Watershed Effects on Streamflow Quantity and Quality in Six Watersheds of Gwinnett County, Georgia
Mark N. Landers, Paul D. Ankcorn, Keith W. McFadden
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5132
Watershed management is critical for the protection and enhancement of streams that provide multiple benefits for Gwinnett County, Georgia, and downstream communities. Successful watershed management requires an understanding of how stream quality is affected by watershed characteristics. The influence of watershed characteristics on stream quality is complex, particularly for the...
Water-Quality Characteristics for Sites in the Tongue, Powder, Cheyenne, and Belle Fourche River Drainage Basins, Wyoming and Montana, Water Years 2001-05, with Temporal Patterns of Selected Long-Term Water-Quality Data
Melanie L. Clark, Jon P. Mason
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5146
Water-quality sampling was conducted regularly at stream sites within or near the Powder River structural basin in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana during water years 2001-05 (October 1, 2000, to September 30, 2005) to characterize water quality in an area of coalbed natural gas development. The U.S. Geological Survey, in...
Selected water-quality data for the Standard Mine, Gunnison County, Colorado, 2006-2007
Philip L. Verplanck, Andrew H. Manning, M. Alisa Mast, Richard B. Wanty, R. Blaine McCleskey, Todor I. Todorov, Monique Adams
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1241
Mine drainage and underground water samples were collected for analysis of inorganic solutes as part of a 1-year, hydrogeologic investigation of the Standard Mine and vicinity. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has listed the Standard Mine in the Elk Creek drainage near Crested Butte, Colorado, as a Superfund Site because...
Ecological Status of Wyoming Streams, 2000-2003
David A. Peterson, Eric G. Hargett, Peter R. Wright, Jeremy R. Zumberge
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5130
The ecological status of perennial streams in Wyoming was determined and compared with the status of perennial streams throughout 12 States in the western United States, using data collected as part of the Western Pilot Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP-West). Results for Wyoming are compared and contrasted in the...
Three-Dimensional Geologic Framework Model for a Karst Aquifer System, Hasty and Western Grove Quadrangles, Northern Arkansas
Kenzie J. Turner, Mark R. Hudson, Kyle E. Murray, David N. Mott
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5095
Understanding ground-water flow in a karst aquifer benefits from a detailed conception of the three-dimensional (3D) geologic framework. Traditional two-dimensional products, such as geologic maps, cross-sections, and structure contour maps, convey a mental picture of the area but a stronger conceptualization can be achieved by constructing a digital 3D representation...
Quantifying the benthic source of nutrients to the water column of Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon
James S. Kuwabara, Dennis D. Lynch, Brent R. Topping, Fred Murphy, James L. Carter, Nancy S. Simon, Francis Parcheso, Tamara M. Wood, Mary K. Lindenberg, Katryn Wiese, Ronald J. Avanzino
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1276
Executive Summary Five sampling trips were coordinated in April, May and August 2006, and May and July 2007 to sample the water column and benthos of Upper Klamath Lake, OR (Fig. 1; Table 1), before, during and after the annual cyanophyte bloom of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (AFA). A pore-water profiler was designed...
Results of the Level-1 Water-Quality Inventory at the Pinnacles National Monument, June 2006
James W. Borchers, Michael S. Lyttge
2007, Data Series 283
To help define baseline water quality of key water resources at Pinnacles National Monument, California, the U.S. Geological Survey collected and analyzed ground water from seven springs sampled during June 2006. During the dry season, seeps and springs are the primary source of water for wildlife in the monument and...
Influence of Locally Derived Recharge on the Water Quality and Temperature of Springs in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas
Richard W. Bell, Phillip D. Hays
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5004
The hot springs of Hot Springs National Park consist of a mixture of water from two recharge components: a primary hot-water component and a secondary cold-water component. Widespread distribution of fractures enables mixing of the hot- and cold-water components of flow near the discharge area for the springs. Urbanization in...
Development of relations of stream stage to channel geometry and discharge for stream segments simulated with Hydrologic Simulation Program-Fortran (HSPF), Chesapeake Bay Watershed and adjacent parts of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware
Douglas Moyer, Mark Bennett
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5135
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP), Interstate Commission for the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB), Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (VADCR), and University of Maryland (UMD) are collaborating to improve the resolution of the Chesapeake Bay...
A Comparison of Natural and Urban Characteristics and the Development of Urban Intensity Indices Across Six Geographic Settings
James A. Falcone, Jana Stewart, Steven Sobieszczyk, Jean Dupree, Gerard McMahon, Gary Buell
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5123
As part of the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program, the effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems have been intensively investigated in six metropolitan areas in the United States. Approximately 30 watersheds in each area, ranging in size from 4 to 560 square kilometers (median is 50 square kilometers),...
Kentucky Public Water-Supply Withdrawals During 1995, 2000, and 2005
Aimee C. Downs, William E. Caldwell
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1209
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Kentucky Division of Water, has compiled the reported permitted public water-supply-withdrawal data for Kentucky for 2005. Water-withdrawal data for 1995 and 2000 were previously published in Solley and others (1998) and Hutson and others (2004), respectively. This report is a graphical representation...
Preliminary physical stratigraphy and geophysical data of the USGS Hope Plantation core (BE-110), Bertie County, North Carolina
Robert E. Weems, Ellen Seefelt, Beth M. Wrege, Jean M. Self-Trail, David C. Prowell, Colleen Durand, Eugene F. Cobbs III, Kevin C. McKinney
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1251
In March and April, 2004, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the North Carolina Geological Survey (NCGS) and the Raleigh Water Resources Discipline (WRD), drilled a stratigraphic test hole and well in Bertie County, North Carolina (fig. 1). The Hope Plantation test hole (BE-110-2004) was cored on the...
Remotely Sensed Data Collections: Offerings from EROS
U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3082
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) maintains a wide variety of remotely sensed data collections that contain a wealth of information about the Earth’s land surfaces. Acquired by special sensors carried aboard civilian satellites and aircraft, the images and other data in these...
Chapter 7 Magmatic-hydrothermal fluid interaction and mineralization in alkali-syenite nodules from the Breccia Museo pyroclastic deposit, Naples, Italy
Luca Fedele, Maurizio Tarzia, Harvey E. Belkin, Benedetto De Vivo, Annamaria Lima, Jacob Lowenstern
2007, Book chapter, Volcanism in the Campania Plain — Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Ignimbrites
The Breccia Museo, a pyroclastic flow that crops out in the Campi Flegrei volcanic complex (Naples, Italy), contains alkali-syenite (trachyte) nodules with enrichment in Cl and incompatible elements (e.g., U, Zr, Th, and rare-earth elements). Zircon was dated at ≈52 ka, by U-Th isotope systematics using a SHRIMP. Scanning electron...
Sockeye salmon evolution, ecology, and management
Carol Ann Woody
2007, Scitech Book News (31)
This collection of articles and photographs gives managers a good idea of recent research into what the sockeye salmon is and does, covering such topics as the vulnerability and value of sockeye salmon ecotypes, their homing ability, using new technologies to monitor reproduction, DNA and a founder event in the...
Digital Data From the Taos West Aeromagnetic Survey in Taos County, New Mexico
Viki Bankey, V. J. S. Grauch, B. J. Drenth, EDCON-PRJ Inc.
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1248
This report contains digital data, image files, and text files describing data formats and survey procedures for aeromagnetic data collected during a survey covering the southwestern portion of Taos County west of the Town of Taos, New Mexico, in October, 2006. Several derivative products from these data are also presented as...
Description and User Manual for a Web-Based Interface to a Transit-Loss Accounting Program for Monument and Fountain Creeks, El Paso and Pueblo Counties, Colorado
Gerhard Kuhn, Gary S. Krammes, Vivian J. Beal
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5028
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Colorado Springs Utilities, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, and the El Paso County Water Authority, began a study in 2004 with the following objectives: (1) Apply a stream-aquifer model to Monument Creek, (2) use the results of the modeling to develop a transit-loss...
Surficial Geologic Map of the Ashby-Lowell-Sterling-Billerica 11-Quadrangle Area in Northeast-Central Massachusetts
Byron D. Stone, Janet Radway Stone
2007, Open-File Report 2006-1260-C
The surficial geologic map shows the distribution of nonlithified earth materials at land surface in an area of eleven 7.5-minute quadrangles (total 505 mi2) in northeast-central Massachusetts. The geologic map differentiates surficial materials of Quaternary age on the basis of their lithologic characteristics (such as grain size and sedimentary structures),...
Cartography for lunar exploration: Current status and planned missions
Randolph L. Kirk, Brent A. Archinal, Lisa R. Gaddis, Mark R. Rosiek
2007, Conference Paper, Proceedings: XXIII International Cartographic Conference
The initial spacecraft exploration of the Moon in the 1960s–70s yielded extensive data, primarily in the form of film and television images, that were used to produce a large number of hardcopy maps by conventional techniques. A second era of exploration, beginning in the early 1990s, has produced digital data...
Escherichia coli Concentrations in the Mill Creek Watershed, Cleveland, Ohio, 2001-2004
Amie M. G. Brady
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1171
Mill Creek in Cleveland, Ohio, receives discharges from combined-sewer overflows (CSOs) and other sanitary-sewage inputs. These discharges affect the water quality of the creek and that of its receiving stream, the Cuyahoga River. In an effort to mitigate this problem, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District implemented a project to...
Methods for estimating magnitude and frequency of peak flows for natural streams in Utah
Terry A. Kenney, Chris D. Wilkowske, Shane J. Wright
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5158
Estimates of the magnitude and frequency of peak streamflows is critical for the safe and cost-effective design of hydraulic structures and stream crossings, and accurate delineation of flood plains. Engineers, planners, resource managers, and scientists need accurate estimates of peak-flow return frequencies for locations on streams with and without streamflow-gaging...
Protocol for Landsat-Based Monitoring of Landscape Dynamics at North Coast and Cascades Network Parks
Robert E. Kennedy, Warren B. Cohen, Alan A. Kirschbaum, Erik Haunreiter
2007, Techniques and Methods 2-G1
Background and Objectives As part of the National Park Service's larger goal of developing long-term monitoring programs in response to the Natural Resource Challenge of 2000, the parks of the North Coast and Cascades Network (NCCN) have determined that monitoring of landscape dynamics is necessary to track ecosystem health (Weber and...
Results of chemical analyses of soil, shale, and soil/shale extract from the Mancos Shale formation in the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area, southwestern Colorado, and at Hanksville, Utah
Michele L.W. Tuttle, Juli Fahy, Richard I. Grauch, Bridget A. Ball, Geneva W. Chong, John G. Elliott, John J. Kosovich, Keith E. Livo, Lisa L. Stillings
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1002-D
Results of chemical and some isotopic analyses of soil, shale, and water extracts collected from the surface, trenches, and pits in the Mancos Shale are presented in this report. Most data are for sites on the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area (GGNCA) in southwestern Colorado. For comparison, data from a...
Hydrogeologic investigation, water chemistry analysis, and model delineation of contributing areas for City of Tallahassee public-supply wells, Tallahassee, Florida
J. Hal Davis, Brian G. Katz
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5070
Ground water from the Upper Floridan aquifer is the sole source of water supply for Tallahassee, Florida, and the surrounding area. The City of Tallahassee (the City) currently operates 28 water-supply wells; 26 wells are distributed throughout the City and 2 are located in Woodville, Florida. Most of these wells...
Sidescan-sonar imagery, multibeam bathymetry, and surficial geologic interpretations of the sea floor in Rhode Island Sound, off Sakonnet Point, Rhode Island
Katherine Y. McMullen, Lawrence J. Poppe, Erin R. Twomey, William W. Danforth, Todd A. Haupt, James M. Crocker
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1150
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to interpret the surficial geology in estuaries and sounds along the northeastern coast of the United States. This report interprets the area covered by NOAA Survey H11320, about 72 km² of sea floor in eastern...
