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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Sedimentation history of Waimaluhia Reservoir during highway construction, Oahu, Hawaii, 1983-98
Nine sedimentation surveys conducted from 1983 to 1998 at Waimaluhia Reservoir determined the rate of sediment accumulation in the reservoir during H-3 Highway construction upstream of the reservoir. Rates of storage-capacity loss ranged from 1.1 acre-feet per year between 1983 and 1988 to 4.9 acre-feet per year between 1988 and 1992. The average loss rate during the period of intensive constructi
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Michael F. Wong
Mountain Island Lake, North Carolina: Analysis of ambient conditions and simulation of hydrodynamics, constituent transport, and water-quality characteristics, 1996–97
Mountain Island Lake is an impoundment of the Catawba River in North Carolina and supplies drinking water to more than 600,000 people in Charlotte, Gastonia, Mount Holly, and several other communities. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities, conducted an investigation of the reservoir to characterize hydrologic and water-quality conditions and to develo
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Jerad D. Bales, Kathleen M. Sarver, Mary J. Giorgino
Flash-flood related hazards: landslides, with examples from the December 1999 disaster in Venezuela Chapter 24
No abstract available.
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Matthew C. Larsen, Maria Teresa Vasquez-Conde, R.A. Clark
It's not just how high; it's how clean: Sampling the spring 2001 flood in the Upper Mississippi River Basin
Floods can cause water-quality problems because of the large amounts of contaminants (sediment, nutrients, pesticides, and bacteria) that can be transported by floodwaters. during the flood on the Upper Mississippi River in 2001, water-quality and water-quality data were collected during near-record streamflow. This is the first time that samples for determining organic wastewater contaminants (ph
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Glenn Patterson, Dana W. Kolpin, Stephen J. Kalkhoff, Kathy Lee, Douglas J. Schnoebelen, Kimberlee K. Barnes, Richard H. Coupe
Sampling protocol to assess and monitor off-farm transport of waste-associated chemical and microbial constituents present of swine feeding operations
No abstract available.
Authors
Kevin Johnson
Sediment oxygen demand in upper Klamath and Agency lakes, Oregon, 1999
Sediment oxygen demand (SOD) was measured in two shallow, interconnected lakes in southern Oregon, Upper Klamath Lake and Agency Lake, in spring and late summer of 1999. Upper Klamath Lake contains populations of two endangered fishes, the shortnose sucker and the Lost River sucker, and low dissolved oxygen concentrations in summer are thought to be one factor affecting sucker populations.
The dis
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T. M. Wood
Modeling water quality in the Tualatin River, Oregon, 1991-1997
The calibration of a model of flow, temperature, and water quality in the Tualatin River, Oregon, originally calibrated for the summers of 1991 through 1993, was extended to the summers of 1991 through 1997. The model is now calibrated for a total period of 42 months during the May through October periods of 7 hydrologically distinct years. Based on a modified version of the U.S. Army Corps of Eng
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Stewart A. Rounds, Tamara M. Wood
Documentation and verification of VST2D; a model for simulating transient, Variably Saturated, coupled water-heat-solute Transport in heterogeneous, anisotropic 2-Dimensional, ground-water systems with variable fluid density
This report describes a model for simulating transient, Variably Saturated, coupled water-heatsolute Transport in heterogeneous, anisotropic, 2-Dimensional, ground-water systems with variable fluid density (VST2D). VST2D was developed to help understand the effects of natural and anthropogenic factors on quantity and quality of variably saturated ground-water systems. The model solves simultaneous
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Michael J. Friedel
National Water Quality Laboratory - A profile
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Quality Laboratory (NWQL) is a full-service laboratory that specializes in environmental analytical chemistry. The NWQL's primary mission is to support USGS programs requiring environmental analyses that provide consistent methodology for national assessment and trends analysis. The NWQL provides the following: high-quality chemical data; consistent
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Jon W. Raese