Status of and changes in water quality monitored for the Idaho statewide surface-water-quality network, 1989—2002
Mark A. Hardy, Deborah J. Parliman, Ivalou O’Dell
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5033
The Idaho statewide surface-water-quality monitoring network consists of 56 sites that have been monitored from 1989 through 2002 to provide data to document status and changes in the quality of Idaho streams. Sampling at 33 sites has covered a wide range of flows and seasons that describe water-quality variations representing...
Questa baseline and pre-mining ground-water quality investigation. 10. Geologic influences on ground and surface waters in the lower Red River watershed, New Mexico
Steve Ludington, Geoff Plumlee, Jonathan S. Caine, Dana Bove, JoAnn Holloway, Eric Livo
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5245
This report is one in a series that presents results of an interdisciplinary U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study of ground-water quality in the lower Red River watershed prior to open-pit and underground molybdenite mining at Molycorp’s Questa mine. The stretch of the Red River watershed that extends from just...
Basin and range Carbonate Aquifer system study
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2005, Fact Sheet 2005-3035
Major- and trace-element concentrations in soils from two continental-scale transects of the United States and Canada
David B. Smith, William F. Cannon, Laurel G. Woodruff, Robert G. Garrett, Rodney Klassen, James E. Kilburn, John D. Horton, Harley D. King, Martin B. Goldhaber, Jean M. Morrison
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1253
This report contains major- and trace-element concentration data for soil samples collected from 265 sites along two continental-scale transects in North America. One of the transects extends from northern Manitoba to the United States-Mexico border near El Paso, Tex. and consists of 105 sites. The other transect approximately follows the...
Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography: Water Requirements of Desert Ungulates
James W. Cain III, Paul R. Krausman, Steven S. Rosenstock, Jack C. Turner
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1141
Executive Summary Ungulates adapted to desert areas are able to survive extreme temperatures and limited water availability. This ability is largely due to behavioral, morphological, and physiological adaptations that allow these animals to avoid or tolerate extreme environmental conditions. The physiological adaptations possessed by ungulates for thermoregulation and maintenance of water...
Quantification and simulation of metal loading to the Upper Animas River, Eureka to Silverton, San Juan County, Colorado, September 1997 and August 1998
Suzanne S. Paschke, Briant A. Kimball, Robert L. Runkel
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5054
Drainage from abandoned and inactive mines and from naturally mineralized areas in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado contributes metals to the upper Animas River near Silverton, Colorado. Tracer-injection studies and associated synoptic sampling were performed along two reaches of the upper Animas River to develop detailed profiles of...
Water resources data--Illinois, water year 2004 (includes historical data)
S.R. Cutshaw, P. C. Mills, J.L. Hogan, D.J. Fazio
2005, Water Data Report IL-04-1
Using tracers to evaluate streamflow gain-loss characteristics of Terror Creek, in the vicinity of a mine-permit area, Delta County, Colorado, water year 2003
Cory A. Williams, Kenneth J. Leib
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5018
In 2003, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Delta County, initiated a study to characterize streamflow gainloss in a reach of Terror Creek, in the vicinity of a mine-permit area planned for future coal mining. This report describes the methods of the study and includes results from a comparison...
Evaluation of Measurements Collected with Multi-Parameter Continuous Water-Quality Monitors in Selected Illinois Streams, 2001-03
George E. Groschen, Robin B. King
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5060
Eight streams, representing a wide range of environmental and water-quality conditions across Illinois, were monitored from July 2001 to October 2003 for five water-quality parameters as part of a pilot study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA). Continuous recording multi-parameter water-quality...
Construction, Geology, and Aquifer Testing of the Maalo Road, Aahoaka Hill, and Upper Eleele Tank Monitor Wells, Kauai, Hawaii
Scot K. Izuka
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1159
The Maalo Road, Aahoaka Hill, and Upper Eleele Tank monitor wells were constructed using rotary drilling methods between July 1998 and August 2002 as part of a program of exploratory drilling, aquifer testing, and hydrologic analysis on Kauai. Aquifer tests were conducted in the uncased boreholes of the wells. The Maalo...
Hydrogeology of the Mogollon Highlands, central Arizona
John T.C. Parker, William C. Steinkampf, Marilyn E. Flynn
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5294
The Mogollon Highlands, 4,855 square miles of rugged, mountainous terrain at the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau in central Arizona, is characterized by a bedrock-dominated hydrologic system that results in an incompletely integrated regional ground-water system, flashy streamflow, and various local water-bearing zones that are sensitive to drought. Increased...
Simulated water-level responses, ground-water fluxes, and storage changes for recharge scenarios along Rillito Creek, Tucson, Arizona
John P. Hoffmann, Stanley A. Leake
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5286
A local ground-water flow model is used to simulate four recharge scenarios along Rillito Creek in northern Tucson to evaluate mitigating effects on ground-water deficits and water-level declines in Tucson's Central Well Field. The local model, which derives boundary conditions from a basin-scale model, spans the 12-mile reach of Rillito...
Hydrogeologic framework, ground-water quality, and simulation of ground-water flow at the Fair Lawn Well Field Superfund site, Bergen County, New Jersey
Jean C. Lewis-Brown, Donald E. Rice, Robert Rosman, Nicholas P. Smith
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5280
Production wells in the Westmoreland well field, Fair Lawn, Bergen County, New Jersey (the 'Fair Lawn well field Superfund site'), are contaminated with volatile organic compounds, particularly trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, and 1,1,1-trichloroethane. In 1983, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) placed the Westmoreland well field on its National Priority List of...
Water resources data - Washington water year 2004
R. A. Kimbrough, G.P. Ruppert, W.D. Wiggins, R. R. Smith
2005, Water Data Report WA-04-1
Questa baseline and pre-mining ground-water quality investigation. 5. Well installation, water-level data, and surface- and ground-water geochemistry in the Straight Creek drainage basin, Red River Valley, New Mexico, 2001-03
Cheryl A. Naus, R. Blaine McCleskey, D. Kirk Nordstrom, Lisa C. Donohoe, Andrew G. Hunt, Frederick L. Paillet, Roger H. Morin, Philip L. Verplanck
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5088
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New Mexico Environment Department, is investigating the pre-mining ground-water chemistry at the Molycorp molybdenum mine in the Red River Valley, northern New Mexico. The primary approach is to determine the processes controlling ground-water chemistry at an unmined, off-site, proximal analog. The Straight...
Hydrologic characteristics of the Agua Fria National Monument, central Arizona, determined from the reconnaissance study
John B. Fleming
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5163
Hydrologic conditions in the newly created Agua Fria National Monument were characterized on the basis of existing hydrologic and geologic information, and streamflow data collected in May 2002. The study results are intended to support the Bureau of Land Management's future water-resource management responsibilities, including quantification of a Federal reserved...
The fishes of Buffalo National River, Arkansas, 2001-2003
James C. Petersen, B. G. Justus
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5130
During June through September 2001 and 2002, extensive fish community sampling was conducted at 29 sites within the boundaries of Buffalo National River. Samples were collected using backpack, tote barge, and boat electrofishing equipment. Kick seining also was used at all sites. To supplement these results, samples were collected in...
Water Quality, Fish Tissue, and Bed Sediment Monitoring in Waterbodies of Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center, Arkansas, 2002-2004
B. G. Justus, Gregory P. Stanton
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5273
The Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center is a facility used to train as many as 50,000 Arkansas National Guardsmen each year. Due to the nature of ongoing training and also to a poor understanding of environmental procedures that were practiced in the World War II era, areas within Fort Chaffee...
The drought of 1998-2002 in North Carolina — Precipitation and hydrologic conditions
J. Curtis Weaver
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5053
Drought conditions prevailed across much of North Carolina during 1998-2002, resulting in widespread record-low streamflow and ground-water levels in many areas. During this 4-year period, the drought was continuous in areas of western North Carolina, although eastern areas of the State had some periods of relief from tropical storms in...
Classification of hydrogeologic areas and hydrogeologic flow systems in the basin and range physiographic province, southwestern United States
David W. Anning, Alice D. Konieczki
2005, Professional Paper 1702
The hydrogeology of the Basin and Range Physiographic Province in parts of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, and most of Nevada was classified at basin and larger scales to facilitate information transfer and to provide a synthesis of results from many previous hydrologic investigations. A conceptual model for the spatial...
Ohio water microbiology laboratory
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2005, Fact Sheet 2005-3072
Effects of land-use changes and stormflow-detention basins on flooding and nonpoint-source pollution, in Irondequoit Creek basin, Monroe and Ontario counties, New York--application of a precipitation-runoff model
William F. Coon, Mark S. Johnson
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5070
Urbanization of the 150-square-mile Irondequoit Creek basin in Monroe and Ontario Counties, N.Y., continues to spread southward and eastward from the City of Rochester, on the shore of Lake Ontario. Conversion of forested land to other uses over the past 40 years has increased to the extent that more than...
Summary of significant results from studies of triazine herbicides and their degradation products in surface water, ground water, and precipitation in the midwestern United States during the 1990s
Elisabeth A. Scribner, E.M. Thurman, Donald A. Goolsby, Michael T. Meyer, William A. Battaglin, Dana W. Kolpin
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5094
Nonpoint-source contamination of water resources from triazine herbicides has been a major water-quality issue during the 1990s in the United States. To address this issue, studies of surface water, ground water, and precipitation have been carried out by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Midwestern United States. Reconnaissance studies of 147...
Evaluation of unsaturated-zone solute-transport models for studies of agricultural chemicals
Bernard T. Nolan, E. Randall Bayless, Christopher T. Green, Sheena Garg, Frank D. Voss, David C. Lampe, Jack E. Barbash, Paul D. Capel, Barbara A. Bekins
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1196
Seven unsaturated-zone solute-transport models were tested with two data sets to select models for use by the Agricultural Chemical Team of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment Program. The data sets were from a bromide tracer test near Merced, California, and an atrazine study in the White River Basin,...
Channel and hillslope processes revisited in the Arroyo de los Frijoles watershed near Santa Fe, New Mexico
Allen C. Gellis, William W. Emmett, Luna Bergere Leopold
2005, Professional Paper 1704
Detailed documentation of geomorphic changes in the landscape of more than a few years is rarely possible. Channel cross sections, channel profiles, sediment deposition behind dams, and hillslope-erosion plots, originally benchmarked within several watersheds outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the 1950’s and 1960’s, for a 1966 report that documented...
