Radon-222 occurrence in ground water in New Jersey, with emphasis on the Highlands Province
Zoltan Szabo, Vincent T. DePaul
2006, Conference Paper, Environmental geology of the Highlands: Field guide and proceedings
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Solute transport processes
A. Kemna, Andrew Binley, Frederick D. Day-Lewis, Andreas Englert, Bulent Tezkan, Jan Vanderborght, Harry Vereecken, Peter Winship
2006, Book chapter
Soils and aquifers are major compartments of the subsurface environment, which together control the terrestrial hydrological cycle. This subsurface is important for water resources and also as repository for municipal, industrial, and government waste. Aquifers are typically recharged by natural rainfall entering the soil profile and leaching into deeper soil...
Response of Everglades tree islands to environmental change
Debra A. Willard, Christopher E. Bernhardt, Charles W. Holmes, Bryan Landacre, Marci E. Marot
2006, Ecological Monographs (76) 565-583
Tree islands are centers of biodiversity within the Florida Everglades, USA, but the factors controlling their distribution, formation, and development are poorly understood. We use pollen assemblages from tree islands throughout the greater Everglades ecosystem to reconstruct the timing of tree island formation, patterns of development, and response to specific...
Fate and effects of nitrogen and phosphorus in shallow vegetated aquatic ecosystems
James F. Fairchild, Leigh Ann Vradenburg
2006, Report
Nitrate concentrations have greatly increased in streams and rivers draining agricultural regions of the Midwestern United States, increasing nitrate transport to the Gulf of Mexico has been implicated in the hypoxic conditions that threaten the productivity of marine fisheries. Increases in nitrate concentrations have been attributed to a combination of...
Physical properties of pressurized sediment from hydrate ridge
William J. Winters, William F. Waite, David H. Mason, Lauren Gilbert
2006, Report, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results
As part of an ongoing laboratory study, preliminary acoustic, triaxial strength, and electrical resistivity results are presented from a test performed on a clayey silt sediment sample recovered from Site 1249 at the summit of southern Hydrate Ridge during Ocean Drilling Program Leg 204. The test specimen was stored and...
Relations among pH, sulfate, and metals concentrations in anthracite and bituminous coal-mine discharges, Pennsylvania
III Cravotta
2006, Conference Paper, Proceedings: 23rd Annual Meeting of the ASMR, March 26-30, 2006, St. Louis, Missouri
Water-quality data for discharges from 140 abandoned mines in the Bituminous and Anthracite Coalfields of Pennsylvania illustrate relations among pH, sulfate, and dissolved metal concentrations. The pH for the 140 samples ranged from 2.7 to 7.3, with two modes at pH 2.5 to 4 (acidic) and 6 to 7 (near...
GAP Analysis Bulletin Number 14
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2006, GAP Bulletin 14
Ground-Water Levels in Huron County, Michigan, 2004-05
T. L. Weaver, S. L. Crowley, S. P. Blumer
2006, Open-File Report 2005-1082
In 1990, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) completed a study of the hydrogeology of Huron County, Michigan (Sweat, 1991). In 1993, Huron County and the USGS entered into a continuing agreement to measure water levels at selected wells throughout Huron County. As part of the agreement, USGS has operated...
Compilation of historical water-quality data for selected springs in Texas, by ecoregion
Franklin T. Heitmuller, Iona P. Williams
2006, Data Series 230
Springs are important hydrologic features in Texas. A database of about 2,000 historically documented springs and available spring-flow measurements previously has been compiled and published, but water-quality data remain scattered in published sources. This report by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, documents...
Sources of polychlorinated biphenyls to Devils Swamp Lake near Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Peter C. Van Metre, Jennifer T. Wilson, Briant A. Kimball
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5301
Devils Swamp Lake near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, created in 1973 by dredging in Devils Swamp along the Mississippi River, is contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from historical industrial discharges. This study involved the investigation of the occurrence, distribution, and sources of PCBs in the lake, including the possible historical contribution...
Continuous resistivity profiling data from the upper Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina, 2004-2005
VeeAnn A. Cross, John F. Bratton, Emile M. Bergeron, Jeff K. Meunier, John Crusius, Dirk Koopmans
2006, Open-File Report 2005-1306
The Neuse River Estuary in North Carolina has suffered impacts of eutrophication in recent years. As part of a larger project to better constrain nutrient budgets in the estuary, field investigations were performed to study occurrence and discharge of fresh and brackish ground water and nutrients beneath the estuary itself...
Changes in streamflow and water quality in selected nontidal basins in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, 1985-2004
Michael J. Langland, Jeff P. Raffensperger, Douglas Moyer, Jurate M. Landwehr, Gregory E. Schwarz
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5178
As part of an annual evaluation of water-quality conditions by the Chesapeake Bay Program, water-quality and streamflow data from 32 sites in nontidal parts of the Chesapeake Bay watershed were analyzed to document annual nutrient and sediment trends for 1985 through 2004. This study also formalized different trend tests and...
Pesticides in ground water - Carbon County, Wyoming, 2004-2005
Cheryl A. Eddy-Miller, Kendra J. Remley
2006, Fact Sheet 2006-3122
In 1991, members of local, State, and Federal governments, as well as industry and interest groups, formed the Ground-water and Pesticide Strategy Committee to prepare the State of Wyoming's generic Management Plan for Pesticides in Ground Water. Part of this management plan is to sample and analyze Wyoming's ground water...
Concentrations of elements in sediments and selective fractions of sediments, and in natural waters in contact with sediments from Lake Roosevelt, Washington, September 2004
Anthony J. Paulson, Richard J. Wagner, Richard F. Sanzolone, Steven E. Cox
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1350
Twenty-eight composite and replicate sediment samples from 8 Lake Roosevelt sites were collected and analyzed for 10 alkali and alkaline earth elements, 2 non-metals, 20 metals, and 4 lanthanide and actinide elements. All elements were detected in all sediment samples except for silver (95 percent of the elements detected for...
Pesticides in ground water - Campbell County, Wyoming, 2004-2005
Cheryl A. Eddy-Miller, Kendra J. Remley
2006, Fact Sheet 2006-3123
In 1991, members of local, State, and Federal governments, as well as industry and interest groups, formed the Ground-water and Pesticide Strategy Committee to prepare the State of Wyoming's generic Management Plan for Pesticides in Ground Water. Part of this management plan is to sample and analyze Wyoming's ground water...
Selected Natural Attenuation Monitoring Data, Operable Unit 1, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Keyport, Washington, June 2005
Richard S. Dinicola, R.L. Huffman
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1374
Previous investigations have shown that natural attenuation and biodegradation of chlorinated volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are substantial in shallow ground water beneath the 9-acre former landfill at Operable Unit 1 (OU-1), Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Keyport, Washington. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has continued to monitor ground-water geochemistry to...
Water-quality, bed-sediment, and biological data (October 2004 through September 2005) and statistical summaries of data for streams in the Upper Clark Fork Basin, Montana
Kent A. Dodge, Michelle I. Hornberger, Jessica Dyke
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1266
Water, bed sediment, and biota were sampled in streams from Butte to below Missoula as part of a long-term monitoring program, conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to characterize aquatic resources in the upper Clark Fork basin of western Montana. Sampling sites were located on the Clark...
Pesticides in ground water - Sublette County, Wyoming, 2004-2005
Cheryl A. Eddy-Miller, Kendra J. Remley
2006, Fact Sheet 2006-3121
In 1991, members of local, State, and Federal governments, as well as industry and interest groups, formed the Ground-water and Pesticide Strategy Committee to prepare the State of Wyoming's generic Management Plan for Pesticides in Ground Water. Part of this management plan is to sample and analyze Wyoming's ground water...
High-resolution boomer seismic-reflection profiles of the shelf off southern California from cruise A-1-00-SC: Santa Monica Bay to San Diego
Christina E. Gutmacher, Stephanie L. Ross, Peter J. Triezenberg, Ray W. Sliter, William R. Normark, Brian D. Edwards
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1373
High-resolution boomer data were collected in the California Continental Borderland as part of the southern California Earthquake Hazards Task of the Southern California Coastal and Marine Geology Regional Investigations Project. During the period from 1997 to 2002, five data-acquisition cruises collected seismic-reflection data using several different systems from offshore Santa...
Peak Discharge, Flood Profile, Flood Inundation, and Debris Movement Accompanying the Failure of the Upper Reservoir at the Taum Sauk Pump Storage Facility near Lesterville, Missouri
Paul H. Rydlund Jr.
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5284
The Taum Sauk pump-storage hydroelectric power plant located in Reynolds County, Missouri, uses turbines that operate as pumps and hydraulic head generated by discharging water from an upper to a lower reservoir to produce electricity. A 55-acre upper reservoir with a 1.5- billion gallon capacity was built on top of...
Occurrence of anthropogenic organic compounds in ground water and finished water of community water systems in Eagle and Spanish Springs Valleys, Nevada, 2002-2004
Michael R. Rosen, Donald H. Shaefer, Patricia A. Toccalino, Gregory C. Delzer
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5210
As a part of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment Program, an effort to characterize the quality of major rivers and aquifers used as a source of supply to some of the largest community water systems (CWSs) in the United States has been initiated. These studies, termed Source Water-Quality...
Distribution, thickness, and volume of fine-grained sediment from precipitation of metals from acid-mine waters in Keswick Reservoir, Shasta County, California
Terry R. Bruns, Charles N. Alpers, Paul Carlson
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1377
In February 1993, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) acquired high-resolution seismic-reflection data to map the distribution and thickness of fine-grained sediments associated with acid-mine drainage in Keswick Reservoir on the Sacramento River, near Redding, California. In the Spring Creek Arm of Keswick Reservoir, the sediments occurred in three distinct accumulations;...
Micrometeorological and Soil Data for Calculating Evapotranspiration for Rainier Mesa, Nevada Test Site, Nevada, 2002-05
Guy A. DeMeo, Alan L. Flint, Randell J. Laczniak, Walter E. Nylund
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1312
Micrometeorological and soil-moisture data were collected at two instrumented sites on Rainier Mesa at the Nevada Test Site, January 1, 2002 - August 23, 2005. Data collected at each site include net radiation, air temperature, and relative humidity at two heights; wind speed and direction; subsurface soil heat flux; subsurface...
Selected Ground-Water Data for Yucca Mountain Region, Southern Nevada and Eastern California, January-December 2004
Richard J. La Camera, Glenn L. Locke, Aron M. Habte, Jon G. Darnell
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1285
The U.S. Geological Survey, in support of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Repository Development, collects, compiles, and summarizes hydrologic data in the Yucca Mountain region of southern Nevada and eastern California. These data are collected to allow assessments of ground-water resources during activities to determine the potential suitability...
Statistical analyses of hydrologic system components and simulation of Edwards aquifer water-level response to rainfall using transfer-function models, San Antonio region, Texas
Lisa D. Miller, Andrew J. Long
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5131
In 2003 the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the San Antonio Water System, did a study using historical data to statistically analyze hydrologic system components in the San Antonio region of Texas and to develop transfer-function models to simulate water levels at selected sites (wells) in the Edwards aquifer...
