Water-chemistry data for selected springs, geysers, and streams in Yellowstone National Park Wyoming, 2001-2002
R. Blaine McCleskey, James W. Ball, D. Kirk Nordstrom, JoAnn M. Holloway, Howard E. Taylor
2005, Open-File Report 2004-1316
Water analyses are reported for one-hundred-twenty-one samples collected from hot springs and their overflow drainages, the Gibbon River, and one ambient-temperature acid stream in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) during 2001-2002. Twenty-five analyses are reported for samples collected during May 2001, fifty analyses are reported for samples collected during September 2001,...
Questa baseline and pre-mining ground-water quality investigation. 12. Geochemical and reactive-transport modeling based on tracer injection-synoptic sampling studies for the Red River, New Mexico, 2001-2002
James W. Ball, Robert L. Runkel, D. Kirk Nordstrom
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5149
Reactive-transport processes in the Red River, downstream from the town of Red River in north-central New Mexico, were simulated using the OTEQ reactive-transport model. The simulations were calibrated using physical and chemical data from synoptic studies conducted during low-flow conditions in August 2001 and during March/April 2002. Discharge over the 20-km reach...
Changes in streamflow patterns related to hydrologic restoration of a sedge fen wetland in Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Michigan, 1998-2004
B.P. Neff, T. L. Weaver, D.G. Wydra
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5137
Vast expanses of sedge fen in Schoolcraft County in Michigan's Upper Peninsula were ditched and diked in the early to mid-1900s to promote agricultural development and create waterfowl habitat. Unintended consequences of these actions were far reaching and included the deposition of large amounts of sand in the Manistique River....
Water-quality assessment of part of the Upper Mississippi River Basin, Minnesota and Wisconsin — Ground-water quality along a flow system in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, Minnesota, 1997-98
William J. Andrews, James R. Stark, Alison L. Fong, James D. Fallon
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5120
As part of a national analysis of the effects of land use on ground-water quality for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program, the U.S. Geological Survey sampled wells along a flow system in surficial glacial aquifers in the northwestern part of the Twin Cities metropolitan area during 1997 and 1998. In...
Calibration parameters used to simulate streamflow from application of the Hydrologic Simulation Program-FORTRAN Model (HSPF) to mountainous basins containing coal mines in West Virginia
John T. Atkins, Jeffrey B. Wiley, Katherine S. Paybins
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5099
This report presents the Hydrologic Simulation Program-FORTRAN Model (HSPF) parameters for eight basins in the coal-mining region of West Virginia. The magnitude and characteristics of model parameters from this study will assist users of HSPF in simulating streamflow at other basins in the coal-mining region of West Virginia. The parameter...
An assessment of optical properties of dissolved organic material as quantitative source indicators in the Santa Ana River basin, Southern California
Brian A. Bergamaschi, Erica Kalve, Larry Guenther, Gregory O. Mendez, Kenneth Belitz
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5152
The ability to rapidly, reliably, and inexpensively characterize sources of dissolved organic material (DOM) in watersheds would allow water management agencies to more quickly identify problems in water sources, and to more efficiently allocate water resources by, for example, permitting real-time identification of high-quality water suitable for ground-water recharge, or...
Nutrients, organic compounds, and mercury in the Meduxnekeag River watershed, Maine, 2003
Charles W. Schalk, Lan Tornes
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5111
In 2003, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, sampled streambed sediments and surface water of the Meduxnekeag River watershed in northeastern Maine under various hydrologic conditions for nutrients, hydrophobic organic compounds, and mercury. Nutrients were sampled to address concerns related to summer algal...
Environmental setting, water budget, and stream assessment for the Broad Run watershed, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Peter J. Cinotto, Andrew G. Reif, Leif E. Olson
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5156
The Broad Run watershed lies almost entirely in West Bradford Township, Chester County, Pa., and drains 7.08 square miles to the West Branch Brandywine Creek. Because of the potential effect of encroaching development and other stresses on the Broad Run watershed, West Bradford Township, the Chester County Water Resources Authority,...
Historical and simulated changes in channel characteristics of the Kalamazoo River, Plainwell to Otsego, Michigan
Cynthia M. Rachol, Faith A. Fitzpatrick, Tiffiny Rossi
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5044
In a study to understand the historical effects of the construction and decommissioning of dams on the Kalamazoo River, Plainwell to Otsego, Michigan, and to simulate channel changes that may result if the dams were removed, early to mid-1800s General Land Office surveys and aerial photographs from 1938, 1981, and...
A 24 h investigation of the hydrogeochemistry of baseflow and stormwater in an urban area impacted by mining: Butte, Montana
Chris Gammons, Christopher L. Shope, Terence E. Duaime
2005, Hydrological Processes (19) 2737-2753
Changes in water quality during a storm event were continuously monitored over a 24 h period at a single location along an urban stormwater drain in Butte, Montana. The Butte Metro Storm Drain (MSD) collects groundwater baseflow and stormwater draining Butte Hill, a densely populated site that has been severely...
Charting color from the eye of the beholder
Edward Landa, Mark Fairchild
2005, American Scientist (93) 436-436
Everyone knows the particular shade of yellow that adorns all school buses across the United States. But how do we define exactly what shade this is, and reproduce the same color from coast to coast? Much of the standardization of colors stems from the century-old work of Alfred Munsell, who...
Water budgets for selected watersheds in the Delaware River basin, eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey
Ronald A. Sloto, Debra E. Buxton
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5113
This pilot study, done by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Delaware River Basin Commission, developed annual water budgets using available data for five watersheds in the Delaware River Basin with different degrees of urbanization and different geological settings. A basin water budget and a water-use budget were...
Occurrence of pharmaceuticals and other organic wastewater constituents in selected streams in northern Arkansas, 2004
Joel M. Galloway, Brian E. Haggard, Michael T. Meyers, W. Reed Green
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5140
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the University of Arkansas and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, collected data in 2004 to determine the occurrence of pharmaceuticals and other organic wastewater constituents, including many constituents of emerging environmental concern, in selected streams in northern Arkansas. Samples were...
Hydrology, geomorphology, and flood profiles of Lemon Creek, Juneau, Alaska
Randy H. Host, Edward G. Neal
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5186
Lemon Creek near Juneau, Alaska has a history of extensive gravel mining, which straightened and deepened the stream channel in the lower reaches of the study area. Gravel mining and channel excavation began in the 1940s and continued through the mid-1980s. Time sequential aerial photos and field investigations indicate that...
Hydrologic conditions and lake-level fluctuations at Long Lost Lake, 1939-2004, White Earth Indian Reservation, Clearwater County, Minnesota
Victoria G. Christensen, Andrea L. Bergman
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5181
Long Lost Lake, a closed-basin lake in Clearwater County, Minnesota, has had a substantial rise in lake level since 1990. The increased level and surface area of the lake has led to the inundation of nearby homes and roads. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the White Earth Band...
Hydrologic effects of the 2004 hurricane season in northwest Florida
Richard Jay Verdi
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1277
Water-quality data from two agricultural drainage basins in northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois: I. Lagrangian and synoptic data, 1999-2002
Ronald C. Antweiler, Richard L. Smith, Mary A. Voytek, John Karl Bohlke, Kevin D. Richards
2005, Open-File Report 2004-1317
Methods of data collection and results of analyses are presented for Lagrangian and synoptic water-quality data collected from two agricultural drainages, the Iroquois River in northwestern Indiana and Sugar Creek in northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois. During six separate sampling trips, in April, June and September 1999, May 2000, September...
Bathymetry and vegetation in isolated marsh and cypress wetlands in the northern Tampa Bay Area, 2000-2004
Kim H. Haag, Terrie M. Lee, Donald C. Herndon
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5109
Wetland bathymetry and vegetation mapping are two commonly used lines of evidence for assessing the hydrologic and ecologic status of expansive coastal and riverine wetlands. For small isolated freshwater wetlands, however, bathymetric data coupled with vegetation assessments are generally scarce, despite the prevalence of isolated wetlands in many regions of...
The value of hydrologic data and interagency coordination in protecting drinking-water supplies in Minnesota rivers
J. R. Stark, A.D. Arntson, D.L. Brostrom
2005, Fact Sheet 2005-3094
Development of property-transfer models for estimating the hydraulic properties of deep sediments at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho
Kari A. Winfield
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5114
Because characterizing the unsaturated hydraulic properties of sediments over large areas or depths is costly and time consuming, development of models that predict these properties from more easily measured bulk-physical properties is desirable. At the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, the unsaturated zone is composed of thick basalt flow...
Water use and availability in the Woonasquatucket and Moshassuck River basins, north-central Rhode Island
Mark T. Nimiroski, Emily C. Wild
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5031
The Woonasquatucket River Basin includes 51.0 square miles, and the Moshassuck River Basin includes 23.8 square miles in north-central Rhode Island. The study area comprises these two basins. The two basins border each other with the Moshassuck River Basin to the northeast of the Woonasquatucket River Basin. Seven towns are...
Trends in timing, magnitude, and duration of summer and fall/winter streamflows for unregulated coastal river basins in Maine during the 20th century
Robert W. Dudley, Glenn A. Hodgkins
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5021
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission (ASC), began a study in 2003 to examine the timing, magnitude, and duration of summer (June through October) and fall/early winter (September through January) seasonal streamflows of unregulated coastal river basins in Maine and to correlate them...
Hydrogeologic framework and water quality of the Vermont Army National Guard Ethan Allen Firing Range, northern Vermont, October 2002 through December 2003
Stewart F. Clark, Ann Chalmers, Thomas J. Mack, Jon C. Denner
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5159
The Ethan Allen Firing Range of the Vermont Army National Guard is a weapons-testing and training facility in a mountainous region of Vermont that has been in operation for about 80 years. The hydrologic framework and water quality of the facility were assessed between October 2002 and December 2003. As...
Near-field receiving water monitoring of trace metals and a benthic community near the Palo Alto regional water quality control plant in south San Francisco Bay, California: 2004
Edward Moon, Michelle K. Shouse, Francis Parcheso, Janet K. Thompson, Samuel N. Luoma, Daniel J. Cain, Michelle I. Hornberger
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1279
No abstract available....
Occurrence of selected pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical compounds, and stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios, in a riverbank filtration study, Platte River, Nebraska, 2001 to 2003, Volume 1
J. R. Vogel, Ingrid M. Verstraeten, T.B. Coplen, E. T. Furlong, M. T. Meyer, L. B. Barber
2005, Data Series 117
Although studied extensively in recent years in Europe, the occurrence of endocrine disrupters and other organic wastewater compounds in the environment in the United States is not well documented. To better understand the efficiency of riverbank filtration with respect to endocrine disrupting compounds and to evaluate the use of...
