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Water as an urban resource and nuisance

Generally, when people speak of water as a resource, they are considering its good aspects and recognizing that it is essential for life and living. Sometimes or at some places or to some people, the same water may be annoying or unpleasant and thus a nuisance-for example, rain at a picnic, snow at any time except Christmas Eve, ground water in a basement, floodwater inundating personal property,
Authors
H. E. Thomas, William Joseph Schneider

Water for the cities - The outlook

Except perhaps for the arid Southwest, water resources are generally sufficient to meet the needs of cities for the foreseeable future. Cities will continue to expand and additional rural areas will be converted to urban and suburban complexes. Demands for urban water will continue to rise and this will place a heavy strain on existing systems. Cities have always faced water problems. This has lar
Authors
William Joseph Schneider, Andrew Maute Spieker

Water quality and discharge of streams in the Lehigh River Basin, Pennsylvania

The Lehigh River, 100 miles long, is the second largest tributary to the Delaware River. It drains 1,364 square miles in four physiographic provinces. The Lehigh River basin includes mountainous and forested areas, broad agricultural valleys and areas of urban and industrial development. In the headwaters the water is of good quality and has a low concentration of solutes. Downstream, some tributa
Authors
Edward F. McCarren, Walter B. Keighton

Hydrology for urban land planning - A guidebook on the hydrologic effects of urban land use

This circular attempts to summarize existing knowledge of the effects of urbanization on hydrologic factors. It also attempts to express this knowledge in terms that the planner can use to test alternatives during the planning process. Because the available data used in this report are applied to a portion of the Brandywine Creek basin in Pennsylvania, this can be considered as a report on the bas
Authors
Luna Bergere Leopold

Water data for metropolitan areas: A summary of data from 222 areas in the United States

Expansion of metropolitan areas poses persistent problems in management of the hydrologic environment. Adequate hydrologic data are prerequisite to proper planning and engineering design of urban environments. Some such data are available and are tabulated for each Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area in the United States. Information for each area consists of (1) data on size and population, (2

Carbonate rocks of Cambrian and Ordovician age in the Lancaster quadrangle, Pennsylvania

Detailed mapping has shown that the carbonate rocks of Cambrian and Ordovician age in the Lancaster quadrangle, Pennsylvania, can be divided into 14 rock-stratigraphic units. These units are defined primarily by their relative proportions of limestone and dolomite. The oldest units, the Vintage, Kinzers, and Ledger Formations of Cambrian age, and the Conestoga Limestone of Ordovician age are retai
Authors
Harold Meisler, Albert E. Becher

An appraisal of the ground-water resources of the Upper Susquehanna River basin in Pennsylvania

This report describes the availability, quantity, quality, variability, and cost of development of the ground-water resources in the Upper Susquehanna River basin in Pennsylvania, which is the entire drainage area in Pennsylvania above the confluence of the West Branch and the main stem of the Susquehanna River at Northumberland. The report has been prepared for and under specifications establishe
Authors
Paul R. Seaber

Delaware River basin - water data stations, 1967

This report presents information on station-type activities for acquiring surface-water, ground-water, and quality of water data in the Delaware River basin. The information was collected in 1966 through field offices of the Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey as part of a pilot study for the Office of Water Data Coordination. The cooperation and assistance of various Federal, state,
Authors
D.W. Moody, F.L. Shaefer

Swatara Creek basin of southeastern Pennsylvania: An evaluation of its hydrologic system

Local concentrations of population in the Swatara Creek basin of Pennsylvania find it necessary to store, transport, and treat water because local supplies are either deficient or have been contaminated by disposal of wastes in upstream areas. Water in the basin is available for the deficient areas and for dilution of the coal-mine drainage in the northern parts and the sewage wastes in the southe
Authors
Wilbur Tennant Stuart, William J. Schneider, James W. Crooks