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A Resource Survey Of Hydroelectric Power Potential In Utah And Southeast Idaho, Calvin G. Clyde, Eugene K. Israelsen, Win-Kai Liu

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N searching for alternative sources of energy to supply growing demands, it is essential that renewable sources by thoroughly considered. An essential early step in further hydroelectric power development is to understand in detail the amount and location of the resource. This survey of hydroelectric power potential covers the entire State of Utah, the Bear River Basin in Idaho and Wyoming, and the small part of the Snake River drainage lying in the Utah Power and Light Company service area in Idaho. Streams were covered initially if their flow was estimated to exceed 36 cfs 50 percent of the time. …

Erosion Control During Highway Construction: Volume 1, Calvin G. Clyde, C. Earl Israelsen, Paul E. Packer

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Summary: Highway constuction as we know it today is a high-risk activity with respect to engendering soil erosion. In earlier days of road building, when rights-of-way were generally narrow and excavations mostly shollow, erosion was rarely a serious problem. Only occasionally was it considered necessary to design and apply specific measures for erosion control. With the advent of the superhighway involving far greater widths of right-of-way, and much deeper disturbance of the natural ground to affort the horizontal and vertical highway geometry necessary for high-speed travel, came a several fold increase in erosion potential and a direct need for specific …

Effects Of Oil Shale Leachate On Phytoplankton Productivity, Mary Louise Cleave, V. Dean Adams, Donald B. Porcella

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The effects of oil shale leachate and salinity additions on the productivity of freshwater algae were studied in the laboratory using batch bioassays. These batch bioassays were used to screen variations of ten salts in single and multiple additions of all possible combinations of the ten salts; water extractions of different processed and unprocessed oil shales; and the concentration effects of both the salts from 0.3 N to 0.05 N as NaCl and the oil shale extractions on the growth of standard test algae and indigenous algae from Lake Powell. The batch bottle bioassays were conducted following the standard algal …

Pre-Impoundment Water Quality Study For The Dominguez Project, Larry Baker, V. Dean Adams, Leslie G. Terry, Jerald S. Fifield, Darwin L. Sorensen

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Introduction: The U.S. Bureas of Reclamation is currently in the process of evaluating a number of water development projects in Southwest Colorado. As a part of the planning process the Bureasu has conducted a water qualtiy investigation, in cooperations with the UWRL, of the stream segments that will be affected by each project. The data collected in this study were used to evaluate the water quality of each stream segment with respect to various beneficial uses of water (agriculture, raw municipal water supply, protection of the aquatic biota) and will provide a baseline by which to assess the impact of …

Pre-Impoundment Water Quality Study For The Mancos Project, Larry Baker, V. Dean Adams, Leslie G. Terry, Jerald S. Fifield, Darwin L. Sorensen

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Introduction: The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is currently in the process of evaluating a number of water development projects in Southwest Colorado. As a part of the planning process the Bureau has conducted a water quality investigation, in cooperation with the UWRL, of the stream segments that will be affected by each project. The data collected in this study were used to evaluate the water quality of each stream segment with respect to various beneficial uses of water (agriculture, raw municipal water supply, protection of the aquatic biota) and will provide a baseline by which to assess the impact of …

Pre-Impoundment Water Quality Study For The Dolores Project, Larry Baker, V. Dean Adams, Leslie G. Terry, Jerald S. Fifield, Darwin L. Sorensen

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Pre-Impoundment Water Quality Study For The Mc Elmo Project, Larry Baker, V. Dean Adams, Leslie G. Terry, Jerald S. Fifield, Darwin L. Sorensen

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Introduction: The U.S. Bureas of Reclamation is currently in the process of evaluating a number of water development projects in Southwest Colorado. As a part of the planning process the Bureasu has conducted a water qualtiy investigation, in cooperations with the UWRL, of the stream segments that will be affected by each project. The data collected in this study were used to evaluate the water quality of each stream segment with respect to various beneficial uses of water (agriculture, raw municipal water supply, protection of the aquatic biota) and will provide a baseline by which to assess the impact of …

Pre-Impoundment Water Quality Study For The San Miguel Project, Larry Baker, V. Dean Adams, Leslie G. Terry, Jerald S. Fifield, Darwin L. Sorensen

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Introduction: Scope of Study: The United State Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) is currently evaluating plans to construct a multipurpose reservoir on the San Miguel River 32 kilometers (20 miles) below Telluride, Colorado. As part of the environmental assessment for this project, the Utah Water Research Laboratory (UWRL) was contracted to conduct an intensive water quality study on the San Miguel River and its tributaries in the vicinity of the project area. In this study water samples were collected during the period from May, 1977, to August, 1978, on a monthly basis from three sites on the San Miguel River and …

Pre-Impoundment Water Quality Study For The West Divide Project, Larry Baker, V. Dean Adams, Leslie G. Terry, Jerald S. Fifield, Darwin L. Sorensen

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Introduction: The U.S. Bureas of Reclamation is currently in the process of evaluating a number of water development projects in Southwest Colorado. As a part of the planning process the Bureasu has conducted a water qualtiy investigation, in cooperations with the UWRL, of the stream segments that will be affected by each project. The data collected in this study were used to evaluate the water quality of each stream segment with respect to various beneficial uses of water (agriculture, raw municipal water supply, protection of the aquatic biota) and will provide a baseline by which to assess the impact of …

Proceedings Of The Utah Water Pollution Control Association, 1979 Annual Meeting, Kathleen E. Bayn

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Preface: This volume is the third published proceedings of the Utah Water Pollution Control Association's Annual Meeting. The Technical Program of the 1979 Annual Meeting was divided into four separate sessions. The opening session (Session I) provided an overview and direction for the entire meeting. Session II-A: Plant Safety, and Session III-A: Plant Safety, centered on the need for establishing appropriate safety procedures at wastewater installations. Session II-B: Selected Topics, was devoted to technical presentations of speical merit and interest to the local environmental engineering profession. Session III-B: Interim Upgrading, considered various alternatives to upgraiding wastewater facilities on an interim …

Middle Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Studies Volume Iii: Geologic Studies, Harley J. Knebel, Et Al

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The Middle Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Studies is comprised of three volumes.

• Volume I. Executive Summary.
• Volume IIA, IIB, IIC and IID. Chemical and Biological Benchmark Studies.
• Volume III. Geologic Studies.

This third volume in the study contains the following:

• CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION by Harley J. Knebel
• CHAPTER 2. BOTTOM CURRENTS AND BOTTOM SEDIMENT MOBILITY IN THE OFFSHORE MIDDLE ATLANTIC BIGHT, 1976-1977 by Bradford Butman and Marlene Noble
• CHAPTER 3. SESTON IN MIDDLE ATLANTIC SHELF AND SLOPE WATERS 1976-1977 by John D. Milliman, Michael H. Bothner, and Carol M. Parmenter
• CHAPTER 4. SUBMERSIBLE OBSERVATIONS …

Changes In The Forest Composition In The Great Lakes St. Lawrence Forest Region Of Ontario And The Resultant Outbreaks Of The Spruce Budworm Choristoneura Fumiferana (Clem.), John F. Bowen

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The spruce budworm Choristoneura fumiferana Clem. is the foremost forest pest in Canada. The species is endemic to eastern North America. Since the turn of the century the insect has become a major problem in the “Great Lakes St. Lawrence Forest Region” of Ontario, an area where prior to recent times the insect did not occur in damaging numbers.

Analysis of the life cycle of the insect reveals that the only limiting factor capable of controlling outbreaks is a lack of food. The required tree species is balsam fir Abies balsama (L.) Mill. The forests of Ontario have been altered …

Spatial Context And Temporal Aspects Of The Sensitive Area Concept In Ontario, Barbara Elizabeth Anderson

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The term “sensitive area” is a product of planning initiatives which have developed within the province of Ontario since the early nineteen seventies. As there are a number of closely related terms utilized the sensitive areas concept generally is defined as the creation of a reserve or the removal of land from unfettered commercial development or intense human use. The concept has been associated with a broad range of environmental concerns such as, the protection of wildlife habitat, maintenance of ecological function, retention of scenic areas and preservation of historic sites. Similar initiatives across North America are surveyed and the …

Oyster Spatfall On Shellstrings In Virginia Rivers: 1978 Annual Summary, Dexter S. Haven, Paul C. Kendall

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The Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) conducts weekly surveys from June through early October to obtain oyster spatfall information. Spat counts are made from oyster shells strung on wire and suspended from stakes on public and private beds. The number of spat on shells are counted each week of the spawning season to determine the potential of a particular area for receiving a strike and to predict the most likely period the strikes will occur. Shells planted just before the period of maximum set have the best chance of getting a good strike.

A Survey Of The Late Summer Benthos Community In The Vicinity Of The C. P. Crane Generating Station, Robert A. Jordan, Charles E. Sutton, Patrica A. Goodwin

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A survey of the sediment distribution in the vicinity of the C. P. Crane Generating Station, Bengies, Maryland showed that the sediments in the creeks receiving the plant's cooling water discharge were predominantly soft clayey-silt. The benthic invertebrate taxa found in these sediments were typical of the connnunities found in oligohaline waters of Chesapeake Bay. Comparisons of the benthic community in the discharge area with the connnunities in two reference areas of similar sediment type revealed an apparent reduction in the discharge area population of the dominant amphipod, Leptocheirus plumulosus, in August.

Impact Of Water And Soils Having High Source-Sink Potentials On Water And Salinity Management Under Irrigation In The Upper Colorado River Basin, Lyman S. Willardson, R. J. Hanks, J. J. Jurinak

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Water management in irrigation projects is one potential method for reducing downstream salinity in the Colorado River. An important contribution can be made to developing more effective irrigation water management practices for water conservation and salinity control through identification and better understanding of the soil and water interactions that result in soils behaving as salt sources or as salt sinks. The interactions identified in this study were examined to determine the effects of various management alternatives on the quality and quantity of salt in subsurface return flow from irrigation projects. A soil solution chemistry model was developed to describe the …

A Mathematical Hydrodynamic Circulation Model Of Great Salt Lake For Resource Management, Gary Z. Watters, Charles T. Kincaid

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In the Great Basin region of this country, the resource which has always been of great importance is water. In Utah, the proper management of the resources of Great Salt Lake and the watersheds tributary to it, has become a topic of increasing concern. Recently, much emphasis has been placed on developing the recreational and industrial resources of Great Salt Lake. For optimum economic and social benefits from future development plans, the lake and its tributary watersheds need to be considered in terms of a single entity. In this regard, the Utah Water Research Laboratory (UWRL) has conducted several studies …

Algal Bioassay Study For The Dolores Project, Dominguez Project, San Miguel Project, West Divide Project, Leslie G. Terry, V. Dean Adams

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No abstract provided.

Algal Bioassay Study For The Animas - La Plata Project, Leslie G. Terry, V. Dean Adams

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No abstract provided.

Studies On Viruses In Water, Rex S. Spendlove, Bill B. Barnett, Dennis B. George, Dennis J. Adams, Stanley F. Hayes, Ronald B. Dean, David Ridinger, Darwin L. Sorensen

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A new procedure for the detection of viral antigens in fecal material was developed. The test is performed by first diluting a fecal sample with phosphate buffered saline to give a liquid consistency. The pH is then adjusted to 8.5-9.0 and the solids are allowed to settle for five minutes. Supernatant fluid from above the fecal sediment is placed on the upper surface of a well of an inverted Immulon microtiter plate and incubated for one hour at 37 degrees C to allow virus to adsorb to the plastic. The Immulon plate is then washed three times with a Tween …

Some Further Cost Allocation Studies For The Senegal River Development Program: Report 2, J. Paul Riley, David S. Bowles, Jay C. Anderson, John E. Keith

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An Economic Evaluation Of The Salinity Impacts From Energy Development: The Case Of The Upper Colorado River Basin, Rangesan Narayanan, Sumol Padungchai, A. Bruce Bishop

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To analyze the effect of potential energy development on water allocation and water quality in the Upper Colorado River Basin, a linear programming model is formulated. Using the model, changes in salinity are predicted. Further, least-cost strategies to maintain the established numeric salinity criteria through both structural and nonstructural alternatives are developed. The effectiveness of alternative control measures are examined within given institutional constraints. Based on cost-benefit analysis, optimal salinity levels over time are proposed. The economic feasibility of presently planned strucutral measures to reduce salinity is investigated and contrasted with nonstructural alternatives.

Integrating Water Resources And Land Use Planning, Jim Mulder, Kirk R. Kimball, Dean T. Larson, L. Douglas James, Lance R. Rovig, Dave Labau, Ken Sizemore

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Information and recommendations were developed pertaining to the integrating of water resource and land use planning at a conceptual level. In the accomplishment of this goal, the report acts as a vehicle of information transfer to facilitate recognition of the interrelationships between land use and winter resources planning by practitioners in both areas. The approach that was used includes six basic components: 1) the clarification of current planning theory as it pertains to both water and land use planning, 2) analysis and review of historical and current land use planning practices, 3) review of historical and current land use planning …

Stochastic Analysis For Water Quality, Ronald F. Malone, David S. Bowles, William J. Grenney, Michael P. Windham

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This report demonstrates the feasibility of applying stochastic techniques to linear water quality models. The Monte Carlo, First Order, and Generation of Moment Equation techniques are applied to a long term phosphorus model of Lake Washington. The effect of uncertainty of the phosphours loading term on simulated phosphous levels is analyzed. All three stochastic techniques produced the same results. The simulated concentrations of phosphorus in the water column are very responsive to uncertainty in annual phosphorus loading, the sediment concentrations relatively insensitive. The Monte Carlo technique is shown to require the most computation time of the three stochastic techniques applied. …

Evaluation Of In-Line Direct Filtration For Virus Removal, Behjat Sadat Malek, Dennis B. George, Daniel S. Filip, Bill B. Barnett

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The purposes of this study were to evaluate virus removal in treatment of water supplies by an in-line direct filtration pilot plant system and to suggest a system design to enhance virus removal. Isotherm and jar tests were conducted to evaluate the effects of pH, sodium ion concentration, and coagulants (alum and cationic polyelectrolytes Cat-Floc T, Nalco 8102, and 8103) on the bacteriophage MS2 contained in water. Isotherm studies were also conducted to assess the kinetic adsorption of MS2 to sand, anthracite, and garnet. Rapid sand, dual-media, and multi-media filters were tested in continuous in-line direct filtration operations. Approximately 95 …

Levels Of Analysis In Comprehensive River Basin Planning, Dean T. Larson, L. Douglas James, Kirk R. Kimball, Jim Mulder, A. Berry Crawford, Charles Johson, Lance Rovig, Ken Sizemore

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Since nearly every water resource managment choice has two or more sides, differences must be resolved in decision making. Equitable resolution requires an understanding of the reasons for the differences. These reasons originate in the implemented plans have physical-environmental, economic, social, cultural, and political impacts at levels ranging from local to national or international in scope. Decisions are made by individuals and groups impacted in all of these dimensions and at all of these levels; the decisions generate additional impacts; and the entire interactive process changes water management practice in ways outside the control of any one decision point or …

Woodruff Narrows: Low Head Hydroelectric Power Plant Feasibility Determination, State Of Utah - Division Of Water Resources International Engineering Company, Inc.

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Cyclic Pressure Tests Of Direct Tapped C-900 Pvc Pipe, Roland W. Jeppson

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Performance testing of direct-tapped PVC pressure pipe was conducted at the Utah Water Research Laboratory to verify and document its capabilities under cyclic pressure conditions. Twelve samples of nominal six-inch diameter, pressure class 150 PVC pipe, manufactured to satisfy the requirements of AWWA Standard C900, were obtained from Uni-Bell Member producers. Five pipe samples were tapped and fitted with ¾ inch corporation stops under a line pressure of 80 +- 5psi. Another five samples were tapped fitted with one inch corporation stops under a pressure of 150 psi. Only corporation stops complying with AWWA Standard C800 were used. The remaining …

Federal Agency Procedures For Project Design Flood Determination: Report To U.S. Water Resources Council, L. Douglas James, H. James Owen

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Erosion Control Product Testing, C. Earl Israelsen, Eugene K. Israelsen, Joel E. Fletcher, Jerald S. Fifield, Ronald V. Canfield

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Introduction: Fibrex Corporation has capability for manufacturing various blends of cellulose fibers which have been used at locations throughout the country for temporarily controlling erosion on denuded land areas, and for serving as growth media for grass and other vegetation. Soil and climatic conditions vary greatly where these products are used, and it is not possible to determine by observation whether one is more effective than another in controlling erosion or promoting vegetative growth. Fibrex is desirous of knowing with some degree of confidence which products have the highest level of erosion control so that additional efforts can be directed …