Publications
This list of Water Resources Mission Area publications includes both official USGS publications and journal articles authored by our scientists. A searchable database of all USGS publications can be accessed at the USGS Publications Warehouse.
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Biotic integrity of the Boise River upstream and downstream from two municipal wastewater treatment facilities, Boise, Idaho, 1995-96
Aquatic biological communities were used to assess the biotic integrity of the Boise River upstream and downstream from the Lander Street and West Boise municipal wastewater treatment facilities (WTFs) in Boise, Idaho. Samples of epilithic periphyton, benthic macroinvertebrates, and fish were collected in late February and early March 1995, in late October 1996, and in early December 1996. Epilith
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William H. Mullins
Ground water and surface water in the Haiku area, East Maui, Hawaii
The Haiku study area lies on the gently sloping eastern flank of the East Maui Volcano (Haleakala) between the drainage basins of Maliko Gulch to the west and Kakipi Gulch to the east. The study area lies on the northwest rift zone of East Maui Volcano, a geologic feature 3 to 5 miles wide marked by surface expressions such as cinder, spatter, and pumice cones. The study area contains two geologic
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Stephen B. Gingerich
Areal studies aid protection of ground-water quality in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin
In 1991, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, initiated studies designed to characterize the ground-water quality and hydrogeology in northern Illinois, and southern and eastern Wisconsin (with a focus on the north-central Illinois cities of Belvidere and Rockford, and the Calumet region of northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana). These
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P.C. Mills, Robert T. Kay, Timothy A. Brown, Douglas J. Yeskis
Watershed modeling approach to assessing the hydrologic effects of future development in the Ninemile Creek basin, Onondaga County, New York
No abstract available.
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Phillip J. Zarriello
Ecological status of Onondaga Creek in Tully Valley, New York; summer 1998
No abstract available.
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James E. McKenna, Thomas L. Chiotti, William M. Kappel
Ground-water conditions in Utah, spring of 1999
This is the thirty-sixth in a series of annual reports that describe ground-water conditions in Utah. Reports in this series, published cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water Resources and Division of Water Rights, provide data to enable interested parties to maintain awareness of changing ground-water conditions.This report, lik
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Carole B. Burden, L.E. Spangler, J.D. Sory, Robert J. Eacret, T.A. Kenney, K. K. Johnson, B.L. Loving, S.J. Brockner, M.R. Danner, Paul Downhour, B.A. Slaugh, R.L. Swenson, J.H. Howells, H.K. Christiansen, M.J. Fisher
Measuring streamflow in Virginia (1999 revision)
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Department of the Interior, is the Nation's largest Earth-science information agency. Among its many responsibilities, such as map making and providing information on earthquakes and other natural hazards, the USGS provides information on the Nation's water resources. The USGS has collected and analyzed hydrologic (water-related) information for more than 10
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Roger M. Moberg, Karen C. Rice, Eugene D. Powell
Hydrology and geochemistry of carbonate springs in Mantua Valley, northern Utah
Water chemistry, tritium data, precipitation-discharge relations, geology, topography, and dye tracing were used to determine recharge areas, ground-water residence times, factors influencing ground-water flow, and aquifer characteristic for five springs that discharge from Paleozoic limestones and dolostones along the margin of Manuta Valley, northern Utah.Temperature of Mantua Valley spring wate
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Karen C. Rice, Lawrence E. Spangler
Pesticides in stream sediment and aquatic biota: distribution, trends, and governing factors
More than 20 years after the ban of DDT and other organochlorine pesticides, pesticides continue to be detected in air, rain, soil, surface water, bed sediment, and aquatic and terrestrial biota throughout the world. Recent research suggests that low levels of some of these pesticides may have the potential to affect the development, reproduction, and behavior of fish and wildlife, and possibly hu
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Lisa H. Nowell, Peter D. Capel
Water Resources Data: New Jersey, Water Year 1998, Volume 1, Surface-Water Data
This volume of the annual hydrologic data report of New Jersey is one of a series of annual reports that document hydrologic data gathered from the U.S. Geological Survey's surface- and ground-water data-collection networks in each State, Puerto Rico, and the Trust Territories. These records of streamflow, ground-water levels, and water quality provide the hydrologic information needed by state, l
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T.J. Reed, G.L. Centinaro, J.F. Dudek, V. Corcino, G.C. Stekroadt, R.C. McTigure
Relation of pesticide concentrations to season, streamflow, and land use in seven New Jersey streams
The presence and variability of pesticides in seven New Jersey streams was documented by analyzing 146 samples collected from the streams from April 1996 through June 1998. The samples were analyzed for 85 pesticides, including 50 herbicides, 28 insecticides, and 7 degradation products, at method detection limits that ranged from 0.001 to 0.018 μg/L (micrograms per liter). Pesticides were frequent
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Robert G. Reiser
Fish-community composition in Cowanesque River upstream and downstream of the Cowanesque Dam, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, 1998
Between February 1997 and September 1997, 10 monitor wells were drilled near the site of the
former Naval Air Warfare Center, Warminster, Bucks County, Pa., to monitor water levels and sample
ground-water contaminants in the shallow, intermediate, and deep water-bearing zones. The
sampling will determine the horizontal and vertical distribution of contaminated ground water
migrating from known
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Robin A. Brightbill, Michael D. Bilger