A COORDINATED EFFORT
Coordination with many agencies and organizations
in the Allegheny-Monongahela River Basins Study Unit was integral to the
success of this water-quality assessment. We thank those who served as
members of our liaison committee.
Federal Agencies
- National Park Service
- Natural Resources Conservation Service
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- U.S. Forest Service
- U.S. Geological Survey
- U.S. Office of Surface Mining , Reclamation
and Enforcement
State Agencies
- Maryland Department of Natural Resources
- New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation
- New York State Geological Survey
- Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
- Pennsylvania Topographic & Geologic Survey
- Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection
- Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission
- West Virginia Department of Environmental
Protection
- West Virginia Department of Natural Resources
- West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey
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Local Agencies
- Allegheny County Department of Health
- Erie County Department of Public Health
and Safety
- Greene County Conservation District
- Seneca Nation Health Department
- Somerset County Conservation District
Universities
- Allegheny College California
- University of Pennsylvania
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Pennsylvania State University
- University of Pittsburgh
- West Virginia University
Other public and private organizations
- Allegheny Watershed Network
- Allegheny County Sanitary Authority
- American Crop Protection Association
- French Creek Project
- Friends of the Cheat
- Jennings Environmental Education Center
- Ohio River Basin Commission
- Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission
- Western Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned
Mine Reclamation
- Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
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We thank the following individuals, agencies,
and organizations for contributing to the success of this study
- Property owners throughout the Allegheny and Monongahela
River Basins, for granting permission to access their property and to
sample their wells.
- Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
offices in Ebensburg and Greensburg, Pa., for providing access to mine
permits.
- West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
offices in Philippi and Nitro, W.Va., for providing access to mine permits.
- Randy Robinson, for providing white water rafting
photographs and rafting guide services on the Cheat River.
- Dick Snyder, Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission,
for providing access and copies of fish community and survey data.
- Jay Stauffer, Pennsylvania State University and
students for assistance with electrofishing.
- Charles Durista, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection, Jay Hawkins, U.S. Office of Surface Mining, and Jen Novak,
Allegheny River Alliance, for providing review comments for this report.
- Technical and editorial reviewers in Lemoyne,
Pa., Dr. J. Kent Crawford and Bruce Lindsey.
- The Reports Publishing Unit, Kim Otto, James Bubb,
and Terriann Preston, in Lemoyne, Pa., for their outstanding efforts
in bringing this report to publication.
- Project staff, including seasonal, temporary,
student and volunteer staff members of the Pittsburgh office of the
U.S. Geological Survey, who assisted in various aspects of this study,
including Thomas Noonan, Gregory Wehner, Devon Renock, Erik Eismont,
Scott Coulson, Jeffery Weitzel, Greg Hawkins, Jay Hawkins, Craig Uzelac,
Douglas Chichester, Adam Locke, Rachel Mowery, Juliane Bowman Brown,
and Julie Baldizar.
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U.S. Geological Survey Circular
1202
Suggested citation:
Anderson, R.M., Beer, K.M., Buckwalter, T.F., Clark, M.E., McAuley, S.D., Sams, J.I. III, and Williams, D.R., 2000, Water Quality in the Allegheny and Monongahela River Basins Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, and Maryland, 1996-98: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1202, 32 p., on-line at https://pubs.water.usgs.gov/circ1202/
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