Ground- and surface-water chemistry of Handcart Gulch, Park County, Colorado, 2003-2006
Philip L. Verplanck, Andrew H. Manning, Briant A. Kimball, R. Blaine McCleskey, Robert L. Runkel, Jonathan S. Caine, Monique Adams, Pamela A. Gemery-Hill, David L. Fey
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1020
As part of a multidisciplinary project to determine the processes that control ground-water chemistry and flow in mineralized alpine environments, ground- and surface-water samples from Handcart Gulch, Colorado were collected for analysis of inorganic solutes and water and dissolved sulfate stable isotopes in selected samples. The primary aim of this...
Occurrence of organic compounds and trace elements in the upper Passaic and Elizabeth Rivers and their tributaries in New Jersey, July 2003 to February 2004: Phase II of the New Jersey toxics reduction workplan for New York-New Jersey Harbor
Timothy P. Wilson, Jennifer L. Bonin
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5136
Samples of surface water and suspended sediment were collected from the Passaic and Elizabeth Rivers and their tributaries in New Jersey from July 2003 to February 2004 to determine the concentrations of selected chlorinated organic and inorganic constituents. This sampling and analysis was conducted as Phase II of the New...
Application of Geographic Information System Methods to Identify Areas Yielding Water that will be Replaced by Water from the Colorado River in the Vidal and Chemehuevi Areas, California, and the Mohave Mesa Area, Arizona
Lawrence E. Spangler, Cory E. Angeroth, Sarah J. Walton
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5284
Relations between the elevation of the static water level in wells and the elevation of the accounting surface within the Colorado River aquifer in the vicinity of Vidal, California, the Chemehuevi Indian Reservation, California, and on Mohave Mesa, Arizona, were used to determine which wells outside the flood plain of...
Potentiometric Surfaces in the Springfield Plateau and Ozark Aquifers of Northwestern Arkansas, Southeastern Kansas, Southwestern Missouri, and Northeastern Oklahoma, 2006
Jonathan A. Gillip, John B. Czarnecki, Douglas N. Mugel
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5253
The Springfield Plateau and Ozark aquifers are important sources of ground water in the Ozark Plateaus aquifer system. Water from these aquifers is used for agricultural, domestic, industrial, and municipal water sources. Changing water use over time in these aquifers presents a need for updated potentiometric-surface maps of the Springfield...
Fecal-indicator bacteria and Escherichia coli pathogen data collected near a novel sub-irrigation water-treatment system in Lenawee County, Michigan, June-November 2007
Joseph W. Duris, Stephanie Beeler
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1025
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Lenawee County Conservation District in Lenawee County, Mich., conducted a sampling effort over a single growing season (June to November 2007) to evaluate the microbiological water quality around a novel livestock reservoir wetland sub-irrigation system. Samples were collected and analyzed for...
Bottom-Sediment Accumulation and Quality in Shawnee Mission Lake, Johnson County, Kansas, 2006
Casey J. Lee, Kyle E. Juracek, Christopher C. Fuller
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5274
Shawnee Mission Lake is an artificial impoundment central to Shawnee Mission Park, the largest public park in Johnson County, Kansas. The Shawnee Mission Lake watershed has remained relatively undeveloped since the completion of the dam in 1962. However, recent (1990?2006) urban development has been a cause for concern regarding the...
Facing Tomorrow's Challenges - An Overview
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2008, Fact Sheet 2008-3008
In 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) developed a science strategy outlining the major natural-science issues facing the Nation in the next decade. The science strategy consists of six science directions of critical importance, focusing on areas where natural science can make a substantial contribution to the well-being of the...
Taming of a wild research well in Yellowstone National Park during November 1992
Robert O. Fournier, Michael M. Moore
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1014
Much of our current understanding of Yellowstone's geothermal areas comes from research drilling by the USGS during 1967 and 1968. Thirteen wells were drilled in thermal areas around the park. Scientists collected waters and rocks, measured temperatures and pressures and performed other tests to characterize the shallow subsurface at Yellowstone. Most...
Recovery of Ground-Water Levels From 1988 to 2003 and Analysis of Potential Water-Supply Management Options in Critical Area 1, East-Central New Jersey
Frederick J. Spitz, Martha K. Watt, Vincent T. dePaul
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5193
Water levels in four confined aquifers in the New Jersey Coastal Plain within Water Supply Critical Area 1 have recovered as a result of reductions in ground-water withdrawals initiated by the State in the late 1980s. The aquifers are the Wenonah-Mount Laurel, the Upper and Middle Potomac-Raritan-Magothy, and Englishtown aquifer...
Can we dismiss the effect of changes in land‐based water storage on sea‐level rise?
Thomas G. Huntington
2008, Hydrological Processes (22) 717-723
The rate of global mean sea-level rise (SLR) during the 20th century is estimated to be 1.7 mm yr−1 ±0.3 yr−1 (Church and White, 2006). SLR during the 20th century was a result of thermal expansion of the oceans and the release of water from terrestrial storage reservoirs (Bindoff et al., 2007)....
Principal hydrologic responses to climatic and geologic variability in the Sierra Nevada, California
David H. Peterson, Iris Stewart, Fred Murphy
2008, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 1-21
Sierra Nevada snowpack is a critical water source for California’s growing population and agricultural industry. However, because mountain winters and springs are warming, on average, precipitation as snowfall relative to rain is decreasing, and snowmelt is earlier. The changes are stronger at mid-elevations than at higher elevations. The result is...
Modeling landscape evapotranspiration by integrating land surface phenology and a water balance algorithm
Gabriel B. Senay
2008, Algorithms (1) 52-68
The main objective of this study is to present an improved modeling technique called Vegetation ET (VegET) that integrates commonly used water balance algorithms with remotely sensed Land Surface Phenology (LSP) parameter to conduct operational vegetation water balance modeling of rainfed systems at the LSP’s spatial scale using readily available...
Ground-water quality data in the Southern Sacramento Valley, California, 2005 — Results from the California GAMA Program
Barbara J. Milby Dawson, George L. Bennett V, Kenneth Belitz
2008, Data Series 285
Ground-water quality in the approximately 2,100 square-mile Southern Sacramento Valley study unit (SSACV) was investigated from March to June 2005 as part of the Statewide Basin Assessment Project of Ground-Water Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program. This study was designed to provide a spatially unbiased assessment of raw ground-water...
Abundance Trends and Status of the Little Colorado River Population of Humpback Chub: An Update Considering 1989-2006 Data
Coggins Jr.
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1402
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 1967, the humpback chub (Gila cypha) (HBC) was added to the federal list of endangered species and is today protected under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Only six populations of humpback chub are currently known to exist, five in the Colorado River Basin above Lees Ferry, Arizona,...
A modified siphon sampler for shallow water
Timothy H. Diehl
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5282
A modified siphon sampler (or 'single-stage sampler') was developed to sample shallow water at closely spaced vertical intervals. The modified design uses horizontal rather than vertical sample bottles. Previous siphon samplers are limited to water about 20 centimeters (cm) or more in depth; the modified design can sample water 10...
Assessment of Water-Quality Conditions in Fivemile Creek in the Vicinity of the Fivemile Creek Greenway, Jefferson County, Alabama, 2003-2005
Amy C. Gill, John A. Robinson, Jymalyn E. Redmond, Mike Bradley
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5272
The watershed of Fivemile Creek (FMC), a tributary to the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River, is located north of Birmingham, Alabama. Areas that have been previously coal-mined border the creek, and portions of the upper watershed have been and are currently (2007) being used for industrial and urban...
National Land Cover Database 2001 (NLCD01) Tile 2, Northeast United States: NLCD01_2
Andrew LaMotte
2008, Data Series 383-B
This 30-meter data set represents land use and land cover for the conterminous United States for the 2001 time period. The data have been arranged into four tiles to facilitate timely display and manipulation within a Geographic Information System (see http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/browse/nlcd01-partition.jpg). The National Land Cover Data Set for 2001 was...
National Land Cover Database 2001 (NLCD01) Tile 1, Northwest United States: NLCD01_1
Andrew LaMotte
2008, Data Series 383-A
This 30-meter data set represents land use and land cover for the conterminous United States for the 2001 time period. The data have been arranged into four tiles to facilitate timely display and manipulation within a Geographic Information System (see http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/browse/nlcd01-partition.jpg). The National Land Cover Data Set for 2001 was...
ET–The key to balancing the water budget in the Southwest
Michael T. Moreo, Nancy A. Damar, Randell J. Laczniak
2008, Southwest Hydrology (7) 28-33
Throughout the Southwest, state and federal water-resource managers are becoming increasingly concerned about the impacts of future groundwater development on the region’s limited water resources, environmentally sensitive ecosystems, and rural lifestyle. To address their concerns, scientists and engineers are deploying physically based mathematical models to assess and predict the potential...
Post-Wildfire Hydrologic Hazards in the Wildland Urban Interface of Colorado and the Western United States
M. R. Stevens, C. R. Bossong, M.G. Rupert, A.J. Ranalli, E.W. Cassidy, A.D. Druliner
2008, Fact Sheet 2007-3036
Following a wildfire, such as the 2002 Missionary Ridge fire, a number of hydrologic hazards may develop that can have an important impact on water resources, businesses, homes, reservoirs, roads, and utilities in the wildland urban interface (areas where homes and commercial developments are interspersed with wildlands) in mountainous areas...
Water-Quality Data Collected from Vallecito Reservoir, Its Inflows and Outflow, Southwestern Colorado, 1999-2002
Anthony J. Ranalli
2008, Data Series 305
The Pine River Watershed Stakeholders Group was created in December 1997 to allow local participation in addressing water-quality issues in Los Pi?os River watershed, including Vallecito Reservoir in southwestern Colorado. One water-quality issue identified by the stakeholder group is to increase the understanding of the current water quality of Vallecito...
Magnetotelluric Data, San Luis Valley, Colorado
Brian D. Rodriguez, Jackie M. Williams
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1405
The San Luis Valley region population is growing. Water shortfalls could have serious consequences. Future growth and land management in the region depend on accurate assessment and protection of the region?s ground-water resources. An important issue in managing the ground-water resources is a better understanding of the hydrogeology of the...
Historical and hypothetical future sedimentation and water storage in Kajakai Reservoir, central Afghanistan
Kevin C. Vining, Aldo V. Vecchia
2008, Fact Sheet 2008-3002
Sedimentation has reduced water storage in Kajakai Reservoir. If current sedimentation rates continue, hypothetical future reservoir water volumes at the spillway elevation of 1,033.5 meters could be reduced about 22 percent from 2006 to 2057. Even if the spillway elevation is raised to 1,045 meters, a severe drought could result...
National Land Cover Database 2001 (NLCD01) Tile 4, Southeast United States: NLCD01_4
Andrew LaMotte
2008, Data Series 383-D
This 30-meter data set represents land use and land cover for the conterminous United States for the 2001 time period. The data have been arranged into four tiles to facilitate timely display and manipulation within a Geographic Information System (see http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/browse/nlcd01-partition.jpg). The National Land Cover Data Set for 2001 was...
Determination of the delta(2H/1H)of Water: RSIL Lab Code 1574
Kinga Revesz, Tyler B. Coplen
2008, Techniques and Methods 10-C1
Reston Stable Isotope Laboratory (RSIL) lab code 1574 describes a method used to determine the relative hydrogen isotope-ratio delta(2H,1H), abbreviated hereafter as d2H of water. The d2H measurement of water also is a component of the National Water Quality Laboratory (NWQL) schedules 1142 and 1172. The water is collected unfiltered...
