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Water Quality in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, 1992-95

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References

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Buell, G.R., and Couch, C.A., 1995, National Water Quality Assessment Program: Environmental distribution of organochlorine compounds in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, in Hatcher, K.J., ed., Proceedings of the 1995 Georgia Water Resources Conference: Athens, Ga., Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia, p. 46-53. Abstract

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Couch, C.A., Hopkins, E.H., and Hardy, P.S., 1996, Influences of environmental settings on aquatic ecosystems in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4278, 58 p. Abstract

DeVivo, J.C., Couch, C.A., and Freeman, B.J., 1997, Use of preliminary index of biotic integrity in urban streams around Atlanta, Georgia, in Hatcher, K.J., ed., proceedings, 1997 Georgia Water Resources Conference: Athens, Ga., Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia, p. 119-122.

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Frick, E.A., 1997, Surface-water and shallow ground-water quality in the vicinity of Metropolitan Atlanta, Upper Chattahoochee River Basin, Georgia, 1992-95, in Hatcher, K.J., ed., Proceedings of the 1997 Georgia Water Resources Conference: Athens, Ga., Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, p. 114-118.

Frick, E.A., Buell, G.R., and Hopkins, E.H., 1996, Nutrient sources and analysis of nutrient water-quality data, Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, 1972-90: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4101, 120 p. Abstract

Frick, E.A., and Crandall, C.A., 1995, National Water Quality Assessment Program: Water quality in surficial aquifers in two agricultural areas in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, in Hatcher, K.J., ed., Proceedings of the 1995 Georgia Water Resources Conference: Athens, Ga., Carl Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia, p. 42-45.

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Hippe, D.J., 1997, Pesticide occurrence in the Upper Floridan aquifer in the Dougherty Plain and Marianna Lowlands districts, Southwest Georgia and adjacent areas of Alabama and Florida, in Hatcher, K.J., ed., Proceedings of the 1997 Georgia Water Resources Conference: Athens, Ga., Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, p. 65-67. Abstract

Hippe, D.J., and Garrett, J.W., 1995, Water quality conditions and mass transport in the Flint River, Southwest Georgia, related to the Flood of July 1994, caused by Tropical Storm Alberto, in Hatcher, K.J. ed., Proceedings of the 1995 Georgia Water Resources Conference: Athens, Ga., Carl Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia, p. 323-328.

Hippe, D.J., Hatzell, H.H., Ham, L.K., and Hardy, P.S., 1995, National Water Quality Assessment Program: Pesticide occurrence and temporal distribution in streams draining urban and agricultural basins in Georgia and Florida, 1993-93, in Hatcher, K.J., ed., Proceedings of the 1995 Georgia Water Resources Conference: Athens, Ga., Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia, p. 34-41.

Hippe, D.J., Wipperfurth, C.J., Hopkins, E.H., Frick, E.A., and Wangsness, D.J., 1997, Water-quality issues related to urban development of the upper Chattahoochee River watershed-- Everyone lives downstream!: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4302 (poster), 1 p. Abstract

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Stamey, T.C., 1995, Floods in central and southwestern Georgia in July 1994, in Hatcher, K.J. ed., proceedings, 1995 Georgia Water Resources Conference: Athens, Ga., Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia, p. 313-316.

----1996, Summary of data-collection activities and effects of flooding from Tropical Storm Alberto in parts of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, July 1994: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-228, 23 p

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Wangsness, D.J., 1997, The National Water-Quality Assessment Program--Example of study unit design for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, 1991-97: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-48, 29 p. Abstract

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 1164

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Suggested citation:
Frick, E.A., Hippe, D.J., Buell, G.R., Couch, C.A., Hopkins, E.H., Wangsness, D.J., and Garrett, J.W., 1998, Water Quality in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, 1992-95: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1164, on line at <URL: https://water.usgs.gov/pubs/circ1164>, updated April 29, 1998 .

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