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Salt water and its relation to fresh ground water in Harris County, Texas
Harris County, in the West Gulf Coastal Plain in southeastern Texas, has one of the heaviest concentrations of ground-water withdrawal in the United States. Large quantities of water are pumped to meet the requirements of the rapidly growing population, for industry, and for rice irrigation. The water is pumped from artesian wells which tap a thick series of sands ranging in age from Miocene (?) t
Authors
Allen G. Winslow, William Watson Doyel, L.A. Wood
Geology and ground-water resources of Galveston County, Texas
Galveston County, on the Texas gulf coast, is underlain by alternating beds of sand and clay. These sand and clay strata crop out in belts that roughly parallel the coastline and dip gently southeastward at an angle gre? +,er than the slope of the land, thereby creating artesian aquifers. The formations that yield potable water to wells are the Lissie formation, the "Alta Loma" sand and other sand
Authors
Ben McDowell Petitt, Allen George Winslow
Delivery of water, Whitney Reservoir to Richmond, Texas, via Brazos River channel, 1956
No abstract available.
Authors
P.E. Holland
Saline-water resources of Texas
Large quantities of saline water are available in the world, both on the surface and underground; however, these waters have not been studied extensively as sources of potable water.
Saline water is defined herein as water containing more than 1,000 parts per million of dissolved solids, or, with certain mineralized irrigation waters whose exact dissolved solids content is not known, water contain
Authors
Allen George Winslow, Lester Ray Kister
Memorandum on irrigation by ground water from the Edwards and associated limestones in the San Antonio-Hondo-Uvalde area, Texas
No abstract available.
Authors
B.M. Petitt
Guadalupe and Blanco River seepage investigations
No abstract available.
Authors
Pat H. Holland, Burdge Irelan
Delivery of water, Whitney Reservoir to Richmond, Texas, via Brazos River channel, 1954
No abstract available.
Authors
S.D. Breeding, Pat H. Holland
Reconnaissance of ground-water development in the Fort Stockton area, Pecos County, Texas
No abstract available.
Authors
G.L. Audsley
Double Moutain Fork Brazos River between Lubbock and Buffalo Lakes, Texas
The purpose of this investigation was to study quantity, quality, and possible sources of the low flow and spring inflow of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River between the Lubbock sewage disposal plant, 3 miles southeast of Lubbock, and a County Road crossing about 15 miles downstream and 4.2 miles northeast of Slaton, Lubbock County (fig. 1).
Authors
J.O. Joerns
Geology of the Canyon Reservoir site on the Guadalupe River, Comal County, Texas
In response to a request by Colonel Harry O. Fisher, District Engineer of the Fort Worth District of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army (letter of Dec. 13, 1954), a reconnaissance investigation was made of the geology of the Canyon (F-1) reservoir site on the Guadalupe River in Comal County, Tex.
The purpose of the investigation was to study the geology in relation to possible leakage - p
Authors
William O. George, Frank A. Welder
Peak discharge on Bull Creek and tributaries, Scurry and Borden Counties, Texas, flood of April 12, 13, 1954
This report contains a description of the rainfall pattern producing the flood of April 12, 13, 1954, in the Bull Creek watershed, the results of indirect determinations of peak discharges and estimates of flows at several points in that watershed, and a comparison of the peak stage at the discontinued gaging station on Bull Creek near Ira, Tex., with other floods on record. Field work consisted o
Authors
L.L. McDaniels