Publications
This list of Water Resources Mission Area publications includes both official USGS publications and journal articles authored by our scientists. A searchable database of all USGS publications can be accessed at the USGS Publications Warehouse.
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Evaluation of the streamflow-data program in Pennsylvania
The stream-gaging program in Pennsylvania is subject to budgetary constraints in the next several years. Elimination of those gaging stations that have no current-purpose use and little utility in providing regional flow-characteristic information is the most effective way to reduce costs.
The efficient design of a network of gaging stations for obtaining regional information requires knowledge of
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Herbert N. Flippo
Water-quality assessment of Steiner Branch basin, Lafayette County, Wisconsin
Steiner Branch basin in southwestern Wisconsin has rugged mature topography. Corn is planted in 30 percent of the basin on slopes ranging from 0 to 20 percent. Although contour stripcropping is a recommended practice for these easily eroded soil slopes, few conservation practices are followed to reduce soil losses. Because the stream drains into a manmade lake used for recreation, its water qualit
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Stephen J. Field, R.A. Lidwin
Ground-water resources of the glacial outwash along the White River, Johnson and Morgan counties, Indiana
An 88-square-mile segment of the White River valley contains an unconfined sand and gravel aquifer ranging-from a featheredge zero, to 120 feet in saturated thickness. Hydraulic conductivity is 340 feet per day, and transmissivity is as much as 35,000 square feet per day. The aquifer, recharged primarily by precipitation, gains same recharge through interbedded till and outwash boundaries and thro
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Z. C. Bailey, T.E. Imbrigiotta
Ground-water resources of the White River basin, Hamilton and Tipton Counties, Indiana
An analysis of the ground-water resources of the Hamilton and Tipton Counties was based on data from about 1,900 well logs, 125 water levels in 125 wells, streamflow measurements at 57 sites, and municipal- and industrial-pumpage records. These data were used to map the flow system and construct a three-dimensional model of the study area and a more detailed two-dimensional model of the outwash de
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Leslie D. Arihood
Ground-water resources of the White River basin, Delaware County, Indiana
The ground-water resources of the White River basin in and near Delaware County, Indiana, were investigated by mapping the aquifers, calculating their hydraulic properties, determining the distribution of potentiometric head, and determining some of the components of the ground-water budget from data collected in the field. This information was used to construct and calibrate a seven-layer, digita
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Leslie D. Arihood, Wayne W. Lapham
Aquatic biology in Nederlo Creek, southwestern Wisconsin
This report presents the results of biologic investigations by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources during a study of hydrology and water quality in a small drainage basin in the "Driftless Area" of southwest Wisconsin. The investigation included aquatic macrophytes, periphytic and planktonic algae, benthic invertebrates, and trout population dynamics during
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Phil A. Kammerer, R.A. Lidwin, J.W. Mason, R.P. Narf
Effects of a floodwater-retarding structure on the hydrology and ecology of Trout Creek in southwestern Wisconsin
The primary effects of a floodwater-retarding structure (FRS) on the streamflow of Trout Creek, Wisconsin, are attenuation of flood peaks and extension of the time base of flood hydrographs. Reduction of flood peaks ranged from 58 to 91 percent during the study period from 1975 to 1979.
There is an inverse relation between sediment concentration and outflow from the FRS during floods. As water wen
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Steve Baima, David J. Graczyk, Stephen J. Field, Dennis A. Wentz, William L. Hilsenhoff, Eddie L. Avery, O. M. Brynildson
Ground-water data for Georgia, 1981
More than 2,000 water-level measurements made in Georgia in 1981 provide the basic data for this report. Daily mean water-level fluctuations and trends are shown in hydrographs for the previous year (1980) and fluctuations of the monthly mean water levels are shown for selected years in some observation wells in Georgia. Water-quality samples are collected periodically throughout Georgia and analy
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S.E. Matthews, Willis G. Hester, K.W. McFadden
Ground-water quality and data on wells and springs in Pennsylvania; Volume III, Delaware River basin
Volume III presents ground-water quality and physical data on about 1,250 wells and springs in the Delaware River Basin in Pennsylvania. Locations are shown on site-location maps derived from the hydrologic unit map. Codes showing the geologic age and aquifer are provided.
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H.E. Koester, D.R. Miller
Methods for the determination of organic substances in water and fluvial sediments, USGS TWRI, Book 5, Laboratory analysis, Chapter A3
This manual contains analytical methods used by the U.S. Geological Survey for the determination of organic substances in water, water-suspended sediment mixtures, and bottom material. Some of the analytical procedures yield determinations for specific compounds, whereas others provide a measure of the quantity of groups of compounds present in the sample. Examples of the first category are proced
Annotated report and data inventory for the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area
This inventory of reports and data concerning the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers in the Twin Cities metropolitan area was compiled from November 1981 through January 1982 for a planned river-quality assessment to be conducted cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission. There are 260 annotated citations: 176 citations of reports; 8 citations of compu
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T. A. Winterstein
Estimating the magnitude of peak discharges for selected flood frequencies on small streams in South Carolina (1975)
A program to collect and analyze flood data from small streams in South Carolina was conducted from 1967-75, as a cooperative research project with the South Carolina Department of Highways and Public Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration. As a result of that program, a technique is presented for estimating the magnitude and frequency of floods on small streams in South Carolina wi
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B.H. Whetstone