| Abstract: | In the late 1950‘s, intense demands for water and growing concerns about declines in the quality of water generated the need for more water-resources data. About thirty Federal agencies, hundreds of State, county and local agencies, and many private organizations had been collecting water data. However, because of differences in procedures and equipment, many of the data bases were incompatible. In 1964, as a step toward establishing more uniformity, the Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget, OMB) issued ‘Circular A-67‘ which presented guidelines for collecting water data and also served as a catalyst for creating the Office of Water Data Coordination (OWDC) within the U.S. Geological Survey. This paper discusses past, present, and future aspects of the relation between methods in the National Handbook and standards published by ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) Committee D-19 on Water‘s Subcommittee D-19.07 on Sediment, Geomorphology, and Open Channel Flow. The discussion also covers historical aspects of standards - development work jointly conducted by OWDC and ASTM. |
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| Citation Author: | Glysson, G. Douglas; Skinner, John, V. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Relation between the national handbook of recommended methods for water data acquisition and ASTM standards; 1991; Conference Paper; ASTM Special Technical Publication; Glysson, G. Douglas; Skinner, John, V. |
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| Text: | Relation between the national handbook of recommended methods for water data acquisition and ASTM standards; 1991; Conference Paper; ASTM Special Technical Publication; Glysson, G. Douglas; Skinner, John, V. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg |
| Date Other: | Tue, 1 Jan 1991 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | Publ by ASTM |
