Analysis of Streamflow Trends, Ground-Water and Surface-Water Interactions, and Water Quality in the Upper Carson River Basin, Nevada and California
Douglas K. Maurer, Angela P. Paul, David L. Berger, C. Justin Mayers
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5238
Changes in land and water use and increasing development of water resources in the Carson River basin may affect flow of the river and, in turn, affect downstream water users dependent on sustained river flows to Lahontan Reservoir. To address these concerns, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the...
Estimated Nutrient Concentrations and Continuous Water-Quality Monitoring in the Eucha-Spavinaw Basin, Northwestern Arkansas and Northeastern Oklahoma, 2004-2007
Victoria G. Christensen, Rachel A. Esralew, Monica L. Allen
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5218
The Eucha-Spavinaw basin is the source of water for Lake Eucha and Spavinaw Lake, which are part of the water supply for the City of Tulsa. The City of Tulsa has received complaints of taste and odor in the finished drinking water because of deteriorating water quality. The deterioration is...
Variability in Lotic Communities in Three Contrasting Stream Environments in the Santa Ana River Basin, California, 1999-2001
Carmen A. Burton
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5217
Biotic communities and environmental conditions can be highly variable between natural ecosystems. The variability of natural assemblages should be considered in the interpretation of any ecological study when samples are either spatially or temporally distributed. Little is known about biotic variability in the Santa Ana River Basin. In this report,...
Mapping Land Use/Land Cover in the Ambos Nogales Study Area
Laura M. Norman, Cynthia S.A. Wallace
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1378
The Ambos Nogales watershed, which surrounds the twin cities of Nogales, Arizona, United States and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, has a history of problems related to flooding. This paper describes the process of creating a high-resolution, binational land-cover dataset to be used in modeling the Ambos Nogales watershed. The Automated Geospatial...
Estimated Water Use in Puerto Rico, 2005
Wanda L. Molina-Rivera, Fernando Gómez-Gómez
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1286
Water-use data were compiled for the 78 municipios of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for 2005. Five offstream categories were considered: public-supply water withdrawals and deliveries, domestic self-supplied water use, industrial self-supplied ground-water withdrawals, crop irrigation water use, and thermoelectric power freshwater use. One water-use category also was considered: power-generation...
Interpolation of Reconnaissance Multibeam and Single-Beam Bathymetry Offshore of Milford, Connecticut
L.J. Poppe, S.D. Ackerman, K.Y. McMullen, P.T. Schattgen, J.D. Schaer, E. F. Doran
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1146
This report releases echosounder data from the northern part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hydrographic survey H11044 in Long Island Sound, off Milford, Connecticut. The data have been interpolated and regridded into a complete-coverage data set and image of the sea floor. The grid produced as a...
Limestone - A Crucial and Versatile Industrial Mineral Commodity
James D. Bliss, Timothy S. Hayes, Greta J. Orris
2008, Fact Sheet 2008-3089
Limestone, as used by the minerals industry, is any rock composed mostly of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Although limestone is common in many parts of the United States, it is critically absent from some. Limestone is used to produce Portland cement, as aggregate in concrete and asphalt, and in an enormous...
Chemical data for precipitate samples
Andrea L. Foster, Randolph A. Koski
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1359-E
During studies of sulfide oxidation in coastal areas of Prince William Sound in 2005, precipitate samples were collected from onshore and intertidal locations near the Ellamar, Threeman, and Beatson mine sites (chapter A, fig. 1; table 7). The precipitates include jarosite and amorphous Fe oxyhydroxide from Ellamar, amorphous Fe oxyhydroxide...
Ground-Water Flow in the Vicinity of the Ho-Chunk Nation Communities of Indian Mission and Sand Pillow, Jackson County, Wisconsin
Charles P. Dunning, Gregory D. Mueller, Paul F. Juckem
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5121
An analytic element ground-water-flow model was constructed to help understand the ground-water-flow system in the vicinity of the Ho-Chunk Nation communities of Indian Mission and Sand Pillow in Jackson County, Wisconsin. Data from interpretive reports, well-drillers' construction reports, and an exploratory augering program in 2003 indicate that sand and gravel...
Simulated Effects of Year 2030 Water-Use and Land-Use Changes on Streamflow near the Interstate-495 Corridor, Assabet and Upper Charles River Basins, Eastern Massachusetts
Carl S. Carlson, Leslie A. DeSimone, Peter K. Weiskel
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5132
Continued population growth and land development for commercial, industrial, and residential uses have created concerns regarding the future supply of potable water and the quantity of ground water discharging to streams in the area of Interstate 495 in eastern Massachusetts. Two ground-water models developed in 2002-2004 for the Assabet and...
Occurrence, Distribution, Sources, and Trends of Elevated Chloride Concentrations in the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer in Southeastern Arkansas
Timothy M. Kresse, Brian R. Clark
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5193
Water-quality data from approximately 2,500 sites were used to investigate the distribution of chloride concentrations in the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer in southeastern Arkansas. The large volume and areal distribution of the data used for the investigation proved useful in delineating areas of elevated (greater than 100 milligrams per...
Flood plain delineation for the Fremont River and Bull Creek, Hanksville, Utah
Terry A. Kenney, Susan G. Buto
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5233
Predicted inundation maps for the Fremont River and Bull Creek in Hanksville, Utah, were developed using one-dimensional hydraulic models. Estimates of the 1-percent chance (100-year) peak streamflows were determined for the Fremont River and Bull Creek study reaches by using annual peak series data from streamflow-gaging stations and regional peak-flow...
Methods for estimating monthly and annual streamflow statistics at ungaged sites in Utah
Chris D. Wilkowske, Terry A. Kenney, Shane J. Wright
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5230
The monthly 80-, 50-, and 20-percent exceedance streamflows were calculated for 266 streamflow-gaging stations in Utah and the surrounding states. Using geographic information systems software, 24 physiographic and climatic basin characteristics were computed for each gaging station location. Using these data, regional regression equations were created to predict monthly 80-,...
Status of the Island Night Lizard and Two Non-Native Lizards on Outlying Landing Field San Nicolas Island, California
Gary M. Fellers, Charles A. Drost, Thomas G. Murphey
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1371
More than 900 individually marked island night lizards (Xantusia riversiana) were captured on San Nicolas Island, California, between 1984 and 2007 as part of an ongoing study to monitor the status of this threatened species. Our data suggest that at least a few lizards are probably more than 20 years...
Methods and Indicators for Assessment of Regional Ground-Water Conditions in the Southwestern United States
Fred D. Tillman, Stanley A. Leake, Marilyn E. Flynn, Jeffrey T. Cordova, Kurt T. Schonauer, Jesse E. Dickinson
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5209
Monitoring the status and trends in the availability of the Nation's ground-water supplies is important to scientists, planners, water managers, and the general public. This is especially true in the semiarid to arid southwestern United States where rapid population growth and limited surface-water resources have led to increased use of...
Use of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to Obtain High-Resolution Elevation Data for Sussex County, Delaware
Roger A. Barlow, Mark R. Nardi, Betzaida Reyes
2008, Fact Sheet 2008-3088
Sussex County, Delaware, occupies a 938-square-mile area of low relief near sea level in the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The county is bounded on the east by the Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, including a barrier-island system, and inland bays that provide habitat for valuable living resources. Eastern Sussex County...
Evaluation of Terrestrial LIDAR for Monitoring Geomorphic Change at Archeological Sites in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Brian D. Collins, Kristin M. Brown, Helen C. Fairley
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1384
This report presents the results of an evaluation of terrestrial light detection and ranging (LIDAR) for monitoring geomorphic change at archeological sites located within Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. Traditionally, topographic change-detection studies have used total station methods for the collection of data related to key measurable features of site...
Assessment of the Mowry Shale and Niobrara Formation as Continuous Hydrocarbon Systems, Powder River Basin, Montana and Wyoming
Lawrence O. Anna, Troy A. Cook
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1367
A recent U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) oil and gas assessment of the Powder River Basin , Wyoming and Montana, identified the Upper Cretaceous Mowry Shale and Niobrara Formation as the primary hydrocarbon sources for Cretaceous conventional and unconventional reservoirs. Cumulative Mowry-sourced petroleum production is about 1.2 BBO (billion barrels of...
Thermal Maturity Patterns (CAI and %Ro) in Upper Ordovician and Devonian Rocks of the Appalachian Basin: A Major Revision of USGS Map I-917-E Using New Subsurface Collections
John E. Repetski, Robert T. Ryder, David J. Weary, Anita G. Harris, Michael H. Trippi
2008, Scientific Investigations Map 3006
The conodont color alteration index (CAI) introduced by Epstein and others (1977) and Harris and others (1978) is an important criterion for estimating the thermal maturity of Ordovician to Mississippian rocks in the Appalachian basin. Consequently, the CAI isograd maps of Harris and others (1978) are commonly used by geologists...
Ground-water, surface-water, and water-chemistry data, Black Mesa area, northeastern Arizona— 2006-07
Margot Truini, J. P. Macy
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1324
The N aquifer is the major source of water in the 5,400 square-mile Black Mesa area in northeastern Arizona. Availability of water is an important issue in northeastern Arizona because of continued water requirements for industrial and municipal use and the needs of a growing population. Precipitation in the Black...
Evaluation of floodplain modifications to reduce the effect of floods using a two-dimensional hydrodynamic model of the Flint River at Albany, Georgia
Jonathan W. Musser
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5223
Potential flow characteristics of future flooding along a 4.8-mile reach of the Flint River in Albany, Georgia, were simulated using recent digital-elevation-model data and the U.S. Geological Survey finite-element surface-water modeling system for two-dimensional flow in the horizontal plane (FESWMS-2DH). The model was run at four water-surface altitudes at the...
Davis Pond freshwater prediversion biomonitoring study: freshwater fisheries and eagles
Jill A. Jenkins, E. Beth Bourgeois, Clint W. Jeske
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5067
In January 2001, the construction of the Davis Pond freshwater diversion structure was completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The diversion of freshwater from the Mississippi River is intended to mitigate saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico and to lessen the concomitant loss of wetland areas. In...
Monitoring Inland Storm Surge and Flooding From Hurricane Gustav in Louisiana, September 2008
Benton D. McGee, Burl B. Goree, Roland W. Tollett, Mason Jr.
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1373
On August 29-31, 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) deployed a mobile monitoring network consisting of 124 pressure transducers (sensors) (figs. 1, 2) at 80 sites over an area of about 4,200 square miles to record the timing, extent, and magnitude of inland hurricane storm surge and coastal flooding generated...
Biological communities and geomorphology of patch reefs in Biscayne National Park, Florida, U.S.A.
Ilsa B. Kuffner, John Brock, Rikki Grober-Dunsmore, T. Don Hickey, Victor Bonito, Jeremy E. Bracone, C. Wayne Wright
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1330
Coral reef ecosystem management benefits from continual, quantitative assessment of the resources being managed, plus assessment of factors that affect distribution patterns of organisms in the ecosystem. In this study, we investigated the relationships among physical, benthic, and fish variables in effort to help explain the distribution patterns of ecologically...
Alkylphenols, other endocrine-active chemicals, and fish responses in three streams in Minnesota — Study design and data, February-September 2007
Kathy Lee, Heiko L. Schoenfuss, Nathan D. Jahns, Greg K. Brown, Larry B. Barber
2008, Data Series 405
This report presents the study design and environmental data for an integrated chemical and biological study of three streams (South Fork Crow River, Redwood River, and Grindstone River) that receive wastewater in Minnesota. The objective of the study was to identify distribution patterns of endocrine-active chemicals and other organic chemicals...
