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The Oconaluftee River [4] drains the south-central Oconaluftee valley of the Great Smoky Mountains in Western North Carolina before emptying into the Tuckasegee River.The river flows through the Qualla Boundary, a federal land trust that serves as a reserve for the Eastern Band of the Cherokee, the only federally recognized tribe in North Carolina.
Aquifers of the United States are organized by national principal aquifer codes and names assigned by the National Water Information System (NWIS). Aquifers are identified by a geohydrologic unit code (a three-digit number related to the age of the formation) followed by a 4 or 5 character abbreviation for the geologic unit or aquifer name. [10]
USGS operates a number of water-related programs, notably the National Streamflow Information Program [23] and National Water-Quality Assessment Program. [24] USGS Water data is publicly available from their National Water Information System [25] database.
SWBD data covers the Earth's surface between 56° southern latitude and 60° northern latitude. It is distributed in ESRI shapefile format, divided into 12,229 files, each covering one 1°-by-1° tile of the Earth's surface. SWBD data is in the public domain and is made available online for free download by NASA.
For USGS water-use reports, surface water is considered freshwater when it contains less than 1,000 milligrams per liter (mg/L) of dissolved solids. [2] There are three major types of surface water. Permanent (perennial) surface waters are present year round, and includes lakes, rivers and wetlands (marshes and swamps).
A USGS stream gauge on the creek near Richwood recorded a mean annual discharge of 233.6 cu ft/s (6.61 m 3 /s) during water years 1945-2019. The highest annual mean discharge during the period was 318 cu ft/s (9.0 m 3 /s) in water year 1979, and the lowest was 126.2 cu ft/s (3.57 m 3 /s) in water year 1999.
In 1971 the North Carolina General Assembly passed the Executive Reorganization Act. The law reformed the Department of Revenue to encompass the office of the commissioner of revenue, the Tax Research Board, and the State Board of Assessment. [4] Two years later the title of the head of the department was changed from "commissioner" to ...
"Hydrologic Unit Maps: U.S. Geological Survey, Water Supply Paper 2294". pubs.usgs.gov. USGS This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Taylor, O. James (1978). Summary appraisals of the nation's ground-water resources – Missouri basin region (PDF) (Report). U.S. Government Printing Office.