Filter-press method of extracting water samples for chloride analysis
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Norbert J. Lusczynski
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Salinity of ground water at sampling wells located in southeastern Nassau County, Long Island, New York
In 1939, a special program for the systematic collection of chloride data in southeastern Nassau County was inaugurated in which three agencies participated. The Nassau County Department of Public Works constructed the sampling wells, the Ground Water Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey began to collect at period intervals water samples which were analysed at the Mount Prospect Laboratory of the New York Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, The Nassau County Department of Public Works and the U.S. Geological Survey have continued financial cooperation for the maintenance of this program up to the present time.
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Withdrawal of ground water and pond water on Long Island from 1904 to 1949
For more than 50 years the highly productive and readily replenishable water-bearing sands and gravels on Long Island -- capable of yielding an average of at least 1,000 million gallons a day -- and also some surface streams and ponds have been utilized on a large scale of public water supply and industrial, agricultural and domestic uses. During the drought months of 1949, when many surface and groundwater supplied were being depleted at an alarming rate in many localities in the Northeast, the abundant water resources of Long Island provided sufficient water for public water supply for a large number of private companies and municipalities, as well as for large emergency drafts by the City of New York. In addition they kept industrial concerns from curtailing production, saved millions of dollars of potato, cauliflower, and other Long Island crops, and even furnished, during the summer heat, comfort cooling and theatergoers.
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Piezometric levels from 1948 through 1950 for wells screened in the Lloyd sand member of the Raritan formation on Long Island, New York
Since 1932, the United States Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New York Water Power and Control Commission, the Nassau County Department of Public Works, the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, and later also with the Suffolk County Water Authority, has been making both general and detailed studied dealing with the occurrence, movement, quantity, quality, and temperature of ground water found in the several water-bearing formations on Long Island. In the first years most of the emphasis was placed on studying the shallow water-table beds of Pleistocene age, although geologic and hydrologic information was obtained for the Lloyd sand member of the Raritan formation of upper Cretaceous age, the deepest water-bearing beds on Long Island, as well as for other artesian formations above the Lloyd.
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