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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Summary of suspended-solids concentration data, San Francisco Bay, California, water year 1997
No abstract available.
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Paul A. Buchanan, David H. Schoellhamer
Water quality and habitat conditions in upper Midwest streams relative to riparian vegetation and soil characteristics, August 1997 : study design, methods, and data
Water-chemistry, biological, and habitat data were collected from 70 sites on Midwestern streams during August 1997 as part of an integrated, regional water-quality assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. The study area includes the Corn Belt region of southern Minnesota, eastern Iowa, and west-central Illinois, one of the most intensive and prod
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S. K. Sorenson, S. D. Porter, K.B. Akers, M.A. Harris, S. J. Kalkhoff, K. E. Lee, L. Roberts, P. J. Terrio
New reporting procedures based on long-term method detection levels and some considerations for interpretations of water-quality data provided by the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Laboratory
This report describes the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Laboratory's approach for determining long-term method detection levels and establishing reporting levels, details relevant new reporting conventions, and provides preliminary guidance on interpreting data reported with the new conventions. At the long-term method detection level concentration, the risk of a false positive det
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Carolyn J. Oblinger Childress, William T. Foreman, Brooke F. Connor, Thomas J. Maloney
Radium in ground water from public-water supplies in northern Illinois
Concentrations of the naturally occurring radioactive isotopes radium-226 and radium-228 in excess of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standard for drinking water of 5 picocuries per liter have been detected in water from deep aquifers used for public supply that underly parts of northern Illinois. Radium, a known carcinogen, has the potential to cause bone and sinus cancer if ingested in
Authors
Robert T. Kay
Groundwater geochemistry in the Seminole Well Field, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
The City of Cedar Rapids obtains its municipal water supply from four well fields in an alluvial aquifer along the Cedar River in east-central Iowa. Since 1992, the City and the U.S. Geological Survey have cooperatively studied the groundwater-flow system and water chemistry near the well fields. The geochemistry in the alluvial aquifer near the Seminole Well Field was assessed to identify potenti
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Robert A. Boyd
Ground-water quality along a flowpath in a surficial outwash aquifer in the Upper Mississippi River Basin: The influence of land use
No abstract available.
Authors
W. J. Andrews, J. R. Stark, A. L. Fong, P. E. Hanson
The determination of forty two elements in geological materials by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry
No abstract available.
Authors
Paul H. Briggs, A. L. Meier
Water-quality assessment of the eastern Iowa basins: Data, September 1995 through September 1996
The U.S. Geological Survey began data-collection activities in the Eastern Iowa Basins study unit of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program in September 1995 with the purpose of determining the status and trends in water quality. Surface-water data were collected, beginning in March 1996, on a monthly basis with occasional extra high- and low-flow samples. Data collected from 12 sites on ri
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Kimberlee K.B. Akers, Douglas J. Schnoebelen, Mark E. Savoca, Linda R. Roberts, Kent Becher
Water-quality and lake-stage data for Wisconsin lakes, water year 1998
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with local and other agencies, collects data at selected lakes throughout Wisconsin. These data, accumulated over many years, provide a data base for developing an improved understanding of the water quality of lakes. To make these data available to interested parties outside the USGS, the data are published annually in this report series. The loca
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Dale M. Robertson, J. F. Elder, H.S. Garn, G. L. Goddard, S.B. Marsh, D.L. Olson, W. J. Rose
The quality of our nation's waters; nutrients and pesticides; a summary
No abstract available.
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Sustainability of ground-water resources
The pumpage of fresh ground water in the United States in 1995 was estimated to be approximately 77 billion gallons per day (Solley and others, 1998), which is about 8 percent of the estimated 1 trillion gallons per day of natural recharge to the Nation's ground-water systems (Nace, 1960). From an overall national perspective, the ground-water resource appears ample. Locally, however, the availabi
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William M. Alley, Thomas E. Reilly, O. Lehn Franke