G. Ferris
1950, Open-File Report 50-72
This memorandum summarize information brought out in correspondence between the office of the District Engineer of the Milwaukee District, U.S. Corps of Engineers, and the District Office of the Ground Water Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey at Lansing, Mich., concerning the probable effects on the ground-water resources of the...
Contour map showing altitude of bedrock surface in southern Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
J.B. Graham
1950, Open-File Report 50-73
Estimated use of ground water in the United States, 1945
W.F. Guyton
1950, Open-File Report 50-74
Water-supply investigation of Sanastee area, Navajo Indian Reservation, San Juan County, New Mexico
L.C. Halpenny, J. W. Harshbarger, J.D. Hem
1950, Open-File Report 50-75
Memorandum on results of well drilling at Kayenta, Navajo Indian Reservation, Navajo County, Arizona
L.C. Halpenny
1950, Open-File Report 50-3
Delivery of water in the Brazos River from Possum Kingdom Reservoir to Richmond, Texas during August and September, 1948
D. E. Havelka
1950, Open-File Report 50-76
Unusual drought conditions in the summer of 1948 led the irrigators in the lower Brazos River Valley to request releases from Possum Kingdom Reservoir primarily for the irrigation of rice.The purpose of this study is to determine the time of travel. The first release is identified as that passing the...
Some aspects of the ground-water future in Iowa
H.G. Hershey
1950, Open-File Report 50-77
Chemical composition of Texas surface waters, 1949
Burdge Irelan
1950, Open-File Report 50-78
This report is the fifth the a series of publications by the Texas Board of Water Engineers giving chemical analyses of the surface waters in the State of Texas. The samples for which data are given were collected between October 1, 1948 and September 30, 1949. During the water year...
Memorandum on ground-water conditions in the Huachipato-Talcahuano area near Concepcion, Chile
P.H. Jones
1950, Open-File Report 50-79
The relation of ground water to irrigation
S. W. Lohman
1950, Open-File Report 50-81
Salinity of ground water at sampling wells located in southeastern Nassau County, Long Island, New York
Norbert J. Lusczynski
1950, Open-File Report 50-82
In 1939, a special program for the systematic collection of chloride data in southeastern Nassau County was inaugurated in which three agencies participated. The Nassau County Department of Public Works constructed the sampling wells, the Ground Water Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey began to collect at period intervals water...
Withdrawal of ground water and pond water on Long Island from 1904 to 1949
Norbert J. Lusczynski
1950, Open-File Report 50-83
For more than 50 years the highly productive and readily replenishable water-bearing sands and gravels on Long Island -- capable of yielding an average of at least 1,000 million gallons a day -- and also some surface streams and ponds have been utilized on a large scale of public water...
Piezometric levels from 1948 through 1950 for wells screened in the Lloyd sand member of the Raritan formation on Long Island, New York
Norbert J. Lusczynski
1950, Open-File Report 50-84
Since 1932, the United States Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New York Water Power and Control Commission, the Nassau County Department of Public Works, the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, and later also with the Suffolk County Water Authority, has been making both general and detailed studied dealing with...
Progress report on the geology and ground-water hydrology of the Riverton Irrigation Project, Wyoming
D. A. Morris, W. H. Durum
1950, Open-File Report 50-85
Progress report on ground-water investigation in Ashley Valley, Uintah County, Utah
W.B. Nelson, B. E. Lofgren
1950, Open-File Report 50-86
No abstract available....
Ground-water resources of western Whatcom County, Washington
R. C. Newcomb, J.E. Sceva, Olaf Stromme
1950, Open-File Report 50-7
Ground-water resources of the Mt. Savage area, Maryland
R. M. Overbeck
1950, Open-File Report 50-87
A law providing for the establishment of sanitary district in Allegany Count was passed by the Maryland State Legislature in 1949. In connection with the establishment of these district a commission, called the Allegany County Metropolitan Commission, was appointed on January 1, 1950. This commission is considering the construction of...
Raccoons of North and Middle America
Edward A. Goldman, Hartley H.T. Jackson
1950, North American Fauna 60
The raccoons, genus Procyon, colloquially known as “coons,” belong to the carnivorous family Procyonidae, which also includes the American genera Nasua, Nasuella, Bassaricyon, and Potos, and the Old World genera Ailurus and Ailuropoda of the subfamily Ailurinae. The members of the Procyon lotor group (subgenus Procyon), with a transcontinental range from...
Water supplies for industry
C. G. Paulsen, W.W. Hastings
1950, Open-File Report 50-88
Water supply of the United States
Carl G. Paulsen
1950, Open-File Report 50-89
The front pages of the press throughout the country during the past several weeks have dramatized the critical water shortages in many parts of the Nation. The concerns that has grown in recent years over the future of our water supplies has been forcibly brought to the attention of the...
Water-resources investigations in the United States
C. G. Paulsen
1950, Open-File Report 50-90