Water quality in the Bear River Basin of Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming prior to and following snowmelt runoff in 2001
Steven J. Gerner, Lawrence E. Spangler
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5292
Water-quality samples were collected from the Bear River during two base-flow periods in 2001: March 11 to 21, prior to snowmelt runoff, and July 30 to August 9, following snowmelt runoff. The samples were collected from 65 sites along the Bear River and selected tributaries and analyzed for dissolved solids...
Occurrence of Pharmaceuticals in Shallow Ground-Water of Suffolk County, New York, 2002-05
Mark J. Benotti, Shawn Fisher, Stephen Terracciano
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1297
Seventy (70) water samples were collected from 61 wells in the upper glacial and Magothy aquifers (9 wells were sampled twice) during 2002-05 and analyzed for 24 pharmaceuticals. Wells were selected for their proximity to known wastewater-treatment facilities that discharge to the shallow upper glacial aquifer. Pharmaceuticals were detected in...
Spatial data for Eurycea salamander habitats associated With three aquifers in south-central Texas
Franklin T. Heitmuller, Brian D. Reece
2006, Data Series 243
Eurycea salamander taxa comprise 12 known species that inhabit springs and caves in south-central Texas. Many of these are threatened or endangered species, and some are found only at one location. A number of the neotenic salamanders might be at risk from habitat loss associated with declines in ground-water levels....
Flood of July 12-13, 2004, Burlington and Camden Counties, South-Central New Jersey
Amy R. Protz, Timothy J. Reed
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5096
Intense rainfall inundated south-central New Jersey on July 12-13, 2004, causing major flooding with heavy property, road, and bridge damage in Burlington and Camden Counties. Forty-five dams were topped or damaged, or failed completely. The affected areas were in the Rancocas Creek, Cooper River, and Pennsauken Creek Basins. The U.S. Geological...
Pore-Water Quality in the Clay-Silt Confining Units of the Lower Miocene Kirkwood Formation and Hypothetical Effects on Water Quality in the Atlantic City 800-Foot Sand, Northeastern Cape May County, New Jersey, 2001
Zoltan Szabo, Elizabeth A. Keller, Rose M. Defawe
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5134
Pore water was extracted from clay-silt core samples collected from a borehole at Ocean View, west of Sea Isle City, in northeastern Cape May County, New Jersey. The borehole intersects the lower Miocene Kirkwood Formation, which includes a thick sand and gravel unit between two clay-silt units. The sand and...
Potentiometric Surface of the Upper Floridan Aquifer in the St. Johns River Water Management District and Vicinity, Florida, May 2006
Sandra L. Kinnaman
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1394
Introduction: This map depicts the potentiometric surface of the Upper Floridan aquifer in the St. Johns River Water Management District and vicinity for May 2006. Potentiometric contours are based on water-level measurements collected at 599 wells during the period May 14-31, near the end of the dry season. Some contours...
Factors Affecting Firm Yield and the Estimation of Firm Yield for Selected Streamflow-Dominated Drinking-Water-Supply Reservoirs in Massachusetts
Marcus C. Waldron, Stacey A. Archfield
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5044
Factors affecting reservoir firm yield, as determined by application of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection's Firm Yield Estimator (FYE) model, were evaluated, modified, and tested on 46 streamflow-dominated reservoirs representing 15 Massachusetts drinking-water supplies. The model uses a mass-balance approach to determine the maximum average daily withdrawal rate that...
Pesticides in Ground Water of the Maryland Coastal Plain
Judith M. Denver, Scott W. Ator
2006, Fact Sheet 2006-3119
Selected pesticides are detectable at low levels (generally less than 0.1 microgram per liter) in unconfined ground water in many parts of the Maryland Coastal Plain. Samples were recently collected (2001-04) from 47 wells in the Coastal Plain and analyzed for selected pesticides and degradate compounds (products of pesticide degradation)....
Vascular Plant and Vertebrate Inventory of Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Brian F. Powell, Eric W. Albrecht, William L. Halvorson, Cecilia A. Schmidt, Kathleen Docherty, Pamela Anning
2006, Open-File Report 2005-1187
Executive Summary This report summarizes the results of the first comprehensive biological inventory of Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (NM) in western New Mexico. This project was part of a larger effort to inventory plants and vertebrates in eight National Park Service units in Arizona and New Mexico. Our surveys address...
Surface-Water Quality and Nutrient Loads in the Nepaug Reservoir Watershed, Northwestern Connecticut, 1999-2001
Jonathan Morrison, Michael J. Colombo
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5272
Water quality was characterized at three tributary watersheds to the Nepaug Reservoir-Nepaug River, Phelps Brook, and Clear Brook-from October 1998 through September 2001 to document existing water-quality conditions and evaluate potential future effects of the removal of sand and gravel from areas of the watershed. Some removal operations may include...
Bioindicators from Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) Sampled from the Imperial Valley in Southern California
Jill A. Jenkins, Rassa O. Draugelis-Dale
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1307
The Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge (SSNWR) is located 64 km north of the Mexican border at the southern end of the Salton Sea in California's Imperial Valley. Freshwater ponds and managed habitats at the SSNWR, Calipatria, Calif. are supplied with Colorado River water that carries compounds from...
Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado, Oil Shale Geodatabase
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2006, Data Series 181
This geodatabase is a digital reproduction of three legacy USGS oil shale publications--MF-958 (Pitman and Johnson, 1978), MF-1069 (Pitman, 1979), and OC-132 (Pitman and others, 1990). The database consists of 106 feature classes in three feature datasets organized by publication. Each dataset contains isopach contours, isoresource contours, isoresource polygons, and...
Water Quality, Hydrology, and Response to Changes in Phosphorus Loading of Nagawicka Lake, a Calcareous Lake in Waukesha County, Wisconsin
Herbert S. Garn, Dale M. Robertson, William J. Rose, Gerald L. Goddard, Judy A. Horwatich
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5273
Nagawicka Lake is a 986-acre, usually mesotrophic, calcareous lake in southeastern Wisconsin. Because of concern over potential water-quality degradation of the lake associated with further development in its watershed, a study was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey from 2002 to 2006 to describe the water quality and hydrology of...
Sedimentation in Goose Pasture Tarn, 1965-2005, Breckenridge, Colorado
John G. Elliott, Stephen J. Char, Samuel M. Linhart, V. Cory Stephens, Gregory B. O’Neill
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5265
Goose Pasture Tarn, a 771-acre-foot reservoir in Summit County, Colorado, is the principal domestic water-storage facility for the Town of Breckenridge and collects runoff from approximately 42 square miles of the upper Blue River watershed. In the 40 years since the reservoir was constructed, deltaic deposits have accumulated at the...
Bathymetric contour maps of lakes surveyed in Iowa in 2004
S. Mike Linhart, Kris D. Lund
2006, Scientific Investigations Map 2949
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, conducted bathymetric surveys on six lakes in Iowa during 2004 (Lake Darling, Littlefield Lake, Lake Minnewashta, Nine Eagles Lake, Prairie Rose Lake, and Upper Gar Lake). The surveys were conducted to provide the Iowa Department of Natural...
Ground-water-quality data for a treated-wastewater plume undergoing natural restoration, Ashumet Valley, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Jennifer G. Savoie, Richard L. Smith, Douglas B. Kent, Kathryn M. Hess, Denis R. LeBlanc, Larry B. Barber
2006, Data Series 198
A plume of contaminated ground water extends from former disposal beds at the Massachusetts Military Reservation wastewater-treatment plant toward Ashumet Pond, and farther southward toward coastal ponds and Vineyard Sound, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Treated sewage-derived wastewater was discharged to the rapid-infiltration beds for nearly 60 years before the disposal site...
Surficial Geologic Map of the Clinton-Concord-Grafton-Medfield 12-Quadrangle Area in East Central Massachusetts
Janet Radway Stone, Byron D. Stone
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1260-A
The surficial geologic map shows the distribution of nonlithified earth materials at land surface in an area of twelve 7.5-minute quadrangles (total 660 square miles) in east-central Massachusetts. The geologic map differentiates surficial materials of Quaternary age on the basis of their lithologic characteristics (grain size, sedimentary structures, mineral and...
Mapping ground water in three dimensions: An analysis of airborne geophysical surveys of the Upper San Pedro River Basin, Cochise County, southeastern Arizona
Jeff Wynn
2006, Professional Paper 1674
This report summarizes the results of two airborne geophysical surveys conducted in the upper San Pedro Valley of southeastern Arizona in 1997 and 1999. The combined surveys cover about 1,000 square kilometers and extend from the Huachuca Mountains on the west to the Mule Mountains and Tombstone Hills on the...
Estimates of Shear Stress and Measurements of Water Levels in the Lower Fox River near Green Bay, Wisconsin
Stephen M. Westenbroek
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5226
Turbulent shear stress in the boundary layer of a natural river system largely controls the deposition and resuspension of sediment, as well as the longevity and effectiveness of granular-material caps used to cover and isolate contaminated sediments. This report documents measurements and calculations made in order to estimate shear stress...
Statewide analysis of the drainage-area ratio method for 34 streamflow percentile ranges in Texas
William H. Asquith, Meghan C. Roussel, Joseph Vrabel
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5286
The drainage-area ratio method commonly is used to estimate streamflow for sites where no streamflow data are available using data from one or more nearby streamflow-gaging stations. The method is intuitive and straightforward to implement and is in widespread use by analysts and managers of surface-water resources. The method equates...
Fecal-indicator bacteria in the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers and selected tributaries, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 2001-2005
Theodore F. Buckwalter, Tammy M. Zimmerman, John W. Fulton
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5216
Concentrations of fecal-indicator bacteria were determined in 1,027 water-quality samples collected from July 2001 through August 2005 during dry- (72-hour dry antecedent period) and wet-weather (48-hour dry antecedent period and at least 0.3 inch of rain in a 24-hour period) conditions in the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers (locally referred...
A Streamflow Statistics (StreamStats) Web Application for Ohio
G. F. Koltun, Stephanie P. Kula, Barry M. Puskas
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5312
A StreamStats Web application was developed for Ohio that implements equations for estimating a variety of streamflow statistics including the 2-, 5-, 10-, 25-, 50-, 100-, and 500-year peak streamflows, mean annual streamflow, mean monthly streamflows, harmonic mean streamflow, and 25th-, 50th-, and 75th-percentile streamflows. StreamStats is a Web-based geographic...
Ground-water quality beneath irrigated cropland of the northern and southern High Plains aquifer, Nebraska and Texas, 2003-04
Jennifer S. Stanton, Lynne S. Fahlquist
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5196
A study of the quality of ground water beneath irrigated cropland was completed for the northern and southern High Plains aquifer. Ground-water samples were collected from 30 water-table monitoring wells in the northern agricultural land-use (NAL) study area in Nebraska in 2004 and 29 water-table monitoring wells in the southern agricultural...
Occurrence and transport of agricultural chemicals in Leary Weber Ditch Basin, Hancock County, Indiana, 2003-04
Nancy T. Baker, Wesley W. Stone, John T. Wilson, Michael T. Meyer
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5251
Leary Weber Ditch Basin, Hancock County, Indiana, is one of seven first-order basins selected from across the United States as part of the Agricultural Chemicals: Source, Transport, and Fate study conducted by the National Water-Quality Assessment Program of the U.S. Geological Survey. The nationwide study was designed to increase the...
Monitoring Inland Storm Surge and Flooding from Hurricane Rita
Benton D. McGee, Roland W. Tollett, Mason Jr.
2006, Fact Sheet 2006-3136
Pressure transducers (sensors) and high-water marks were used to document the inland water levels related to storm surge generated by Hurricane Rita in southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas. On September 22-23, 2005, an experimental monitoring network of sensors was deployed at 33 sites over an area of about 4,000 square...
