Biosolids, Soil, Crop, Ground-Water, and Streambed-Sediment Data for a Biosolids-Application Area Near Deer Trail, Colorado, 2000
By Tracy J.B. Yager, David B. Smith, James G. Crock, and Michael R.
Stevens
Open-File Report 03-400
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The citation for this report, in USGS format, is as follows:
Yager, T.J.B., Smith, D.B., Crock, J.G., and Stevens, M.R., Biosolids,
Soil, Crop, Ground-Water, and Streambed-Sediment Data for a Biosolids-Application
Area Near Deer Trail, Colorado, 2000: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File
Report 03-400, 90 p.
Abstract
In January 1999, the U.S. Geological Survey began an expanded monitoring
program near Deer Trail, Colorado, in cooperation with the Metro Wastewater
Reclamation District
and the North Kiowa Bijou Groundwater Management District. Monitoring
components were biosolids, soils, crops, ground water, and streambed sediments.
The monitoring program addresses concerns from the public about chemical
effects from applications of biosolids to agricultural land in the Deer
Trail area. Constituents of primary concern to the public are arsenic,
cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, zinc, plutonium,
and gross alpha and beta activity, and they are included for all monitoring
components. This report presents chemical data from the second year of
the monitoring program, January–December 2000, for biosolids,
crops, alluvial and bedrock ground water, and streambed sediments. The
ground-water section also includes climate data, water levels, and results
of statistical testing of selected data for trends and for exceedance
of Colorado regulatory standards. The chemical data included are for the
constituents of highest concern to the public as well as for many other
constituents.
Contents
Abstract
Introduction
Purpose and Scope
Acknowledgments
Biosolids
Objectives of Monitoring Biosolids
Approach for Monitoring Biosolids
Sampling Methods for Biosolids
Analytical Methods for Biosolids
Quality Assurance for Biosolids
Biosolids Data
Discussion of Biosolids Data
Soils
Objectives of Monitoring Soils
Approach for Monitoring Soils
Site Selection for Monitoring Soils
Sampling Methods for Soils
Analytical Methods for Soils
Quality Assurance for Soils
Soil Data
Crops
Objectives of Monitoring Crops
Approach for Monitoring Crops
Site Selection for Monitoring Crops
Sampling Methods for Crops
Analytical Methods for Crops
Quality Assurance for Crops
Crop Data
Discussion of Crop Data
Ground Water
Objectives of Monitoring Ground Water
Approach for Monitoring Ground Water
Site Selection for Monitoring Ground Water
Sampling Methods for Ground Water
Analytical Methods for Ground Water
Quality Assurance for Ground Water
Ground-Water Data
Meteorologic Data
Hydrogeologic Data
Hydrologic Data
Water-Quality Data
Discussion of Ground-Water Data
Regulatory Standards
Trends
Streambed Sediment
Objectives of Monitoring Streambed Sediment
Approach for Monitoring Streambed Sediment
Site Selection for Monitoring Streambed Sediment
Sampling Methods for Streambed Sediment
Analytical Methods for Streambed Sediment
Quality Assurance for Streambed Sediment
Streambed-Sediment Data
Discussion of Streambed-Sediment Data
References Cited
Data Section
