Records of the Water Resources Division.

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Geological Survey (U.S.). Records of the Water Resources Division.

Records of the Water Resources Division.

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The records include general and administrative correspondence, 1907-58; correspondence with Survey offices, 1931-51, other Federal agencies, 1916-51, and district engineers and field employees, 1910-46; annual narrative and statistical reports, 1933-47, and monthly progress reports, 1934-35; vital records inventories from field offices, 1951; accounting records, 1888-1912; records concerning the Great Falls waterpower project, 1908-11; records relating to cooperation with the Corps of Engineers, 1915-45; and records relating to public works projects, 1933-42. Also records relating to the White Mountain water resources investigation, including field notes and precipitation and hydrographic data, rating tables, graphs, charts, and correspondence, 1909-13; records of the superpower survey, a study of a system for generation and distribution of electricity between Boston and Washington, D.C., including correspondence, 1920-23, minutes of meetings of the advisory board, 1920-21, and newspaper clippings, 1921-22; records concerning cooperation with State governments, 1903-30; records relating to water supply publications, 1935-40; a published report of the Lake Mead Comprehensive Survey of 1948-49, issued in 1954; and stock water reports and related correspondence, 1942-59. Records relating to specific investigations or water problems involving States or foreign governments include those relating to the Kootenai River investigations carried out by the International Joint Commission of the United States and Canada, 1934-50; those maintained by Brig. Gen. Hans Kramer as Chairman of the Colorado-Kansa Arkansas River Compact Commission, 1946-49, and as Chairman of and representative of the United States of the Arkansas River Compact Commission, 1946-48, and the Arkansas River Compact Administration, 1949-55. Closely related are the records of chief hydraulic engineers, 1934-59. Records of the Surface Water Branch include records relating to the Ohio River special report, 1904-17, stream control data, 1900-39, a special investigations report file, 1931-48, and records relating to floods, 1935-42. Records of the Quality of Water Branch include records of the chemist in charge, 1913-46; an inventory of analyses of surface waters for irrigation, 1947-48; administrative correspondence relating to field offices and laboratories, 1946-52; and records relating to research and development, 1946-51. Records of the Ground Water Branch include general correspondence and reports, 1920-47; reports of branch and field offices, 1914-42; records concerning public water supplies, 1930-39, and mineral waters, ca. 1895-1930; records of the geologist in charge, relating to the Section of Hydrology of the American Geophysical Union, 1937-48; correspondence relating to the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, International Association of Hydrology, 1937-48; and diaries of field trips on Geological Survey business, 1938-44. Records of the Water Utilization Branch include letters sent, 1933-40, and accounting records, 1940-42. Records of the Division of Power Resources include records concerning cooperation of the Geological Survey in Federal Power Commission projects, 1921-42; consular reports regarding foreign water supplies, 1924-38; reports on developed U.S. waterpower, 1921-30, and annual reports concerning developed and potential waterpower, 1923-24. Records relating to the production of electricity, 1919-43, are also included.

270 linear ft.

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