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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Water quality of large discharges from mines in the anthracite region of eastern Pennsylvania
In 1991, 99 of the 102 coal mines in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania that discharged 1.0 cubic foot per second or more when water-quality samples were collected in 1975 were revisited. Water was not discharging from 15 of these 99 mines in 1991. Discharge, water temperature, specific conductance, pH, dissolved oxygen, sulfate, iron, manganese, alkalinity, and acidity were measured in wa
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C. R. Wood
Sampling design for assessing water quality of the Red River of the North basin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, 1993-1995
This map report describes the sampling design for a comprehensive regional assessment of water quality in the Red River of the North Basin, a study unit under the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Water-Quality Assessment Program. The sampling design was developed to address questions about the presence, distribution, and loads of nutrients and pesticides associated with large agricultural regions
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D. L. Lorenz, J.D. Stoner
Water-quality data for nutrients, pesticides, and volatile organic compounds in near-surface aquifers of the midcontinental United States, 1992-1994
Water samples were collected from 175 wells in 12 Midcontinental States (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin) from 1992 through 1994 to determine the spatial distribution of nutrients, pesticides, and volatile organic compounds in ground water, and to document the potential effects of the historic flooding that occur
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D.W. Kolpin, K.E. Zichelle, E.M. Thurman
Acetochlor in the hydrologic system in the midwestern United States, 1994
The herbicide acetochlor [2-chloro-N-(ethoxymethyl)-N-(2-ethyl-6-methylphenyl)acetamide] was given conditional registration in the United States by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in March 1994. This registration provided a rare opportunity to investigate the occurrence of a pesticide during its first season of extensive use in the midwestern United States. Water samples collected and ana
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D.W. Kolpin, B.K. Nations, D. A. Goolsby, E.M. Thurman
Organic geochemistry and sources of natural aquatic foams
Aquatic foams and stream-water samples were collected from two pristine sites for humic substances isolation and characterization. Biomarker compounds identified in foam and stream humic substances included phospholipid fatty acids, steroids, and lignin. Results showed that foams had a 10 to 20 fold greater DOC concentration and were enriched in humic substances (90% by weight of DOC) that showed
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M. S. Mills, E.M. Thurman, J. Ertel, Kevin A. Thorn
Water resources data, South Carolina, water year 1995
No abstract available.
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T.W. Cooney, P.A. Drewes, K.H. Jones, J.W. Gissendanner, B.W. Church
Water resources data, South Carolina, water year 1996
No abstract available.
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T.W. Cooney, K.H. Jones, P.A. Drewes, J.W. Gissendanner, B.W. Church
Audit of VSMOW distributed by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology
Bright-orange floating matter (possibly algae) has been observed in the United States supply of some ampoules and in one of two 10-L primary glass storage flasks of the isotopic reference water VSMOW (Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water). Within experimental error, ampoules with and without this orange matter are identical in stable hydrogen and oxygen isotopic composition. Thus, the North American s
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Jessica A. Hopple, Graham D. Foster
Assessing the hydrologic impact of land use change in wetland watersheds: A case study from Northern Ohio, USA
No abstract available.
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K. A. McClintock, J. A. Harbor, Timothy P. Wilson
Chemical and biological processes affecting the fate and transport of trichloroethylene in the subsurface at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey
No abstract available.
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Thomas E. Imbrigiotta, T. A. Ehlke, Mary Martin, David Koller, J. A. Smith
A review of intrinsic bioremediation of TCE in ground water at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey and St. Joseph, Michigan
No abstract available.
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John T. Wilson, D.H. Kampbell, James W. Weaver, Barbara H. Wilson, Thomas E. Imbrigiotta, T. A. Ehlke
Estimates of self-supplied commercial ground-water use in rural east-central Minnesota
No abstract available.
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L. C. Trotta