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Article: Joseph Wells, 81, Ex-Official Of Geological Survey, Dies
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 29, 1987
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Joseph V.B. Wells, 81, a retired official of the U.S. Geological
Survey who had been assistant chief of the water resources studies
program and Delaware River master, died of a heart ailment July 26 at
Fairfax Hospital. He was a resident of Fairfax.
Mr. Wells worked 32 years for the USGS before his retirement in
1961, but he continued to serve as Delaware River master until 1975.
That job involved allocation of the use of the waters of the Delaware
to states and municipalities.
Mr. Wells who was born in Setauket, N.Y, graduated from Columbia
University with a degree in civil engineering. He worked for the
Geological Survey in New York, Pennsylvania and Kentucky before he
was assigned to ...