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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Effects of agricultural best-management practices on the Brush Run Creek headwaters, Adams County, Pennsylvania, prior to and during nutrient management
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Susquehanna River Basin Commission and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, investigated the effects of agricultural best-management practices on surface-water quality as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program. This report characterizes a 0.63-square- mile agricultural watershed underlain by s
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M. J. Langland, D. K. Fishel
Distribution of petroleum hydrocarbons and toluene biodegradation, Knox Street fire pits, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
An investigation was conducted at the Knox Street fire pits, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to monitor the distribution of toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (TEX) in soil vapor, ground water, and ground-water/vapor to evaluate if total concentrations of TEX at the site are decreasing with time, and to quantify biodegradation rates of toluene in the unsaturated and saturated zones. Soil-vapor and grou
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S.L. Harden, J. E. Landmeyer
Hydrogeologic investigation and simulation of ground-water flow in the Upper Floridan Aquifer of north-central Florida and southwestern Georgia and delineation of contributing areas for selected city of Tallahassee, Florida, water-supply wells
A 4-year investigation of the Upper Floridan aquifer and ground-water flow system in Leon County, Florida, and surrounding counties of north-central Florida and southwestern Georgia began in 1990. The purpose of the investigation was to describe the ground-water flow system and to delineate the contributing areas to selected City of Tallahassee, Florida, water-supply wells. The investigation was p
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J. Hal Davis
Evaluation of agricultural best-management practices in the Conestoga River headwaters, Pennsylvania: Effects of nutrient management on water quality in the Little Conestoga Creek headwaters, 1983-89
Water quality in the headwaters of the Little Conestoga Creek, Lancaster County, Pa., was investigated from April 1986 through September 1989 to determine possible effects of agricultural nutrient management on water quality. Nutrient management, an agricultural Best-Management Practice, was promoted in the 5.8-square-mile watershed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Clean Water Program.
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E. H. Koerkle, D. K. Fishel, M. J. Brown, K. M. Kostelnik
Water-quality assessment of part of the Upper Mississippi River basin, Minnesota and Wisconsin: Environmental setting and study design
The Upper Mississippi River Basin is diverse in ways that can control the areal distribution and flow of water and the distribution and concentration of constituents that affect water quality. A review of the environmental setting of the Upper Mississippi River Basin study unit of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program is intended to put water quality in perspective with the geology, soils,
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J. R. Stark, W. J. Andrews, J. D. Fallon, A. L. Fong, R. M. Goldstein, P. E. Hanson, S. E. Kroening, K. E. Lee
Water and salt balance of Great Salt Lake, Utah, and simulation of water and salt movement through the causeway
No abstract available.
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S.R. Wold, B. E. Thomas, K.M. Waddell
Hydrologic and water-quality data for two small watersheds on Catoctin Mountain, North-Central Maryland, 1987-93
Hydrologic and water-quality data were collected from a precipitation-collection station and from two small watersheds on Catoctin Mountain, north-central Maryland, as part of investigations of acidic deposition and episodic acidification, and their effects on streamwater quality. Detailed descriptions of the site instrumentation in the watersheds, field data-collection techniques, and laboratory
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Karen C. Rice, Margaret M. Kennedy, Christiana A. Carter, Robert T. Anderson, Owen P. Bricker
Water-level altitudes 1996 and water-level changes 1990-96 and 1995-96 in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers, Fort Bend County and adjacent areas, Texas
This report is one in an annual series of reports that depicts water-level altitudes and water-level changes since 1990 in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers in Fort Bend County and adjacent areas, Texas.
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L. S. Coplin, M. C. Kasmarek, H. X. Santos, J. E. Noble
Hydrogeology and water quality at the St. Francois County landfill and vicinity — Southeastern Missouri, 1990–94
No abstract available.
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John G. Schumacher, E. A. Hockanson
Major sources of nitrogen input and loss in the upper Snake River basin, Idaho and western Wyoming, 1990
Total nitrogen input and loss from cattle
manure, fertilizer, legume crops, precipitation,
and domestic septic systems in the upper Snake
River Basin, Idaho and western Wyoming, were
estimated by county for water year 1990. The purpose of these estimations was to rank input of
nitrogen by source, determine the amount of total
nitrogen potentially available to both ground and
surface water t
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Michael Rupert
Assessment of water quality, nutrients, algal productivity, and management alternatives for low-flow conditions, South Umpqua River basin, Oregon, 1990-92
This report is an evaluation of the effects of nutrient loading on water quality in the South Umpqua River Basin. The study was done by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with Douglas County, Oregon. Five wastewater-treatment plants were shown to contribute less than 15 percent of the flow, but more than 90 percent of the nitrogen and phosphorus, in the South Umpqua River during low streamf
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Dwight Q. Tanner, Chauncey W. Anderson
Hydrologic and geochemical factors affecting the chemistry of small headwater streams in response to acidic deposition on Catoctin Mountain, north-central Maryland
Hydrologic and water-quality data were collected at a precipitation-collection station and from two small watersheds on Catoctin Mountain, north- central Maryland, as part of an investigation of episodic acidification and its effects on streamwater quality. Data were collected from June 1990 through December 1993. Descriptions of the water shed instrumentation, data-collection techniques, and labo
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Karen C. Rice, Owen P. Bricker