Online Publications

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*Water Resources Investigations Reports have been replaced by Scientific Investigations Report as of 2004

Recent Publications

• FS 2009-3009
  David Bolton, James Gerhart, and Saeid Kasraei, Sustainability of Water Resources in the Fractured-Rock Area of Maryland, 2p.

• FS 2007-3085
  Michael J. Brayton, Judith M. Denver, Gregory C. Delzer, and Pixie A. Hamilton, Organic Compounds in Potomac River Water Used for Public Supply near Washington, D.C., 2003–05, 6p.

• SIR 2008-5190
  Scott W. Ator, Natural and Human Influences on Water Quality in a Shallow Regional Unconsolidated Aquifer, Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain, 32p.

• SIR 2008-5144
  Cheryl A. Dieter and William B. Fleck, Simulation of Ground-Water Flow and Optimization of Withdrawals from Aquifers at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River, St. Mary's County, Maryland, 48p.

• FS 2008-3068
  Scott W. Ator and Betzaida Reyes, Pesticides in Ground Water of Central and Western Maryland, 6p.

• FS 2008-3067
  Kernell Ries III and others, StreamStats: A Water Resources Web Application, 6p.

• SIR 2007-5165
  Lorah and others, Microbial Consortia Development and Microcosm and Column Experiments for Enhanced Bioremediation of Chlorinated Volatile Organic Compounds, West Branch Canal Creek Wetland Area, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 92p.

• CIRC 1316
  Scott W. Phillips, Editor, Synthesis of U.S. Geological Survey Science for the Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem and Implications for Environmental Management, 71p.

• SIR 2007-5249
  By Daniel J. Soeder, Jeff P. Raffensperger, and Mark R. Nardi, Effects of Withdrawals on Ground-Water Levels in Southern Maryland and the Adjacent Eastern Shore, 1980-2005, 94p.

• OFR 2007-1205
  By Robert J. Shedlock, David W. Bolton, Emery T. Cleaves, James M. Gerhart, and Mark R. Nardi, A Science Plan for a Comprehensive Regional Assessment of the Atlantic Coastal Plain Aquifer System in Maryland, 36p.

• SIR 2007-5127
  By Edward J. Doheny, Roger J. Starsoneck, Paul M. Mayer, and Elise A. Striz, Pre-Restoration Geomorphic Characteristics of Minebank Run, Baltimore County, Maryland, 2002-04, 64p.

• SIR 2007-5142
  By Cherie V. Miller, Angélica L. Gutiérrez-Magness, Brenda L. Feit Majedi, and Gregory D. Foster, Water Quality in the Upper Anacostia River, Maryland: Continuous and Discrete Monitoring with Simulations to Estimate Concentrations and Yields, 2003-05, 51p.

• SIR 2006-5233
  By Emily H. Majcher , Daniel J. Phelan Michelle M. Lorah, and Angela L. McGinty, Characterization of Preferential Ground-Water Seepage From a Chlorinated Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Aquifer to West Branch Canal Creek, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 2002-04, 204p.

• OFR 2006-1151
  By Tracy Connell Hancock and Michael J. Brayton, Environmental Setting of the Morgan Creek Basin, Maryland, 2002-04, 33p.

• WDR-US-2006
  By U.S. Geological Survey, Water-resources data for the United States, Water Year 2006

• SIR 2006-5266
  By Cheryl A. Klohe and Robert T. Kay, Hydrogeology of the Piney Point-Nanjemoy, Aquia, and Upper Patapsco Aquifers, Naval Air Station Patuxent River and Webster Outlying Field, St. Marys County, Maryland, 2000-06, 36 p

• SIR 2005-5257
  By Linda M. Debrewer, Scott W. Ator, and Judith M. Denver, Factors Affecting Spatial and Temporal Variability in Nutrient and Pesticide Concentrations in the Surficial Aquifer on the Delmarva Peninsula, 56 p

• SIR 2005-5073
  By Sarah K. Martucci, Jennifer L. Krstolic, and Jeff P. Raffensperger (U.S. Geological Survey) and Katharine J. Hopkins (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science), Development of Land Segmentation, Stream-Reach Network, and Watersheds in Support of Hydrological Simulation Program–Fortran (HSPF) Modeling, Chesapeake Bay Watershed, and Adjacent Parts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia, 24 p.

• SIR 2006-5190
  By Edward J. Doheny and Gary T. Fisher, Hydraulic Geometry Characteristics of Continuous-Record Streamflow-Gaging Stations on Four Urban Watersheds Along the Main Stem of Gwynns Falls, Baltimore County and Baltimore City, Maryland, 34 p.

• OFR 2006-1392
  By Cheryl A. Klohe and Linda M. Debrewer, Summary of Ground-Water-Quality Data in the Anacostia River Watershed, Washington, D.C., September-December 2005, 74 p.

• Technical Manual 4-A6
  Compiled by Kernell G. Ries III with sections by J.B. Atkins, P.R. Hummel, M. Gray (Aqua Terra Consultants, Inc.), R. Dusenbury (Aqua Terra Consultants, Inc.), M.E. Jennings, W.H. Kirby, H.C. Riggs, V.B. Sauer, and W.O. Thomas, Jr., The National Streamflow Statistics Program: A Computer Program for Estimating Streamflow Statistics for Ungaged Sites, 48p.

• FS 2006-3119
  By Judith M. Denver and Scott W. Ator, Pesticides in Groundwater of the Maryland Coastal Plain , 24p.

• OFR 2006-1335
  By Kernell G. Ries, Selected Streamflow Statistics for Streamgaging Stations in Northeastern Maryland, 2006, 24p.

• SIR 2006-5178
  By Michael J. Langland, Jeff P. Raffensperger, Douglas L. Moyer, Jurate M. Landwehr, and Gregory E. Schwarz, Changes in Streamflow and Water Quality in Selected Nontidal Basins in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, 1985-2004 75p.

• SIR 2006-5179
  By Edward J. Doheny(U.S. Geological Survey, Baltimore, MD), Roger J. Starsoneck(Formerly of U.S. Geological Survey, Baltimore, MD), Elise A. Striz(U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Ada, Oklahoma), and Paul M. Mayer(U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Ada, Oklahoma), Watershed Characteristics and Pre-Restoration Surface-Water Hydrology of Minebank Run, Baltimore County, Maryland, Water Years 2002-04 54p.

• SIR 2006-5146
  By Kernell G. Ries III and Jonathan J.A. Dillow, Magnitude and Frequency of Floods on Nontidal Streams in Delaware 65p.

• SIR 2006-5140
  By Cherie V. Miller (U.S. Geological Survey, Baltimore, MD) , Holly S. Weyers (U.S. Geological Survey, Baltimore, MD), Vicki S. Blazer (U.S. Geological Survey, National Fish Health Research Laboratory, Kearneysville, WV), and Mary E. Freeman (U.S. Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA), 48 p., Chemical and Ecological Health of White Sucker (Catostomus Commersoni) in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C., 2003–04 48p.

• PROP-1680
  By Scott W. Ator, Judith M. Denver, David E. Krantz, Wayne L. Newell, and Sarah K. Martucci, David R. Burris, and Linda Jo Dyer, A Surficial Hydrogeologic Framework for the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain 89p.

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