Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Publications

South Atlantic Water Science Center scientists have produced over 1,300 publications that are registered in the USGS Publications Warehouse, along with many others prior to their work at the USGS or in conjunction with other government agencies. Journal articles and conference proceedings are also available.

Filter Total Items: 1546

Effects of nutrients on algal growth in West Point Lake, Georgia

No abstract available.
Authors
R.N. Cherry, B.W. Lium, W. Thomas Shoaf, J. K. Stamer, R.E. Faye

Impact of flow regulation and power plant effluents on the flow and temperature regimes of the Chattahoochee River - Atlanta to Whitesburg, Georgia

A calibrated and verified transient flow temperature model was used to evaluate the effects of flow regulation and powerplant loadings on the natural temperature regime of the Chattahoochee River in northeast Georgia. Estimates were made of both instantaneous and average natural temperatures in the river during an eight-day period in August 1976. Differences between the computed average natural te
Authors
Robert E. Faye, Harvey E. Jobson, Larry F. Land

Program for evaluating stream quality in North Carolina

The design and objectives of the program for evaluating stream quality in North Carolina are described. Using water-quality and streamflow data collected since the 1940's, a study is underway to define certain variations in water quality, to quantify the effects of man 's activities on water quality, and to determine long-term trends at key locations on the State 's major river. Data collected fro
Authors
Hugh B. Wilder, Clyde E. Simmons

A preliminary appraisal of the impact of agriculture on ground-water availability in southwest Georgia

Irrigated acreage in the study area in southwest Georgia increased from 130,000 acres in 1976 to 261,000 in 1977. Acreage irrigated entirely by ground water increased 85 percent for the same period. The largest quantity of ground water used for irrigation was in the Dougherty Plain district, where 92 percent of supplemental irrigation water comes from wells. In the Tifton Upland district, ground w
Authors
L.D. Pollard, R.G. Grantham, H.E. Blanchard

Public water supplies of North Carolina: A summary of water sources, use, treatment, and capacity of water-supply systems

A study of the public water-supply systems in North Carolina with 500 or more customers provides information needed to aid the planning, development, and utilization of the public water supplies of the State. Water use, sources of water, water quality, water treatment and capacity of 224 public-water-supply systems were investigated during 1970-76, and the findings of the investigation, which were
Authors
L.T. Mann

Land use, land cover, and drainage on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula, Eastern North Carolina, 1974

A land use, land cover, and drainage map of the 2,000-square-mile Albermarle-Pamlico peninsula of eastern North Carolina has been prepared, at a scale of 1:125,000, as part of a larger study of the effects of large-scale land clearing on regional hydrology. The peninsula includes the most extensive area of wetland in North Carolina and one of the largest in the country. In recent years the pace of
Authors
C.C. Daniel

Low-flow frequency of Georgia streams

This report contains analyses of low-flow data and tabulations of computed low-flow frequency for all stream sites in Georgia where suitable flow records have been collected. These include 134 continuous-record gaging stations and 102 partial-record gaging stations. Frequency records for gaging stations with short records have been adjusted where possible to more closely represent results that wou
Authors
R.F. Carter, S.A. Putnam

Evaluation of the geologic and hydrologic factors related to the waste-storage potential of Mesozoic aquifers in the southern part of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, South Carolina and Georgia

This report describes the subsurface distribution of rocks of Cretaceous to Late Jurassic(?) age in the Atlantic. Coastal Plain, South Carolina and Georgia, and examines their potential for deep-well waste storage. For mapping purposes a waste-storage "operational unit" is established and defined. It is a sand or sandstone layer, 20 feet or more in thickness, that is immediately overlain and under
Authors
Philip M. Brown, D.L. Brown, M.S. Reid, O. B. Lloyd

Ground-water resources of the Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina

Fresh groundwater in the Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina occurs in the unconfined aquifer, an upper confined aquifer, and a lower limestome aquifer. The unconfined aquifer beneath dunes on the barrier islands is estimated to yield as much as 30 gallons per minute of freshwater to a horizontal well, but this aquifer is subject to periodic overwash by the ocean, thus temporarily con
Authors
M. D. Winner

Water resources of northeast North Carolina

Several water-related problems are associated with economic development of northeast North Carolina. The solution to these problems depends in part on adequate knowledge of the hydrology of this 8,930 square mile coastal area. Average annual precipitation on the area is about 50 inches. Of this amount, about 34 inches returns to the atmosphere by evapotranspiration, about 15 inches leaves the area
Authors
Hugh B. Wilder, Tully M. Robison, K.L. Lindskov

Erosion, sediment discharge, and channel morphology in the Upper Chattahoochee River basin, Georgia

Average annual rates of sheet erosion and sediment discharge were computed for several watersheds in the Upper Chattahoochee River basin in Georgia. Erosion yields ranged from about 900 to 6,000 tons per year per square mile in nine watersheds and were greatest where land use is largely agricultural or transitional. Suspended sediment yields from the same watershed ranged from about 300 to 800 ton
Authors
Robert E. Faye, W.R. Carey, J. K. Stamer, R.L. Kleckner