Water Resources Data, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Water Year 2003
R.S. Socolow, J.L. Zanca, T.R. Driskell, L.R. Ramsbey
2004, Water Data Report MA-RI-03-1
Water resources data for the 2003 water year for Massachusetts and Rhode Island consists of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; contents of lakes and reservoirs; and water levels of ground-water wells. This report contains discharge records for 108 gaging stations, stage records for 2 gaging stations,...
Dissolved pesticide and organic carbon concentrations detected in surface waters, northern Central Valley, California, 2001-2002
James L. Orlando, Lisa A. Jacobson, Kathryn Kuivila
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1214
Field and laboratory studies were conducted to determine the effects of pesticide mixtures on Chinook salmon under various environmental conditions in surface waters of the northern Central Valley of California. This project was a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of California. The project focused...
Use of environmental tracers to estimate parameters for a predevelopment-ground-water-flow model of the Middle Rio Grande Basin, New Mexico
Ward E. Sanford, Niel Plummer, Douglas P. McAda, Laura M. Bexfield, Scott K. Anderholm
2004, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4286
No abstract available....
Guidelines for surveying bankfull channel geometry and developing regional hydraulic-geometry relations for streams of New York State
Rocky O. Powell, Sarah J. Miller, Britt E. Westergard, Christiane I. Mulvihill, Barry P. Baldigo, Anne S. Gallagher, Richard R. Starr
2004, Open-File Report 2003-92
Many disturbed streams within New York State are being restored in an effort to provide bank and bed stability and thereby decrease sedimentation and erosion. Efforts to identify and provide accurate indicators for stable-channel characteristics for ungaged streams have been hampered by the lack of regional equations or relations that...
Quantification of metal loading to Silver Creek through the Silver Maple Claims area, Park City, Utah, May 2002
Briant A. Kimball, Kevin K. Johnson, Robert L. Runkel, Judy I. Steiger
2004, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4296
The Silver Maple Claims area along Silver Creek, near Park City, Utah, is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. To quantify possible sources of elevated zinc concentrations in Silver Creek that exceed water-quality standards, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted a mass-loading study in May 2002 along a 1,400-meter reach...
Chester County ground-water atlas, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Russell A. Ludlow, Connie A. Loper
2004, Open-File Report 2003-442
Chester County encompasses 760 square miles in southeastern Pennsylvania. Groundwater-quality studies have been conducted in the county over several decades to address specific hydrologic issues. This report compiles and describes water-quality data collected during studies conducted mostly after 1990 and summarizes the data in a county-wide perspective.In this report, water-quality...
Is septic waste affecting drinking water from shallow domestic wells along the Platte River in eastern Nebraska?
Ingrid M. Verstraeten, Greg S. Fetterman, Sonja K. Sebree, Michael T. Meyer, Thomas D. Bullen
2004, Fact Sheet 072-03
No abstract available....
Water resources data-Maine, water year 2003
G.J. Stewart, J. M. Caldwell, A.R. Cloutier
2004, Water Data Report ME-03-1
This volume of the annual hydrologic data report of Maine is one of a series of annual reports that document data gathered from the U.S. Geological Survey's surface- and ground-water data-collection networks in each State, Puerto Rico, and the Trust Territories. These records of streamflow, ground-water levels, and quality of...
Water resources data, Utah, water year 2003
J.R. Tibbetts, Michael Enright, Dale E. Wilberg
2004, Water Data Report UT-03-1
Water-resources data for the 2005 water year for Utah consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage and contents of lakes and reservoirs; and water levels and water quality of ground water. This report contains discharge records for 165 gaging stations; stage and contents for...
Comparison of Estimated Areas Contributing Recharge to Selected Springs in North-Central Florida by Using Multiple Ground-Water Flow Models
W. Barclay Shoemaker, Andrew M. O’Reilly, Nicasio Sepulveda, Stanley A. Williams, Louis H. Motz, Qing Sun
2004, Open-File Report 2003-448
Areas contributing recharge to springs are defined in this report as the land-surface area wherein water entering the ground-water system at the water table eventually discharges to a spring. These areas were delineated for Blue Spring, Silver Springs, Alexander Springs, and Silver Glen Springs in north-central Florida using four regional...
Water Resources Data, New Jersey, Water Year 2003 - Volume 2. Ground-Water Data
Walter D. Jones
2004, Water Data Report NJ-03-2
Water-resources data for the 2003 water year for New Jersey are presented in three volumes, and consists of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams: stage, contents, and water quality of lakes and reservoirs; and water levels and water quality of ground water. Volume 2 contains a summary...
SutraGUI, a graphical-user interface for SUTRA, a model for ground-water flow with solute or energy transport
Richard B. Winston, Clifford I. Voss
2004, Open-File Report 2003-285
This report describes SutraGUI, a flexible graphical user-interface (GUI) that supports two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) simulation with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) SUTRA ground-water-flow and transport model (Voss and Provost, 2002). SutraGUI allows the user to create SUTRA ground-water models graphically. SutraGUI provides all of the graphical functionality required...
Integrated investigations of environmental effects of historical mining in the Basin and Boulder Mining Districts, Boulder River watershed, Jefferson County, Montana
David A. Nimick, Stan E. Church, Susan E. Finger, editor(s)
2004, Professional Paper 1652
The Boulder River watershed is one of many watersheds in the western United States where historical mining has left a legacy of acid mine drainage and elevated concentrations of potentially toxic trace elements. Abandoned mine lands commonly are located on or affect Federal land. Cleaning up these Federal lands will...
Questa baseline and pre-mining ground-water-quality investigation. 16. Quality assurance and quality control for water analyses
R. Blaine McCleskey, D. Kirk Nordstrom, Cheryl A. Naus
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1341
The Questa baseline and pre-mining ground-water quality investigation has the main objective of inferring the ground-water chemistry at an active mine site. Hence, existing ground-water chemistry and its quality assurance and quality control is of crucial importance to this study and a substantial effort was spent on this activity. Analyses...
Selected hydrologic data for Sand Cove Wash, Washington County, Utah
Aaron Norton, David D. Susong
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1328
Southwestern Utah is one of the most arid and fastest growing regions of Utah. Development of new and existing water resources will be required to meet the water needs of the region. Sand Cove Wash, a tributary of the Santa Clara River that flows into Gunlock Reservoir, was investigated as...
Physical stream habitat dynamics in Lower Bear Creek, northern Arkansas
Joanna M. Reuter, Robert B. Jacobson, Caroline M. Elliott
2003, Biological Science Report 2003-0002
We evaluated the roles of geomorphic and hydrologic dynamics in determining physical stream habitat in Bear Creek, a stream with a 239 km2 drainage basin in the Ozark Plateaus (Ozarks) in northern Arkansas. During a relatively wet 12-month monitoring period, the geomorphology of Bear Creek was altered by a...
Hydrology and simulation of ground-water flow in Kamas Valley, Summit County, Utah
L.E. Brooks, Bernard J. Stolp, L.E. Spangler
2003, Technical Publication 117
Kamas Valley, Utah, is located about 50 miles east of Salt Lake City and is undergoing residential development. The increasing number of wells and septic systems raised concerns of water managers and prompted this hydrologic study. About 350,000 acre-feet per year of surface water flows through Kamas Valley in the...
Phytoplankton fuels Delta food web
Alan D. Jassby, James E. Cloern, A. B. Muller-Solger
2003, California Agriculture (57) 104-109
Populations of certain fishes and invertebrates in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta have declined in abundance in recent decades and there is evidence that food supply is partly responsible. While many sources of organic matter in the Delta could be supporting fish populations indirectly through...
Variability of isotope and major ion chemistry in the Allequash Basin, Wisconsin
John F. Walker, Randall J. Hunt, Thomas D. Bullen, David P. Krabbenhoft, Carol Kendall
2003, Ground Water (41) 883-894
As part of ongoing research conducted at one of the U.S. Geological Survey's Water, Energy, and Biogeochem-ical Budgets sites, work was undertaken to describe the spatial and temporal variability of stream and ground water isotopic composition and cation chemistry in the Trout Lake watershed, to relate the variability to the...
A proposed international watershed research network
W. R. Osterkamp, J. R. Gray
2003, Conference Paper, First Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds: October 27-30, 2003
An “International Watershed Research Network” is to be an initial project of the Sino-U. S. Centers for Soil and Water Conservation and Environmental Protection. The Network will provide a fundamental database for research personnel of the Centers, as well as of the global research community, and is viewed as an...
Synergy of agroforestry and bottomland hardwood afforestation
D.J. Twedt, J. Portwood
Terry R. Clason, editor(s)
2003, Book chapter, Land-use management for the future: proceedings of the 6th North American Agroforestry Conference, June 12-16, 1999, the Arlington Resort Hotel and Spa, Hot Springs, Arkansas
Afforestation of bottomland hardwood forests has historically emphasized planting heavy-seeded tree species such as oak (Quercus spp.) and pecan (Caryaillinoensis) with little or no silvicultural management during stand development. Slow growth of these tree species, herbivory, competing vegetation, and limited seed dispersal, often result in restored sites that are...
Coupling ice-sheet and climate models for simulation of former ice sheets
Shawn J. Marshall, David Pollard, Steven W. Hostetler, Peter U. Clark
2003, Developments in Quaternary Sciences (1) 105-126
This chapter explores the development of coupled climate and ice-sheet models over the past two decades, discusses the current technical and physical capabilities of models, and identifies future work for developing a better understanding of ice-climate events that have punctuated Earth history. The chapter also illustrates the complex behavior of...
Summary of synoptic sampling and tracer-injection tests in the Alamosa River basin during high-flow conditions, June 1999: A sampling analysis report for modeling reactive transport of metals for the Summitville Mine, Colorado
Roderick F. Ortiz, James W. Ball
2003, Open-File Report 2003-467
No abstract available....
Summary of synoptic sampling and tracer-injection tests in the Alamosa River Basin during low-flow conditions, October 1998: A sampling analysis report for modeling reactive transport of metals for the Summitville Mine, Colorado
Roderick F. Ortiz, James W. Ball
2003, Open-File Report 2003-466
No abstract available....
Geohydrology of the Valley-Fill aquifer in the Norwich-Oxford-Brisben area, Chenango County, New York
Kari K. Hetcher, Todd S. Miller, James D. Garry, Richard J. Reynolds
2003, Open-File Report 2003-242
This set of maps and geohydrologic sections depicts the geology and hydrology of aquifers in the 21.9-square-mile reach of the Chenango River valley between Brisben and North Norwich, N.Y. This report depicts the principal geographic features of the study area; locations of domestic, commercial, and municipal wells from which data...
