As of fiscal year 2005,
the National Irrigation Water Quality Program
has been inactive.

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NIWQP Project/Study Area—

Milk River Basin, Montana

Location

The Milk River study area is centered around Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Montana, about 7 miles east of the town of Malta. (Detail map pdf)

Status

Results from the studies for this Project indicate that irrigation drainage had relatively small concentrations of most constituents. Therefore, the NIWQP is no longer involved at this location.

Phases 2 and 3 Data

Chemical Data From Water:
ASCII - 5 KB .dat File or Microsoft Excel - 30 KB .xls File

Bottom Material:
ASCII - 6 KB .dat File or Microsoft Excel - 35 KB .xls File

Inorganic:
ASCII - 11 KB .dat File or Microsoft Excel - 51 KB .xls File

Organic:
ASCII - 3 KB .dat File or Microsoft Excel - 21 KB .xls File

Documents

Lambing, J.H., Jones, W.E. and Sutphin, J.W., 1988, Reconnaissance investigation of water quality, bottom sediment, and biota associated with irrigation drainage in the Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge and adjacent areas of the Milk River Basin, northeastern Montana, 1986-87: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 87- 4243, 71 p.