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Analysis of environmental setting, surface-water and groundwater data, and data gaps for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Tribal Jurisdictional Area, Oklahoma, through 2011
The Citizen Potawatomi Nation Tribal Jurisdictional Area, consisting of approximately 960 square miles in parts of three counties in central Oklahoma, has an abundance of water resources, being underlain by three principal aquifers (alluvial/terrace, Central Oklahoma, and Vamoosa-Ada), bordered by two major rivers (North Canadian and Canadian),...
Andrews, William J.; Harich, Christopher R.; Smith, S. Jerrod; Lewis, Jason M.; Shivers, Molly J.; Seger, Christian H.; Becker, Carol J.
Return period adjustment for runoff coefficients based on analysis in undeveloped Texas watersheds
The rational method for peak discharge (Qp) estimation was introduced in the 1880s. The runoff coefficient (C) is a key parameter for the rational method that has an implicit meaning of rate proportionality, and the C has been declared a function of the annual return period by various researchers. Rate-based runoff coefficients as a function of...
Dhakal, Nirajan; Fang, Xing; Asquith, William H.; Cleveland, Theodore G.; Thompson, David B.
Estimated rates of groundwater recharge to the Chicot, Evangeline and Jasper aquifers by using environmental tracers in Montgomery and adjacent counties, Texas, 2008 and 2011
Montgomery County is in the northern part of the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area, the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the United States. As populations have increased since the 1980s, groundwater has become an important resource for public-water supply and industry in the rapidly growing area of Montgomery County. Groundwater...
Oden, Timothy D.; Truini, Margot
Estimation of capture zones and drawdown at the Northwest and West Well Fields, Miami-Dade County, Florida, using an unconstrained Monte Carlo analysis: recent (2004) and proposed conditions
Travel-time capture zones and drawdown for two production well fields, used for drinking-water supply in Miami-Dade County, southeastern Florida, were delineated by the U.S Geological Survey using an unconstrained Monte Carlo analysis. The well fields, designed to supply a combined total of approximately 250 million gallons of water per day, pump...
Brakefield, Linzy K.; Hughes, Joseph D.; Langevin, Christian D.; Chartier, Kevin
Baseline assessment of physical characteristics, aquatic biota, and selected water-quality properties at the reach and mesohabitat scale for reaches of Big Cypress, Black Cypress, and Little Cypress Bayous, Big Cypress Basin, northeastern Texas, 2010–11
In 2010 and 2011, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Northeast Texas Municipal Water District and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, did a baseline assessment of physical characteristics and aquatic biota (fish and mussels) collected at the mesohabitat scale for reaches of Big Cypress, Black Cypress, and Little...
Braun, Christopher L.; Moring, James B.
Sources of suspended-sediment loads in the lower Nueces River watershed, downstream from Lake Corpus Christi to the Nueces Estuary, south Texas, 1958–2010
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District; City of Corpus Christi; Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority; San Antonio River Authority; and San Antonio Water System, developed, calibrated, and tested a Hydrological Simulation Program-FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed model to simulate streamflow...
Ockerman, Darwin J.; Heitmuller, Franklin T.; Wehmeyer, Loren L.
Ambient conditions and fate and transport simulations of dissolved solids, chloride, and sulfate in Beaver Lake, Arkansas, 2006--10
Beaver Lake is a large, deep-storage reservoir located in the upper White River Basin in northwestern Arkansas, and was completed in 1963 for the purposes of flood control, hydroelectric power, and water supply. Beaver Lake is affected by point and nonpoint sources of minerals, nutrients, and sediments. The City of Fayetteville discharges about...
Green, W. Reed
Groundwater withdrawals 1976, 1990, and 2000--10 and land-surface-elevation changes 2000--10 in Harris, Galveston, Fort Bend, Montgomery, and Brazoria Counties, Texas
The study area comprising Harris County and parts of Galveston, Fort Bend, Montgomery, and Brazoria Counties in southeastern Texas forms part of one of the largest areas of land-surface-elevation change in the United States. Land-surface-elevation change in the study area primarily is caused by the withdrawal of groundwater. Groundwater withdrawn...
Kasmarek, Mark C.; Johnson, Michaela R. Potential recovery of aluminum, titanium, lead, and zinc from tailings in the abandoned Picher mining district of Oklahoma
The abandoned Picher mining district in northeastern Oklahoma, part of the Tri-State mining district, was the largest source of sulfide ores of lead and zinc in the U.S.A. in the early twentieth century. After abandonment in the 1960s, numerous environmental problems caused by the abandoned mines and large tailings piles affected the district and...
Andrews, William J.; Gavilan Moreno, Carlos J.; Nairn, Robert W.
Geodatabase and characteristics of springs within and surrounding the Trinity aquifer outcrops in northern Bexar County, Texas, 2010--11
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Trinity Glen Rose Groundwater Conservation District, the Edwards Aquifer Authority, and the San Antonio River Authority, developed a geodatabase of springs within and surrounding the Trinity aquifer outcrops in a 331-square-mile study area in northern Bexar County, Texas. The data used to develop...
Clark, Allan K.; Pedraza, Diana E.; Morris, Robert R.; Garcia, Travis J.
Drought and deluge: Effects of recent climate variability on groundwater levels in eastern Arkansas
Arkansas experienced wide extremes in climate variability during the period of 2005 to 2010, recording the largest annual precipitation ever recorded in the State (100.05 inches) in 2009. Many weather stations across the State reported between 80 to 90 inches of rainfall in 2009. For comparison, the average annual precipitation in Little Rock,...
Czarnecki, John B.; Schrader, T.P.
Effects of recent climate variability on groundwater levels in eastern Arkansas
Water-level fluctuations in wells completed in the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer in eastern Arkansas were compared to variability in annual precipitation, an indicator of climate variability. The wettest year on record in Little Rock, Arkansas, occurred in 2009 with 81.79 inches of precipitation compared to an average of 47.1 inches...
Czarnecki, John B.; Schrader, T.P.
Illinois River Floatcam
The Illinois River Floatcam is located at USGS station 07196320 on the Illinois River near Moodys, OK (Combs Bridge), about 36 miles downstream from the Arkansas state line. This station does not provide continuous monitoring of flow and stage, but these measurements are
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South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center – Austin, TX Office
Phone: (512) 927-3500
Fax: (512) 927-3590
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center – Oklahoma City, OK Office
Phone: 405-810-4400
Fax: 405-843-7712
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center – Tulsa, OK Office
Phone: 918-254-6651
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center – Woodward, OK Office
Phone: 580-256-5031
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center – Lubbock, TX Office
Phone: (806) 993-0229
Fax: (806) 993-0235
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center – Conroe, TX Office
Phone: (936) 271-5300
Fax: (936) 271-5399
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center – Wichita Falls, TX Office
Phone: (940) 397-4453
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center – Fort Worth, TX Office
Phone: (817) 263-9545
Fax: (682) 316-5022
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center – El Paso, TX Office
Phone: (915) 534-6308
Fax: (915) 534-6299
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center – San Angelo, TX Office
Phone: (325) 944-4600
Fax: (325) 942-0495
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center – Corpus Christi, TX Office
Phone: (361) 825-2073
Fax: (361) 825-2025
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center – San Antonio, TX Office
Phone: (210) 691-9200
Fax: (210) 691-9270