Use of a ground-water flow model to delineate contributing areas to the Puchack Well Field, Pennsauken township and vicinity, Camden county, New Jersey
Daryll A. Pope, Martha K. Watt
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5101
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Well Head Protection Program, developed in response to the 1986 Federal Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments, requires delineation of Well Head Protection Areas (WHPA's), commonly called contributing areas, for all public and non-community water-supply wells in New Jersey. Typically, WHPA's for public...
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
Ground-water flow and water quality in the Upper Floridan aquifer, southwestern Albany area, Georgia, 1998-2001
Debbie Warner, Stephen J. Lawrence
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5047
During 1997, the Dougherty County Health Department sampled more than 700 wells completed in the Upper Floridan aquifer in Dougherty County, Georgia, and determined that nitrate as nitrogen (hereinafter called nitrate) concentrations were above 10 milligrams per liter (mg/L) in 12 percent of the wells. Ten mg/L is the Georgia...
Preliminary Precambrian basement structure map of the continental United States— An interpretation of geologic and aeromagnetic data
Paul K. Sims, Richard W. Saltus, Eric D. Anderson
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1029
No abstract available....
Ohio water microbiology laboratory
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2005, Fact Sheet 2005-3072
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...
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...
Geochemistry of sediments in cores and sediment traps from Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho
James L. Bischoff, Kathleen Cummins, Donald D. Shamp
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1215
The present study of Bear Lake began in 1998. Initially, the study utilized sediments from three long cores (up to 5 m) previously collected in 1996 and short cores (up to 40 cm) collected in 1998. The short cores were specifically acquired to preserve the uppermost layers of sediment that...
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
No abstract available....
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...
Helicopter electromagnetic and magnetic survey data and maps, northern Bexar County, Texas
Bruce D. Smith, Michael J. Cain, Allan K. Clark, David W. Moore, Jason R. Faith, Patricia L. Hill
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1158
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...
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...
Nanobots: A new paradigm for hydrogeologic characterization?
Warren W. Wood
2005, Groundwater (43) 463-463
No abstract available....
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...
Remote sensing sensitivity to fire severity and fire recovery
C.H. Key
2005, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Remote Sensing and GIS Applications to Forest Fire Management: Fire Effects Assessment
The paper examines fundamental ways that geospatial data on fire severity and recovery are influenced by conditions of the remote sensing. Remote sensing sensitivities are spatial, temporal and radiometric in origin. Those discussed include spatial resolution, the sampling time of year, and time since fire. For standard reference, sensitivities are...
Response from Soulé and Estes
Michael E. Soule, James A. Estes
2005, BioScience (55) 548-548
The letter from Kimberly Heiman points out the applicability of our framework to nonnative invasive species. Indeed, many alien species are changing the sign and increasing the amplitude of strong interactions in contemporary ecosystems, in some cases catastrophically. Invasive exotic species require much more attention at the policy and...
A landscape perspective for forest restoration
Thomas D. Sisk, Melissa Savage, Donald A. Falk, Craig D. Allen, Esteban Muldavin, Patrick McCarthy
2005, Journal of Forestry (103) 319-320
Forest managers throughout the West are anxiously seeking solutions to the problem of “large crown fires” - destructive blazes atypical of many forest types in the region. These wildfires have created a crisis mentality in management that has focused on rigid prescriptions for fuels reduction, rather than the restoration of...
Geobacter bemidjiensis sp. nov. and Geobacter psychrophilus sp. nov., two novel Fe(III)-reducing subsurface isolates
Kelly P. Nevin, Dawn E. Holmes, Trevor L. Woodard, Erich S. Hinlein, David W. Ostendorf, Derek R. Lovely
2005, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (55) 1667-1674
Fe(III)-reducing isolates were recovered from two aquifers in which Fe(III) reduction is known to be important. Strain BemT was enriched from subsurface sediments collected in Bemidji, MN, USA, near a site where Fe(III) reduction is important in aromatic hydrocarbon degradation. Strains P11, P35T and P39 were isolated from...
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...