Water resources activities, Georgia District, 1986

Casteel, Carolyn A.; Ballew, Mary D.

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“…Selected references to previous water-quality investigations in the study area, by geographical unit Davis, 1964Harlow and Nelms, 1989 Hobba and others, 1977 Valley and Ridge ...... Seaber and others, Blue Ridge ........... Hopkins, 1984 Piedmont. ............ LeGrand, 1989Baker, 1957Causey, 1965Chandler and Lines, 1974, 1978a, 1978bChandler and Moore, 1987 Chandler and others, 1972Bachman, 1984 Barksdale and others, 1958Casteel and Ballew, 1987Clarke, 1989Bachman, 1984Bennett, 1946Duigon and Dine, 1991 Duigon and others, 1989 Ayres and Pustay, 1987 Barksdale and others, 1958Bain and Brown, 1981Crawford, 1985 Daniel and others, 1982 Barksdale and others, 1958Becher and Root, 1981Becher and Taylor, 1982Carswell and Lloyd, 1979 Carswell and others, 1968Johnston, 1966Lloyd and Growitz, 1977 MULTIREGIONAL STUDIES Hallberg and Keeney, 1993 LeGrand, 1967Lloyd and Lyke, 1995 REGIONAL STUDIES 1988 STATE, COUNTY, AND SITE-SPECIFIC STUDIES Alabama Faust and Harkins, 1980Harkins and others, 1980Lines and Chandler, 1975Lines and Scott, 1972Moffett and Moser, 1978 Delaware Groot and Rasmussen, 1954Rasmussen and others, 1957 Georgia Cressler, 1974 Cressler and others, 1976 Maryland Johnston, 1964McFarland, 1989Posner and Zenone, 1983Richardson, 1982 New Jersey Lewis and Spitz, 1987 Nemickas, 1976 North Carolina Daniel and others (in press) Harned, 1982Harned and Meyer, 1983 Pennsylvania Longwill and Wood, 1965…”

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Water quality in the Appalachian Valley and Ridge, the Blue Ridge, and the Piedmont Physiographic Provinces, eastern United States

Briel¹

1997

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The RASA Program represents a systematic effort to study a number of the Nation's most important aquifer systems, which, in aggregate, underlie much of the country and which represent an important component of the Nation's total water supply. In general, the boundaries of these studies are identified by the hydrologic extent of each system and, accordingly, transcend the political subdivisions to which investigations have often arbitrarily been limited in the past. The broad objective for each study is to assemble geologic, hydrologic, and geochemical information, to analyze and develop an understanding of the system, and to develop predictive capabilities that will contribute to the effective management of the system. The use of computer simulation is an important element of the RASA studies to develop an understanding of the natural, undisturbed hydrologic system and the changes brought about in it by human activities and to provide a means of predicting the regional effects of future pumping or other stresses. The final interpretive results of the RASA Program are presented in a series of U.S. Geological Survey Professional Papers that describe the geology, hydrology, and geochemistry of each regional aquifer system. Each study within the RASA Program is assigned a single Professional Paper number beginning with Professional Paper 1400.

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Water quality in the Appalachian Valley and Ridge, the Blue Ridge, and the Piedmont Physiographic Provinces, eastern United States

Briel¹

1997

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“…Ideally, water managers in Texas can use augmented knowledge about past climate extremes to outline realistic worst-case scenarios and prepare for them (Rice et al 2009). Of course, an ill-advised water manager might even choose to use a lesser drought than the 1950s drought as the "drought of record" for planning purposes (Casteel 2005), despite evidence that such droughts or worse recur in the long-term. Improved estimates of climate variability and trends should prepare authorities to cope with ongoing climate change, which is predicted to increase aridity in the Southwest (IPCC 2007b;Seager et al 2007;Banner et al 2010) and may help them to prepare mitigation strategies (IPCC 2007a;Furniss et al 2010).…”

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Extended chronology of drought in South Central, Southeastern and West Texas

Cleaveland

Votteler²,

Stahle

et al. 2011

Texas Water Journal

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Short instrumental climatic records prevent appropriate statistical and historical characterization of extreme events such as the extent, duration, and severity of multiyear droughts. The best solution is to extend climatic records through well understood proxies of climate. One of the best such proxies is climate-sensitive annual tree rings, which can be dated precisely to the year, are easily sampled, and are widely distributed. We created 3 new baldcypress chronologies in South Central Texas and used them, along with existing Douglas-fir chronologies from West Texas and a composite post oak chronology in Central Texas, to calibrate 1931–2008 and reconstruct June Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) in Texas climate divisions 5 (Trans Pecos), 6 (Edwards Plateau), 7 (S. Central), and 8 (Upper Coast) 1500–2008. We validated the reconstructions against observed data not used in calibration. Most water planners in Texas at present use the drought of the 1950s, 1950–1956, as a worst-case scenario. Our reconstructions show, however, that a number of extended droughts of the past were longer and/or more intense than the 1950s drought. Furthermore, extended droughts have been a consistent feature of southwestern climate since the 800s, including at least 4 megadroughts 15- to 30-years long centered in central or northern Mexico (Stahle et al. 2009; 2011b). This and previous studies indicate that severe decadal-scale droughts have occurred in Texas at least once a century since the 1500s. Current use by water planners of the 1950s drought as a worst-case scenario, therefore, is questionable. When water managers consider past droughts, population growth, and climate change, it becomes highly probable that the future poses unprecedented challenges. Citation: MK Cleaveland, TH Votteler, DK Stahle, RC Casteel, JL Baner. 2011.Extended chronology of drought in South central, Southeastern, and West Texas. Texas Water Journal. 2(1): 54-96. Available from: https://doi.org/10.21423/twj.v2i1.2049.

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Water resources activities, Georgia District, 1986

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Water quality in the Appalachian Valley and Ridge, the Blue Ridge, and the Piedmont Physiographic Provinces, eastern United States

Water quality in the Appalachian Valley and Ridge, the Blue Ridge, and the Piedmont Physiographic Provinces, eastern United States

Extended chronology of drought in South Central, Southeastern and West Texas

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