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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Quaternary geology and ground-water resources of the Kansas River Valley between Bonner Springs and Lawrence, Kansas
No abstract available.
Authors
A.E. Dufford
Graphs of ground water levels in Minnesota through 1956
No abstract available.
Authors
G.C. Straka, Robert Schneider
Progress report of hydrology and sedimentation in Bixler Run, Corey Creek, and Elk Run watersheds, Pennsylvania
This report describes the results of an investigation in progress and presents some tentative findings from a study of hydrology and sedimentation of three small watersheds where soil conservation practices are being applied. The study was begun in April 1954, to determine precipitation, runoff, probable sources and yields of sediment, and channel changes in two small watersheds in Pennsylvania. T
Authors
J.K. Culbertson
Estimated use of water in the United States, 1955
The estimated withdrawal use of water in the United States during 1955 was about 740,000 mgd (million gallons per day). Withdrawal use of water requires that it be removed from the ground or diverted from a stream or lake. In this report it is divided into five types: public supplies, rural, irrigation, self-supplied industrial, and waterpower. Consumptive use of water is the quantity discharged t
Authors
Kenneth Allen MacKichan
Salt water and its relation to fresh ground water in Harris County, Texas
Harris County, in the West Gulf Coastal Plain in southeastern Texas, has one of the heaviest concentrations of ground-water withdrawal in the United States. Large quantities of water are pumped to meet the requirements of the rapidly growing population, for industry, and for rice irrigation. The water is pumped from artesian wells which tap a thick series of sands ranging in age from Miocene (?) t
Authors
Allen G. Winslow, William Watson Doyel, L.A. Wood
Floods of April-June 1952 in Utah and Nevada
The floods of April-June 1952 in the Great Basin and in the Green River basin in Utah came as the result of the heaviest snow cover recorded, a long period of near-record subnormal temperature during March and early April, and an abrupt change to above-normal temperature that induced rapid melting.Rainfall played an insignificant part. Low- and intermediate-elevation snow melted, bringing many str
Authors
J. V. B. Wells
Geology and ground-water resources of Galveston County, Texas
Galveston County, on the Texas gulf coast, is underlain by alternating beds of sand and clay. These sand and clay strata crop out in belts that roughly parallel the coastline and dip gently southeastward at an angle gre? +,er than the slope of the land, thereby creating artesian aquifers. The formations that yield potable water to wells are the Lissie formation, the "Alta Loma" sand and other sand
Authors
Ben McDowell Petitt, Allen George Winslow
Ground-water geology of the Bruneau–Grand View area, Owyhee County, Idaho
The Bruneau-Grand View area is part of an artesian basin in northern Owyhee
County, Idaho. The area described in this report comprises about 600 square
miles, largely of undeveloped public domain, much of which is open, or may be
opened, for desert-entry filing. Many irrigation-entry applications to the Federal
Government are pending, and information about ground-water geology is needed
by lo
Authors
Robert Thomas Littleton, E. G. Crosthwaite
Geology and ground-water resources of Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Outagamie County is in east-central Wisconsin. It has no serious groundwater problem at present, but the county is important as a recharge area for the principal aquifers supplying water to Brown County and industrial Green Bay to the east.
The county is covered by glacial drift and lake deposits of the Wisconsin stage of glaciation. In the northwestern quarter of the county these deposits rest up
Authors
E. F. LeRoux
Preliminary survey of the saline-water resources of the United States
Basic hydrologic data available in the field offices of the U. S. Geological Survey and reports issued by the Survey furnish evidence that saline water (defined in this report as water containing more than 1,000 parts per million of dissolved solids) is available under diverse geologic and hydrologic conditions throughout the United States.The number of areas in which undeveloped supplies of fresh
Authors
Robert A. Krieger, J.L. Hatchett, J. L. Poole
Water resources of the Yadkin-Pee Dee River basin, North Carolina
Sufficient water is available in the basin of the Yadkin and Pee Dee Rivers to meet present requirements and those for many years to come if water use increases at about the present rate. Data presented in this report show that the average annual streamflow from approximately 82 percent of the basin area during the 25-year period, 1929-53, was about 6,200 mgd, representing essentially the total av
Authors
Robert Eugene Fish, H. E. LeGrand, G. A. Billingsley