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Biosolids, Soil, Crop, Ground-Water, and Streambed-Sediment Data for a Biosolids-Application Area Near Deer Trail, Colorado, 2001

By Tracy J.B. Yager, David B. Smith, and James G. Crock

Open-File Report 2004-1388

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The citation for this report, in USGS format, is as follows:
Yager, T.J.B., Smith, D.B., and Crock, J.G., 2004, Biosolids, Soil, Crop, Ground-Water, andStreambed-Sediment Data for a Biosolids-Application Area Near Deer Trail, Colorado,2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1388, 69 p.


Abstract

In January 1999, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 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 sediment. The monitoring program addresses concerns from the public about chemical effects from applications of biosolids to farmland in the Deer Trail, Colorado, 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 third year of the monitoring program, January–December 2001, for biosolids, soils, alluvial and bedrock ground water, and streambed sediment. 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 include the constituents of highest concern to the public in addition to 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

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

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

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