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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Water and salt balance of Great Salt Lake, Utah, and simulation of water and salt movement through the causeway
The water and salt balance of Great Salt Lake primarily depends on the amount of inflow from tributary streams and the conveyance properties of a causeway constructed during 1957-59 that divides the lake into the south and north parts. The conveyance properties of the causeway originally included two culverts, each 15 feet wide, and the permeable rock-fill material.During 1980-86, the salt balance
Authors
Steven R. Wold, Blakemore E. Thomas, Kidd M. Waddell
Water-level altitudes 1997 and water-level changes 1990-97 and 1996-97 in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers, Fort Bend County and adjacent areas, Texas
This report is one in an annual series of reports that depicts water-level altitudes and water-level changes since 1990 in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers in Fort Bend County and adjacent areas, Texas.
Authors
L. S. Coplin, M. C. Kasmarek, H. X. Santos, D. A. Sneck-Fahrer
Water-level altitudes 1997, water-level changes 1977-97 and 1996-97, and compaction 1973-96 in the Chicot and Evangeline Aquifers, Houston-Galveston region, Texas
This report is one in an annual series of reports that depicts water-level altitudes and water-level changes since 1977 and compaction since 1973 in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers in the Houston-Galveston region, Texas.
Authors
Mark C. Kasmarek, L. S. Coplin, Horacio X. Santos
Hydrology of the shallow aquifer and uppermost semiconfined aquifer near El Paso, Texas
The availability of fresh ground water in El Paso and adjacent areas that is needed to meet increased demand for water supply concerns local, State, and Federal agencies. The Hueco bolson is the principal aquifer in the El Paso area. Starting in the early 1900s and continuing to the 1950s, most of the municipal and industrial water supply in El Paso was pumped from the Hueco bolson aquifer from we
Authors
D. E. White, E. T. Baker, Roger Sperka
Organochlorine compounds in fish tissue and bed sediment in the upper Snake River basin, Idaho and western Wyoming, 1992-94
Fish-tissue and bed-sediment samples were
collected from 20 sites in the upper Snake River
Basin in Idaho and western Wyoming as part of the
National Water-Quality Assessment Program to
determine the occurrence and distribution of organochlorine compounds. During 1992-94, 41 samples were analyzed for 28 different organochlorine
compounds in whole-fish tissue and 32 compounds
in bed sediment.
Authors
Terry R. Maret, Douglas S. Ott
Agricultural land-use classification using landsat imagery data, and estimates of irrigation water use in Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, and Minidoka counties, 1992 water year, Upper Snake River basin, Idaho and western Wyoming
As part of the U.S. Geological Survey's
National Water-Quality Assessment Program in
the upper Snake River Basin study unit, land- and
water-use data were used to describe activities that
have potential effects on water quality, including
biological conditions, in the basin. Land-use maps
and estimates of water use by irrigated agriculture
were needed for Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, and
Mini
Authors
Molly A. Maupin
Characteristics of fish assemblages and related environmental variables for streams of the upper Snake River basin, Idaho and western Wyoming, 1993-95
Fish assemblages and environmental variables
were evaluated for 30 first- through seventh-order
streams in the upper Snake River Basin,
Idaho and western Wyoming. Data were collected
as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment
Program to characterize aquatic biota and associated
habitats in surface water. Sampling sites represented
major stream types in the basin large
river, agricult
Authors
Terry R. Maret
Water-quality assessment of the Trinity River Basin, Texas — Nutrients and pesticides in the watersheds of Richland and Chambers Creeks, 1993-95
A study of nutrients and pesticides was conducted during February-August 1995 in the west-central part of the Trinity River Basin, where land commonly is used for growing crops. Water and bed-sediment samples were collected at 8 small reservoir sites in the headwaters (known as Natural Resources Conservation Service reservoirs), at 5 stream sites, and at 3 Richland-Chambers Reservoir sites. The an
Authors
L. F. Land
Characterization of fill deposits in the Calumet region of northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois
In October 1993, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, began a study of the fill deposits in the Calumet region of northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois. Fill in this area is a mixture of steel-industry wastes, other industrial waste, municipal solid waste, dredging spoil, construction debris, ash, cinders, natural materials, and biologi
Authors
Robert T. Kay, Theodore K. Greeman, Richard F. Duwelius, Robin B. King, John E. Nazimek, David M. Petrovski
Techniques for estimating peak flow on small streams in Minnesota
Two statistically-derived techniques, regional regression equation and region of influence regression, that estimate peak flow on small, ungaged streams in Minnesota were developed. Both techniques relate physical and climatic characteristics to peak flow for 2-, 5-, 10-, 25-, 50-, and 100-year recurrence intervals.
Regional regression equations were developed for each recurrence interval in each
Authors
D. L. Lorenz, G.H. Carlson, C. A. Sanocki
Organochlorine compounds and trace elements in streambed sediment and fish tissue, South Platte River Basin; Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming
Concentration data for organochlorine compounds and trace elements in streambed sediment and fish tissue collected throughout the South Platte River Basin as part of the U.S. Geological Survey's National WaterQuality Assessment (NAWQA) Program were evaluated to determine the following: (1) which organochlorine compounds and trace elements occurred most frequently, (2) whether detection frequencies
Authors
Janet S. Heiny
Urbanization and recharge in the vicinity of East Meadow Brook, Nassau County, New York: Part 2 — Effect of urban runoff on the hydrology of the headwaters of East Meadow Brook, 1989-90
No abstract available.
Authors
Frederick Stumm, Henry F. H. Ku