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Abmeyer, W. and Campbell, H. V., 1970, Soil survey of Shawnee County, Kansas: U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 77 pages + 44 soil-map sheets.

Atkinson, C. H. and Gier, D. A., 1967, Soil survey of Republic County, Kansas: U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 61 pages + 60 soil-map sheets.

Bender, W. H., 1971, Soils and septic tanks: Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Information Bulletin 349, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 12 pages.

Bouma, J., 1971, Evaluation of the field percolation test and an alternative procedure to test soil potential for disposal of septic tank effluent: Soil Science Society of America Proceedings, 35, p. 871-875.

Cain, J. M. and Beatty, M. T., 1965, Disposal of septic tank effluent in soils: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 20, p. 101-105.

Colorado Department of Health, 1970, Septic tank sewage disposal systems: Colorado Department of Health, Denver, Colorado, 22 pages.

Derr, B. D., Matelski, R. P., and Petersen, G. W., 1969, Soil factors influencing percolation test performance: Soil Science Society of America Proceedings, 33, p. 942-946.

Dickey, H. P., et al., 1965, Soil survey of Seward County, Kansas: U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 51 pages + 54 soil-map sheets.

Dodge, D. A., et al., 1965, Soil survey of Ford County, Kansas: U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 84 pages + 60 soil-map sheets.

Dunmire, R. G. and Bidwell, O. W., 1960, Soil survey of Geary County, Kansas: U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 35 pages + 25 soil-map sheets.

Eikleberry, R. W., 1960, Soil survey of Brown County, Kansas: U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 32 pages + 32 soil-map sheets.

Fleming, E. L., et al., 1961, Soil survey of Stanton County, Kansas: U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 41 pages + 56 soil-map sheets.

Fritton, D.D., and Olson, G. W., 1972, Depth to the apparent Water table in 17 New York Soils from 1963 to 1970: New York's Food and Life Sciences Bulletin No. 13, Agronomy Number 2, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 40 pages.

Golstein, S. N., and Moberg, W. J., Jr., 1973, Wastewater treatment systems for rural communities. Commission on Rural Water, 221 North La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois, 340 pages.

Harner, R. F., et al., 1965, Soil survey of Finney County, Kansas: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 91 pages + 108 soil-map sheets.

Hill, D. E., 1972, Waste water renovation in Connecticut soils: Journal of Environmental Quality, 1, p. 163-167.

Hoppenfeld, M., 1967, A sketch of the planning-building process for Columbia, Maryland: Journal of American Institute of Planners, 33, p. 398-409.

Huddleston, J. H., and Olson, G. W., 1967, Soil survey interpretation for subsurface sewage disposal: Soil Science, 104, p. 401-409.

Kansas State Department of Health, 1971 (third printing), A manual of recommended standards for locating, constructing, and operating septic tank systems for rural homes: Division of Environmental Health, Kansas State Department of Health, Topeka, Kansas, 31 pages.

Kansas State Department of Health, 1972, Guidelines for planning and operation of solid waste management systems. Division of Environmental Health, Kansas State Department of Health, Topeka, Kansas, 49 pages.

Keppner, A P., Jr., 1972, Adaptability of selected Montana soils for septic tank sewage disposal: Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, M.S. thesis, about 100 pages.

Kling, G. F., 1973, Relationships among soils, land use, and phosphorus losses in a drainage basin in East-Central New York State: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, M.S. thesis, 89 pages + 4 map plates.

Latshaw, G. J., and Thompson, R. F., 1968, Water table study verifies soil interpretations: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 23, p. 65-67.

Morris, J. G., Newbury, R. L., and Bartelli, L. J., 1962, For septic tank design, soil maps can substitute for percolation tests: Public Works Magazine, 93, p. 106-107.

New York State Department of Health, 1969, Sanitary landfill: planning, design, operation, maintenance: Division of General Engineering and Radiological Health, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, 40 pages.

Olson, G. W., 1964, Application of soil survey to problems of health, sanitation, and engineering: Agriculture Experiment Station, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Memoir 387, 77 pages.

Olson, G. W., 1969 (reprinted), Using soil surveys for problems of the expanding population in New York State: College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Extension Bulletin 1123, 31 pages.

Olson, G. W., 1972a, Engineering interpretations for uses of soils in developing countries: an outline of quantitative and qualitative procedures for improving the uses of soils in planning, design, and construction of roads, runways, foundations, sewage disposal systems, dams, dikes, canals, levees, pipelines, terraces, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and other engineering structures: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Agronomy Mimeo 72-14, 44 pages. Also published as Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Soils Bulletin 19, 1973, 24 pages.

Olson, G. W., 1972b, Significance of soils to the Cornell Plantations: The Cornell Plantations, 28, p. 1-18.

Olson, G. W., in press, Criteria for interpreting a soil profile description: a compilation of the official USDA procedure and nomenclature for describing soils: Environmental Geology Section, Kansas Geological Survey, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, about 90 pages.

Olson, G. W., and Marshall, R. L., 1968, Using high-intensity soil surveys for big development projects: a Cornell experience: Soil Science, 105, p. 223-231.

Persinger, I. D., and Yahner, J. E., 1970, Relation of percolation rates to soil texture on several Indiana soils: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 25, p. 189-191.

Popkin, R. A. and Bendixen, T. W., 1968, Feasibility of improved subsurface disposal: Journal of the Sanitary Engineering Division of the Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 95, p. 271-281.

Porter, H. C., and Pettry, D. E., 1971, Can you afford not to look at soils?: Extension Division, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, Publication 449, 46 pages.

Public Health Service, 1969 (reprinted), Manual of septic-tank practice: Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., Publication No. 526, 92 pages.

Ramsey, R. H., et al., 1972, Soil systems for municipal effluents--a workshop and related references: Water Pollution Control Research Series 16080 GWF 02/72, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Project #16080). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 59 pages.

Salvato, J. A., Jr., 1972 (second edition), Environmental engineering and sanitation: Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 919 pages.

Soil Survey Staff, 1951, Soil survey manual: U.S. Department of Agriculture Handbook Number 18. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 503 pages.

Soil Survey Staff, 1970, Selected chapters from the unedited text of the Soil Taxonomy of the National Cooperative Soil Survey: Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., about 500 pages.

Soil Survey Staff, 1971, Guide for interpreting engineering uses of soils: Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 87 pages.

Soil Survey Staff, 1972a, Planning for proper land use in Kansas: Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Salina, Kansas, 6-page folded leaflet.

Soil Survey Staff, 1972b, Soil series used in Kansas: their taxonomic classification: Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Salina, Kansas, 6 pages.

Stevens, L. A., 1971, The town that launders its water: how a California town learned to reclaim and reuse its water: Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, Inc., New York, 125 pages.

Texas State Department of Health, 1971, A guide to the disposal of household sewage, with attachments pertaining to the region of the highland lakes of the Colorado River of Texas: Texas State Department of Health, Austin, Texas, 26 pages.

Wall, G. V. and Webber, L. R., 1970, Soil characteristics and subsurface sewage disposal: Canadian journal of Public Health, 61, p. 47-54.


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