The National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program : Potomac River Basin

Reports

Ator, S.W., Blomquist, J.D., Brakebill, J.W., Denis, J.M., Ferrari, M.J., Miller, C.V., and Zappia, Humbert, 1998, Water quality in the Potomac River Basin, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, 1992-96: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1166, 38 p.

Ator, S.W., and Denis, J.M., 1997, Relation of nitrogen and phosphorus in ground water to land use in four subunits of the Potomac River Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4268, 26 p.

Blomquist, J.D., Fisher, G.T., Denis, J.M., Brakebill, J.W, and Werkheiser, W.H., 1996, Water-quality assessment of the Potomac River Basin—Basin description and analysis of available nutrient data, 1970-90: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4221, 88 p.

Denis, J.M., and Blomquist, J.D., 1995, Nitrate in streams in the Great Valley Carbonate subunit of the Potomac River Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 161-95, 4 p.

Derosier, A.L., Brakebill, J.W., Denis, J.M., and Kelley, S.K., 1998, Water-quality assessment of the Potomac River Basin—Water-quality and selected spatial data, 1992-96: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-180, CD-ROM.

Donnelly, C.A., and Ferrari, M.J., 1998, Summary of pesticide data from streams and wells in the Potomac River Basin, 1993-96 : U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-666, 8 p.

Ferrari, M.J., and Ator, S.W., 1995, Nitrate in ground water in the Great Valley Carbonate subunit of the Potomac River Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4099, 6 p.

Ferrari, M.J., and Denis, J.M., 1999, Water-quality assessment of the Potomac River Basin—Occurrence of pesticides in the Great Valley Carbonate subunit: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4054, 35 p.

Fisher, G.T., 1995, Selected herbicides in major streams in the Potomac River Basin upstream from Washington D.C.: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 107-95, 4 p.

Gerhart, J.M., 1991, National Water-Quality Assessment Program—The Potomac River Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-157, 2 p.

Gerhart, J.M., and Blomquist, J.D., 1996, Selected trace-element and organic contaminants in streambed sediments of the Potomac River Basin, August, 1992: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4267, 12 p.

Gerhart, J.M., and Brakebill, J.W., 1996, Design and implementation of a sampling strategy for a water-quality assessment of the Potomac River Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4034, 31 p.

Lizarraga, J.S., 1997, Estimation and analysis of nutrient and suspended-sediment loads at selected sites in the Potomac River Basin, 1993-95: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4154, 23 p.

Miller, C.V., Denis, J.M., Ator, S.W., and Brakebill, J.W., 1997, Nutrients in streams during baseflow in selected environmental settings of the Potomac River Basin:Journal of the American Water Resources Association, v. 33 no. 6, p. 1,155-1,171.

Zappia, Humbert, 1996, Chlordane, DDT, PCB's, and other selected organic compounds in asiatic clams and yellow bullhead in the Potomac River Basin, Maryland, 1992: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4210, 6 p.

Zappia, Humbert, and Fisher, G.T., 1997, Water-quality assessment of the Potomac River Basin—Analysis of available pesticide data, 1972-90: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4051, 80 p.

Contact Information:

Judy M. Denver, Supervisory Hydrologist: jmdenver@usgs.gov.

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