Leachate migration from an in-situ oil-shale retort near Rock Springs, Wyoming
Kent C. Glover
1988, Water Supply Paper 2322
Hydrogeologic factors influencing leachate movement from an in-situ oil-shale retort near Rock Springs, Wyoming, were investigated through models of ground-water flow and solute transport. Leachate, indicated by the conservative ion thiocyanate, has been observed ? mile downgradient from the retort. The contaminated aquifer is part of the Green River Formation...
Selected papers in the hydrologic sciences, 1987
Seymour Subitzky, editor(s)
1988, Water Supply Paper 2330
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Application of the two-film model to the volatilization of acetone and t-butyl alcohol from water as a function of temperature
R. E. Rathbun, D. Y. Tai
1988, Water Supply Paper 2318
The two-film model is often used to describe the volatilization of organic substances from water. This model assumes uniformly mixed water and air phases separated by thin films of water and air in which mass transfer is by molecular diffusion. Mass-transfer coefficients for the films, commonly called film coefficients, are...
Dissolved silica in the tidal Potomac River and Estuary, 1979-81 water years
Stephen F. Blanchard
1988, Water Supply Paper 2234-H
The Potomac River at Chain Bridge is the major riverine source of dissolved silica (DSi) to the tidal Potomac River and Estuary. DSi concentrations at Chain Bridge are positively correlated with river discharge; river discharge is an important factor controlling rates of supply, dilution, and residence time. When river flow...
Simulation of saltwater movement in the Floridan aquifer system, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Peter W. Bush
1988, Water Supply Paper 2331
Freshwater to supply Hilton Head Island, S.C., is obtained from the upper permeable zone of the Upper Floridan aquifer. Long-term pumping at Savannah, Ga., and the steadily increasing pumping on Hilton Head Island, have lowered Upper Floridan heads near the center of the island from about 10 feet above sea...
Simulation of flow in the Edwards Aquifer, San Antonio region, Texas, and refinement of storage and flow concepts
Robert W. Maclay, Larry F. Land
1988, Water Supply Paper 2336-A
The Edwards aquifer is a complexly faulted, carbonate aquifer lying within the Balcones fault zone of south-central Texas. The aquifer consists of thin- to massive-bedded limestone and dolomite, most of which is in the form of mudstones and wackestones. Well-developed secondary porosity has formed in association with former erosional surfaces...
Streamflow, sediment transport, and nutrient transport at Incline Village, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, 1970-73
Patrick A. Glancy
1988, Water Supply Paper 2313
Five principal creeks, First Creek, Second Creek, Wood Creek, Third Creek, and Incline Creek, having a cumulative drainage of 17.8 square miles, furnished a yearly average of about 15,000 acre-feet of runoff, mainly snowmelt, to Lake Tahoe during the 1970-73 water years. Annual runoff from the individual streams ranged from...
Specific conductance; theoretical considerations and application to analytical quality control
Ronald L. Miller, Wesley L. Bradford, Norman E. Peters
1988, Water Supply Paper 2311
This report considers several theoretical aspects and practical applications of specific conductance to the study of natural waters. A review of accepted measurements of conductivity of secondary standard 0.01 N KCl solution suggests that a widely used algorithm for predicting the temperature variation in conductivity is in error. A new...
Quantitative assessment of the shallow ground-water flow system associated with Connetquot Brook, Long Island, New York
Keith R. Prince, O. Lehn Franke, Thomas E. Reilly
1988, Water Supply Paper 2309
Streamflow on Long Island is derived principally from shallow ground water that flows above the deeper regional flow system. The movement of shallow ground water was studied during 1975-82 at Connetquot Brook, an undisturbed stream in Connetquot River State Park, in south-central Long Island, New York. The investigation encompassed (1)...
Effect of water quality on survival of Lahontan cutthroat trout eggs in the Truckee River, west-central Nevada and eastern California
Ray J. Hoffman, Gary G. Scoppettone
1988, Water Supply Paper 2319
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has an ongoing program to assess the feasibility of reestablishing naturally spawning populations of Lahontan cutthroat trout in the Truckee River-Pyramid Lake system in Nevada. Previous in situ egg-survival studies have documented a 100 percent mortality of cutthroat trout eggs artificially planted in potential...
Effects of highway runoff on streamflow and water quality in the Sevenmile Creek basin, a rural area in the Piedmont Province of North Carolina, July 1981 to July 1982
Douglas Harned
1988, Water Supply Paper 2329
An evaluation of water-quality data from streams that receive stormwater runoff from a segment of Interstate Highway 85 in North Carolina indicated increased levels of many constituents compared to levels in nearby undeveloped basins. Additional data collected from a network of dry and wet atmospheric deposition collectors, lysimeter samples, soil...
Laboratory data on coarse-sediment transport for bedload-sampler calibrations
David Wellington Hubbell, H.H. Stevens Jr., J. V. Skinner, J.P. Beverage
1987, Water Supply Paper 2299
A unique facility capable of recirculating and continuously measuring the transport rates of sediment particles ranging in size from about 1 to 75 millimeters in diameter was designed and used in an extensive program involving the calibration of bedload samplers. The facility consisted of a 9-footwide by 6-foot-deep by 272-foot-long...
Simulation of flood hydrographs for Georgia streams
Ernest J. Inman
1987, Water Supply Paper 2317
Flood hydrographs are needed for the design of many highway drainage structures and embankments. A method for simulating these flood hydrographs at ungaged sites in Georgia is presented in this report. The O'Donnell method was used to compute unit hydrographs and lagtimes for 355 floods at 80 gaging stations. An...
A flow-simulation model of the tidal Potomac River
Raymond W. Schaffranek
1987, Water Supply Paper 2234-D
A one-dimensional model capable of simulating flow in a network of interconnected channels has been applied to the tidal Potomac River including its major tributaries and embayments between Washington, D.C., and Indian Head, Md. The model can be used to compute water-surface elevations and flow discharges at any of 66...
The effects of boundary conditions on the steady-state response of three hypothetical ground-water systems; results and implications of numerical experiments
O. Lehn Franke, Thomas E. Reilly
1987, Water Supply Paper 2315
The most critical and difficult aspect of defining a groundwater system or problem for conceptual analysis or numerical simulation is the selection of boundary conditions . This report demonstrates the effects of different boundary conditions on the steady-state response of otherwise similar ground-water systems to a pumping stress. Three series...
Selected papers in the hydrologic sciences, 1986
Seymour Subitzky
1987, Water Supply Paper 2310
Water-quality data from long-term (24 years), fixed- station monitoring at the Cape Fear River at Lock 1 near Kelly, N.C., and various measures of basin development are correlated. Subbasin population, number of acres of cropland in the subbasin, number of people employed in manufacturing, and tons of fertilizer applied in...
Application of the precipitation-runoff model in the Warrior coal field, Alabama
Robert E. Kidd, C. R. Bossong
1987, Water Supply Paper 2306
A deterministic precipitation-runoff model, the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System, was applied in two small basins located in the Warrior coal field, Alabama. Each basin has distinct geologic, hydrologic, and land-use characteristics. Bear Creek basin (15.03 square miles) is undisturbed, is underlain almost entirely by consolidated coal-bearing rocks of Pennsylvanian age (Pottsville...
Water-quality data-collection activities in Colorado and Ohio; Phase I-inventory and evaluation of 1984 programs and costs
Janet Hren, Thomas H. Chaney, J. Michael Norris, Carolyn J. Oblinger Childress
1987, Water Supply Paper 2295-A
Sediment/water-column flux of nutrients and oxygen in the tidal Patuxent River and Estuary, Maryland
Bruce M. Lantrip, Robert M. Summers, Daniel J. Phelan, William Andrle
1987, Water Supply Paper 2296
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Relations between quality of urban runoff and quality of Lake Ellyn at Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Robert G. Striegl, Ellen A. Cowan
1987, Water Supply Paper 2301
Comparison of flow and chemical data collected at the principal inlet and at the outlets of Lake Ellynman urban lake in the Chicago metropolitan are--shows that detention storage alters the discharge and the quality of urban runoff. Peak water discharge and variation in the concentration of constituents transported by the...
Statistical analysis of surface-water-quality data in and near the coal-mining region of southwestern Indiana, 1957-80
Jeffrey D. Martin, Charles G. Crawford
1987, Water Supply Paper 2291
The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 requires that applications for coal-mining permits contain information about the water quality of streams at and near a proposed mine. To meet this need for information, streamflow, specific conductance, pH, and concentrations of total alkalinity, sulfate, dissolved solids, suspended solids, total...
Transport of dissolved and suspended material by the Potomac River at Chain Bridge, at Washington, D.C., water years 1978-81
Stephen F. Blanchard, D. C. Hahl
1987, Water Supply Paper 2234-B
The measuring station Potomac River at Chain Bridge at Washington, D.C., is located at the upstream end of the tidal Potomac River. Water-quality data were collected intensively at this site from December 1977 through September 1981 as part of a study of the tidal Potomac River and Estuary. Analysis of...
Shore erosion as a sediment source to the tidal Potomac River, Maryland and Virginia
Andrew J. Miller
1987, Water Supply Paper 2234-E
The shoreline of the tidal Potomac River attained its present form as a result of the Holocene episode of sea-level rise; the drowned margins of the system are modified by wave activity in the shore zone and by slope processes on banks steepened by basal-wave erosion. Shore erosion leaves residual...
Water resources of the Zuni tribal lands, McKinley and Cibola Counties, New Mexico
Brennon R. Orr
1987, Water Supply Paper 2227
An evaluation of the water resources of the Zuni tribal lands in west-central New Mexico was made to determine the yield, variability, and quality of water available to the Pueblo of Zuni. This study is needed to aid in orderly development of these resources. Rocks of Permian to Quaternary age...
Methods and computer program documentation for determining anisotropic transmissivity tensor components of two-dimensional ground-water flow
Morris L. Maslia, Robert B. Randolph
1987, Water Supply Paper 2308
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