| Abstract: | Ground-water discharge to Willow Creek in northeast Nebraska was predicted with a digital model of the ground-water/surface-water system. Recharge and irrigation requirements were determined with a model of the soil zone. The regional aquifer is Pliocene and Pleistocene sands and gravels. Water in the regional aquifer is unconfined in the western part of the watershed and confined in the eastern part. The confining layer is Pleistocene eolian silts with very fine sand interbeds overlying a basal clay. Where the regional aquifer is unconfined, perennial flow of Willow Creek is sustained by ground-water discharge. Where it is confined, the low hydraulic conductivity of the confining beds isolates the regional aquifer from Willow Creek. Adequate agreement between simulated and observed streamflows and water levels during 1975 and 1976 was obtained by modifying initial estimates of hydraulic conductivity and specific storage. The future perennial flow of Willow Creek was simulated by superimposing six patterns of ground-water withdrawals upon variations in recharge for a monthly climatic sequence identical with the period 1931-34. These analyses showed that the perennial monthly flows would be less than 12 cubic feet per second at least 50 percent of the time. (Woodard-USGS) |
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| ProdID: | 26881 |
| Citation Author: | Dugan, Jack T.; Lappala, E. G. |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | v, 66 p. :ill., maps ;26 cm. |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, |
| Citation Series: | Water-Resources Investigations Report |
| Citation Series Code: | WRI |
| Citation Series Number: | 78-67 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Predictive analyses of ground-water discharges in the Willow Creek Watershed, northeast Nebraska; 1978; WRI; 78-67; Dugan, Jack T.; Lappala, E. G. |
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| Citation Year: | 1978 |
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| Text: | Predictive analyses of ground-water discharges in the Willow Creek Watershed, northeast Nebraska; 1978; WRI; 78-67; Dugan, Jack T.; Lappala, E. G. |
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| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, |
