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The majority of publications in this section address water resources in Utah or in bordering states. Some of the publications are included because one or more of the authors work at the Utah Water Science Center but have provided expertise to studies in other geographic areas.

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Hydrology and hydrogeology of Navajo Lake, Kane County, Utah

Navajo Lake, whose entire outflow disappears underground, is on the high Markagurit Plateau where the average annual precipitation is more than 30 inches. It nestles among the headwaters of several streams that flow into arid regions where competition for municipal, industrial, and irrigation water sup- plies is very keen. Several proposals for additional development and use of the water of Navajo
Authors
Milton Theurer Wilson, Harold E. Thomas

Water resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin - basic data

This is the basic data section of a report by the U.S. Geological Survey on the water resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin. This section contains tables of duration of water discharge at 176 stream-gaging sites, monthly and annual summaries of chemical quality and sediment data at sites of continuous record, results of chemical quality and sediment analyses at miscellaneous-sampling sites,
Authors
William Vaughn Iorns, C. H. Hembree, D. A. Phoenix, G.L. Oakland

Inventory of published and unpublished chemical analyses of surface waters in the continental United States and Puerto Rico, 1961

This inventory contains a list of published and unpublished chemical analyses obtained through September 30, 1961, by agencies associated with the Subcommittee on Hydrology. Bulletin 6 of Subcommittee on Hydrology includes references to all surface-water analyses for states east of the Mississippi River known to exist in the files of Federal agencies through September 30, 1951. Records of analyses
Authors
Thomas H. Woodard, Sumner Griggs Heidel

Summary of floods in the United States during 1959

This report describes the most outstanding floods that occurred in the United States during 1959.The floods of January-February in Ohio and adjacent States were the most outstanding floods of the year 1959 with respect to area affected, number of streams having maximum discharge of record, rare occurrence of peaks, and great amount of damage caused.Floods in the Rock River basin in southern Wiscon
Authors
E. L. Hendricks

Chemical composition of snow in the northern Sierra Nevada and other areas

Melting snow provides a large part of the water used throughout the western conterminous United States for agriculture, industry, and domestic supply. It is an active agent in chemical weathering, supplies moisture for forest growth, and sustains fish and wildlife. Despite its importance, virtually nothing has been known of the chemical character of snow in the western mountains until the present
Authors
John Henry Frederick Feth, S. M. Rogers, Charles Elmer Roberson

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
Authors
Charles N. Durfor, Edith Becker

Summary of floods in the United States during 1958

This report describes the most outstanding floods that occurred in the United States during 1958.A series of storms from January 23 to February 16 brought large amounts of precipitation to northern California and produced damaging floods, particularly in the Lower Sacramento Valley where losses totaled about \$12 million.Major floods, notable because of the large area affected, occurred on many sm
Authors
E. L. Hendricks

Developing a State Water Plan: A basic water resource data program for Utah

Reliable data on Utah's water resources are essential to development of a State Water plan. While the need for such data was outlined in the report entitles "Developing a State Water Plan - Utah's water resources, problems, and needs - A challenge" published by the Utah Water and Power Board and Utah State University in 1963, the discussion was, of necessity, brief. Further definition and scheduli
Authors
Ted Arnow, R.H. Langford, M. T. Wilson

Quality of surface waters in Utah, October 1962 to September 1963

This data release is a compilation that presents water-quality data for the period October 1962 to September 1963 for the sites listed on page 2. These preliminary data are subject to revision before final publication in the annual series of U.S. Geological Survey Water-supply papers entitled Quality of surface waters of the United States. Most of the data were obtained as part of the Geological S
Authors

Selected hydrologic data, upper Sevier River basin, Utah

This report is intended to serve two purposes: (1) to make available to the public basic ground-water data useful in planning and studying development of water resources, and (2) to supplement an interpretive report that will be published later.Records were collected during 1961-63 by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Utah State Engineer as a part of the investigation of ground-wa
Authors
Carl H. Carpenter, Gerald B. Robinson, Louis Jay Bjorklund