Simulation of the shallow ground-water-flow system near Grindstone Creek and the community of New Post, Sawyer County, Wisconsin
Paul F. Juckem, Randall J. Hunt
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5014
A two-dimensional, steady-state ground-water-flow model of Grindstone Creek, the New Post community, and the surrounding areas was developed using the analytic element computer code GFLOW. The parameter estimation code UCODE was used to obtain a best fit of the model to measured water levels and streamflows. The calibrated model was...
National assessment of shoreline change, part 4: Historical coastal cliff retreat along the California coast
Cheryl J. Hapke, David Reid
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1133
Coastal cliff retreat, the landward migration of the cliff face, is a chronic problem along many rocky coastlines in the United States. As coastal populations continue to grow and community infrastructures are threatened by erosion, there is increased demand for accurate information regarding trends and rates of coastal cliff retreat....
The National Assessment of Shoreline Change: A GIS compilation of vector cliff edges and associated cliff erosion data for the California coast
Cheryl Hapke, David Reid, Mark Borrelli
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1112
The U.S. Geological Survey has generated a comprehensive data clearinghouse of digital vector cliff edges and associated rates of cliff retreat along the open-ocean California coast. These data, which are presented herein, were compiled as part of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project. Cliff erosion is a...
Scoping of Flood Hazard Mapping Needs for Androscoggin County, Maine
Charles W. Schalk, Robert W. Dudley
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1131
Background The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) developed a plan in 1997 to modernize the FEMA flood mapping program. FEMA flood maps delineate flood hazard areas in support of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). FEMA's plan outlined the steps necessary to update FEMA's flood maps for the nation to a...
Scoping of Flood Hazard Mapping Needs for Lincoln County, Maine
Charles W. Schalk, Robert W. Dudley
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1130
Background The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) developed a plan in 1997 to modernize the FEMA flood mapping program. FEMA flood maps delineate flood hazard areas in support of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). FEMA's plan outlined the steps necessary to update FEMA's flood maps for the nation to a...
Scoping of Flood Hazard Mapping Needs for Penobscot County, Maine
Charles W. Schalk, Robert W. Dudley
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1129
Background The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) developed a plan in 1997 to modernize the FEMA flood mapping program. FEMA flood maps delineate flood hazard areas in support of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). FEMA's plan outlined the steps necessary to update FEMA's flood maps for the nation to a...
Rotational Seismology Workshop of February 2006
John R. Evans, A. Cochard, Vladimir Graizer, Bor-Shouh Huang, Kenneth W. Hudnut, Charles R. Hutt, H. Igel, William H.K. Lee, Chun-Chi Liu, Eugeniusz Majewski, Robert Nigbor, Erdal Safak, William U. Savage, U. Schreiber, Roman Teisseyre, Mihailo Trifunac, J. Wassermann, Chien-Fu Wu
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1145
Introduction A successful workshop titled 'Measuring the Rotation Effects of Strong Ground Motion' was held simultaneously in Menlo Park and Pasadena via video conference on 16 February 2006. The purpose of the Workshop and this Report are to summarize existing data and theory and to explore future challenges for rotational seismology,...
Hydrogeology of the Piney Point-Nanjemoy, Aquia, and Upper Patapsco aquifers, Naval Air Station Patuxent River and Webster Outlying Field, St. Marys County, Maryland, 2000–06
Cheryl A. Klohe, Robert T. Kay
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5266
Recent and projected population growth in southern Maryland continues to bring ground-water-quality and quantity issues to the forefront. Lithologic, borehole geophysical, water-level, and water-use data were compiled and interpreted to revise understanding of the hydrogeologic framework of the Piney Point-Nanjemoy, Aquia, and Upper Patapsco aquifers in southern Maryland, with emphasis...
U.S. Geological Survey Streamgaging...from the National Streamflow Information Program
Scott A. Olson, J. Michael Norris
2007, Fact Sheet 2005-3131
This Fact Sheet is one in a series that highlights information or recent research findings from the USGS National Streamflow Information Program (NSIP). The investigations and scientific results reported in this series require a nationally consistent streamgaging network with stable long-term monitoring sites and a rigorous program of data, quality...
Mercury at the Oat Hill Extension Mine and James Creek, Napa County, California: Tailings, sediment, water, and biota, 2003-2004
Aaron J. Slowey, James J. Rytuba, Roger L. Hothem, Jason T. May
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1132
The Oat Hill Extension (OHE) Mine is one of several mercury mines located in the James Creek/Pope Creek watershed that produced mercury from the 1870's until 1944 (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1965). The OHE Mine developed veins and mineralized fault zones hosted in sandstone that extended eastward from the Oat...
Factors Affecting Spatial and Temporal Variability in Nutrient and Pesticide Concentrations in the Surficial Aquifer on the Delmarva Peninsula
Linda M. Debrewer, Scott W. Ator, Judith M. Denver
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5257
Water quality in the unconfined, unconsolidated surficial aquifer on the Delmarva Peninsula is influenced by the availability of soluble ions from natural and human sources, and by geochemical factors that affect the mobility and fate of these ions within the aquifer. Ground-water samples were collected from 60 wells completed in...
Reconnaissance study of the hydrology of American Memorial Park, Island of Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Jeff A. Perreault
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5042
American Memorial Park, a unit of the National Park Service on the Island of Saipan, includes among its features a 27-acre estuarine system that has become a rarity within the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The estuarine system's mosaic of marshy areas interspersed with emergent wetlands and mixed wet...
Topobathymetric data for Tampa Bay, Florida
Dean J. Tyler, David G. Zawada, A. Nayegandi, John Brock, M.P. Crane, Kimberly K. Yates, Kathryn E. L. Smith
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1051
Topobathymetric data (“topobathy”) are a merged rendering of both topography (land elevation) and bathymetry (water depth) to provide a single product useful for inundation mapping and a variety of other applications. These data were developed using one topographic and two bathymetric datasets collected at different dates. Topography was obtained from...
Major Crustal Fault Zone Trends and Their Relation to Mineral Belts in the North-Central Great Basin, Nevada
Brian D. Rodriguez, Jay A. Sampson, Jackie M. Williams
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1115
The Great Basin physiographic province covers a large part of the western United States and contains one of the world's leading gold-producing areas, the Carlin Trend. In the Great Basin, many sedimentary-rock-hosted disseminated gold deposits occur along such linear mineral-occurrence trends. The distribution and genesis of these deposits is not...
Aquatic Communities and Selected Water Chemistry in St. Vrain Creek near the City of Longmont, Colorado, Wastewater-Treatment Plant, 2005 and 2006
Robert E. Zuellig, Lori A. Sprague, Jim A. Collins, Oliver N. Cox
2007, Data Series 253
In 2005, the U.S. Geological Survey and the City of Longmont, Colo., began a study to document chemical characteristics of St. Vrain Creek that had previously been unavailable either due to high cost of analysis or lack of analytical capability. Stream samples were collected at seven sites on St. Vrain...
Coastal Prairie Restoration Information System: Version 1 (Louisiana)
Larry Allain
2007, Data Series 256
The Coastal Prairie Restoration Information System (CPR) is a Microsoft Access database that allows users to query and view data about Louisiana coastal prairie species. Less than 0.1% of Louisiana's coastal prairie vegetation remains in a relatively undisturbed condition. Encompassing as much as 1 million hectares of land, coastal prairie...
Effect of Drought on Streamflow and Stream-Water Quality in Colorado, July through September 2002
Daniel T. Chafin, A. Douglas Druliner
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5322
During 2002, Colorado experienced the State's worst drought since 1977. In 2003, the U.S. Geological Survey entered into cooperative agreement with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to evaluate the general effects of drought on the water quality of streams in Colorado during summer 2002 by analyzing a...
Summary and trend analysis of water-quality data for the Oakes Test Area, southeastern North Dakota, 1984-2004
Karen R. Ryberg
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5056
The Oakes Test Area is operated and maintained by the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District, under a cooperative agreement with the Bureau of Reclamation, to evaluate the effectiveness and environmental consequences of irrigation. As part of the evaluation, the Bureau of Reclamation collected water-quality samples from seven sites on the James...
Hydrogeologic Framework and Ground-Water Budget of the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer, Spokane County, Washington, and Bonner and Kootenai Counties, Idaho
Sue C. Kahle, James R. Bartolino
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5041
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Idaho Department of Water Resources and Washington State Department of Ecology, investigated the hydrogeologic framework and ground-water budget of the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie (SVRP) aquifer located in northern Idaho and northeastern Washington. Descriptions of the hydrogeologic framework, water-budget components, and further data...
Ground-Water Flow Model for the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer, Spokane County, Washington, and Bonner and Kootenai Counties, Idaho
Paul A. Hsieh, Michael E. Barber, Bryce A. Contor, Akram Hossain, Gary S. Johnson, Joseph L. Jones, Allan H. Wylie
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5044
This report presents a computer model of ground-water flow in the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie (SVRP) aquifer in Spokane County, Washington, and Bonner and Kootenai Counties, Idaho. The aquifer is the sole source of drinking water for more than 500,000 residents in the area. In response to the concerns about the...
Major- and Trace-Element Concentrations in Rock Samples from the Sleetmute 1:250,000-Scale Quadrangle, Alaska
Edward P. Klimasauskas, Marti L. Miller, William J. Keith
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1126
This report consists of geochemical data for rock samples collected in the Sleetmute 1:250,000-scale quadrangle by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1993 and 1999. Data were primarily used to conduct a mineral resource assessment of this quadrangle. The analytical results are presented here as digital tabular data with no interpretation....
Mineralogy from Cores in Prospect Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado
Dana J. Bove, Raymond H. Johnson, Douglas B. Yager
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1095
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....
Use of borehole-radar methods to monitor a steam-enhanced remediation pilot study at a quarry at the former Loring Air Force Base, Maine
Colette Gregoire, Peter K. Joesten, John W. Lane Jr.
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5191
Single-hole radar reflection and crosshole radar tomography surveys were used in conjunction with conventional borehole-geophysical methods to evaluate the effectiveness of borehole-radar methods for monitoring the movement of steam and heat through fractured bedrock. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), conducted surveys in an...
Application of FTLOADDS to Simulate Flow, Salinity, and Surface-Water Stage in the Southern Everglades, Florida
John D. Wang, Eric D. Swain, Melinda A. Wolfert, Christian D. Langevin, Dawn E. James, Pamela A. Telis
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5010
The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan requires numerical modeling to achieve a sufficient understanding of coastal freshwater flows, nutrient sources, and the evaluation of management alternatives to restore the ecosystem of southern Florida. Numerical models include a regional water-management model to represent restoration changes to the hydrology of southern Florida and...
Map and Database of Probable and Possible Quaternary Faults in Afghanistan
C.A. Ruleman, A. J. Crone, M. N. Machette, K. M. Haller, K.S. Rukstales
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1103
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) mission in Afghanistan, has prepared a digital map showing the distribution of probable and suspected Quaternary faults in Afghanistan. This map is a key component of a broader effort to assess and map the country's...
