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 resources of Monroe County, New York, water years 1994-96, with emphasis on water quality in the Irondequoit Creek basin: Atmospheric deposition, ground water, streamflow, trends in water quality, and chemical loads to Irondequoit Bay
Irondequoit Creek drains 169 square miles in the eastern part of Monroe County. Nutrients transported by Irondequoit Creek to Irondequoit Bay on Lake Ontario have contributed to the eutrophication of the Bay. Sewage-treatment-plant effluent, a major source of nutrients to the creek and its tributaries, was eliminated from the basin in 1979 by diversion to a regional wastewater-treatment facility,
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Donald A. Sherwood
Peak discharges and flow volumes for streams in the Northern Plains, 1996-97
Winter snowfall of 1996-97, combined with the spring floods of 1997, caused one of the worst natural disasters in recent history on the Northern Plains. The flow volumes for water year 1997 at selected streamflow-gaging stations on the Red River of the North, the Minnesota River, and the James River were 186 to 788 percent of the mean annual volumes for the periods of record for those stations. Re
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K. M. Macek-Rowland, M.J. Burr, G.B. Mitton
Precipitation in the Northern Plains, September 1996 through April 1997
Above-normal snowfall throughout the winter of 1996-97, combined with excessive precipitation during the fall of 1996 and additional moisture from a spring blizzard on April 5-6, 1997, caused the worst flooding in more than 100 years in several areas in central and eastern North Dakota, western Minnesota, and central eastern South Dakota. Many of the monthly precipitation totals for September 1996
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K. M. Macek-Rowland, M.J. Burr, G.B. Mitton
An estimate of chemical loads from ground water to the Grand Calumet River and Indiana Harbor Canal, northwestern Indiana
Chemical loads from ground water to the Grand Calumet River and the Indiana Harbor Canal in northwestern Indiana were estimated to aid in determining the total maximum daily load. Data from two previous studies, completed in 1987 and 1993, were used to compute loads. The first study included a ground-water-flow model. Results from this model were used to determine ground-water fluxes to eight dist
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Timothy C. Willoughby, Qaadir A. Siddeeq
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