Excavations in the McNary Reservoir Basin near Umatilla, Oregon. Douglas Osborne. Appendices by M. T. Newman, Arthur Woodward, W. J. Kroll, B. H. McLeod. River Basin Surveys Papers No. 8, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 166, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1957. ix + 258 pp., 6 figs., 40 pls., 19 maps, 33 tables. $1.75.

1959 ◽  
Vol 24 (4Part1) ◽  
pp. 446-447
Author(s):  
Charles E. Borden
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Reservoir Basin

Quantifying the impact of human activities on water quality based on spatialization of social data: a case study of the Pingzhai Reservoir Basin

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 688-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongrong Zhang ◽  
Zhongfa Zhou ◽  
Haotian Zhang ◽  
Yusheng Dan
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Oxygen Demand ◽  
Pollution Source ◽  
Pollution Load ◽  
Social Data ◽  
Reservoir Basin ◽  
The Impact

Abstract In water pollution source research, it is difficult to quantify the impact of human activities on water quality. Based on pollution load theory and the concept of spatialization of social data, this study integrates land-use type, slope gradient, and spatial position, and uses the contribution of human activities to quantify the impact of farmland fertilizers, livestock and poultry wastes, and human domestic pollution on water quality in the study area. The results show that livestock manure is the largest source of total phosphorus (TP) and total nitrogen (TN) discharges in the research area, and domestic pollution is the largest source of chemical oxygen demand (COD) discharges. The total equal standard pollution load (as well as the load of each pollution source and its pollutant amount) is the highest in the Nayong River Basin and the lowest in the Baishui River Basin. The contributions of human activities to TP and TN have similar spatial distributions. The impact of human activities on COD discharge is minimal. The quantitative results of this model are basically consistent with the actual conditions in the Pingzhai Reservoir Basin, which suggests that the model reasonably reflects the impact of human activities on the water environment of the basin.

Archaeological Investigations in Ellsworth and Rice Counties, Kansas

1949 ◽  
Vol 14 (4Part1) ◽  
pp. 292-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlyle S. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
Arkansas River ◽  
Reservoir Area ◽  
Dakota Sandstone

Archaeological investigations were carried on by the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, from June 19 to August 20, 1948, in the Kanopolis Reservoir area on the Smoky Hill River in Ellsworth County and also along the Little Arkansas River in Rice County, Kansas. The River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution had undertaken the preliminary reconnaissance and had found more than twenty sites in the area of the Reservoir. William O. Leuty of Ellsworth was helpful in guiding the field parties of both institutions to most of the sites; also he gathered surface collections which were turned over to us.The Kanopolis Reservoir is situated in the highly dissected terrain which marks the Plains border along the 98th meridian of longitude in central Kansas. The Smoky Hill River meanders eastward, fed by many tributary streams and canyons. Outcrops of Dakota sandstone are common on the bluffs bordering the valley and trees are limited to the edges of the streams.

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