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The National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program has produced more than 1,500 reports (complete bibliography) describing how water quality conditions vary locally, regionally, and nationally; whether conditions are getting better or worse over time; and how natural features and human activities affect these conditions. Conditions also were compared to national water-quality standards, guidelines, and benchmarks to assess the potential effects on drinking water and aquatic life. Most of these reports can be accessed on-line through the topical and geographical searches listed below.

 

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Bauch, N.J., Chasar, L.C., Scudder, B.C., Moran, P.W., Hitt, K.J., Brigham, M.E., Lutz, M.A., and Wentz, D.A., 2009, Data on mercury in water, bed sediment, and fish from streams across the United States, 1998-2005: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 307, 33 p.  Available Online

Scudder, B.C., Chasar, L.C., Wentz, D.A., Bauch, N.J., Brigham, M.E., Moran, P.W., and Krabbenhoft, D.P., 2009, Mercury in fish, bed sediment, and water from streams across the United States, 1998-2005: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5109, 74 p.  Available Online

Carpenter, K.D., and McGhee, G., 2009, Organic compounds in Clackamas River water used for public supply near Portland, Oregon, 2003-05: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2009-3030, 6 p.  Available Online

Trombley, T.J., Brown, C.J., and Delzer, G.C., 2007, Anthropogenic organic compounds in source and finished water from community water system wells in western and central Connecticut, 2002-2004: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5171, 38 p.  Available Online

Tornes, L.H., Stark, J.R., Hoard, C.J., and Smith, E.A., 2007, Anthropogenic organic compounds in ground water and finished water of community water systems in the Greater Twin Cities metropolitan area, Minnesota and Wisconsin, 2004-05: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5273, 42 p.  Available Online

Welch, H. L., Kingsbury, J. A., Tollett, R.W., and Seanor, R.C., 2009, Quality of shallow groundwater and drinking water in the Mississippi embayment-Texas coastal uplands aquifer system and the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer, south-central United States, 1994-2004: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5091, 51 p.  Available Online

Yuan, Lester L., Pollard, Amina I., and Carlisle, Daren M., 2009, Using propensity scores to estimate the effects of insecticides on stream invertebrates from observational data: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Vol. 28, No. 7, p. 1518-1527.  doi: 10.1897/08-551.1 Available Online

Meador, Michael R., and Carlisle, Daren M., 2009, Predictive models for fish assemblages in eastern U.S. streams: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 138:725-740, 2009, 16 p.  doi: 10.1577/T08-132.1 Available Online

Falcone, James A., Carlisle, Daren M., and Weber, Lisa C., 2009, Quantifying human disturbance in watersheds: Variable selection and performance of a GIS-based disturbance index for predicting the biological condition of perennial streams: Ecological Indicators, article in press.  doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2009.05.005 Available Online

Rosen, M.R., Schaefer, D.H., Toccalino, P.L., and Delzer, G.C., 2006, Occurrence of anthropogenic organic compounds in ground water and finished water of community water systems in Eagle and Spanish Springs Valleys, Nevada, 2002-2004: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5210, 31 p.  Available Online

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