OFR 97-492: Bay City Quadrangle NURE HSSR Study
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[See History of NURE HSSR Program for a summary of the entire program.]
ORGDP: Bay City Quadrangle
Totals of 46 stream-sediment and 55 ground-water samples were collected from the Bay City quadrangle as part of the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant (ORGDP) Bay City Quadrangle NURE Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR) study. Field sampling was conducted by ORGDP personnel in March of 1980. These samples were analyzed by the ORGDP for uranium and other elements. The analytical data were released as the Bay City Quadrangle NURE HSSR study GJBX-170(81) report.
Summary Tables
The following is a list of NURE sample types collected in the Bay City quadrangle.
| Sediment Sample Type | Number of Samples | Water Sample Type | Number of Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wet Streams | 46 | Wells | 55 |
| Total Sediments | 46 | Total Waters | 55 |
These Bay City quadrangle samples were analyzed by one or more of the following methods:
Sediment Samples
Water Samples
The Bay City quadrangle sediment and water data consist of reformatted records from the Bay City Quadrangle NURE HSSR study GJBX-170(81) report. No problems were found during the reformatting stages for the Bay City quadrangle data.
The NURE HSSR data are now available online in two databases: The sediment database (also includes data for soils and some rocks) at http://tin.er.usgs.gov/nure/sediment/ and the water database at http://tin.er.usgs.gov/nure/water/. From these two web sites, NURE HSSR data can be selected, examined, summarized, and downloaded by political boundaries (State and County), by quadrangle (1:250,000-scale, 1:100,000-scale, and 1:63,360-scale for Alaska or 1:24,000-scale for the Lower 48 States), and by hydrologic unit (drainage region, subregion, river basin, or sub-basin). Selected data can be downloaded as a dBase file, a shapefile, an HTML table, or ASCII text (tab- or comma-delimited).
Bay City Quadrangle Sediment Data - 46 records
Bay City Quadrangle Water Data - 55 records
The ORGDP water samples were reportedly collected in the field without any filtering or acidification. (See the SAMPTYP coding explanation in the On-Line Manual for USGS-Reformatted NURE HSSR Data Files for descriptions of different Sample Types). However, the samples were filtered later in the laboratory through a 0.45 micron membrane filter before analysis. Therefore, the samples were not true "untreated water" samples and the analytical data may not be directly comparable for other quadrangle water samples of the same SAMPTYP when collected by a different laboratory. Since this was the standard procedure for Oak Ridge, water data from other Oak Ridge quadrangles should be comparable.
Latitude-longitude coordinates were reported in the original data files, as decimal degrees, to only 3 decimal places. Therefore, the precision of these coordinates is limited to +/- 0.001 degrees or +/- 3.6 seconds. This translates to a minimum precision of +/- 363 feet (111 m) for latitude values and between +/- 331 feet (101 m) to +/- 317 feet (97 m) for longitude values (calculated at latitudes of 25° and 30°N, respectively.)
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