Health and Environment Fact Sheets
General Human Health
Inhalation of Toxic Contaminants in Air and Dusts
Drinking Water Exposure to Chemical and Pathogenic Contaminants
- FS-2004-3127 Wastewater Chemicals in Colorado's Streams and Ground Water
- FS-2004-3119 Occurrence of Methyl tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) in public and private wells, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
- FS-104-03 LakeVOC; A Computer Model to Estimate the Concentration of Volatile Organic Compounds in Lakes and Reservoirs
- FS-072-03 Is Septic Waste Affecting Drinking Water From Shallow Domestic Wells Along the Platte River in Eastern Nebraska?
- FS-051-03 Arsenic Contamination in Private Bedrock Wells in Southeastern New Hampshire
- FS-120-02 Occurrence of antibiotics in water from fish hatcheries
- FS-112-02 Fractured-rock aquifers, understanding an increasingly important source of water
- FS-056-02 Storms, streams, and reservoirs; assessing water quality in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, drinking-water source area
- FS-044-02 What happens to nutrients in offstream reservoirs in the lower South Platte River basin?
- FS-032-02 Pesticides and their breakdown products in Lake Waxahachie, Texas, and in finished drinking water from the lake
- FS-027-02 Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams
- FS-020-02 Occurrence of selected volatile organic compounds and soluble pesticides in Texas public water-supply source waters, 1999-2001
- FS-122-01 Water Supply in the Mojave River Ground-Water Basin, 1931-99, and the Benefits of Artificial Recharge
- FS-112-01 Improving water quality in Sweetwater Reservoir, San Diego County, California; sources and mitigation strategies for trihalomethane (THM)-forming carbon
- FS-111-01 Ground-water studies in Fairbanks, Alaska; a better understanding of some of the United States' highest natural arsenic concentrations
- FS-105-01 MTBE and other volatile organic compounds: New findings and implications on the quality of source waters used for drinking-water supplies
- FS-089-01 Occurrence and distribution of volatile organic compounds in drinking water supplied by community water systems in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, 1993-98
- FS-070-01 Water-quality monitoring of Sweetwater Reservoir
- FS-064-01 National survey of MTBE and other VOCs in community drinking-water sources
- FS-026-01 Assessment of microbiological contamination of the Jacks Fork within the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri; phase
- FS-004-01 Health Effects of Toxic Organic Compounds from Coal -- The Case of Balkan Endemic Nephropathy (BEN)
- FS-110-00 Assessment of selected water-quality and biological data collected in the Wichita River basin, Texas, 1996-97
- FS-101-00 Overview of the Texas Source Water Assessment Project
- FS-078-00 Minimizing the risk of herbicide transport into public water supplies; a Nebraska case study
- FS-063-00 Arsenic in Ground-Water Resources of the United States
- FS-062-98: Radium-226 and Radium-228 in Shallow Ground Water, Southern New Jersey
- FS-028-98: Microbial Quality of Public-Water Supplies in the Ozark Plateaus Aquifer System, Missouri
- FS-055-98: Volatile Organic Compounds in Lake Tahoe, Nevada and California, July-September 1997
- FS-061-97: Predicting ground-water vulnerability to nitrate in the Puget Sound Basin
- FS-054-97: Public-Water Supplies in Massachusetts and Rhode Island: Investigations of Processess Affecting Source-Water Quality
- FS-047-97: USGS Drinking Water Initiative
- FS-205-96: Pesticides in public supply wells of the Central Columbia Plateau
- FS-122-96: Pesticides in Public Supply Wells of Washington State
- FS-092-96: Nitrate in the ground waters of the United States--Assessing the risk
Human Consumption of Bioaccumulative Contaminants
- FS-2004-3083 Restoring an urban river--polychlorinated biphenyls and other contaminants in bottom sediment of the lower Neponset River, Massachusetts
- FS-093-03 Tracking polychlorinated biphenyls in the Millers River basin, Massachusetts
- FS-088-03 A chronicle of organochlorine contamination in Clear Creek, Galveston and Harris Counties, Texas, 1960-2002, as recorded in sediment cores
- FS-016-03 Mercury in Stream Ecosystems -- New studies initiated by the U.S. Geological Survey
- FS-065-02 Llano Grande Lake bottom sediments; a chronicle of water-quality changes in the Arroyo Colorado, South Texas, 1989-2001
- FS-051-02 Glacial Ice Cores Reveal A Record of Natural and Anthropogenic Atmospheric Mercury Deposition for the Last 270 Years
- FS-040-02 Water-quality trends in suburban Houston, Texas, 1954-97, as indicated by sediment cores from Lake Houston
- FS-016-02 Occurrence of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) on Suspended Sediment in the Donna Canal, Hidalgo County, Texas, 1999-2001
- FS-068-01 Reconnaissance for trace metals in bed sediment, Wright Patman Lake, near Texarkana, Texas
- FS-067-01 PCBs in tissue of fish from the Spokane River, Washington, 1999
- FS-146-00 Mercury in the Environment
- FS-140-00 Occurrence of organochlorine pesticides in stream bed sediment and fish from selected streams on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, 1998
- FS-092-00 Pesticides in Stream Sediment and Aquatic Biota : Current Understanding of Distribution and Major Influences
- FS-061-00 Mercury Contamination from Historic Gold Mining in California
- FS-102-97: Are walleye from Lake Roosevelt contaminated with mercury?
- FS-216-95: Mercury Contamination of Aquatic Ecosystems
Pathogen Exposure Through Recreational Waters
Vector Borne and Zoonotic (animal to human) Disease
Animals as Sentinels of Human Health
Location-Based Studies
Data Sources
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