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Joseph B. Lescinsky

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Water resources data, Pennsylvania, water year 1992. Volume 3: Ohio and St. Lawrence River basins

Water resources data for the 1992 water year for Pennsylvania consists of records of discharge and water quality of streams; contents and elevations of lakes and reservoirs; and water levels of ground-water wells. This report, Volume 3, includes records from the Ohio and St. Lawrence River basins. Specifically, it contains: (1) discharge records for 69 continuous record streamflow-gaging stations and 12 partial-record stations; (2) elevation and contents records for 3 lakes and reservoirs; (3) water-quality records for 3 streamflow-gaging stations and 36 partial-record stations; and (4) water-level records for 20 network observation wells. Locations of these sites are shown on figures 4-5. Additional water data were collected at various sites not involved in the systematic data-collection program and are published as miscellaneous measurements and analyses. These data, together with the data in Volume 1 and 2, represent that part of the National Water Data System operated by the U.S. Geological Survey and cooperating State, Local, and Federal agencies in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania

Flood of November 1985 in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia

Rainfall in excess of 10 inches occurred during the first 5 days of November 1985, resulting in devastating flooding in the Mid-Atlantic states of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. Throughout the area, many streams exceeded previously known flood heights and discharges and, in many cases, the recurrence interval of peak discharges exceeded 100 years. The peak stage and discharge for the maximum previously known flood and the November 1985 flood are compared. Flood hydrographs for selected locations also are presented.

Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia

Water resources of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

Lehigh County occupies an area of 347 square miles in southeastern Pennsylvania. The northern part of Lehigh County is underlain by the Martinsburg Formation, which consists chiefly of shale and slate. The central part of the county, where most of the population centers are located and much of the urbanization is occurring, is underlain by alternating beds of limestone and dolomite. From oldest to youngest, these carbonate rocks are the Leithsville Formation, the Allentown Formation, the Beekmantown Group, and the Jacksonburg Formation. The southern part of the county is underlain chiefly by the shales, sandstones, and conglomerates of the Brunswick Formation and by metamorphic and igneous rocks.

Pennsylvania