Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Publications

Browse the map above to filter and view publications by location. All of our publications are available through the USGS Publications Warehouse. USGS publications and journal articles by scientists of the Washington Water Science Center are listed below.

Filter Total Items: 795

Low-flow characteristics of streams on the Kitsap Peninsula and selected adjacent islands, Washington Low-flow characteristics of streams on the Kitsap Peninsula and selected adjacent islands, Washington

Low-flow-frequency data are tabulated for 90 streamflow sites on the Kitsap Peninsula and adjacent islands, Washington. Also listed are data for 56 additional sites which have insufficient measurements for frequency analysis but which have been observed having no flow at least once during the low-flow period. The streams drain relatively small basins; only three streams have drainage...
Authors
J. E. Cummans

Hydrology of the North Cascades region, Washington: 1. Runoff, precipitation, and storage characteristics Hydrology of the North Cascades region, Washington: 1. Runoff, precipitation, and storage characteristics

The time and space distributions of measured precipitation and measured runoff and of spring storage, which is approximately equal to the subsequent summer runoff of snowmelt and stored groundwater, have been analyzed for the North Cascades region of Washington. Neither precipitation nor runoff shows a consistent relationship with altitude, chiefly because of precipitation-shadowing...
Authors
Lowell A. Rasmussen, Wendell V. Tangborn

Availability of ground water in the area surrounding the Trident submarine construction facility, Kitsap County, Washington Availability of ground water in the area surrounding the Trident submarine construction facility, Kitsap County, Washington

General information is presented on water resources--with emphasis on ground-water occurrence and availability--in that part of Kitsap County (referred to as Trident Impact Area) that would be most affected by the development of the Trident submarine construction facility at Bangor, Washington. The estimated 1970 water use in the study area averaged about 13 million gallons per day (mgd)...
Authors
Arnold J. Hansen, Dee Molenaar

Geology and hydrology of radioactive solid-waste burial grounds at the Hanford Reservation, Washington Geology and hydrology of radioactive solid-waste burial grounds at the Hanford Reservation, Washington

The geology and hydrology of radioactive solid waste burial grounds at the Hanford Reservation were investigated, using existing data, by the U.S. Geological Survey as part of the waste management plan of the Richland Operations Office of the Energy Research and Development Administration. The purpose of the investigation was to assist the operations office in characterizing the burial...
Authors
Albert Mario LaSala, Gene C. Doty

Numerical model of the salt-wedge reach of the Duwamish River estuary, King County, Washington Numerical model of the salt-wedge reach of the Duwamish River estuary, King County, Washington

A numerical model of a salt-wedge estuary developed by Fischer has been expanded and used to calculate the distributions of salinity, temperature, chlorophyll a concentrations, biochemical oxygen demand, and dissolved-oxygen concentrations in the Duwamish River estuary, King County, Wash. With this model, which was calibrated and verified with observed data, computed temperatures usually...
Authors
Edmund A. Prych, W.L. Haushild, J.D. Stoner

Magnitude and frequency of floods in Washington Magnitude and frequency of floods in Washington

Relations are provided to estimate the magnitude and frequency of floods on Washington streams. Annual-peak-flow data from stream gaging stations on unregulated streams having 1 years or more of record were used to determine a log-Pearson Type III frequency curve for each station. Flood magnitudes having recurrence intervals of 2, 5, i0, 25, 50, and 10years were then related to physical...
Authors
J. E. Cummans, Michael R. Collings, Edmund George Nasser

Digital-simulation and projection of water-level declines in basalt aquifers of the Odessa-Lind area, east-central Washington Digital-simulation and projection of water-level declines in basalt aquifers of the Odessa-Lind area, east-central Washington

A digital computer program using finite-difference techniques simulates an intensively pumped, multilayered basalt-aquifer system near Odessa. The aquifers now developed are in the upper 1,000 feet of a regionally extensive series of southwesterly dipping basalt flows of the Columbia River Group. Most of the aquifers are confined. Those in the depth range of about 500 to 1,000 feet are...
Authors
J. E. Luzier, James A. Skrivan
Was this page helpful?