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Water Quality in the South Platte River Basin, Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming, 1992-95

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REFERENCES

This Report was Based on the Following Publications:

Bruce, B.W., and McMahon, P.B., 1996, Shallow ground-water quality beneath a major urban center--Denver, Colorado, USA: Journal of Hydrology, v. 186, p. 129-151. Abstract

Bruce, B.W., and McMahon, P.B., 1998, Shallow ground-water quality of selected land-use/aquifer settings in the South Platte River Basin, Colorado and Nebraska 1993-95: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4229, 48 p. Abstract

Colborn, T., VomSaal, F.S., and Soto, A.M., 1993, Developmental effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in wildlife and humans: Environmental Health Perspectives, v. 101, p. 378-384.

Colorado Climate Center, 1984, Colorado average annual precipitation 1950-80: Fort Collins, Colorado, 1 pl.

Dennehy, K.F., Litke, D.W., McMahon, P.B., Heiny, J.S., and Tate, C.M., 1995, Water-quality assessment of the South Platte River Basin, Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming--Analysis of available nutrient, suspended-sediment, and pesticide data, water years 1980-92: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4095, 145 p. Abstract

Dennehy, K.F., Litke, D.W., Tate. C.M., and Heiny, J.S., 1993, South Platte River Basin--Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming: Water Resources Bulletin, v. 29, no. 4, p. 647-683. Abstract

Denver Regional Council of Governments, 1997, Regional population and household estimates: Regional Report, v. 30, no. 7.

Fegeas, R.G., Claire, R.W., Guptill, S.C., Anderson, K.E., and Hallam, C.A., 1983, Land use and land cover digital data: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 895-E, 21 p.

Gallant, A.L., Whittier, T.R., Larsen, D.P., Omernick, J.M., and Hughes, R.M., 1989, Regionalization as a tool for managing environmental resources: EPA/600/3-89/060, 152 p.

Gilliom, R.J., Alley, W.M., and Gurtz, M.E., 1995, Design of the national water-quality assessment program: occurrence and distribution of water-quality conditions: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1112, 33 p.

Gilliom, R.J., Mueller, D.K., and Nowell, L.H., in press, Methods for comparing water-quality conditions among national water-quality assessment study units 1992-95: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-5890.

Goodbred, S.L., Gilliom, R.J., Gross, T.S., Denslow, N.P., Bryant, W.L., and Schoeb, T.R., 1997, Reconnaissance of 17b-estradiol, 11-ketotestosterone, vitellogenin, and gonad histopathology in common carp of United States streams--Potential for contaminant-induced endocrine disruption: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-627, 47 p.

Heiny, J.S., and Tate, C.M., 1997, Concentration, distribution, and comparison of selected trace elements in bed sediment and fish tissue in the South Platte River Basin, USA, 1992-93: Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, v. 32, p. 246-259. Abstract

Kimbrough, R.A., and Litke, D.W., 1996, Pesticides in streams draining agricultural and urban areas in Colorado: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 30, no. 3, p. 908-916. Abstract

Kimbrough, R.A., and Litke, D.W., in press, Pesticides in the South Platte River from Henderson, Colorado to North Platte, Nebraska during the 1994 growing season, and comparison of pesticide occurrence in two nested urban basins in Denver, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4230. Abstract

Knopf, F., 1991, Ecological succession and conservation confusion in the South Platte floodplain, in South Platte River Resource Management: Finding a balance (Conference Proceeding), R.C. Woodring, ed., Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Information Series no. 66, 27 p.

Litke, D.W., 1996, Sources and loads of nutrients in the South Platte River, Colorado and Nebraska, 1994-95: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4029, 57 p. Abstract

Litke, D.W., and Kimbrough, R.A., 1998, Water-quality assessment of the South Platte River Basin, Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming--Environmental setting and water quality of fixed sites, 1993-95: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4220, 61 p. Abstract

McMahon, P.B., 1995, Some bacteria are beneficial!: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-102-95, 2 p.

McMahon, P.B., and Böhlke, J.K., 1996, Denitrification and mixing in a stream-aquifer system--Effects on nitrate loading to surface water: Journal of Hydrology, v. 186, p. 105-128. Abstract

McMahon, P.B., and Bruce, B.W., 1997, Distribution of terminal electron-accepting processes in an aquifer having multiple contaminant: Applied Geochemistry, v. 12, p. 507-516. Abstract

Mueller, D.K., and Helsel, D.R., 1996, Nutrients in the Nation's waters--Too much of a good thing?: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1136, 24 p.

National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, 1973, Water-quality criteria 1972, Ecological Research Series: EPA-R3-73-033, 594 p.

Omernick, J.M., 1987, Ecoregions of the conterminous United States: Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77, p. 118-125.

Schrader, L.H., 1989, Use of the index of biotic integrity to evaluate fish communities in Western Great Plains streams: Fort Collins, Colorado State University, Master's thesis.

Sjodin, A.L., Lewis, W.M., Jr., and Saunders, J.F., III, 1997, Denitrification as a component of the nitrogen budget for a large plains river: Biochemistry, v. 39, p. 327-342.

Tate, C.M., and Heiny, J.S., 1995, The ordination of benthic invertebrate communities in the South Platte River Basin in relation to environmental factors: Freshwater Biology, v. 33, no. 3, p. 439-454. Abstract

Tate, C.M., and Heiny, J.S., 1996, Organochlorine compounds in bed sediments and fish tissue in the South Platte River Basin, USA, 1992-1993: Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, v. 30, p. 62-78. Abstract

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1991, 1990 Census population and housing: Washington D.C., Data on CD-ROM.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1986, Quality criteria for use, 1986: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Report 440 14-86-001, [variously paged].

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1990, Maximum contaminant-levels (subpart B of 141, National primary drinking-water regulations) (revised July 1, 1990): U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 40, Parts 100-149, p. 559-563.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1989, Compliance policy guide 7141.01, Pesticide residues in food of feed--Enforcement criteria, Attachment B, Action levels for unavoidable pesticide residues in food and feed commodities: U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Wylie, B.K., Wagner, D.G., Hoffer, R.M., Maxwell, S., and Shaffer, M.J., 1993, Spatial distribution of nitrate leaching `hot spots' and nitrate contributions to the South Platte River Basin aquifers: Fort Collins, Colorado Water Resources Research Institute Report 181, 12 p.

Zaugg, S.D. and others, 1995, Methods of analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Laboratory--Determination of pesticides in water by C-18 solid-phase extraction and capillary-column gas chromatography/mass spectrometry with selected-ion monitoring: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-181, 49 p.

South Platte NAWQA Study Unit Bibliography--Additional References:

Bradely, P.M., McMahon, P.B., and Chapelle, 1995, Effects of carbon and nitrate on denitrification in bottom sediments of an effluent-dominated river: Water Resources Research, v. 31, no. 4, p. 1063-1068. Abstract

Bruce, B.W., 1995, Denver's urban ground-water quality: Nutrients, pesticides, and volatile organic compounds: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-106-95, 2 p.

Dennehy, Kevin F., 1991, National Water-Quality Assessment Program--South Platte River Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-155, 2 p. Abstract

Dennehy, Kevin F. and Ortiz-Zayas, Jorge R., 1993, Bibliography of water-related studies; South Platte River Basin--Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-106, 278 p. Abstract

Heiny, J.S., 1995, Review of sediment data in the South Platte River Basin, Colorado, 1980-92: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-153-95, 2 p.

Heiny, J.S., 1997, Organochlorine compounds and trace metals in streambed sediment and fish tissue, South Platte River Basin--Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-040-97, 4 p.

Kimbrough, R.A., 1995, Are streams in agricultural and urban areas contaminated by pesticides?: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-104-95, 2 p.

Litke, D.W., 1995, Nutrients in the South Platte River, 1993-95: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-105-95, 2 p.

McMahon, P.B., Litke, D.W., Paschal, J.E., and Dennehy, K.F., 1994, Ground water as a source of nutrients and atrazine to streams in the South Platte River Basin: Water Resources Bulletin, v. 30, no. 3, p. 521-530. Abstract

McMahon, P.B., Lull, K.J., Dennehy, K.F., and Collins, J.A., 1995, Quantity and quality of ground-water discharge to the South Platte River, Denver to Fort Lupton, Colorado, August 1992 through July 1993: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4110, 71 p. Abstract

McMahon, P.B., Tindall, J.A., Collins, J.A., Lull, K.J., and Nuttle, J.R., 1995, Hydrologic and geochemical effects on oxygen uptake in bottom sediments of an effluent-dominated river: Water Resources Research, v. 31, no. 10, p. 2561-2569. Abstract

McMahon, P.B., Böhlke, J.K., and Litke, D.W., 1996, Nitrate in the South Platte River alluvial aquifer, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Yearbook, p. 39-41. Text only

Minter, J.B., 1996, Comparison of macroinvertebrate communities from three substrates in the lower South Platte River: Fort Collins, Colorado State University, Master's thesis.

Pfenning, K.S., and McMahon, P.B., 1996, Effect of nitrate, organic carbon, and temperature on potential denitrification rates in nitrate-rich riverbed sediments: Journal of Hydrology, v. 187, p. 283-295. Abstract

Pocernich, M., and Litke, D.W., 1997, Nutrient concentrations in wastewater-treatment plant effluents, South Platte River Basin: Water Resources Bulletin, v. 33, no. 1, p. 205-214. Abstract

Qi, S.L., 1995, Use of ARC/INFO in the National Water-Quality Assessment Program--South Platte River Basin Study: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) Users Conference, May 22-26, 1995, Palm Springs, California, 9 p. Abstract

Qi, S.L., and Dennehy, K.F., 1997, World Wide Web home page for the South Platte NAWQA: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-242-96, 2 p.

Sjodin, A.L., 1996, Nitrogen processing in a large plains river: Boulder, University of Colorado, Master's thesis.

Tate, C.M., and Martin, L.M., 1995, Fish communities in the plains region of the South Platte River, August 1993 and 1994: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-154-95, 2 p.

Tate, C.M., and Ortiz-Zayas, J.R., 1995, An inventory of biological investigations related to streamwater quality in the South Platte River Basin, Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming, 1891-1994: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-379, 12 p. Abstract

Wagner, D.G., and Hoffer, R.M., 1994, Determination of land use by processing satellite images, Lonetree Creek Basin--Final report: Fort Collins, Colorado State University, 18 p. [Requisition 93-4608-0437]


U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1167

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Dennehy, K.F., Litke, D.W., Tate, C.M., Qi, S.L., McMahon, P.B., Bruce, B.W., Kimbrough, R.A., and Heiny, J.S., 1998, Water Quality in the South Platte River Basin, Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming, 1992-95: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1167, on line at <URL: https://water.usgs.gov/pubs/circ1167>, updated October 15, 1998 .

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