Questa baseline and pre-mining ground-water quality investigation. 23. Quantification of mass loading from mined and unmined areas along the Red River, New Mexico
Briant A. Kimball, D. Kirk Nordstrom, Robert L. Runkel, Kirk R. Vincent, Phillip L. Verplanck
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5004
Along the course of the Red River, between the town of Red River, New Mexico, and the U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station near Questa, New Mexico, there are several catchments that contain hydrothermally altered bedrock. Some of these alteration zones have been mined and others have not, presenting an opportunity...
USGS environmental characterization of flood sediments left in the New Orleans area after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, 2005 — Progress Report
Geoffrey S. Plumlee, Gregory P. Meeker, John K. Lovelace, Robert J. Rosenbauer, Paul J. Lamothe, Edward T. Furlong, Charles R. Demas
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1023
Introduction: The flooding in the greater New Orleans area that resulted from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in September, 2005, left behind accumulations of sediments up to many centimeters thick on streets, lawns, parking lots, and other flat surfaces. These flood sediment deposits have been the focus of extensive...
Questa baseline and pre-mining ground-water quality investigation. 20. Water chemistry of the Red River and selected seeps, tributaries, and precipitation, Taos County, New Mexico, 2000-2004
P. L. Verplanck, R. Blaine McCleskey, D. Kirk Nordstrom
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5028
As part of a multi-year project to infer the pre-mining ground-water quality at Molycorp's Questa mine site, surface-water samples of the Red River, some of its tributaries, seeps, and snow samples were collected for analysis of inorganic solutes and of water and sulfate stable isotopes in selected samples. The...
Preliminary Surficial Geologic Map of the Mesquite Lake 30' X 60' Quadrangle, California and Nevada
Kevin M. Schmidt, Matthew McMackin
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1035
The Quaternary surficial geologic map of the Mesquite Lake, California-Nevada 30'X60' quadrangle depicts deposit age and geomorphic processes of erosion and deposition, as identified by a composite of remote sensing investigations, laboratory analyses, and field work, in the arid to semi-arid Mojave Desert area, straddling the California-Nevada border. Mapping was...
Water resources of Monroe County, New York, water years 2000-02: Atmospheric deposition, ground water, streamflow, trends in water quality, and chemical loads in streams
Donald A. Sherwood
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5107
This report, the fifth in a series that presents analyses of the hydrologic data collected in Monroe County since 1984, interprets data from four surface-water-monitoring sites in the Irondequoit Creek basin (Irondequoit Creek at Railroad Mills, East Branch Allen Creek at Pittsford, Allen Creek near Rochester, and Irondequoit Creek above...
Completion reports, core logs, and hydrogeologic data from wells and piezometers in Prospect Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado
Raymond H. Johnson, Douglas B. Yager
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1030
In the late nineteenth century, San Juan County, Colorado, was the center of a metal mining boom in the San Juan Mountains. Although most mining activity ceased by the 1990s, the effects of historical mining continue to contribute metals to ground water and surface water. Previous research by the U.S....
Geology, hydrology, and water quality of the glacial drift aquifer in the vicinity of the Nelson landfill near Yorkville, Illinois
Robert T. Kay
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1045
The geologic and hydrologic characteristics of the sand-and-gravel deposits that compose the glacial drift aquifer in the vicinity of the Nelson Landfill site in Yorkville, Illinois indicate that the aquifer could be developed as a source of public water supply. The geology of these deposits within the Newark Bedrock Valley...
Low-flow analysis and selected flow statistics representative of 1930-2002 for streamflow-gaging stations in or near West Virginia
Jeffrey B. Wiley
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5002
Five time periods between 1930 and 2002 are identified as having distinct patterns of annual minimum daily mean flows (minimum flows). Average minimum flows increased around 1970 at many streamflow-gaging stations in West Virginia. Before 1930, however, there might have been a period of minimum flows greater than any period...
Age-dating ground water beneath Tinker Air Force Base, Midwest City, Oklahoma, 2003-04
Scott Christenson, David Parkhurst, Andrew G. Hunt, Denae Athay
2006, Fact Sheet 2005-3099
No abstract available....
Helping solve Georgia's water problems - the USGS Cooperative Water Program
John S. Clarke
2006, Fact Sheet 2006-3032
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) addresses a wide variety of water issues in the State of Georgia through the Cooperative Water Program (CWP). As the primary Federal science agency for water-resource information, the USGS monitors the quantity and quality of water in the Nation's rivers and aquifers, assesses the sources...
State of the watershed: Water quality of Boulder Creek, Colorado
Sheila F. Murphy
2006, Circular 1284
No abstract available....
USGS science in Menlo Park -- a science strategy for the U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park Science Center, 2005-2015
Thomas M. Brocher, Michael D. Carr, David L. Halsing, David A. John, Victoria E. Langenheim, Margaret T. Mangan, Mark C. Marvin-DiPasquale, John Y. Takekawa, Claire R. Tiedeman
2006, Circular 1290
In the spring of 2004, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Menlo Park Center Council commissioned an interdisciplinary working group to develop a forward-looking science strategy for the USGS Menlo Park Science Center in California (hereafter also referred to as "the Center"). The Center has been the flagship research center for...
The influence of hydrous Mn–Zn oxides on diel cycling of Zn in an alkaline stream draining abandoned mine lands
Christopher L. Shope, Ying Xie, Christopher H. Gammons
2006, Applied Geochemistry (21) 476-491
Many mining-impacted streams in western Montana with pH near or above neutrality display large (up to 500%) diel cycles in dissolved Zn concentrations. The streams in question typically contain boulders coated with a thin biofilm, as well as black mineral crusts composed of hydrous Mn–Zn oxides. Laboratory mesocosm experiments simulating...
Analysis of sensitivity of simulated recharge to selected parameters for seven watersheds modeled using the precipitation-runoff modeling system
D. Matthew Ely
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5041
Recharge is a vital component of the ground-water budget and methods for estimating it range from extremely complex to relatively simple. The most commonly used techniques, however, are limited by the scale of application. One method that can be used to estimate ground-water recharge includes process-based models that compute distributed...
Eutrophication of freshwater and marine ecosystems
Val H. Smith, Samantha B. Joye, Robert W. Howarth
2006, Limnology and Oceanography (51) 351-355
Initial understanding of the links between nutrients and aquatic productivity originated in Europe in the early 1900s, and our knowledge base has expanded greatly during the past 40 yr. This explosion of eutrophication-related research has made it unequivocally clear that a comprehensive strategy to prevent excessive amounts of nitrogen and...
Environmental effects of historical mining in the Boulder River watershed, southwestern Montana
David Nimick
2006, Fact Sheet 2005-3148
The U.S. Geological Survey recently completed an environmental study of historical mining in the Boulder River watershed, Montana, using the watershed approach. Results of the study have been used by State and Federal agencies to plan and implement cleanup. The watershed approach is based on the premise that contaminated sites...
Response to comment on “Persistence of pharmaceutical compounds and other organic wastewater contaminants in a conventional drinking-water-treatment plant”
Paul E. Stackelberg, Edward T. Furlong, Michael T. Meyer, Steven D. Zaugg, Alden K. Henderson, Dori B. Reissman
2006, Science of the Total Environment (354) 93-97
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Centers for Disease Control thank Dr. Till for her comments concerning our research (Till, 2005) and welcome the opportunity to respond. The primary objective of our study was to evaluate the potential for organic wastewater-related contaminants (OWCs), including pharmaceuticals, to survive a...
The significance of ground water to the accumulation of iron and manganese in the sediments of two hydrologically distinct lakes in north‐central Minnesota: A geological perspective
Walter E. Dean, Brian Neff, Donald O. Rosenberry, Thomas C. Winter, Renee S. Parkhurst
2006, Ground Water (41) 951-963
Williams and Shingobee lakes are at opposite ends of the local ground water flow system in the Shingobee River Headwaters Area (SRHA) in north‐central Minnesota. Williams Lake, situated near the highest point in the flow system, has no surface inlet or outlet, and ground water and precipitation are the only...
A continuous 250,000 yr record of oxygen and carbon isotopes in ostracode and bulk-sediment carbonate from Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho
Jordon Bright, Darrell Kaufman, Richard Forester, Walter E. Dean
2006, Quaternary Science Reviews (25) 2258-2270
Oxygen and carbon isotopes from a continuous, 120-m-long, carbonate-rich core from Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho, document dramatic fluctuations in the hydrologic budget of the lake over the last 250,000 yr. Isotopic analyses of bulk sediment samples capture millennial-scale variability. Ostracode calcite was analyzed from 78...
Research plan and preliminary results: A field research site for emerging contaminants in Iowa
Douglas J. Schnoebelen, Dana W. Kolpin, Larry B. Barber, Edward T. Furlong, Michael Meyer, M. Skopec
2006, Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science (113) 1-9
Research has recently documented the prevalence of a wide variety of pharmaceuticals and other emerging contaminants (ECs) in streams across the United States. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) have been found to be an important source and collection point of ECs to streams as many ECs are incompletely removed during treatment....
Watershed characteristics and pre-restoration surface-water hydrology of Minebank Run, Baltimore County, Maryland, water years 2002-04
Edward J. Doheny, Roger J. Starsoneck, Elise A. Striz, Paul M. Mayer
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5179
Stream restoration efforts have been ongoing in Maryland since the early 1990s. Physical stream restoration often involves replacement of lost sediments to elevate degraded streambeds, re-establishment of riffle-pool sequences along the channel profile, planting vegetation in riparian zones, and re-constructing channel banks, point bars, flood plains, and stream-meanders. The primary...
Heat as a ground water tracer at the Russian River RBF facility, Sonoma County, California
Jim Constantz, Grace W. Su, Christine Hatch
2006, Book chapter, Riverbank filtration hydrology
Temperature is routinely collected as a water quality parameter, but only recently utilized as an environmental tracer of stream exchanges with ground water (Stonestrom and Constantz, 2003). In this paper, water levels and seasonal temperatures were used to estimate streambed hydraulic conductivities and water fluxes. Temperatures and water levels...
Eutrophication
James E. Cloern, T. Krantz, J.E. Duffy
2006, Book chapter, Encyclopedia of earth
No abstract available. ...
Sampling and analytical methods
Eurybiades Busenberg, L.N. Plummer, Peter G. Cook, D. K. Solomon, L. F Han, H. Oster
2006, Book chapter, Use of chlorofluorocarbons in hydrology: A guidebook
No abstract available....
Potential use of other atmospheric gases
Eurybiades Busenberg, L.N. Plummer
2006, Book chapter, Use of chlorofluorocarbons in hydrology: A guidebook
No abstract available....
