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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Upper Illinois River basin
During the past 25 years, industry and government made large financial investments that resulted in better water quality across the Nation; however, many water-quality concerns remain. Following a 1986 pilot project, the U.S. Geological Survey began implementation of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program in 1991. This program differs from other national water-quality assessment stu
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Michael J. Friedel
Water quality in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, 1992-95
No abstract available.
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Elizabeth A. Frick, Daniel J. Hiipe, Gary R. Buell, Carol A. Couch, Evelyn H. Hopkins, David J. Wangsness, Jerry W. Garrett
Water quality in the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River basins, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont, 1992-95
No abstract available.
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Stephen P. Garabedian, J.F. Coles, S. J. Grady, E.C.T. Trench, M.J. Zimmerman
Surface-water/ground-water relations in the Lemhi River Basin, east-central Idaho
This report summarizes work carried out in cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation to provide hydrologic information to help Federal, State, and local agencies meet the goals of the Lemhi River Model Watershed Project. The primary goal of the project is to maintain, enhance, and restore anadromous and resident fish habitat in the Lemhi River, while maintaining a balance between resource protect
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Mary M. Donato
Quantification of deep percolation from two flood-irrigated alfalfa fields, Roswell Basin, New Mexico
For many years water management in the Roswell ground-water basin (Roswell
Basin) and other declared basins in New Mexico has been the responsibility
of the State of New Mexico. One of the water management issues requiring
better quantification is the amount of deep percolation from applied
irrigation water. Two adjacent fields, planted in alfalfa, were studied
to determine deep percolat
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D. Michael Roark, D. F. Healy
Water-quality assessment of the Central Arizona Basins, Arizona and northern Mexico – Environmental setting and overview of water quality
The Central Arizona Basins study area in central and southern Arizona and northern Mexico is one of 60 study units that are part of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment program. The purpose of this report is to describe the physical, chemical, and environmental characteristics that may affect water quality in the Central Arizona Basins study area and present an overview o
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Gail E. Cordy, Julie A. Rees, Robert J. Edmonds, Joseph B. Gebler, Laurie Wirt, Dorinda J. Gellenbeck, David W. Anning
Hydrogeology, water quality, and simulation of ground-water flow in a glacial-aquifer system, Cortland County, New York
No abstract available.
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Todd S. Miller, D. A. Sherwood, P.M. Jeffers, Nancy Mueller
Water quality in the White River basin, Indiana, 1992-96
No abstract available.
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Joseph M. Fenelon
Spatial variation in saturated hydraulic conductivity of sediments at a crude-oil spill site near Bemidji, Minnesota
Saturated hydraulic conductivity of aquifer sediments at a crude-oil spill research site near Bemidji, Minnesota were examined using pneumatically-induced head-difference tests and packer/vacuum system tests. Results from slug tests on 58 wells show that hydraulic conductivity varies both horizontally and vertically in the range from about 10-7 to 10-4 meters per second (m/s), with a median of 7.2
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Michael L. Strobel, G. N. Delin, Carissa J. Munson
Evaluation of a method for comparing phosphorus loads from barnyards and croplands in Otter Creek Watershed, Wisconsin
Control of phosphorus from rural nonpoint sources is a major focus of current efforts to improve and protect water resources in Wisconsin and is recommended in almost every priority watershed plan prepared for the State's Nonpoint Source (NFS) Program. Barnyards and crop- lands usually are identified as the primary rural sources of phosphorus. Numerous questions have arisen about which of these tw
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Judy A. Wierl, Elise M. P. Giddings, Roger T. Bannerman
Radon-222 in the ground water of Chester County, Pennsylvania
Radon-222 concentrations in ground water in 31 geologic units in Chester County, Pa., were measured in 665 samples collected from 534 wells from 1986 to 1997. Chester County is underlain by schists, gneisses, quartzites, carbonates, sandstones, shales, and other rocks of the Piedmont Physiographic Province. On average, radon concentration was measured in water from one well per 1.4 square miles, t
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Lisa A. Senior