USGS NAWQA: Publications on Principal Aquifer Assessments

Embrey, S.S., and Runkle, D.L., 2006, Microbial quality of the Nation's ground-water resources, 1993-2004: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5290, 34 p.

Lapham, Wayne W.; Hamilton, Pixie A.; Myers, Donna N., 2005, National Water-Quality Assessment Program - cycle II regional assessments of aquifers: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2005-3013, 4 p.

Nolan, B.T., Healy, R.W., Taber, P.E., Perkins, Kimberlie, Hitt, K.J., and Wolock, D.M., 2007, Factors influencing ground-water recharge in the eastern United States: Journal of Hydrology, v. 322, p. 187-205.

Sargent, P., Maupin, M.A., and Hinkle, S.R., 2008, Estimated Withdrawals from Stream-Valley Aquifers and Refined Estimated Withdrawals from Selected Aquifers in the United States, 2000: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5003, 71 p.

Basin and Range basin-fill and carbonate-rock aquifers

Anning, D. W., Bauch, N. J., Gerner, S. J., Flynn, M. E., Hamlin, S. N., Moore, S. J., Schaefer, D. H., Anderholm, S. K., Spangler, L. E., 2007, Dissolved Solids in Basin-Fill Aquifers and Streams in the Southwestern United States: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5315, 168 p.

Paul, A.P., Seiler, R.L., Rowe, T.G., and Rosen, M.R., 2007, Effects of Agriculture and Urbanization on Quality of Shallow Ground Water in the Arid to Semiarid Western United States, 1993-2004: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5179, 57 p.

Schaefer, Donald H.; Thiros, Susan A.; Rosen, Michael R., 2005, Ground-Water Quality in the Carbonate-Rock Aquifer of the Great Basin, Nevada and Utah, 2003: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5232, 41 p.

Biscayne aquifer

Bradner, Anne; McPherson, Benjamin F.; Miller, Ronald L.; Kish, George; Bernard, Bruce, 2005, Quality of ground water in the Biscayne Aquifer in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, Florida, 1996-1998, with emphasis on contaminants: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1438, 25 p.

Floridan aquifer system

Berndt, M.P., Katz, B.G., Lindsey, B.D., Ardis, A.F., and Skach, K. A., 2005, Comparison of water chemistry In spring and well samples from selected carbonate aquifers in the United States, in U.S. Geological Survey Karst Interest Group Proceedings, Rapid City, South Dakota, September 12-15, 2005, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5160, p. 74-81.

Katz, B.G., Crandall, C.A., Metz, P.A., McBride, S., and Berndt, M.P., 2007, Chemical characteristics, water sources and pathways, and age distribution of ground water in the contributing recharge area of a Public-Supply Well near Tampa, Florida, 2002-05: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5139, 83 p.

Marella, R.L., and Berndt, M.P., 2005, Water withdrawals and trends from the Floridan aquifer system in the southeastern United States, 1950-2000: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1278, 20 p.

Metz, P.A., Delzer, G.C., Berndt, M.P., Crandall, C.A., and Toccalino, P.L., 2006, Anthropogenic organic compounds in ground water and finished water of community water systems in the northern Tampa Bay area, Florida, 2002–04: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5267, 48 p.

Glacial aquifer system

Ayotte, J.D., Flanagan, S.M., and Morrow, W.S., 2007, Occurrence of Uranium and ²²²Radon in Glacial and Bedrock Aquifers in the Northern United States, 1993–2003: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007–5037, 84 p.

Thomas, Mary Ann, 2003, Arsenic in midwestern glacial deposits--occurrence and relation to selected hydrogeologic and geochemical factors: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4228, 36 p.

Thomas, M.A., 2007, The Association of Arsenic With Redox Conditions, Depth, and Ground-Water Age in the Glacial Aquifer System of the Northern United States: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5036, 35 p.

Warner, K.L., and Arnold,T.L., 2005, Framework for regional synthesis of water-quality data for the glacial aquifer system in the United States, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5223, 6 p.

High Plains Aquifer

Gurdak, J.J., and Qi, S.L., 2006, Vulnerability of Recently Recharged Ground Water in the High Plains Aquifer to Nitrate Contamination: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5050, 39 p.

McMahon, P.B., J.K. Böhlke, and C.P. Carney, 2007, Vertical gradients in water chemistry and age in the northern High Plains aquifer, Nebraska, 2003: U.S. Geological Survery Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5294, 35 p.

McMahon, P.B., Dennehy, K.F., Bruce, B.W., Böhlke, J.K., Michel, R.L., Gurdak, J.J., and Hurlbut, D.A., 2006, Storage and transit time of chemicals in thick unsaturated zones under rangeland and irrigated cropland, High Plains, USA: Water Resources Research, v. 42, W03413, doi:10.1029/2005WR004417.

McMahon, Peter B., Dennehy, Kevin F., Bruce, Breton W., Gurdak, Jason J., and Qi, Sharon L., 2007, Water-quality assessment of the High Plains Aquifer, 1999–2004: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1749, 136 p.

Stanton, J.S. and Fahlquist, L., 2006, Ground-water quality beneath irrigated cropland of the Northern and Southern High Plains aquifer, Nebraska and Texas, 2003-04: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5196, 94 p.

Stanton, J.S. and Qi, S.L., 2007, Ground-Water quality of the Northern High Plains aquifer, 1997, 2002–04: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5138, 60 p.

Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain

Ator, S.W., Denver, J.M., Krantz, D.E., Newell, W.L., and Martucci, S.K., 2005, A surficial hydrogeologic framework for the Mid-Atlantic coastal plain: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1680, 44 p., and 4 maps.

Piedmont and Blue Ridge crystalline and carbonate-rock aquifers

Lindsey, B.D., Falls, W.F., Ferrari, M.J., Zimmerman, T.M., Harned, D.A., Sadorf, E.M., and Chapman, M.J., 2006, Factors Affecting Occurrence and Distribution of Selected Contaminants in Ground Water From Selected Areas in the Piedmont Aquifer System, Eastern United States, 1993-2003: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5104, 72 p.