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Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center Publications
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Hydrogeology and ground-water flow of the drift and Platteville aquifer system, St. Louis Park, Minnesota
Three aquifers and two confining units have been delineated within the drift underlying the area near the site of a former coal-tar distillation and wood-preserving plant in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. The hydrogeologic units of the drift, in descending order, are the upper drift aquifer, the upper drift confining unit, the middle drift aquifer, the lower drift confining unit. and the lower drift a
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R. J. Lindgren
Pesticide amounts are small in streams in the Red River of the North Basin, 1993-94
Pesticides are used extensively in the largely agricultural Red River of the North (Red River) Basin, but, unlike many other agricultural basins, only small amounts are routinely detected in samples from streams in the basin. The pesticides detected comprise less than 2 percent of the amount applied and usually are at concentrations far less than established drinking water standards. Most of the d
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L. H. Tornes, Mark E. Brigham
The distribution of Vallisneria americana seeds and seedling light requirements in the Upper Mississippi River
Vallisneria americana declined in backwaters of the Upper Mississippi River, U.S.A., after a drought in 1988. To determine whether viable seeds of V. americana occurred in the seed bank of navigation pool 7, Lake Onalaska, the upper 5 cm of sediment was collected from 103 sites in May 1990. These sediment samples were kept in pots at a depth of 0.4, 0.8, and 1.2 m in an outdoor pond for 12 weeks.
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A. Kimber, Arnold G. van der Valk, Carl E. Korschgen
Aquatic communities and contaminants in fish from streams of the Red River of the North basin, Minnesota and North Dakota
Available data on the ecology of aquatic organisms in the Red River of the North Basin, a study unit of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment program, were collated from numerous sources. Lack of information for invertebrates and algae precluded a general summary of distribution and ecology throughout the basin. Data on fish species distributions in the major streams of th
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R. M. Goldstein
National Water-Quality Assessment Program, western Lake Michigan drainages: Summaries of liaison committee meeting, Green Bay, Wisconsin, March 28-29, 1995
The Western Lake Michigan Drainages (WMIC) study unit, under investigation since 1991, drains 20,000 square miles (mi2) in eastern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan (fig. 1). The major water-quality issues in the WMIC study unit are: (1) nonpoint-source contamination of surface and ground water by agricultural chemicals, (2) contamination in bottom sediments of rivers and harbors by toxic substances, i
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Charles A. Peters
Ground-water baseflow to the upper Mississippi River upstream of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, Minnesota during July 1988
Ground-water baseflow to six subreaches of the Upper Mississippi River were estimated for July 1988, a period of drought. Ground-water baseflow to each subreach was estimated on the basis of streamflow gains determined from records of daily discharge at gaging stations. Streamflow gains were adjusted for estimated inflow from tributaries, municipal and industrial discharges, withdrawals, and evapo
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G. A. Payne
Presence and distribution of nitrate and selected pesticides in surficial-sand aquifers and selected lakes, 1993-94, East Otter Tail County, Minnesota
This report presents selected data collected during the first year (December 1993 to September 1994) of a three year water-quality study of surficial-sand aquifers and selected lakes in east Otter Tail County, Minnesota. The objectives of the study are (1) to determine the presence and distribution of nitrate-nitrogen and selected pesticides in ground water from the surficial-sand aquifers; and (2
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Shannon E. Smith, James E. Ruhl
Hydrology and relation of selected water-quality constituents to selected physical factors in Dakota County, Minnesota, 1990-91
Selected water-quality constituents were determined in water from 5 surface-water sites and 29 wells in Dakota County, Minnesota, to search for possible relations to selected physical factors, including waste-water discharge, agricultural land, Quaternary deposits, bedrock, soil-leaching potential, and water-table depth. All surface-water samples were from the Vermillion River Basin, whose hydrolo
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J.E. Almendinger, G.B. Mitton
Spatial variability of streambed properties related to stream-channel geomorphology, and base flow of a gaining stream in glaciated north-central Minnesota
No abstract available.
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T.A. Petersen, D.S. Armstrong, J. R. Stark, D. S. Hansen
Water resources of the Grand Portage Indian Reservation, northeastern Minnesota
The Grand Portage Indian Reservation Tribal Council needs information about the availability and quality of the ground water in the Reservation to develop, protect, and manage this resource for future use. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Grand Portage Indian Reservation Tribal Council, did a three-year study of the ground water in the Reservation to provide this needed informat
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J. F. Ruhl
Transport of agricultural chemicals to ground water, Princeton, Minnesota, 1991-93
No abstract available.
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G. N. Delin
Water quality under a ridge-tilled, corn/soybean farming system
No abstract available.
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R.H. Dowdy, J.A. Lamb, W.L. Albus, D.E. Clay, D.R. Lowery, G. N. Delin, J. L. Anderson