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Nitrogen in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed - A Century of Change, 1950–2050

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Domestic Well Water Quality in Marcellus Shale Region

Factors Affecting Groundwater Quality Used for Domestic Supply in Marcellus Shale Region of North-Central and North-East Pennsylvania

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Geohydrologic and water-quality characterization of a fractured-bedrock test hole in an area of Marcellus Shale gas development, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania

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Public water supplies of the 100 largest cities of the United States, 1962

The public water supplies of the 100 largest cities in the United States (1960 U.S. Census) serve 9,650 million gallons of water per day (mgd) to 60 million people, which is 34 percent of the Nation's total population and 48 percent of the Nation's urban population. The amount of water used to satisfy the domestic needs as well as the needs of commerce and industry ranges from 13 mgd, which serves
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Charles N. Durfor, Edith Becker
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Water Resources Mission Area, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center, Pennsylvania Water Science Center, Utah Water Science Center

Chemical character of streams in the Delaware River basin

The water chemistry of streams in the Delaware River basin falls into eight general groups, when mapped according to the prevalent dissolved-solids content and the predominant ions normally found in the water. The approximate regions representing each of these iso-chemical quality groups are shown on the accompanying base map of the drainage basin.
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Peter W. Anderson, Leo T. McCarthy
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Water Resources Mission Area, Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Some relations between streamflow characteristics and the environment in the Delaware River region

Streamflow characteristics are determined by a large number of factors of the meteorological and terrestrial environments. Because of lack of quantitative data to describe some of the factors and complex interrelations among them, complete analysis of the relations between streamflow and the various environmental factors is impossible. However, certain simplifying assumptions and generalizations m
Authors
A. G. Hely, F. H. Olmsted
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Water Resources Mission Area, Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Surficial geology and soils of the Elmira-Williamsport region, New York and Pennsylvania, with a section on forest regions and great soil groups

The Elmira-Williamsport region, lying south of the Finger Lakes in central New York and northern Pennsylvania, is part of the Appalachian Plateaus physiographic province. A small segment of the Valley and Ridge province is included near the south border. In 1953 and 1954, the authors, a geologist and a soil scientist, made a reconnaissance of about 5,000 square miles extending southward from the F
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Charles Storrow Denny, Walter Henry Lyford, J. C. Goodlett
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Water Resources Mission Area, Pennsylvania Water Science Center

The role of ground water in the national water situation: With state summaries based on reports by District Offices of Ground Water Branch

Ground water in the United States has emerged from a quantitatively minor (though incalculably valuable) water source, whose chief role was in the settlement of primitive areas, to a major source now accounting for one-fifth to one-sixth of the Nation's total withdrawal requirements for water. With the growth in ground-water withdrawals is an accompanying growth in the realization that large-scale
Authors
Charles Lee McGuinness
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Water Resources Mission Area, Dakota Water Science Center, Kansas Water Science Center, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center, Pennsylvania Water Science Center, Utah Water Science Center

Chemical quality of surface waters in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania has an abundant supply of surface water of good quality. The average rainfall over the 45,300 square miles in the State is about 42 inches per year. Of this amount, about 50 percent appears in the streams as runoff. The combined mean annual runoff of the Delaware, Ohio, and Susquehanna Rivers, at their farthest downstream measuring points in the State, is in excess of 81,000 cubic fee
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Charles N. Durfor, Peter W. Anderson
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Water Resources Mission Area, Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Variations in the chemical character of the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

The chemical quality of the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg is influenced by three major factors: streamflow, anthracite and bituminous coal-mine drainage, and geology. Water samples collected at Harrisburg near the west bank of the Susquehanna River and those of western tributaries that drain limestone terranes are similar in chemical quality. The water is alkaline and contains calcium, magnesium
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Peter W. Anderson
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Water Resources Mission Area, Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Relation between ground water and surface water in Brandywine Creek basin, Pennsylvania

The relation between ground water and surface water was studied in Brandywine Creek basin, an area of 287 square miles in the Piedmont physiographic province in southeastern Pennsylvania. Most of the basin is underlain by crystalline rocks that yield only small to moderate supplies of water to wells, but the creek has an unusually well-sustained base flow. Streamflow records for the Chadds Ford, P
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F. H. Olmsted, A. G. Hely
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Water Resources Mission Area, Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Salinity of the Delaware Estuary

The purpose of this investigation was to obtain data on and study the factors affecting the salinity of the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pa., to the Appoquinimink River, Del. The general chemical quality of water in the estuary is described, including changes in salinity in the river cross section and profile, diurnal and seasonal changes, and the effects of rainfall, sea level, and winds on
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Bernard Cohen, Leo T. McCarthy
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Water Resources Mission Area, Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Drainage basins, channels, and flow characteristics of selected streams in central Pennsylvania

The hydraulic, basin, and geologic characteristics of 16 selected streams in central Pennsylvania were measured for the purpose of studying the relations among these general characteristics and their process of development. The basic parameters which were measured include bankfull width and depth, channel slope, bed material size and shape, length of stream from drainage divide, and size of draina
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Lucien M. Brush
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Water Resources Mission Area, Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Floods in Pennsylvania, frequency and magnitude

This report outlines a method of determining the magnitude of floods having frequencies up to 50 years for any stream in Pennsylvania except regulated streams and streams whose drainage basins are smaller than 10 square miles. On the main stems of the Schuylkill, Delaware, Susquehanna, and Chemung Rivers the magnitude of floods can be determined for frequencies up to 100 years. Six composite frequ
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W. F. Busch, E.C. Shaw
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Water Resources Mission Area, Pennsylvania Water Science Center

Recharging ground-water reservoirs

Successful artificial recharge of a ground-water reservoir depends upon many factors. Some factors are very complicated and technical. This paper will deal briefly with some of them. For a more comprehensive description of ground-water reservoirs and their artificial recharge, the publications listed at the end of this paper should be consulted.
Authors
George H. Taylor
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Water Resources Mission Area, Pennsylvania Water Science Center