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Geologic setting and water quality of selected basins in the active coal-mining areas of Ohio, 1987-88

Water-Resources Investigations Report 90-4109
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wri904109

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Abstract

This report presents hydrologic data from selected drainage basins in the active coal-mining areas of Ohio from July 1987 through October 1988. The study area is mostly within the unglaciated part of eastern Ohio along the western edge of the Appalachian Plateaus physiographic province. The 1987-88 work is the second phase of a 7-year study to assess baseline water quality in Ohio's coal region. The data collection network consisted of 41 long-term surface-water sites in 21 basins. The sites were measured and sampled twice yearly at low flow. In addition, six individual basins (three each year) selected for a more detailed representation of surface-water and ground-water quality. In 1987, the Sandy Creek, Middle Tuscarawas River and Sugar Creek, and Lower Tuscarawas River basins were chosen. In 1988, the Short and Wheeling Creeks, Upper Wills Creek, and Upper Raccoon Creek basins were chosen. Because of their proximity to the glaciated region and outwash drainage, the basins studied intensively in 1987 contain more shallow productive aquifers than do the basins studied in detail for 1988, in which shallow ground-water sources are very localized. Chemical analyses for 202 surface-water and 24 ground-water samples are presented. For field measurements made at surface-water sites, the specific conductance ranged from 295 to 3150 ? S/cm (microsiemens per centimeter at 25 degrees Celsius). For pH, the range was 2.8 to 8.6. Alkalinity ranged from 5 to 305 mg/L (milligrams per liter) as CaCO3.

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Sedam, A., 1991, Geologic setting and water quality of selected basins in the active coal-mining areas of Ohio, 1987-88: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 90-4109, vii, 97 p. :ill., maps ;28 cm., https://doi.org/10.3133/wri904109.

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Geologic setting and water quality of selected basins in the active coal-mining areas of Ohio, 1987-88
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 90-4109
DOI 10.3133/wri904109
Year Published 1991
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey ; Books and Open-File Reports Section [distributor],
Description vii, 97 p. :ill., maps ;28 cm.
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