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Influence Of Mountain Groundwater On Streamflow, Bi-Huei Wang, Roland W. Jeppson

Reports

This investigation has determined the quantities of water stored as groundwater in the three watersheds in Utah, Logan River upstream from State Dam, South Fork Ogden River upstream from Huntsville, and Weber River upstream from Oakley. The proportion of the total streamflow contributed from this groundwater storage has been determined from past streamflow records, and the knowledge obtained from the analysis of groundwater contribution to streamflow has been utilized in developing water supply forecasting techniques and procedures. The first phase of the study dealt with theory and methods from separating the groundwater component from the total streamflow hydrograph. The method …

Usu Telemetering Precipitation Gage Network, C. Earl Israelsen, Don L. Griffin

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A network of telemetering precipitation gages is operating in the mountainous areas of northern Utah, western Wyoming, and southern Idaho as part of the Wasatch Weather Modification Project. Approximately 40 individual gages collected and reported data during the 1968-69 winter season from distances up to 130 miles. In addition to the remotely located gages, the system includes an Automatic Readout Console (ARC) at the Utah Water Research Laboratory that is connected by a cable to a translator on top of Mt. Logan. The ARC is the control center for the network, interrogating in a predetermined programmed sequence the remote telemetry …

Supplemental Final Report Wasatch Weather Modification Project, Utah Water Research Laboratory

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No abstract provided.

Analysis Of Small Water Management Structures In Irrigation Distribution Systems, Gaylord V. Skogerboe, Wynn R. Walker, Brent B. Hacking, Lloyd H. Austin

Reports

The Irrigation and Drainage Research Conference conducted at Utah State University (ASCE, 1964) delineated many of the research needs regarding “Small Low- Cost Hydraulic Structures for Conveyance and Distribution Systems,” which was one of the six topics considered at the conference. In discussing possibilities for accomplishing the recommended research, it was suggested by some panel members that a considerable portion of the work could be undertaken by graduate students, particularly at the Master of Science level. The intent of this report has been to sort through the large volume of literature in an attempt to define the specific research needs …

Cutthroat Flow Measuring Flumes For Flat Gradient Channels, Gaylord V. V. Skogerboe

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The cutthroat flume can operate either as a free or submerged flow structure. Submerged flow calibration curves and free flow equations have been developed. Rectangular cutthroat flume sizes of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 feet were studied and tested in the laboratory. Trapezoidal cutthroat flumes having zero (or V-shaped), 6-inch, and 12-inch throat widths were calibrated. The value of transition submergence is listed for each of the rectangular and trapezoidal cutthroat flumes. The most obvious advantage of a cutthroat flume is economy, since fabrication is facilitated by a flat bottom and removal of the throat section. Another advantage is …

Electronic Analog Computer Simulation Of The Paez-Pedraza Region Of Venezuela, J. Paul Riley, V. V. Dhruva Narayana, Kousoum S. Sakhan

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Recently governments and universities in many South American countries have shown considerable interest in a planned and orderly development of available water resources. A case in point is the preliminary study reported in which the problem is approached by utilizing a general mathematical model of the hydrologic system. Specifically, the study involves simulation by means of an electronic analog computer of the hydrology of the Paez-Pedraza region of south western Venezuela. The various processes within the model are linked by the continuity-of-mass principle, which requires a hydrologic balance at all points. The analog computer is ideally suited to the solution …

Snowmelt Simulation, J. Paul Riley, Duane G. Chadwick, Keith O. Eggleston

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The rapid growth in recent years of a variety of demands upon available water resources has lead to an increasing interest in more fundamental approaches to the science of hydrology. Accompanying this growth has been a need for an increased understanding of the snowmelt process. A completely adequate description of the entire physical process of snowmelt under all conditions is not yet available. The complex interrelated and variable nature of the snowmelt processes that occur simultaneously complicate the problem. A preliminary mathematical model of the snowmelt process has been developed in which processes such as pack settlement rates and energy …

Simulation Of The Hydrologic-Economic Flow System In An Agricultural Area, Murland R. Packer, J. Paul Riley, Harold H. Hiskey, Eugene K. Israelsen

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Like the allocation of water resources among water users, the distribution of allocated water to the subusers requires an estimate of the economic costs and benefits from a number of distribution alternatives. The most satisfactory solution maximizes the benefit cost ratio. This study is based on the premise that equitable water distribution to agricultural subusers can be more easily accomplished through the use of a technique to predict the marginal value of agricultural water. A hydro-economic model is formulated to distribute the water supply to the crops and to determine the unit value of water for the given supply. By …

Analog Computer Simulation Of The Runoff Characteristics Of An Urban Watershed, V. V. Dhruva Narayana, J. Paul Riley, Eugene K. Israelsen

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In the syntheses of hydrograph characteristics of small urban watersheds, the distribution of water among the various phases of the runoff process is attempted by the concept of equivalent rural watershed. The urban parameters considered in the study are percentage impervious cover and characteristic impervious length factor. A mathematical model is developed for the equivalent rural watershed with precipitation as input. The hydrograph of outflow is obtained by chronologically deducting the losses due to interception, infiltration, and depression storages from precipitation and then routing through the watershed storage. This mathematical procedure is programmed on an analog computer and is tested …

Urgent Building Needs, Utah Water Research Laboratory

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No abstract provided.

Hydraulics Of Large Bed Element Channels, Harl E. Judd, Dean F. Peterson

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No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of The Adequacy Of Streamflow Operational Hydrology, Roland W. Jeppson, Calvin G. Clyde

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No abstract provided.

Finite Difference Solutions To Free Jet And Confined Cavity Flows Past Disks With Preliminary Analyses Of The Results, Roland W. Jeppson

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A number of solutions are obtained to ideal axisymmetric flow past cavitating disks for both cases of a free surface jet and flow confined in a constant radius conduit. Finite difference methods are utilized in obtaining the solutions from an inverse formulation which considers the velocity potential, and Stokes’ stream function, as the independent variables and the radial and axial dimensions, r and z, as the dependent variables. The resulting inverse boundary value problem for r, for which the basis solution is obtained, is nonlinear. The solution technique uses a Newton-Raphson iteration to evaluate the implicit finite difference operator at …

State Organizational Patterns For Comprehensive Planning Of Water Resources Development, Daniel H. Hoggan

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Formulation Of A Mathematical Model For The Allocation Of Colorado River Waters In Utah, Rick L. Gold, James H. Milligan, Calvin G. Clyde

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A Mathematical model for the allocation of Utah’s water resources is formulated in the linear programming format. The availability of water from various sources is considered with the demands for water in each of the nine hydrologic study areas of Utah. The applications of mathematical models of this type are studied and the merits of the linear programming approach are discussed.

The Effect Of Sediment Properties Of An Ultrasonic Plane Wave, G. H. Flammer, N. E. Stauffer Jr., E. Y. Liu

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No abstract provided.

Abstracts Of The Papers Presented At The Asce Hydraulics Division 17th Annual Specialty Conference, J. J. Leendertse, Robert P. Shubinski, E. L. Bourodimos, Calvin G. Clyde, Harl E. Judd, Dean F. Peterson, Roland W. Jeppson, James H. Milligan

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No abstract provided.

Optimum Operation Of Desalting Plants As A Supplemental Source Of Safe Yield, Calvin G. Clyde, Wesley H. Blood

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No abstract provided.

Telemetry System Modifications And 1968-69 Operation, Duane G. Chadwick

Reports

A discussion of telemetering system modifications is given, and discussion is presented of system operations for the 1968-69 snow season. A telemetering error analysis has been made for an operational period in February. A log is presented giving station operation periods, and a general summary of operational costs for the 1968-69 operational year is summarized.

A Perspective Of Contemporary Water Planning And Management Problems In Utah, Jay M. Bagley

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I should like to discuss what I consider to be a few major problems Utah faces in connection with water and its development. Time will not permit great detail or breadth of discussion. The points I should like to discuss best can be made by first setting some hydrologic scenery. Actually, although hydrologic considerations provide the central melody to planning for water resources development, there are many socio-politico-legal-economic variations on the theme. My approach will be to remark briefly on thie environment in which today's planning must take place, provide some broad hydrologi guideposts, and with this backdrop select a …

Analog Computer Solution Of The Unsteady Flow Equations And Its Use In Modeling The Surface Runoff Process, Utah Water Research Laboratory

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The flow of water on a watershed is usually unsteady and spatially varied, but can be adequately portrayed by the equations of momentum and continuity, commonly referred to as the unsteady flow equations. Because these equations are quasi-linear, hyperbolic, partial differential equations, they are not easily amenable to solution. Analog computer model~ of surface runoff generally have been based on simplified forms of these equations. As an improvement of those models, an analog computer solution is presented here for the unsteady flow equations. The solution involves the conversion of the partial differential equations in to a differential-difference system, and a …

An Historical Geographic Study Of The Virginia And Rainy Lake Company, The Last Major White Pine Operation In The Great Lakes Region, Duane A. Krenz

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

This study involved one of the last large lumbering operations in the Great Lakes region which was located in northern St. Louis County in northeastern Minnesota. The Virginia and Rainy Lake Company, in fact, utilized the last major stand of virgin white pine in the Great Lakes region.

Simulation Of The Growth Of Even-Aged Stands Of White Spruce, Kenneth J. Mitchell

Yale School of the Environment Bulletin Series

No abstract provided.

On Temperature And Heat Flow In Tree Stems, Lee Pierce Herrington

Yale School of the Environment Bulletin Series

No abstract provided.

Land Use In The Kulin-Kondinin-Hyden District : Notes On A Recent Survey, D J. Carder

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

A RECENT survey by the Department of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service has highlighted the nature of the problems facing farmers with flooded or salt-affected land near salt lake country in the wheatbelt.

Aeration Of Stockade Lake, South Dakota, Larry C. Vanray

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Intermittent aeration of Stockade Lake (2,470 acre feet) during the summers of 1967 and 1968 temporarily altered the thermal profile and phytoplankton density. Continual aeration for 48 hours in the deepest portion of this eutrophic lake produced epilmnetic cooling, hypolimnetic warming and apparent reduction of algal populations at three sampling stations in various parts of the lake. Dye, released at the aeration site, was found at all depths throughout the lake after 461/2 hours aeration. Air bubbles, rising from diffuser blocks near the lake bottom, carried cold, hypolimnetic water to the surface at a rate of 4.7 million gallons per …

History Of The State Vermin Barrier Fences, Formerly Known As Rabbit Proof Fences, J S. Crawford

Research Reports

There is evidence of rabbits arriving in Australia as far back as 1788, and it is well known that others were liberated on islands around the coast, including some off the coast of Western Australia. However, they remained localised and it is now generally accepted that the rabbits which did spread originated from a small shipment of the wild type brought on the Clipper “Lightning” in 1859. They were released on “Barwon Park”, the property of Thomas Austin, near Geelong in Victoria, and within three years, had reached pest proportions

Geophysical Institute Annual Report 1968-69, University Of Alaska Fairbanks. Geophysical Institute

GI Reports

The 1968–69 Geophysical Institute Annual Report presents an overview of the year’s scientific research achievements across the Institute’s disciplines, alongside operational summaries covering finances, administrative changes, and other key activities.

Controlled Water Releases To Improve Sauger Spawning Below Fort Randall Dam, Charles H. Wahlburg

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: White Papers, Conference Presentations, and Manuscripts

Studies by the North Central Reservoir Investigations show that good reproduction by Lewis and Clark Lake sauger is dependent on minimum water level change on spawning grounds. Sauger spawn 7 miles below Fort Randall Dam over a 4-mi1e long gravel, rubble, boulder shoreline. Spawning begins when water temperatures at the dam reach 42 F. This usually occurs during the latter part of April or early May. Sauger spawn along the shoreline in 1 to 2 ft of water from about 8:00 PM to 12:00 Midnight. Fertilized eggs sink to the bottom and adhere to gravel ~ rubble, and boulders. Most …

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 1, No.4. December 1969

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: Restoring Beauty to the Human Environment ▪ Paul B. Kannowski

A REQUIEM FOR THE PRAIRIE ▪ Hugh H. Iltis

BIRDING IN MY BACK YARD ▪ Mrs. George A. Anderson

OCCURRENCE OF THE CECROPIA AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN SILK MOTHS IN SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ James Oberfoell