Suspended-sediment loads from major tributaries to the Missouri River between Garrison Dam and Lake Oahe, North Dakota, 1954-98
Kathleen M. Macek-Rowland
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4072
Annual suspended-sediment loads for water years 1954 through 1998 were estimated for the major tributaries in the Missouri River Basin between Garrison Dam and Lake Oahe in North Dakota and for the Missouri River at Garrison Dam and the Missouri River at Bismarck, N. Dak. The major tributaries are the...
Regional equations for estimating mean annual and mean seasonal runoff for natural basins in Texas, base period 1961-90
Jennifer Lanning-Rush
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4064
Regional equations were developed for estimating mean annual and mean seasonal runoff for natural basins in Texas. The equations, which are based on the statistical relation between streamflow and basin characteristics, use streamflow data and basin characteristics from U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging stations within natural basins and with a least...
Mass balance, meteorological, ice motion, surface altitude, runoff, and ice thickness data at Gulkana Glacier, Alaska, 1995 balance year
Rod S. March
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4074
The 1995 measured winter snow, maximum winter snow, net, and annual balances in the Gulkana Glacier basin were evaluated on the basis of meteorological, hydrological, and glaciological data obtained in the basin. Averaged over the glacier, the measured winter snow balance was 0.94 meter on April 19, 1995, 0.6 standard...
Regional water table (1998) and ground-water-level changes in the Mojave River and the Morongo ground-water basins, San Bernardino County, California
Gregory A. Smith, M. Isabel Pimentel
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4090
The Mojave River and the Morongo ground-water basins are in the southwestern part of the Mojave Desert in southern California. Ground water from these basins supplies a major part of the water requirements for the region. The rapid and continuous population growth in this area has resulted in ever-increasing demands...
Effects of land use on recharge potential of surficial and shallow bedrock aquifers in the upper Illinois River basin
Terri Arnold, Michael J. Friedel
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4027
The upper Illinois River Basin (UIRB) is the 10,949-square-mile drainage area upstream from Ottawa, Illinois on the Illinois River and is one of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) program study units. To assist in the interpretation of groundwater data that will be collected during the course of...
Water-quantity and water-quality aspects of a 500-year flood - Nishnabotna River, southwest Iowa, June 1998
Dana W. Kolpin, Edward E. Fischer, Douglas J. Schnoebelen
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4025
Flooding that occurred in southwest Iowa during June 15–17, 1998, was the worst flood ever recorded on the Nishnabotna River, exceeding the theoretical 500-year flood calculated from peak-flow records (1922 to present). This flood was a direct consequence of severe thunderstorm activity that caused more than 4 inches of rain...
Benthic invertebrates of fixed sites in the western Lake Michigan drainages, Wisconsin and Michigan, 1993-95
Bernard N. Lenz, S. J. Rheaume
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4211-D
This report describes the variability in family-level benthic-invertebrate population data and the reliability of the data as a water-quality indicator for 11 fixed surface-water sites in the Western Lake Michigan Drainages study area of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program. Benthic-invertebrate-community measures were computed for the following: number of individuals, Hilsenhoff’s...
Water resources of the Blackstone River basin, Massachusetts
John A. Izbicki
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4167
By 2020, demand for water in the Blackstone River Basin is expected to be 52 million gallons per day, one-third greater than the demand of 39 million gallons per day in 1980. Most of this increase is expected to be supplied by increased withdrawals of ground water from stratified-drift aquifers...
Field tests of polyethylene-membrane diffusion samplers for characterizing volatile organic compounds in stream-bottom sediments, Nyanza Chemical Waste Dump Superfund site, Ashland, Massachusetts
Forest P. Lyford, Richard E. Willey, Scott Clifford
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4108
A plume of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in ground water extends from the Nyanza Chemical Waste Dump Superfund site in Ashland, Massachusetts, northward toward a mill pond on the Sudbury River and eastward toward the Sudbury River and former mill raceway downstream from the mill pond. Polyethylene-membrane water-to-vapor (vapor) and...
Water-quality trend analysis and sampling design for the Souris River, Saskatchewan, North Dakota, and Manitoba
Aldo V. Vecchia
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4019
The Souris River Basin is a 24,600-square-mile basin located in southeast Saskatchewan, north-central North Dakota, and southwest Manitoba. The Souris River Bilateral Water Quality Monitoring Group, formed in 1989 by the governments of Canada and the United States, is responsible for documenting trends in water quality in the Souris River...
Quality-assurance design applied to an assessment of agricultural pesticides in ground water from carbonate bedrock aquifers in the Great Valley of eastern Pennsylvania
Kevin J. Breen
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4104
Assessments to determine whether agricultural pesticides are present in ground water are performed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the aquifer monitoring provisions of the State Pesticides and Ground Water Strategy. Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture conducts the monitoring and collects samples; the Department of Environmental Protection (PaDEP) Laboratory analyzes the...
Characterization of rainfall-runoff response and estimation of the effect of wetland restoration on runoff, Heron Lake Basin, southwestern Minnesota, 1991-97
Perry M. Jones, Thomas A. Winterstein
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4095
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Heron Lake Watershed District, conducted a study to characterize the rainfall-runoff response and to examine the effects of wetland restoration on the rainfall-runoff response within the Heron Lake Basin in southwestern Minnesota. About 93...
Preliminary assessment of phosphorus transport in the Cheney Reservoir watershed, south-central Kansas, 1997-98
L. M. Pope, C.R. Milligan
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4023
A 5-year assessment of water-quality conditions is being conducted in the 933-square-mile Cheney Reservoir watershed of south-central Kansas. Part of this assessment is to define source areas of phosphorus in the watershed and to quantify its transport into Cheney Reservoir. Concern exists for the quality of water in Cheney Reservoir...
Ground-water and water-chemistry data for the Willamette basin, Oregon
Leonard L. Orzol, Karl C. Wozniak, Tiffany R. Meissner, Douglas B. Lee
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4036
This report presents ground-water data collected and compiled as part of a study of the ground-water resources of the Willamette River Basin, Oregon. The report includes tabulated information and a location map for 1,234 field-located water wells and 6 springs, hydrographs showing water-level fluctuations during various time periods for 265...
Determination of the effects of fine-grained sediment and other limiting variables on trout habitat for selected streams in Wisconsin
Barbara C. Scudder, J.W. Selbig, R.J. Waschbusch
2000, Open-File Report 2000-435
Two Habitat Suitability Index (HSI) models, developed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, were used to evaluate the effects of fine-grained (less than 2 millimeters) sediment on brook trout (Salvelinusfontinalis, Mitchill) and brown trout (Salmo trutta, Linnaeus) in 11 streams in west-central and southwestern Wisconsin. Our results indicated that...
Geologic datasets for weights of evidence analysis in northeast Washington: 1. Geologic raster data
David E. Boleneus, J. Douglas Causey
2000, Open-File Report 2000-495
This dataset contains the combination of geology data (geologic units, faults, folds, and dikes) from 6 1:100,000 scale digital coverages in eastern Washington (Chewelah, Colville, Omak, Oroville, Nespelem, Republic). The data was converted to an Arc grid in ArcView using the Spatial Analyst extension....
A three-dimensional finite-volume Eulerian-Lagrangian Localized Adjoint Method (ELLAM) for solute-transport modeling
C.I. Heberton, T.F. Russell, Leonard F. Konikow, G.Z. Hornberger
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4087
This report documents the U.S. Geological Survey Eulerian-Lagrangian Localized Adjoint Method (ELLAM) algorithm that solves an integral form of the solute-transport equation, incorporating an implicit-in-time difference approximation for the dispersive and sink terms. Like the algorithm in the original version of the U.S. Geological Survey MOC3D transport model, ELLAM uses...
A Retrospective Analysis on the Occurrence of Arsenic in Ground-Water Resources of the United States and Limitations in Drinking-Water-Supply Characterizations
Michael J. Focazio, Alan H. Welch, Sharon A. Watkins, Dennis R. Helsel, Marilee A. Horn
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4279
The Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended in 1996, requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to review current drinking-water standards for arsenic, propose a maximum contaminant level for arsenic by January 1, 2000, and issue a final regulation by January, 2001. Quantification of the national occurrence of targeted ranges...
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory summary 99; part I, seismic data, January to December 1999: Chronological summary
Jennifer S. Nakata, C. C. Heliker, David R. Sherrod
2000, Open-File Report 2000-433
No abstract available....
Metals transport in the Sacramento River, California, 1996-1997; volume 1: Methods and data
Charles N. Alpers, Howard E. Taylor, Joseph L. Domagalski
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4286
Metals transport in the Sacramento River, northern California, was evaluated on the basis of samples of water, suspended colloids, streambed sediment, and caddisfly larvae that were collected on one to six occasions at 19 sites in the Sacramento River Basin from July 1996 to June 1997. Four of the sampling...
Quality-assurance plan for water-quality activities in the North Florida Program Office, Florida District
Marian P. Berndt (compiler), Brian G. Katz
2000, Open-File Report 2000-426
In accordance with guidelines set forth by the Office of Water Quality in the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey, a quality-assurance plan was created for use by the Florida District's North Florida Program Office in conducting water-quality activities. This plan documents the standards, policies, and procedures used...
Snowpack chemistry at selected sites in Colorado and New Mexico during winter 1999-2000
George P. Ingersoll
2000, Open-File Report 2000-394
Snowpacks at two high-elevation (> 3,000 m) sampling sites near McPhee and Sanchez Reservoirs in southern Colorado were selected to collect representative samples of atmospheric deposition to the surrounding watersheds during winter 1999-2000. In February 2000, annual snowpacks at two sites were sampled to determine concentrations of nitrate and sulfate;...
Water-quality conditions and relation to drainage-basin characteristics in the Scituate Reservoir Basin, Rhode Island, 1982-95
Robert F. Breault, Marcus C. Waldron, Lora K. Barlow, David C. Dickerman
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4086
The Scituate Reservoir Basin covers about 94 square miles in north central Rhode Island and supplies more than 60 percent of the State of Rhode Island's drinking water. The basin includes the Scituate Reservoir Basin and six smaller tributary reservoirs with a combined capacity of about 40 billion gallons. Most...
Geochemistry of sulfur in the Florida Everglades: 1994 through 1999
Anne L. Bates, W. H. Orem, J. W. Harvey, E.C. Spiker
2000, Open-File Report 2001-7
In this report, we present data on the geochemistry of sulfur in sediments and in surface water, groundwater, and rainwater in the Everglades region in south Florida. The results presented here are part of a larger study intended to determine the roles played by the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus,...
Nutrient, suspended-sediment, and total suspended-solids data for surface water in the Great Salt Lake basins study unit, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, 1980-95
Heidi K. Hadley
2000, Open-File Report 2001-43
Selected nitrogen and phosphorus (nutrient), suspended-sediment and total suspended-solids surface-water data were compiled from January 1980 through December 1995 within the Great Salt Lake Basins National Water-Quality Assessment study unit, which extends from southeastern Idaho to west-central Utah and from Great Salt Lake to the Wasatch and western Uinta Mountains....
