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Portland Basin Ground-Water Study (completed 1991)



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REPORTS

Water-Supply Paper 2470-A. Description of the ground-water flow system in the Portland Basin, Oregon and Washington, by William D. McFarland and David S. Morgan. ABSTRACT  COMPLETE REPORT
 

Water-Supply Paper 2470-B. Simulation of the ground-water flow system in the Portland Basin, Oregon and Washington, by David S. Morgan and William D. McFarland. ABSTRACT  COMPLETE REPORT
 

Water Resources Investigation Report 90-4196. A description of hydrogeologic units in the Portland Basin, Oregon and Washington, by Rodney D. Swanson, William D. McFarland, Joseph B. Gonthier, and James M. Wilkinson. COMPLETE REPORT
 

Water Resources Investigation Report 91-4018. Estimated average annual ground-water pumpage in the Portland Basin, Oregon and Washington, 1987-88, by Charles A. Collins and Tyson M. Broad. ABSTRACT   COMPLETE REPORT
 

Water Resources Investigation Report  92-4010. Estimation of ground-water recharge from precipitation, runoff into drywells, and on-site waste-disposal systems in the Portland Basin, Oregon and Washington, by Daniel T. Snyder, David S. Morgan, and Timothy S. McGrath ABSTRACT   COMPLETE REPORT
 

Open-File Report 90-126. Ground-water data for the Portland Basin, Oregon and Washington, by Kathleen A. McCarthy and Donald B. Anderson. ABSTRACT  COMPLETE REPORT
 

Open-File Report 92-50. Modifications of the U.S. Geological Survey modular, finite-difference, ground-water flow model to read and write geographic information system files, by Leonard L. Orzol and Timothy S. McGrath. ABSTRACT  COMPLETE REPORT
 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

The dynamic relationship between ground water and the Columbia River: Using Deuterium and Oxygen-18 as tracers, by Kathleen A. McCarthy, William D. McFarland, James M. Wilkinson, and L.D. White, Journal of Hydrology, vol. 135, no. 1/4.
ABSTRACT COMPLETE REPORT

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS

Modeling regional ground-water flow in a stratigraphically complex system--The Portland Basin, Oregon and Washington, by David S. Morgan and William D. McFarland, American Geophysical Union 1992 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California.

Summary of modifications of the U.S. Geological Survey modular, finite-difference, ground-water flow model to read and write geographic information system files, by Leonard L. Orzol and Timothy S. McGrath, Proceedings of the Symposium on Geographic Information Systems and Water Resources, American Water Resources Association, March 1993. ABSTRACT
 

RELATED REPORTS

Water-Supply Paper 2488. Use of a ground-water flow model with particle tracking to evaluate ground-water vulnerability, Clark County, Washington, by Daniel T. Snyder, James M. Wilkinson, and Leonard L. Orzol. ABSTRACT  COMPLETE REPORT

Water-Supply Paper 2483. Comparison of chlorofluorocarbon-age dating with particle-tracking results of a regional ground-water flow model of the Portland Basin, Oregon and Washington, by Stephen R. Hinkle and Daniel T. Snyder ABSTRACT  COMPLETE REPORT

Water-Resources Investigation Report 97-4224. Evaluation of factors that influence estimated zones of transport for six municipal wells in Clark County, Washington, by Leonard L. Orzol and Margot Truini  ABSTRACT  COMPLETE REPORT

Open-File Report 97-240. User's guide for MODTOOLS; computer programs for translating data of MODFLOW and MODPATH into geographic information system files, by Leonard L. Orzol ABSTRACT  COMPLETE REPORT
 


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