Surficial deposits in the Bear Lake Basin
Marith C. Reheis, Benjamin J.C. Laabs, Richard M. Forester, John P. McGeehin, Darrell S. Kaufman, Jordon Bright
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1088
Mapping and dating of surficial deposits in the Bear Lake drainage basin were undertaken to provide a geologic context for interpretation of cores taken from deposits beneath Bear Lake, which sometimes receives water and sediment from the glaciated Bear River and sometimes only from the small drainage basin of Bear...
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...
Water resources data Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C., water year 2004, Volume 2. Ground-water data
Stephen E. Curtin, Anita L. Anderson, Richard W. Saffer
2005, Water Data Report MD-DE-DC-04-2
Digital data and derivative products from a high-resolution aeromagnetic survey of the central San Luis basin, covering parts of Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, and Rio Grande counties, Colorado, and Taos county, New Mexico
Viki Bankey, V. J. S. Grauch, Ank Webbers, Inc PRJ
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1200
This report describes data collected from a high-resolution aeromagnetic survey flown over the central San Luis basin during October, 2004, by PRJ, Inc., on contract to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The survey extends from just north of Alamosa, Colorado, southward to just northwest of Taos, New Mexico. It covers...
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...
Determining age and vertical contribution of ground water pumped from wells in a small coastal river basin: a case study in the Sweetwater River valley, San Diego county, California
Wesley R. Danskin, Clinton D. Church
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1032
Questa baseline and pre-mining ground-water quality investigation. 14. Interpretation of ground-water geochemistry in catchments other than the Straight Creek catchment, Red River Valley, Taos County, New Mexico, 2002-2003
D. Kirk Nordstrom, R. Blaine McCleskey, Andrew G. Hunt, Cheryl A. Naus
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5050
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, New Mexico. The primary approach is to determine the processes controlling ground-water chemistry at an unmined, off-site but proximal analog. The Straight...
Estimation of agricultural pesticide use in drainage basins using land cover maps and county pesticide data
Naomi Nakagaki, David M. Wolock
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1188
A geographic information system (GIS) was used to estimate agricultural pesticide use in the drainage basins of streams that are studied as part of the U.S. Geological Survey?s National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. Drainage basin pesticide use estimates were computed by intersecting digital maps of drainage basin boundaries with an...
Amphibian research and monitoring initiative: concepts and implementation
Paul Stephen Corn, M. J. Adams, William A. Battaglin, Alisa L. Gallant, Daniel L. James, Melinda Knutson, Catherine A. Langtimm, John R. Sauer
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5015
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Analysis and mapping of post-fire hydrologic hazards for the 2002 Hayman, Coal Seam, and Missionary Ridge wildfires, Colorado
J. G. Elliott, M.E. Smith, M.J. Friedel, M. R. Stevens, C. R. Bossong, D. W. Litke, R. S. Parker, C. Costello, J. Wagner, S.J. Char, M.A. Bauer, S.R. Wilds
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5300
Wildfires caused extreme changes in the hydrologic, hydraulic, and geomorphologic characteristics of many Colorado drainage basins in the summer of 2002. Detailed assessments were made of the short-term effects of three wildfires on burned and adjacent unburned parts of drainage basins. These were the Hayman, Coal Seam, and Missionary Ridge...
Potential changes in ground-water flow and their effects on the ecology and water resources of the Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts
John P. Masterson, John W. Portnoy
2005, General Information Product 13
Quality-assurance plan for the analysis of fluvial sediment by the U.S. Geological Survey Kentucky Water Science Center Sediment Laboratory
Elizabeth A. Shreve, Aimee C. Downs
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1230
This report describes laboratory procedures used by the U.S. Geological Survey Kentucky Water Science Center Sediment Laboratory for the processing and analysis of fluvial-sediment samples for concentration of sand and finer material. The report details the processing of a sediment sample through the laboratory from receiving the sediment sample, through...
Occurrence of organic wastewater contaminants, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products in selected water supplies, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, June 2004
Marc J. Zimmerman
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1206
In June 2004, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment, sampled water from 14 wastewater sources and drinking-water supplies on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, for the presence of organic wastewater contaminants, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products. The geographic distribution of sampling locations does...
Systematics of halogen elements and their radioisotopes in thermal springs of the Cascade Range, Central Oregon, Western USA
Shaul Hurwitz, Robert H. Mariner, Udo Fehn, Glen T. Snyder
2005, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (235) 700-714
This study quantifies the cycling of halogen elements through the Cascadia subduction zone based on the chemistry of thermal springs in the Central Oregon Cascade Range and of a mineral spring in the forearc (Willamette Valley). Considerations based on mass balances, element ratios, and 36Cl/Cl and 129I/I ratios suggest that halogens discharged...
Turbulence investigation and reproduction for assisting downstream migrating juvenile salmonids, Part II of II: Effects of induced turbulence on behavior of juvenile salmon, 2001-2005 final report
R. Perry, M. Farley, G. Hansen, J. Morse, D. Rondorf
2005, Report
Passage through dams is a major source of mortality of anadromous juvenile salmonids because some populations must negotiate up to eight dams in Columbia and Snake rivers. Dams cause direct mortality when fish pass through turbines, but dams may also cause indirect mortality by altering migration conditions in rivers. Forebays...
Commentary: selenium study on endangered razorback sucker is flawed
Steven J. Hamilton
2005, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (61) 313-326
The razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus) is listed as federally endangered throughout its range. A massive recovery effort by the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin has focused its efforts in the upper Colorado River. The upper Colorado River basin also has two locations...
Genetics of Central Valley, O. mykiss, populations: Drainage and watershed scale analyses
Jennifer L. Nielsen, Scott A. Pavey, Talia Wiacek, Ian S. Williams
2005, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science (3)
Genetic variation at 11 microsatellite loci described population genetic structure for Oncorhynchus mykiss in the Central Valley, California. Spatial and temporal variation was examined as well as relationships between hatchery and putative natural spawning anadromous stocks. Genetic diversity was analyzed at two distinct spatial scales: fine-scale within drainage for five populations on...
Simulation of ground-water flow in coastal Georgia and adjacent parts of South Carolina and Florida-predevelopment, 1980, and 2000
Dorothy F. Payne, Malek Abu Rumman, John S. Clarke
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5089
A digital model was developed to simulate steady-state ground-water flow in a 42,155-square-mile area of coastal Georgia and adjacent parts of South Carolina and Florida. The model was developed to (1) understand and refine the conceptual model of regional ground-water flow, (2) serve as a framework for the development of...
Ground-water, surface-water, and water-chemistry data, Black Mesa area, northeastern Arizona — 2003–04
Margot Truini, Jamie P. Macy, Thomas J. Porter
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1080
The N aquifer is the major source of water in the 5,400-square-mile area of Black Mesa in northeastern Arizona. Availability of water is an important issue in this area because of continued industrial and municipal use, a growing population, and precipitation of about 6 to 14 inches per year. The monitoring...
Estimated water use in Puerto Rico, 2000
Wanda L. Molina-Rivera
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1201
Water-use data were compiled for the 78 municipios of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for 2000. Five offstream categories were considered: public-supply water withdrawals, domestic self-supplied water use, industrial self-supplied withdrawals, crop irrigation water use, and thermoelectric power fresh water use. Two additional categories also were considered: power generation instream...
Water resources data Indiana water year 2004
Scott E. Morlock, Hieu T. Nguyen, Deborah K. Majors
2005, Water Data Report IN-04-1
Sensitivity of alpine and subalpine lakes to acidification from atmospheric deposition in Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Leora Nanus, Donald H. Campbell, Mark W. Williams
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5023
The sensitivity of 400 lakes in Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks to acidification from atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and sulfur was estimated based on statistical relations between acid-neutralizing capacity concentrations and basin characteristics to aid in the design of a long-term monitoring plan for Outstanding Natural Resource Waters. Acid-neutralizing...
Simulated changes in water levels caused by potential changes in pumping from shallow aquifers of Virginia Beach, Virginia
Barry S. Smith
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5067
A steady-state ground-water flow model of the southern watersheds of Virginia Beach, Virginia, was refined and used to simulate changes in aquifer water levels caused by potential changes in pumping in the Transition Area of Virginia Beach, Va., a 20-square mile planning zone that runs through the middle of the...
Geochemistry of Red Mountain Creek, Colorado, under low-flow conditions, August 2002
Robert L. Runkel, Briant A. Kimball, Katherine Walton-Day, Philip L. Verplanck
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5101
Red Mountain Creek, an acid mine drainage stream in southwestern Colorado, was the subject of a synoptic study conducted in August 2002. During the synoptic study, a solution containing lithium chloride was injected continuously to allow for the calculation of streamflow using the tracer-dilution method. Synoptic water-quality samples were collected...
Impact of anthropogenic development on coastal ground-water hydrology in southeastern Florida, 1900-2000
Robert A. Renken, Joann Dixon, John A. Koehmstedt, Scott Ishman, A.C. Lietz, Richard L. Marella, Pamela A. Telis, Jeff Rodgers, Steven Memberg
2005, Circular 1275
Southeastern Florida is an area that has been subject to widely conflicting anthropogenic stress to the Everglades and coastal ecosystems. This stress is a direct consequence of the 20th century economic competition for limited land and water resources needed to satisfy agricultural development and its expansion, its displacement by burgeoning urban development, and the...
