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Water resources of the Wichita area, Kansas Water resources of the Wichita area, Kansas

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Authors
Lester Reinhold Petri, C.W. Lane, Lawton Williams Furness

Geological Survey research 1964, Chapter B Geological Survey research 1964, Chapter B

This collection of 46 short papers is one of a series to be released as chapters of Geological Survey Research 1964. The papers report on scientific and economic results of current work by members of the Geologic and Water Resources Divisions of the U.S. Geological Survey. Some of the papers present results of completed parts of continuing investigations; others announce new discoveries...
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Water Resources Division U.S. Geological Survey

Chemical quality of surface waters and sedimentation in the Saline River basin, Kansas Chemical quality of surface waters and sedimentation in the Saline River basin, Kansas

This report gives the results of an investigation of the sediment and dissolved minerals that are transported by the Saline River and its tributaries. The Saline River basin is in western and central Kansas; it is long and narrow and covers 3,420 square miles of rolling plains, which is broken in some places by escarpments and small areas of badlands. In the western part the uppermost...
Authors
Paul Robert Jordan, B.F. Jones, Lester R. Petri

Floods at Wichita, Kansas Floods at Wichita, Kansas

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Authors
Davis W. Ellis

The role of ground water in the national water situation: With state summaries based on reports by District Offices of Ground Water Branch The role of ground water in the national water situation: With state summaries based on reports by District Offices of Ground Water Branch

Ground water in the United States has emerged from a quantitatively minor (though incalculably valuable) water source, whose chief role was in the settlement of primitive areas, to a major source now accounting for one-fifth to one-sixth of the Nation's total withdrawal requirements for water. With the growth in ground-water withdrawals is an accompanying growth in the realization that...
Authors
Charles Lee McGuinness

The meteorologic phenomenon of drought in the Southwest The meteorologic phenomenon of drought in the Southwest

The recent drought is one of several which have been recorded in the arid Southwest in the past century. In regions where precipitation comes chiefly from a single source, as in California and the Great Plains, prevailingly dry periods have alternated with wetter periods, each lasting 10 to 15 years. In the intervening area that includes the basins of the Colorado River and Rio Grande...
Authors
H. E. Thomas

Emergency water supplies in the Wichita area, Kansas Emergency water supplies in the Wichita area, Kansas

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Authors
Charles W. Lane, E.L. Reavis, Gilbert J. Stramel
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