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Texas floods of September and October 1955

This report on the floods of September and and October 1955 in the Nueces, Brazos, and Pecos River basins, Texas, was prepared in the Texas District Office, Surface Water Branch, under the direction of Trigg Twichell, District Engineer.Records of discharge were collected and compiled in cooperation with the Texas State Board of Water Engineers, the Pecos River Commission, and other agencies.The is
Authors
D.L. Milliken, W.H. Goines

Delivery of water from Belton Reservoir to the Brazos River gaging station at Richmond, Texas, by way of the Leon, Little, and Brazos River channels, 1956

Beginning November 1, 1956 and ending December 14, 1956, the Corps of Engineers, in cooperation with the Brazos River Authority released 73,000 acre-feet of water (as measured at the gaging station on Leon river near Belton) from the Belton Reservoir for industrial use in the vicinity of Freeport, Tex. (see fig. 1). The need for this water at Freeport came as a result of the prolonged drought cond
Authors
D.E. Havelka, E.M. Parten

Guadalupe and Blanco River seepage investigations

No abstract available.
Authors
Pat H. Holland, Burdge Irelan

Saline-water resources of Texas

Large quantities of saline water are available in the world, both on the surface and underground; however, these waters have not been studied extensively as sources of potable water. Saline water is defined herein as water containing more than 1,000 parts per million of dissolved solids, or, with certain mineralized irrigation waters whose exact dissolved solids content is not known, water contain
Authors
Allen George Winslow, Lester Ray Kister

Floods in North Carolina, frequency and magnitude

Recorded annual flood stages and discharges at 144 gaging stations are listed.  Also included are maximum known flood stages and discharges, both at gaging stations and at miscellaneous sites.  Using the annual flood discharge at gaging stations a regional analysis of flood magnitudes and frequencies in the state was made.  Results of the analysis are (1) a composite annual flood frequency curve f
Authors
H. C. Riggs