A COORDINATED EFFORT
Coordination among agencies and organizations is an integral part of the NAWQA Program. We thank the following agencies and organizations who contributed data used in this report.
- Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin
- Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
We also thank the following agencies and organizations for contributing advice and comments on study design and results.
- District of Columbia Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs
- District of Columbia Water Resources Research Institute, University of the District of Columbia
- Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin
- Johns Hopkins University
- Maryland Department of the Environment
- Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Maryland Geological Survey
- Maryland Water Resources Research Institute, University of Maryland
- Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
- National Park Service
- Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources,
Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey
- Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, Division of Assessments and Standards
- Pennsylvania Environmental Resources Research Institute,
Pennsylvania State University
- Resources for the Future
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chesapeake Bay Program
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
- Virginia Division of Mineral Resources
- Virginia Water Resources Research Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
- West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey
- West Virginia Water Resources Institute, West Virginia University
Data for this report were collected by many people, including John Battista, Bruce Bernard, Amy Derosier, Gary Fisher, James Gerhart, Liz Gno, Michael Hackney, Kalman Illyefalvi, Phyllis Illyefalvi, James Jeffries, Jon Kaye, Sarah Kelley, Stephen Maskol, Mastin Mount, Michael Shackelford, Gianni Venturi, and William Werkheiser.
Cover photograph credits:
Front: The Potomac River at Great Falls Virginia, by James Gerhart, U.S. Geological Survey
Back, left: The Potomac River at Washington, D.C., by James Gerhart, U.S. Geological Survey
Back, right: Confluence of the Shenandoah (left) and Potomac Rivers at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., by James Gerhart, U.S. Geological Survey
