Professional Paper 1749
 
The volume comprises text chapters (listed below and in column at right). Water quality of the High Plains aquifer was assessed for the period 1999–2004 as part of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. This effort represents the first systematic regional assessment of water quality in this nationally important aquifer. A stratified, nested group of studies was designed to assess linkages between the quality of water recharging the aquifer, the effect of transport through the hydrologic system on water quality, and the quality of the resource used for human consumption and agricultural applications. The stratified, nested design facilitated upscaling of monitoring results to unmonitored areas of the aquifer as well as upscaling of process understanding from local to regional scales. |
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McMahon, Peter B., Dennehy, Kevin F., Bruce, Breton W., Gurdak, Jason J., and Qi, Sharon L., 2007, Water-quality assessment of the High Plains Aquifer, 1999–2004: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1749, 136 p.
Front Matter (9.3 MB)—incudes a Volume Contents that contain PDF links to the chapters, which is defined below:
Foreword
Abstract
Introduction
Purpose and Scope
Acknowledgments
Description of Study Area
Population
Land Use / Land Cover
Water Use
Geohydrology
Summary of Previous Water-Quality Studies
Water-Quality Assessment of the High Plains Aquifer
Chapter 1. Sources—Quality of Recently Recharged Water in the High Plains Aquifer
Chapter 2. Transport—Linking the Chemistry of Recharge and the Used Resource in the High Plains Aquifer
Chapter 3. Receptors—Quality of the Used Resource in the High Plains Aquifer
Chapter 4. Water Quality and the Availability and Sustainability of Water Supplies in the High Plains Aquifer
Summary
Selected References
Appendix 1. Reports published as part of, or in cooperation with, the High Plains Regional Ground-Water study
Appendix 2. Water Quality of the High Plains Aquifer in a National Context
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