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Peak discharge on Bull Creek and tributaries, Scurry and Borden Counties, Texas, flood of April 12, 13, 1954
This report contains a description of the rainfall pattern producing the flood of April 12, 13, 1954, in the Bull Creek watershed, the results of indirect determinations of peak discharges and estimates of flows at several points in that watershed, and a comparison of the peak stage at the discontinued gaging station on Bull Creek near Ira, Tex., with other floods on record. Field work...
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L.L. McDaniels
Diversions from Red River to Lake Dallas, Texas; and related channel losses, February and March 1954
During the period Feb. 10 to Mar. 3, 19541 the City of Dallas pumped 1,363 acre-feet of water from its Red River plant into Pecan Creek (a tributary of Elm Fork Trinity River) 3.5 miles above Gainesville; 1,272 acre-feet of this diversion reached the head of Lake Dallas. Discharge records were obtained at four points along the channels. This water was transported down the channels of...
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Pat H. Holland
Floods in Devils and Pecos River basins of Texas, June 27-28, 1954 - miscellaneous data
Record-breaking floods occurred June 27, 28, 1954, in the Devils and lower Pecos Rivers and in some tributaries to those streams, caused by heavy rainfall of June 26-28. At the time of the flood the geological Survey was not operating a gaging station in the Devils River basin or in the Pecos river basin below Girvin. Continuous records of the flow of Devils River were obtained by the...
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S.D. Breeding
Geology of the western Everglades area, southern Florida
IntroductionDuring 1950, a series of 43 test wells 30 feet deep were drilled by the United States Corps of Engineers along the western edge of the Everglades from the Tamiami Canal northward to the Caloosahatchee River. The cores obtained from the wells afford geologic data along a line from the lower Everglades of Dade County, where both the geology and water resources have been...
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Melvin Carroll Schroeder, Howard Klein
Low flows on Neches River, Texas, September-October 1952, dam B reservoir to mouth of Village Creek
No abstract available.
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V.L. Austin, W.O. George
Seepage investigation, lower Trinity River of Texas, October and November 1952
No abstract available.
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Pat H. Holland
Chlorine contamination of a well at New Bern, North Carolina
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H. E. LeGrand
Chemical character of surface waters of North Carolina, 1951-1952
No abstract available.
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G. H. Billingsley, B.F. Joyner
Geology and ground-water resources of Comal County, Texas
The purpose of this report on the geology and ground-water resources of Comal County in central Texas is to determine the sources of the waters that supply Comal Springs, the largest springs in the Southwest, and other springs and wells. Comal County has an area of about 559 square miles and in 1950 had a population of 16,325. Comal Springs discharge within the city limits of New...
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William Owsley George, Seth D. Breeding, Warren W. Hastings
Results of chloride determinations of water samples from observation wells in the Savannah area, Georgia, October 1952
No abstract available.
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Stephen M. Herrick
Tertiary stratigraphy of South Carolina
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C. Wythe Cooke, F. Stearns MacNeil
Water-level fluctuations in limestone sinks in southwestern Georgia
No abstract available.
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E. L. Hendricks, Melvin H. Goodwin