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Identifier: undergroundwater00nort (find matches)
Title: Underground water resources of Iowa
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Norton, William Harmon, b. 1856 Hendrixson, Walter Scott, 1859- (from old catalog) joint author Simpson, Howard E. (Howard Edwin), 1874-1938, joint author Meinzer, Oscar Edward, 1876- (from old catalog) joint author Iowa. Geological survey. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Water-supply
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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low, or greenish gray; highlyarenaceous with almost impalpable quartz grains; cal-careous and argillaceous; glauconite present in rounddark-green grains; some samples easily friable whendried, others more clayey and somewhat tenacious; 9samples 1, 660-1,740 The water is distributed thiough 2^ niiles of mains to 92 taps and14 fire hydrants under 50 pounds pressure. Tripoli.—The town of Tripoli (population, 755) is supplied from awell 113 feet deep, said to be capable of furnishing at least 70 barrelsan hour. Water is distributed from a tank (capacity, 2,000 barrels)set on posts 90 feet high. There are 6,000 feet of mains, 16 firehydrants, and 50 taps. Most wells in the village find water in gravelresting on bedrock. Waverly.—The city of Waverly (population, 3,205) is supplied byan artesian well 1,720 feet deep, drilled in 1899 by J. P. Miller & Co.,of Chicago. (See PL VII.) The well is 12 inches in diameter to a WATER-SUPPLY PAPER 293 PLATE VII 29 miles ~----_Pleistocen( Vinton
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GEOLOGIC SECTION BEiTWEEN ST. ANSGAK AND VINTON, IOWABy W. H. Norton BEEMEE COUNTY. 273 depth of 15 feet, 10 inches to 100 feet, 8 inches to bottom, and iscased to a depth of 100 feet. The curb is 930 feet above sea level.The head was not tested, but the natural flow is 225 gallons perminute. Water was found at a depth of 730 feet (in the St. Peter),at 840 to 900 feet (in the Shakopee, first flow), and at 1,120 to 1,200feet (in the Jordan). The temperature is 53° F. The strata penetrated are shown by the following table: Record of strata in city ivell at Waverly (PI. VII, p. 272). Devonian (70 feet thick; top, 930 feet above sea level): Feet. Limestone; buff, earthy 20 Limestone; light buff, earthy 30 Limestone; dense, hard, brittle, brownish drab and lightbuff, of finest grain and conchoidal fracture; rapidity of> effervescence in cold dilute HCl indicated a very slight per-centage of magnesium carbonate; facies of Wapsipinicon limestone 40 Limestone; as above, with a few chips o

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