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Geology and ground-water resources of Medina County, Texas
The Edwards limestone of Cretaceous age is the principal water-bearing formation in Medina County and makes up the major part of a ground-water reservoir, or aquifier, which in places includes thinner limestone formations both above and below the Edwards. The Glen Rose limestone, also of Cretaceous age, yields moderate amounts of water to wells and springs in the northern part of the county. Other
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Charles Lee Roy Holt
Floods and flood control on the Colorado River at Austin, Texas
No abstract available.
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I. D. Yost
Low-flow characteristics of Iowa streams
Study of the occurrence of low flow on interior Iowa streams and the Big Sioux River.
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Harlan H. Schwob
Ground-water resources of the Hueco Bolson northeast of El Paso, Texas
The Hueco Bolson is in the extreme western part of Texas and south- central New Mexico, covering parts of El Paso County, Tex., and Dona Ana and Otero Counties, N. Mex. Wells tapping the bolson deposits furnish the major part of the water supply for the city of El Paso, Ciudad Juarez, Fort Bliss, Biggs Air Force Base, and private industries. in the area. The progressively increasing demand for wat
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Doyle Blewer Knowles, Richard A. Kennedy
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
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Allen G. Winslow, William Watson Doyel, L.A. Wood
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
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Ben McDowell Petitt, Allen George Winslow
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
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Robert Eugene Fish, H. E. LeGrand, G. A. Billingsley
Water resources of the Neuse River Basin, North Carolina
No abstract available.
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G. A. Billingsley, Robert Eugene Fish, R.G. Schipf
Drainage areas of Iowa streams
The drainage area of a stream at a specified location ordinarily may be defined as that area, measured in a horizontal plane, which is enclosed by a topographic divide such that direct surface runoff from precipitation would drain by gravity into the river basin above the specified point.
One of the most important factors in the hydrologic computation for the design of structures on or over waterc
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O.J. Larimer
Delivery of water, Whitney Reservoir to Richmond, Texas, via Brazos River channel, 1956
No abstract available.
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P.E. Holland
Surface water supply of eastern and central North Carolina
None of the many factors that influence the economic growth of eastern and central North Carolina plays a more important role than water. Adequate water supply for municipal, rural domestic, industrial, and agricultural uses, is a basic need of any region.
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Edward B. Rice