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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Quantity and quality of runoff from selected guttered and unguttered roadways in northeastern Ramsey County, Minnesota
Five roadway sections in northeastern Ramsey County, Minnesota were monitored during 1993-95, to evaluate water quality and loading of constituents from roadway runoff. Two snowmelt-runoff and five rainfall-runoff events were monitored per year at each site. Additional samples of rainfall were analyzed to determine if rainfall was a direct source of constituent loading to roadway runoff. Roadway-r
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G.B. Mitton, G. A. Payne
Evaluation of agricultural best-management practices in the Conestoga River headwaters, Pennsylvania: Effects of pipe-outlet terracing on quantity and quality of surface runoff and ground water in a small carbonate-rock basin near Churchtown, Pennsylvania
Terracing effects on surface-runoff and ground- water quantity and quality were investigated by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, during 1983-89 at a 23.1-acre agricultural site in Lancaster County, Pa., as part of the 1982 Rural Clean Water Program. The site, underlain by carbonate rock, was primarily corn and alfalfa fields;
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P. L. Lietman, L. C. Gustafson-Minnich, D. W. Hall
Assessment of the water resources of the Grand Ronde area, Oregon
Stream hydrographs show that throughout the Grand Ronde area most precipitation follows surface or shallow subsurface pathways to streams, resulting in rapid runoff and little natural water storage within the basin. Limited storage and low aquifer permeability restrict base flow to streams, and streamflows therefore decline rapidly once precipitation ceases. Shallow ground water and springs occur
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Kathleen A. McCarthy, John C. Risley, Rodney R. Caldwell, William D. McFarland
Geologic framework of the Edwards Aquifer and upper confining unit, and hydrogeologic characteristics of the Edwards Aquifer, south-central Uvalde County, Texas
The stratigraphic units of the Edwards aquifer in south-central Uvalde County generally are porous and permeable. The stratigraphic units that compose the Edwards aquifer in south-central Uvalde County are the Devils River Formation in the Devils River trend; and the West Nueces, McKnight, and Salmon Peak Formations in the Maverick Basin. The Balcones fault zone is the principal structural feature
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Allan K. Clark, Ted A. Small
Remediation of petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated ground water in the vicinity of a jet-fuel tank farm, Hanahan, South Carolina
No abstract available.
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D. A. Vroblesky, J. F. Robertson, M.D. Petkewich, F. H. Chapelle, P. M. Bradley, J. E. Landmeyer
Crosswell radar; a feasibility test at the M-Area settling basin, Savannah River Site, South Carolina
No abstract available.
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K.J. Ellefsen
Summary of the Puget-Willamette Lowland regional aquifer-system analysis, Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia
No abstract available.
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J. J. Vaccaro, D. G. Woodward, M. W. Gannett, M. A. Jones, C. A. Collins, R. R. Caldwell, A. J. Hansen
Water-quality and hydrogeologic data used to evaluate the effects of farming systems on ground-water quality at the Management Systems Evaluation Area near Princeton, Minnesota, 1991-95
The Minnesota Management Systems Evaluation Area (MSEA) project was part of a multi-scale, inter-agency initiative to evaluate the effects of agricultural management systems on water quality in the midwest corn belt. The research area was located in the Anoka Sand Plain about 5 kilometers southwest of Princeton, Minnesota. The ground-water-quality monitoring network within and immediately surround
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M.K. Landon, G. N. Delin, K.J. Nelson, C.P. Regan, J.A. Lamb, S.J. Larson, P. D. Capel, J. L. Anderson, R.H. Dowdy
Water-quality trends in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Basin using sediment cores from reservoirs
Water-quality trends reflect the relation between water quality and human activities, chronicling changes in concentrations of environmental contaminants, introduction of new contaminants, and successful efforts in environmental pollution remediation. Historical data available for analyzing trends often have severe limitations, from questionable accuracy to unknown sampling and analytic methodolog
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Peter C. Van Metre, B.J. Mahler, Edward C. Callender
Rapid-Estimation Method for Assessing Scour at Highway Bridges Based on Limited Site Data
No abstract available.
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Stephen R. Holnbeck, Charles Parrett
Pesticides and volatile organic compounds in shallow urban groundwater
No abstract available.
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D.W. Kolpin, P. J. Squillace, J.E. Barbash, J.S. Zogorski