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.
Filter Total Items: 18428
National water summary 1987: Hydrologic events and water supply and use
Water use in the United States, as measured by freshwater withdrawals in 1985, averaged 338,000 Mgal/d (million gallons per day), which is enough water to cover the 48 conterminous States to a depth of about 2.4 inches. Only 92,300 Mgal/d, or 27.3 percent of the water withdrawn, was consumptive use and thus lost to immediate further use; the remainder of the withdrawals (72.7 percent) was return f
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Water Availability and Use Science Program, Central Midwest Water Science Center, Dakota Water Science Center, Kansas Water Science Center, Pennsylvania Water Science Center, Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center, Utah Water Science Center, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center
Water resources data, North Carolina, water year 1989
Water resources data for the 1989 water year for North Carolina consists of records of stage, discharge and water quality of streams; stage and contents of lakes and reservoirs; and ground-water levels. This report contains discharge records for 178 gaging stations and stage and contents for 26 lakes and reservoirs; water quality for 26 gaging stations and 10 miscellaneous sites; continuous daily
Authors
B.C. Ragland, R.G. Barker, W.H. Eddins, A.J. Padyk, J.F. Rinehardt
Organic contamination of ground water at Gas Works Park, Seattle, Washington
Gas Works Park, in Seattle, Washington, is located on the site of a coal and oil gasification plant that ceased operation in 1956. During operation, many types of wastes, including coal, tar, and oil, accumulated on-site. The park soil is currently (1986) contaminated with compounds such as polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, volatile organic compounds, trace metals, and cyanide. Analyses of water
Authors
G. L. Turney, D.F. Goerlitz
History of the Federal Inter-Agency Sedimentation Project
No abstract available.
Authors
J. V. Skinner
Effects of ground-water withdrawals for irrigation on the quality of the Straight River, north-central Minnesota
No abstract available.
Authors
J. R. Stark, D. R. Zwilling
Comparison of aquifer storage coefficients computed using anisotropic and isotropic analytical models
No abstract available.
Authors
Vicente Quinones-Aponte
Model B sediment concentration gage: Factors influencing its readings and a formula for correcting its errors in measurement and analysis of sediment load in streams
No abstract available.
Authors
J. V. Skinner
Hydrologic and water-quality characteristics of a Wetland receiving wastewater effluent in St. Joseph, Minnesota
Hydrologic and water-quality characteristics were determined for a wetland being used for tertiary treatment of wastewater in St. Joseph, Minnesota. The wetland consists of spruce-tamarack fen and a cattail marsh, with the wastewater being discharged into the fen, and the fen draining into the marsh. The wetland is underlain by flat-lying glacial outwash that ranges from 0 to greater than 20 m in
Authors
Rob G. Brown, James R. Stark
Water resources of northeast Iowa
In 1965 a cooperative investigation with the U.S. Geological Survey produced Water Atlas No. 1 (Twenter and Coble, 1965). It presented information on the occurrence, availability, use, quality, and future demand of water in 10 counties in the central part of the state. Subsequent investigations produced Water Atlases No. 4 (Coble and Roberts, 1971) for southeast Iowa, No. 5 (Cagle and Heinitz, 1
Authors
P. J. Horick, P. J. Soenksen
Accumulation and diagenesis of chlorinated hydrocarbons in lacustrine sediments
Two sediment cores were taken from the Rochester Basin of eastern Lake Ontario and analyzed for the radionuclides 210Pb and 137Cs and several high molecular weight chlorinated hydrocarbons (CHs). The two sites are geographically proximate but differ in sedimentation rate, permitting sedimentation-dependent processes to be factored out. The 210Pb chronology showed a mixed depth of 3-5 cm and an int
Authors
Steven J. Eisenreich, Paul D. Capel, John A. Robbins, R. Bourbonniere
Factors affecting water-supply potential of the Twin Cities metropolitan area aquifer system
No abstract available.
Authors
M.E. Schoenberg
Solute advection in stratified formations
Advection‐dominated solute movement in stratified formations is investigated using a Lagrangian interpretation of particle motion. A probability density function (pdf) for particle position quantifies the expected depth‐integrated resident concentration. A pdf for particle arrival time quantifies the expected depth‐integrated rate of mass arrival, from which the flux‐averaged concentration can be
Authors
V.D. Cvetkovic, Allen M. Shapiro