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...
Bibliography of publications relating to ground water in Connecticut
R.V. Cushman
1950, Open-File Report 50-67
The United States Geological Survey is currently investigating the ground-water resources of Connecticut in cooperation with the State Water Commission. As part of this cooperative project, in order to summarize the knowledge already gained about ground water in the State, a bibliography of reports dealing with ground water in Connecticut...
Supplementary report on surface-water and ground-water surveys, Nueces River Basin, Texas
W. L. Broadhurst, C.E. Ellsworth
1950, Open-File Report 50-62
A report on the ground-water and surface-water surveys of the Nueces River Basin was included in a report by the Bureau of Reclamation, entitled "Comprehensive plan for water-resources development of the Nueces River Basin project planning report number 5-14.04-3, February 1946"....
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...
Water resources of the United States
Albert N. Sayre
1950, Open-File Report 50-95
The concerns that has grown gradually in recent years over the future of our water supplies has been forcefully dramatized by the water shortage that New York City is now experiencing. This shortage is not the first that has affected an American community and it is not the most serious....
Second progress report on the cooperative investigation of springs and stream flow in the Tecolote Tunnel area of Santa Barbara County, California
Harold C. Troxell, C.E. Burgess
1950, Open-File Report 50-101
This report represents the second of a series of progress reports giving the results of discharge measurements made at more than 100 locations in the Santa Ynez Mountains from the Refugio Canyon on the west to the San Marcos Pass and Painted Cave area on the east. The flow in...
Memorandum on pumping test at Ambridge, Pennsylvania
D. W. Van Tuyl
1950, Open-File Report 50-103
By arrangment with Mr. J. Z. Columbia, Superintendent of the Ambridge Water Works, the United States Geological Survey conducted a "pumping test" in the Ambridge well field on November 10, 1949. As used in this report, "pumping test" means pumping a well at a fixed rate to determine the hydrologic...
Chloride content of water from wells screened in the Lloyd sand member of the Raritan formation on Long Island, New York
C.M. Roberts
1950, Open-File Report 50-93
Since 1932 the United States Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New York Power and Control Commission, the Nassau County Department of Public Works, the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, and later also the Suffolk County Water Authority, has been making general and specific studies dealing with the occurrence, movement,...
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...
Five preliminary aeromagnetic maps of Pottsville and vicinity, Mullan and vicinity, Wallace and vicinity, Smelterville and vicinity, and Kellogg and vicinity, all in the Coeur d'Alene mining district, Idaho
William J. Dempsey
1950, Open-File Report 50-8
Water power resources of Scenery Creek near Petersburg, Alaska
Fred F. Lawrence
1950, Open-File Report 50-113
Due to high unit runoff, a good storage site, and a high concentration of fall, Scenery Lake presents a favorable power site. By building a tunnel three miles long from Scenery Grove to tap Scenery Lake at elevation 900 feet and a dam to raise Scenery Lake to elevation 1020...
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...
Descriptive geology of Anchorage and vicinity, Alaska
Ernest Dobrovolny, Robert D. Miller
1950, Open-File Report 50-25
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
Ground water in the vicinity of Healy and Homer, Alaska
D.J. Cedarstrom, Clyde Wahrhaftig, F.F. Barnes
1950, Open-File Report 50-64
A list of references on the occurrence, availability, and character of ground water in the Missouri River Basin
Eldon A. Busch (compiler)
1950, Open-File Report 50-63
This compilation of ground-water references was prepared as an aid to the field men engaged in ground-water investigations in the Missouri River Basin. It is thought that an acquaintance with the available literature on the area in which a field man is working may on occasion not only save him...
Cooperative ground-water investigations in Massachusetts by the United States Geological Survey, 1938-50
M.L. Brashears Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-61
The United States Geological Survey in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Public Works in 1938 began an investigation of the ground-water conditions in Massachusetts. This work is part of a larger cooperative program that includes surface-water investigations, geologic studies, and topographic mapping. The purpose of the ground-water studies is...
Ground-water conditions at the Veterans Facility, Castle Point, New York
M.L. Brashears Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-60
The rock aquifers in the vicinity of the Castle Point Veterans Hospital yield limited quantities of water which, in general, are sufficient for domestic and farm purposes only. The possibility of obtaining the stated quantity requirements of about 200,000 gallons daily or more from the bedrock formations seems poor with...
An improved fluorimeter for the determination of uranium in fluoride melts
Mary H. Fletcher, Irving May
1950, Open-File Report 50-33
Geologic interpretation of seismic data, relocation of Route 2, Stations 138-155 in Lancaster, Mass.
James E. May, Daniel Linehan
1950, Open-File Report 50-44
The proposed relocation of the Concord-Westminster Highway, Route 2, in Lancaster, Mass., requires a long, deep cut between stations 138 and 155. A preliminary seismic survey was made of the site in October 1949. At that time five transverses were made along the base-line, and three transverse to it. This...
Correlation between test holes in the Centralia-Chehalis coal district, Washington
Parke Detweiler Snavely Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-24
A geologic reconnaissance of parts of Beaverhead and Madison Counties, Montana
Montis Ruhl Klepper
1950, Bulletin 969-C
Exploration of the Buckhorn Mica Pegmatite mine, Larimer County, Colorado
W. R. Thurston
1950, Open-File Report 50-22
Structural geology of the Terlingua quicksilver district, Texas
George Albert Thompson Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-9
Geologic mapping, supplemented by detailed investigations at the mines, has revealed new information about the geologic structure of the Terlingua quicksilver district, Texas. Attention is focused on the nature and origin of domes, grabens, and breccia pipes, structures that are unusually well developed in the area. The sedimentary rocks, of...
The sediments and physical environment of the Sagadahoc Bay tidal flat, Georgetown, Maine
Wilmot H. Bradley
1950, Open-File Report 50-29
This investigation of the sediments of the Sagadohoc Bay tidal flat was undertaken at the suggestion of the State Geologist of Maine, Dr. Joseph Thefethen, in the hope that the results might be helpful to the biologists of the Maine Department of Sear and Shore Fisheries in their studies of...
