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Measurement of Time Of Travel In Streams By Dye Tracing

US Geological Survey, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations 3-A9

by FA Kilpatrick, and JF Wilson, Jr


Table of Contents

Preface

Abstract

Introduction

General

Purposes of Tracer Studies

Press Releases

General Description of Dye Tracing

Theory

Fluorometry

Fluorescent Dyes

Toxicity

Dye-Tracing Equipment and Supplies

Injection

Sampling

Fluorometers

Planning the Time-of-Travel Study

Test Discharges

Map and Streamflow-Data Study

Reconnaissance of the Stream

Selecting Dye-Injection and Sampling Sites

Dye Requirements

Sampling Schedule

The Measurement Plan

Personnel and Equipment Assignments

Performance of Field Test

Injection of Dye

Collection of Water Samples

Use of Fluorometers

Measurement of Discharge

Analysis and Presentation of Data

Laboratory Analysis

Time-Concentration Curves

Traveltime

Regionalization

Summary

References

 


 

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