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Ground water in the Pullman area, Whitman County, Washington

This report presents the results of an investigation of the ground-water resources of the Pullman area, Whitman County, Wash. The investigation war made in cooperation with the State of Washington, Department of Conservation, Division of Water Resources, to determine whether the 1959 rate of ground-water withdrawal exceeded the perennial yield of the developed aquifers, and if so, (1) whether addi
Authors
B. L. Foxworthy, R.L. Washburn

Water resources of the Tacoma area, Washington

No abstract available.
Authors
William Colvin Griffin, J.E. Sceva, H. A. Swenson, M.J. Mundorff

Geology and ground-water resources of the Ahtanum Valley, Yakima County, Washington

The Ahtanum Valley covers an area of about 100 square miles in an important agricultural district in central Yakima County, Wash. Because the area is semiarid, virtually all crops require irrigation. Surface-water supplies are inadequate in most of the area, and ground water is being used increasingly for irrigation. The purpose of this investigation was the collection and interpretation of data,
Authors
B. L. Foxworthy

Floods in the Skagit River basin, Washington

According to Indian tradition, floods of unusually great magnitude harassed the Skagit River basin about 1815 and 1856. The heights of these floods were not recorded at the time; so they are called historical floods. Since the arrival of white men about 1863, a number of large and damaging floods have been witnessed and recorded. Data concerning and verifying the early floods, including those
Authors
James E. Stewart, George Lawrence Bodhaine

Artificial recharge through a well tapping basalt aquifers, Walla Walla area, Washington

No abstract available.
Authors
Charles E. Price, D. W. Hubbell

Availability of ground water at the border stations at Laurier and Ferry, Washington

In the Laurier area, Washington, the Kettle River has cut into crystalline rocks in the deepest part of the valley. Sand and gravel fill were deposited in the valley during Pleistocene time by melt water from glaciers, and subsequent erosion and alluviation formed three terrace levels. The highest level, on which Laurier Border Station is situated is about 200 feet above present river level The in
Authors
Kenneth Lyle Walters

Floods in Washington, magnitude and frequency

No abstract available.
Authors
G. L. Bodhaine, D. M. Thomas

Some preliminary notes on the ground water in the Columbia River basalt

The Columbia River basalt carries groundwater by percolation, largely along tabular interflow zones of variable permeability and continuity. At various places the water occurs under perched, unconfined, and confined conditions; at some places it occurs under all three conditions at different depths. Both initial and tectonic structural features, such as inclination of the flows, anticlines and syn
Authors
R. C. Newcomb
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