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Water Quality in Red River of the North Basin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, 1992-95

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REFERENCES

This Report was Based on the Following Publications

Brigham, M.E., Goldstein, R.M., and Tornes, L.H., 1998, Trace elements and organic chemicals in stream-bottom sediments and fish tissues, Red River of the North Basin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, 1992-95: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4043, 32 p.

Brigham, M.E., Mayer, Tatiana, McCullough, G.K., and Tornes, L.H., 1996, Transport and speciation of nutrients in tributaries to souther Lake Winnipeg, Canada: North American Lake Management Society, 16th Annual International Symposium--Final Program, November 13-16, 1996, p. 64. Abstract

Brunskill, G.J., Elliott, S.E.M., and Campbell, P., 1980, Morphometry, hydrology, and watershed data pertinent to the limnology of Lake Winnipeg: Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 1556, 32 p.

Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, 1992, Canadian water quality guidelines, Appendix XI--updates (April 1992): Ottawa, Ontario, Task Force on Water Quality Guidelines of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, variously paged.

Cowdery, T.K., 1995, Similar agricultural areas, different ground-water quality--Red River of the North Basin, 1993-95: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-441, 4 p. Abstract

Cowdery, T.K., 1997, Shallow ground-water quality beneath cropland in the Red River of the North Basin, Minnesota and North Dakota, 1993-95: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4001, 52 p. Abstract

Cowdery, T.K., in press, Ground-water quality in the Red River of the North Basin, Minnesota and North Dakota, 1993-95: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report

Cowdery, T.K., and Brigham, M.E., 1992, Baseflow dissolved-solids loads to streams of the Red River of the North basin, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Minnesota: 37th Annual Midwest Ground Water Conference Program with Abstracts, October 14-16, 1992, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, p. 38. Abstract

Cowdery, T.K., and Goff, K.L., 1994, Nitrogen concentrations near the water table of the Sheyenne Delta aquifer beneath cropland areas, Ransom and Richland Counties, North Dakota: North Dakota Water Quality Symposium Proceedings, March 30-31, 1994, Fargo, North Dakota, North Dakota State University Extension Service, p. 89-102. Abstract

Cowdery, T.K., and Saylor, K.N., 1996, Contrasting water quality of two surficial aquifers in the Red River of the North drainage basin, North Dakota and Minnesota: North Dakota Water Quality Symposium Proceedings, March 20-21, 1996, Bismarck, North Dakota, North Dakota State University Extension Service, p. 146; also in Minnesota Water `96 collection of conference abstracts, May 20-21, 1996, Minneapolis, Minnesota, University of Minnesota Water Resources Research Center, p. 98. Abstract

Cowdery, T.K., Stoner, J.D., and Lorenz, D.L., 1995, Distribution and movement of nitrate in a surficial outwash aquifer beneath irrigated cropland, northwestern Minnesota: American Geophysical Union, EOS Transactions, Abstracts for Fall Meeting--December 11-15, 1995, p. 195. Abstract

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 97-589.

Goldstein, R.M., 1995, Aquatic communities and contaminants in fish from streams of the Red River of the North Basin, Minnesota and North Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4047, 34 p. Abstract

Goldstein, R.M., Brigham, M.E., and Stauffer, 1996a, Comparison of mercury concentrations in liver, muscle, whole bodies, and composites of fish from the Red River of the North: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, v. 53, no. 2, p. 244-252.

Goldstein, R.M., Simon, T.P, Bailey, P.A., Ell, Michael, Pearson, Eric, Schmidt, Konrad, and Enblom, J.W., 1994, Concepts for an index of biotic integrity for streams of the Red River of the North Basin: North Dakota Water Quality Symposium Proceedings, March 30-31, 1994, Fargo, North Dakota, North Dakota State University Extension Service, p. 169-180.

Goldstein, R.M., Stauffer, J.C., Larson, P.R., and Lorenz, D.L., 1996b, Relation of physical and chemical characteristics of streams to fish communities in the Red River of the North Basin, Minnesota and North Dakota, 1993-95: Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4227, 57 p. Abstract

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

Lorenz, D.L. and Stoner, J.D., 1996, Sampling design for assessing water quality in the Red River of the North Basin, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota, 1993-95: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resource Investigations Report 96-4129, 2 plates. Abstract

Menheer, M.A., and Brigham, M.E., 1997, Ground-water sampling methods and quality-control data for the Red River of the North Basin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, 1993-95: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4317, 34 p. Abstract

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, 1994, Minnesota fish contaminant monitoring program, 1990-1992 data document: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources 81 p.

Nielsen, E., McLeod, K.D., Pip, E., and Doering, J.C., 1996, Late Holocene environmental changes in southern Manitoba-- Field trip guidebook A2: Geological Association of Canada/Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 27-29, 33 p.

Niemela, Scott, Pearson, Eric, Simon, T.P., Goldstein, R.M., and Bailey, P.A., in press, Development of index of biotic integrity expectations for the Lake Agassiz Plain Ecoregion: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report EPA 905/R-96-005.

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

Puckett, L.J., Tornes, L.H., Cowdery, T.K., Brigham, M.E., and Stoner, J.D., 1995, The role of wetlands in reducing nitrogen loadings to the Otter Tail River in Minnesota: American Geophysical Union, EOS Transactions, Abstracts for Fall Meeting--December 11-15, 1995, p. 186. Abstract

Stauffer, J.C., and Goldstein, R.M., 1997, Comparison of three qualitative habitat indices and their applicability to prairie streams: North American Journal of Fisheries Management, v. 17, no. 2, p. 348-61.

Stoner, J.D., Cowdery, T.K., and Puckett, L.J.,1997, Ground water age dating and other tools to assess land-use effects on water quality: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4150, 6 p. Abstract

Stoner, J.D., and Lorenz, D.L., 1995, National Water-Quality Assessment Program--Data collection in the Red River of the North Basin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, 1992-95: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-172-95, 4 p.

Stoner, J.D., Lorenz, D.L., Wiche, G.J., and Goldstein, R.M., 1993, Red River of the North Basin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota: American Water Resources Association Monograph Series No. 19 and Water Resources Bulletin, v. 29, no. 4, p. 575-615.

Strobel, M.L., and Gerla, P.J., 1992, Effects of saline ground-water discharge on water quality in the Red River of the North, northeastern North Dakota: Preliminary observations of the hydrologic setting--North Dakota Water Quality Symposium Proceedings, March 25-26 1992, Bismarck, North Dakota, p. 60-82. Abstract

Strobel, M.L., and Gerla, P.J., 1993, Hydrologic and anthropogenic influences on the occurrence of saline wetlands in the Red River of the North Valley, northeastern North Dakota-- Prairie ecosystems: Abstracts, Wetlands Ecology, Management and Restoration, Wetland Symposium, August 9-13, 1993, Jamestown, North Dakota, p. 44. Abstract

Strobel, M.L., and Haffield, N.D., 1995, Salinity in surface water in the Red River of the North basin, northeastern North Dakota: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4082, 14 p. Abstract

Strobel. M.L., and Radig, S.A., 1997, Effects of the 1993 flood on water levels and water quality in the Sheyenne Delta aquifer, southeastern North Dakota, 1993-94: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4163, 43 p.

Strobel, M.L., Kelly, J.B., Carlson, S.T., and Salender, H.A., 1994, Flowing wells in northeastern North Dakota and their possible effect on water quality in the Red River of the North basin: North Dakota Water Quality Symposium Proceedings, March 30-31, 1994, Fargo, North Dakota, p. 247-255. Abstract

Tornes, L.H., and Brigham. M.E., 1994, Nutrients, suspended sediment, and pesticides in waters of the Red River of the North Basin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, 1970-1990: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4231, 62 p. Abstract

Tornes, L.H., and Brigham, M.E., 1995, Pesticide amounts are small in streams of the Red River of the North Basin, 1993-94: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-283, 2 p.

Tornes, L.H., Brigham, M.E., and Lorenz, D.L., 1997, Nutrients, suspended sediment, and pesticides in streams in the the Red River of the North Basin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, 1993-95: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4053, 70 p. Abstract

Tornes, L.H., Puckett, L.J., Porter, S.D., and Stoner, J.D., 1996, Variations of nitrate beneath a riparian wetland in Minnesota and its relation to stream biota: American Geophysical Union, EOS Transactions, Abstracts for Fall Meeting--December 11-15, 1995, p. 186. Abstract

Tornes, L.H., Puckett, L.J., Stoner, J.D., and Brigham, M.E., 1994, The effect of riparian wetlands in reducing nitrate-nitrogen from a sand and gravel aquifer to a stream: American Geophysical Union, EOS Transactions, Abstracts for Fall Meeting--December 5-9, 1994, p. 261. Abstract

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, November 23, 1994, Atrazine, simazine, cyanazine--notice of initiation of special review: Federal Register, v. 59, p. 60412-60443.

Ware, G.W., ed., 1994, Reviews of environmental contamination and toxicology: New York, Springer-Verlag, v. 140, 221 p.

Waters, T.F., 1995, Sediment in streams--Sources, biological effects, and control: American Fisheries Society Monograph 7, Bethesda, Maryland, 251 p

Zaugg, S.D., Sandstrom, M.W., Smith, S.G., and Fehlberg, K.M., 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..


U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1169

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Stoner, J.D., Lorenz, D.L., Goldstein, R.M., Brigham, M.E., and Cowdery, T.K., 1998, Water Quality in the Red River of the North Basin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, 1992-95: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1169, on line at <URL: https://water.usgs.gov/pubs/circ1169>, updated April 21, 1998

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