Book/Printed Material Quality of the surface waters of Oregon
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Image 1 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon GB ixzS Ofl D DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR :ed states geological survey GEORGE OTIS SMITH, DIRECTOR Water-supply Paper 363 QUALITY OF THE SURFACE WATERS OF OREGON BY WALTON VAN WINKLE Prepared in...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
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Image 4 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from The Library of Congress http://www.archive.org/details/qualityofsurfaceOOvanw
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
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Image 7 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon r DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SUKVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH, DIRECTOR Water- Supply Paper 363 3 QUALITY OF THE SURFACE WATERS OF OREGON BY WALTON VAN WINKLE Prepared in cooperation...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 8 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon 0. GF D. CCT 3 1814
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 9 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon CONTENTS. Page. Outline of investigation 7 Previous work 8 Value of information regarding the quality of surface waters 9 Acknowledgments 9 Natural features of Oregon 10 Topography 10 Hydrography 11 Rivers 11...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 10 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon 4 CONTENTS. Page. .San Francisco Bay drainage basin 38 Goose Lake 38 General features 38 Character of the water 38 North Pacific coast drainage basins 39 Klamath River 39 General features 39...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 11 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon CONTENTS. 5 North Pacific coast drainage basins— Continued. Columbia River drainage basin Continued. page. Sandy River 82 General features 82 Character of the water 82 Bull Run River 85 General features 85...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
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Image 12 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. Plate I. Map of Oregon showing location of sampling stations II. A, Large spring in Pelican Bay, Upper Klamath Lake; B, Water- gouged sections and beach shown on profile of...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 14 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER-SUPPLY PAPER 363 PLATE I Sampling station MAP OF OREGON SHOWING LOCATION OF SAMPLING STATIONS.
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 16 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon U- S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ATER-SUPPLY PAPER 363 PLATE I I2 r 117 c 116 c 124 r 123 c 117 Sampling station
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Image 17 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon QUALITY OF THE SURFACE WATERS OF OREGON. By Walton Van Winkle. OUTLINE OF INVESTIGATION. On July 1, 1911, the Director of the United States Geological Sur- vey made a contract with the...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 18 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon 8 QUALITY OF SURFACE WATERS OF OREGON. sity, Salem, where all analyses were made. Collection of samples was begun in August, 1911, and was continued without interruption until August 15, 1912, with...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 19 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 9 gation and Drainage Investigations, Department of Agriculture, 1904, page 264, and several analyses made for the United States Reclama- tion Service, including one careful study of Link River, covering a...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 20 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon 10 QUALITY OF SURFACE WATERS OF OREGON. and whose advice, suggestion, and criticism were most helpful; to President Fletcher Homan and the faculty of Willamette University, who provided laboratory space; and to...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
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Image 21 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon NATURAL FEATURES OF OREGON. 11 northeastern part of the State are the Blue Mountains and the Wal- lowa Mountains, in which the general elevation is 8,000 feet and isolated peaks rise to...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 22 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon 12 QUALITY OF SURFACE WATERS OF OREGON. chiefly to the marked variations in size which many of the lakes undergo, precise information as to their areas is meager, but that which is...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 23 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon NATURAL FEATURES. OF OREGON. 13 The larger lakes, except Crater Lake, are situated in the central Oregon plateau region, and are subject to wide fluctuations in area. Many of them, such as...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 24 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon 14 QUALITY OF SURFACE WATERS OF OREGON. Snake River plains. In the Klamath Mountains Paleozoic and Mesozoic (Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous) strata are exposed. The older rocks in the three mountain ranges...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 25 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon NATURAL FEATURES OF OREGON. 15 SOILS. Soil is residue from rock decay, altered and added to as a result of vegetable life. Trie soil may occupy the place of the rock from...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 26 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon 16 QUALITY OF SURFACE WATERS OF OREGON. CLIMATE. 1 Mean temperature in Oregon differs with elevation and with dis- tance inland. In Columbia River valley and west of the Cascades at points...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 27 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon ECONOMIC FEATURES. 17 AGRICULTURE. The climatic differences between eastern and western Oregon have resulted in important differences in agricultural development. The high plateau region of the eastern part of the State is...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 28 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon 18 QUALITY OF SURFACE WATERS OF OREGON. CONSTITUENTS OF NATURAL WATERS. Even rain, the purest natural water, contains appreciable amounts of organic and inorganic material in solution and in suspension. Rain falling...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 29 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon WATER FOR BOILERS. 19 All elements are soluble in water to some extent, but relatively few are found in appreciable amounts in natural waters. The important materials usually found are silica, iron,...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 30 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon 20 QUALITY OF SURFACE WATERS OF OREGON. hydrogen sulphide, and similar gases; (2) dissolved oxygen; (3) organic substances particularly organic oils that produce organic acids by decomposition; (4) dissolved mineral acids; (5)...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 31 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon WATER FOR BOILEES. 21 iron, aluminum, and organic matter. Silicon may be present as a silicate radicle in some waters, but it is usually considered to be entirely colloidal silica (Si0 2...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 32 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon 22 QUALITY OF SURFACE WATERS OF OREGON. Sulphate forms hard, compact scale with the alkaline earths. As it is very expensive to remove the sulphate radicle from waters, it is cus- tomary...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 33 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon WATER FOR USE IN FACTORIES. 23 the beer by producing offensive putrefaction products. 1 Iron forms dark-colored precipitates with the diastase, thus disturbing the conversion of the barley. As it also forms...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 34 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon 24 QUALITY OF SURFACE WATERS OF OREGON. large amounts of steam that are required in most mills. Hard water deposits calcium carbonate on the screens used to separate the pulp from the...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 35 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon PURIFICATION OF WATER. 25 TANNERIES. Hides to be tanned are usually unhaired by immersion in solutions of quicklime. If very hard water is used in that process the calcium carbonate that is...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 36 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon 26 QUALITY OF SURFACE WATERS OF OREGON. great enough to cause too slow nitration, about half an inch of sand is removed from the top of the bed and filtration is resumed....
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 37 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon PURIFICATION OF WATER. 27 filter chamber and passes rapidly through the bed of sand into the drainpipes, through which it is conducted to the clear-water basin for distribution. The rate of filtration...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 38 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon 28 QUALITY OF SURFACE WATERS OF OREGON. STERILIZATION. Some methods by which sterilization of water for domestic con- sumption has been attempted rely on direct destruction of the bacteria, and others on...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 39 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon PURIFICATION OF WATER. 29 cities. The chief drawbacks have been the expense of manufacturing the ozone and the mechanical difficulties of effecting application without wasting the reagent. Ultra-violet rays have been successfully...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914
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Image 40 of Quality of the surface waters of Oregon 30 QUALITY OF SURFACE WATERS OF OREGON. ash is used with lime in treating some waters from which the calcium and magnesium are not completely precipitated by lime alone. The amount and...
- Contributor: Oregon. State Engineer - Van Winkle, Walton
- Date: 1914