USGS TEI 810

Potential effects of Project Chariot on local water supplies

• Authors:

  Piper, A.M.

• Publication Date:

  1962

• Publisher:

  U.S. Geological Survey 

• Comments:

  Prepared on behalf of the San Francisco Operations Office, United States Atomic Energy Commission

• Ordering Info:

  This publication is out of print. Reproductions may be available. USGS Publications Warehouse

• Citation ID:

  25564

Bibliographic Reference

Piper, A.M., 1962, Potential effects of Project Chariot on local water supplies: U.S. Geological Survey Trace Elements Investigations 810, 76 p., 18 sheets, scale 1:250,000.

Publication Products

• Report Information

  • tei0810.pdf (2.3 M)

• Maps & Other Oversized Sheets

  • Plate 1, Vicinity of the Chariot site (479.0 K)
  • Plate 2, Expected fallout pattern and wind roses, Project Chariot (48.0 K)
  • Plate 3, Profiles of representative streams, vicinity of the Chariot site (28.0 K)
  • Plate 4, Points sampled for analyses of water, sediment, and stream deposits, scale 1:250,000 (378.0 K)
  • Table 2 Sheet, 1, Assumed distribution of fission-product activity from Project Chariot, after 1 hour (88.0 K)
  • Table 2 Sheet, 2, Assumed distribution of fission-product activity from Project Chariot, after 1 hour (61.0 K)
  • Table 9, Classification of land surface, vicinity of the Chariot site (52.0 K)
  • Table 17, Fraction of activity assumed to be removed from solution by adsorption on land-surface materials, Project Chariot (54.0 K)
  • Table 18, Sheet 1, Expected dispersal of fission products in fallout from Project Chariot, case I (123.0 K)
  • Table 18, Sheet 2, Expected dispersal of fission products in fallout from Project Chariot, case I (93.0 K)
  • Table 19, Sheet 1, Expected dispersal of fission products in fallout from Project Chariot, case II (97.0 K)
  • Table 19, Sheet 2, Expected dispersal of fission products in fallout from Project Chariot, case II (78.0 K)
  • Table 20, Sheet 1, Expected dispersal of fission products in fallout from Project Chariot, case III (59.0 K)
  • Table 20, Sheet 2, Expected dispersal of fission products in fallout from Project Chariot, case III (77.0 K)
  • Table 21, Sheet 1, Expected initial dispersal of fission products in fallout from Project Chariot, Case IV (89.0 K)
  • Table 21, Sheet 2, Expected initial dispersal of fission products in fallout from Project Chariot, Case IV (68.0 K)
  • Table 22, Sheet 1, Expected re-dispersal of fission products in fallout from Project Chariot, Case IV (111.0 K)
  • Table 22, Sheet 2, Expected re-dispersal of fission products in fallout from Project Chariot, Case IV (89.0 K)

Keywords

Hydrology; Seward Peninsula; Water; Water Quality; Water Resources

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