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Scientific reports, journal articles, or general interest publications by USGS scientists in the Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center are listed below. Publications span from 1898 to the present.

Filter Total Items: 1514

Water-budget studies of lower Mesilla Valley and El Paso Valley, El Paso County, Texas

The total inflow of water to the lower Mesilla Valley in 1970 was 390,510 acre-feet. Of this amount, 43,300 acre-feet was consumptively used by crops and phreatophytes and 4,700 acre-feet was lost by evaporation. Ground-water storage increased by 320 acre-feet, and 360,860 acrefeet left the valley as surface- and ground-water outflow. Ground-water recharge was approximately 26,170 acre-feet.Th
Authors
W.R. Meyer, J.D. Gordon

Preliminary report on land-surface subsidence in the area of Burnett, Scott, and Crystal Bays near Baytown, Texas

Removal of water, oil, and gas from the subsurface in Harris County has caused declines in fluid pressures which in turn have resulted in subsidence of the land surface. One critical area of subsidence is in the area of Burnett, Scott, and Crystal Bays near Baytown. Much of this area is now subject to inundation by high tides. Production of oil and gas from the Goose Creek Field at the southern ed
Authors
R.K. Gabrysch

A network for continuous monitoring of water quality in the Sabine River basin, Texas and Louisiana

The proposed water-quality network for the Sabine River Basin of Texas and Louisiana consists of nine monitoring stations, a central control station, a slave-central station, and a leased-line telecommunications system. This monitoring network would provide continuous transmission of water-quality data to the office of the water manager. Level I operations at a proposed site would monitor current
Authors
J.F. Blakey, P.W. Skinner

Flood stages and discharges for small streams in Texas

No abstract available.
Authors
E.E. Schroeder

Analog-model studies of the effects of recharge wells along the Houston Ship Channel on potentiometric surfaces of the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers, Houston, Texas

Because of increasing concern about the continuing decline of water levels in the Houston area, an electric analog model was used to determine the effects on the potentiometric surfaces resulting from recharging water through wells along the Houston Ship Channel into the two major aquifers, the Chicot and Evangeline.The model conditions simulated for this study are too complex to be described in d
Authors
D. G. Jorgensen

Water resources data for Texas, water year 1972; Part 2. Water quality records

Water resources data for the 1972 water year for Texas include records of data for the chemical and physical characteristics of surface water. The records were collected by the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey under the direction of I.D. Yost, district chief. These data represent that portion of the National Water Data System collected by the U.S. Geological Survey and cooper
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Annual compilation and analysis of hydrologic data for urban studies in the Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area, 1971

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Texas Water Development Board, began hydrologic studies in the Austin urban area in 1954. The objectives of this project are as follows: 1. To determine the effects of progressive urbanization on infiltration, rates of peak discharge, and rainfall-runoff relations in the Waller Creek watershed. 2. To provide rainfall-and-runoff data from the rura
Authors
F.H. Tovar