Documentation of a dissolved-solids model of the Tongue River, southeastern Montana
Open-File Report
81-479
By: Paul F. Woods
Links
- Document: Report (pdf)
- Download citation as: RIS | Dublin Core
Abstract
A model has been developed for assessing potential increases in dissolved solids of the Tongue River as a result of leaching of overburden materials used to backfill pits in surface coal-mining operations. The model allows spatial and temporal simulation of streamflow and dissolved-solids loads and concentrations under user-defined scenarios of surface coal mining and agricultural development. The model routes an input quantity of streamflow and dissolved solids from the upstream end to the downstream end of a stream reach while algebraically accounting for gains and losses of streamflow and dissolved solids within the stream reach. Input data needed to operate the model include the following: simulation number, designation of hydrologic conditions for each simulated month, either user-defined or regression-defined concentrations of dissolved solids input by the Tongue River Reservoir, number of irrigated acres, number of mined acres, dissolved-solids concentration of mine leachates and quantity of other water losses. A listing of the Fortran computer program, definitions of all variables in the model, and an example output permit use of the model by interested persons. (USGS)
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Documentation of a dissolved-solids model of the Tongue River, southeastern Montana |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 81-479 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr81479 |
| Edition | - |
| Year Published | 1981 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey, |
| Description | iii, 45 p. :ill., map ;28 cm. |
| Google Analytic Metrics | Metrics page |