| Abstract: | Reconnaissance water-resource investigations were conducted on the western Alaskan Arctic Slope during April 1976 and August 1977; these months are times of winter and summer low flow. The information gathered is important for coordinated development in the area. Such development has been spurred by oil and gas discoveries on the North Slope, most notably at Prudhoe Bay. Little water resources information is currently available. The study area extended from the Colville River to the vicinity of Kotzebue. It included the western Arctic Slope and the western foothills of the Brooks Range. Nine springs, nine lakes and eleven rivers were sampled during the April 1976 reconnaissance trip. Its purpose was to locate winter flow and describe its quantity and quality. Field water-quality measurements made at these sites were: ice thickness, water depth, discharge (spring and streams), specific conductance, water temperature, dissolved oxygen, alkalinity (bicarbonate, HOC3), and pH. A followup summer trip was made in August 1977 to determine flood characteristics of twenty selected streams. Bankfull and maximum evident flood-peak discharges were determined by measuring channel geometry and estimating channel roughness. Aquatic invertebrate samples were collected at springs and flood survey sites visited during both reconnaissance trips. (Woodard-USGS) |
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| Citation Author: | Childers, Joseph M.; Kernodle, Donald R.; Loeffler, Robert M. |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | v, 68 p. :ill., maps ;27 cm. |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, |
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| Citation Series Number: | 79-699 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Hydrologic reconnaissance of western Arctic Alaska, 1976 and 1977; 1979; OFR; 79-699; Childers, Joseph M.; Kernodle, Donald R.; Loeffler, Robert M. |
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| Text: | Hydrologic reconnaissance of western Arctic Alaska, 1976 and 1977; 1979; OFR; 79-699; Childers, Joseph M.; Kernodle, Donald R.; Loeffler, Robert M. |
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| URL (DOCUMENT): | http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015018205099?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, |
