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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Pesticides and bacteria in an urban stream; Gills Creek, Columbia, South Carolina
No abstract available.
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Terry L. Maluk
North Dakota
North Dakota prairies contain numerous wetlands. The complex functions of these prairie wetlands have been of interest for decades. The hydrology, water chemistry, and biological characteristics of these wetlands are highly variable because of extreme warm/cold and wet/dry conditions. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has been conducting studies (fig. 1) to gain insight into the functions of the p
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Texas
In 1997, the Texas Legislature passed a comprehensive revision to the Texas Water Code. This legislation (Senate Bill 1) changed water planning in Texas from a statewide to a regional activity. By September 2001, the 16 regions created by Senate Bill 1 must produce water plans to address their water needs during drought-of-record conditions, and must identify water-management strategies for period
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Stormwater runoff for selected watersheds in the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone, Bexar County, Texas, 1996-98
The Edwards aquifer is one of the most productive carbonate aquifers in the Nation. The dissolution-modified, faulted limestone aquifer is the sole source of public water supply for San Antonio, Texas (fig. 1) and is the major source of water for Bexar County. In addition to providing public water supply to more than 1 million people, the Edwards aquifer supplies large quantities of water for agri
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D.J. Ockerman, B.L. Petri, R.N. Slattery
The quality of our nation's waters: Nutrients and pesticides
This report is the first in a series of nontechnical publications, 'The quality of our nation's waters,' designed to describe major findings of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program regarding water-quality issues of regional and national concern. Sources, seasonal and geographic patterns of occurrence, and long-term trends are evaluated for nutrients and pesticides in streams and ground wa
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Surface-water-quality assessment of the Yakima River basin, Washington. Distribution of pesticides and other organic compounds in water, sediment, and aquatic biota, 1987-91: With a section on dissolved organic carbon in the Yakima River basin
During 1987-91, chemical data were collected for pesticides and other organic compounds in surface water, streambed sediment, suspended sediment, agricultural soil, and aquatic biota to determine the occurrence, distribution, transport, and fate of organic compounds in the Yakima River basin in Washington. The report describes the chemical and physical properties of the compounds most frequently d
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Joseph F. Rinella, Stuart W. McKenzie, J. Kent Crawford, William T. Foreman, Gregory J. Fuhrer, Jennifer L. Morace, George R. Aiken
Testing water quality for pesticide pollution: U.S. Geological Survey investigations reveal widespread contamination of the nation's water resources
No abstract available.
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Robert J. Gilliom, Jack E. Barbash, Dana W. Kolpin, Steven J. Larson
Surface-water-quality assessment of the Yakima River basin in Washington: Spatial and temporal distribution of trace elements in water, sediment, and aquatic biota, 1987-91
The report describes the distribution of trace elements in sediment, water, and aquatic biota in the Yakima River basin, Washington. Trace elements were determined from streambed sediment, suspended sediment, filtered and unfiltered water samples, aquatic insects, clams, fish livers, and fish fillets between 1987 and 1991. The distribution of trace elements in these media was related to local geol
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Gregory J. Fuhrer, Daniel J. Cain, Stuart W. McKenzie, Joseph F. Rinella, J. Kent Crawford, Kenneth A. Skach, Michelle I. Hornberger, Marshall W. Gannett
Radiotracer studies of bacterial methanogenesis in sediments from the Dead Sea and Solar Lake (Sinai)
No abstract available.
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Mark Marvin-DePasquale, Yoram. Geological Survey (U.S.) Cohen, Ronald S. Oremland, A. Oren
The geochemistry of acid mine waters
No abstract available.
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D. Kirk Nordstrom, Charles N. Alpers