National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program
Anning, D.W., Thiros, S.A., Bexfield, L.M., McKinney, T.S., and Green, J.M., 2009, Southwest principal aquifers regional ground-water quality assessment: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2009-3015, 4 p.
DeSimone, L.A., 2009, Quality of water from domestic wells in principal aquifers of the United States, 1991–2004: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008–5227, 139 p.
DeSimone, L.A., Hamilton, P.A., Gilliom, R.J., 2009, Quality of water from domestic wells in principal aquifers of the United States, 1991–2004—Overview of major findings: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1332, 48 p.
Embrey, S.S., and Runkle, D.L., 2006, Microbial quality of the Nation's ground-water resources, 1993-2004: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5290, 34 p.
Lapham, Wayne W.; Hamilton, Pixie A.; Myers, Donna N., 2005, National Water-Quality Assessment Program - cycle II regional assessments of aquifers: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2005-3013, 4 p.
Lindsey, B.D., Berndt, M.P., Katz, B.G., Ardis, A.F., and Skach, K.A., 2009, Factors affecting water quality in selected carbonate aquifers in the United States, 1993–2005: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5240, 117 p.
McMahon, P.B., Cowdery, T.K., Chapelle, F.H., and Jurgens, B.C., 2009, Redox conditions in selected principal aquifers of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2009-3041, 6 p.
Nolan, B.T., Healy, R.W., Taber, P.E., Perkins, Kimberlie, Hitt, K.J., and Wolock, D.M., 2007, Factors influencing ground-water recharge in the eastern United States: Journal of Hydrology, v. 322, p. 187-205.
Sargent, P., Maupin, M.A., and Hinkle, S.R., 2008, Estimated Withdrawals from Stream-Valley Aquifers and Refined Estimated Withdrawals from Selected Aquifers in the United States, 2000: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5003, 71 p.
Anning, D. W., Bauch, N. J., Gerner, S. J., Flynn, M. E., Hamlin, S. N., Moore, S. J., Schaefer, D. H., Anderholm, S. K., Spangler, L. E., 2007, Dissolved Solids in Basin-Fill Aquifers and Streams in the Southwestern United States: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5315, 168 p.
Paul, A.P., Seiler, R.L., Rowe, T.G., and Rosen, M.R., 2007, Effects of Agriculture and Urbanization on Quality of Shallow Ground Water in the Arid to Semiarid Western United States, 1993-2004: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5179, 57 p.
Schaefer, Donald H.; Thiros, Susan A.; Rosen, Michael R., 2005, Ground-Water Quality in the Carbonate-Rock Aquifer of the Great Basin, Nevada and Utah, 2003: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5232, 41 p.
Bradner, Anne; McPherson, Benjamin F.; Miller, Ronald L.; Kish, George; Bernard, Bruce, 2005, Quality of ground water in the Biscayne Aquifer in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, Florida, 1996-1998, with emphasis on contaminants: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1438, 25 p.
Berndt, M.P., Katz, B.G., Lindsey, B.D., Ardis, A.F., and Skach, K. A., 2005, Comparison of water chemistry In spring and well samples from selected carbonate aquifers in the United States, in U.S. Geological Survey Karst Interest Group Proceedings, Rapid City, South Dakota, September 12-15, 2005, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5160, p. 74-81.
Jagucki, M.L., Katz, B.G., Crandall, C.A. and Eberts, S.M., 2009, Assessing the Vulnerability of Public-Supply Wells to Contamination: Floridan Aquifer System near Tampa, Florida. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2009-3062, 6 p.
Katz, B.G., Crandall, C.A., Metz, P.A., McBride, S., and Berndt, M.P., 2007, Chemical characteristics, water sources and pathways, and age distribution of ground water in the contributing recharge area of a Public-Supply Well near Tampa, Florida, 2002-05: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5139, 83 p.
Marella, R.L., and Berndt, M.P., 2005, Water withdrawals and trends from the Floridan aquifer system in the southeastern United States, 1950-2000: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1278, 20 p.
Metz, P.A., Delzer, G.C., Berndt, M.P., Crandall, C.A., and Toccalino, P.L., 2006, Anthropogenic organic compounds in ground water and finished water of community water systems in the northern Tampa Bay area, Florida, 2002–04: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5267, 48 p.
Arnold, T.L., Warner, K.L., Groschen, G.E., Caldwell, J.P., and Kalkhoff, S.J., 2008, Hydrochemical regions of the glacial aquifer system, northern United States, and their environmental and water-quality characteristics: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5015, 83 p. with appendixes.
Ayotte, J.D., Flanagan, S.M., and Morrow, W.S., 2007, Occurrence of Uranium and 222Radon in Glacial and Bedrock Aquifers in the Northern United States, 1993–2003: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007–5037, 84 p.
Feinstein, D.T., and Thomas, M.A., 2009, Hypothetical modeling of redox conditions for a complex ground-water flow field in a glacial setting: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008–5066, 27 p.
Groschen, G.E., Arnold, T.L., Morrow, W.S., and Warner, K.L., 2008, Occurrence and distribution of iron, manganese, and selected trace elements in ground water in the glacial aquifer system of the Northern United States: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009–5006, 89 p.
Thomas, Mary Ann, 2003, Arsenic in midwestern glacial deposits--occurrence and relation to selected hydrogeologic and geochemical factors: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4228, 36 p.
Thomas, M.A., 2007, The Association of Arsenic With Redox Conditions, Depth, and Ground-Water Age in the Glacial Aquifer System of the Northern United States: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5036, 35 p.
Warner, K.L., and Arnold,T.L., 2005, Framework for regional synthesis of water-quality data for the glacial aquifer system in the United States, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5223, 6 p.
Gurdak, J.J., 2008, Ground-water vulnerability: Nonpoint-source contamination, climate variability, and the High Plains aquifer: Saarbrucken, Germany, VDM Verlag Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-639-09427-5, 223 p.
Gurdak, J.J., Hanson, R.T., McMahon, P.B., Bruce, B.W., McCray, J.E., Thyne, G.D., and R.C. Reedy, 2007, Climate variability controls on unsaturated water and chemical movement, High Plains aquifer, USA: Vadose Zone Journal, doi: 10.2136/vzj/2006.0087. Abstract
Gurdak, J.J., McCray, J.E., Thyne, G.D., and Qi, S.L., 2007, Latin hypercube approach to estimate uncertainty in ground water vulnerability: Ground Water, v. 45, no. 3, p. 348–361, doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2006.00298.x. Abstract
Gurdak, J.J., McMahon, P.B., Dennehy, K.F., and Qi, S.L., 2009, Water quality in the High Plains aquifer, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming, 1999–2004: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1337, 63 p.
Gurdak, J.J., and Qi, S.L., 2006, Vulnerability of Recently Recharged Ground Water in the High Plains Aquifer to Nitrate Contamination: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5050, 39 p.
Gurdak, J.J., Walvoord, M.A., and McMahon, P.B., 2008, Susceptibility to enhanced chemical migration from depression-focused preferential flow, High Plains aquifer: Vadose Zone Journal, v. 7, no. 4, p. 1172–1184, doi: 10.2136/vzj2007.0145.
McMahon, P.B., and Böhlke, 2006, Regional patterns in the isotopic composition of natural and anthropogenic nitrate in ground water, High Plains, USA: Environmental Science & Technology, v. 40, no. 9, pp 2965 - 2970.
McMahon, P.B., J.K. Böhlke, and C.P. Carney, 2007, Vertical gradients in water chemistry and age in the northern High Plains aquifer, Nebraska, 2003: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5294, 35 p.
McMahon, P.B., Böhlke, J.K., and Christenson, S.C., 2004, Geochemistry, radiocarbon ages, and paleorecharge conditions along a transect in the central High Plains aquifer, southwestern Kansas, USA: Applied Geochemistry, v. 19, p. 1655–1686.
McMahon, P.B., Böhlke, J.K., Kauffman, L.J., Kipp, K.L., Landon, M.K., Crandall, C.A., Burow, K.R., and Brown, C.J., 2008, Source and transport controls on the movement of nitrate to public supply wells in selected principal aquifers of the United States: Water Resources Research, v. 44, W04401, doi:10.1029/2007WR006252.
McMahon, P.B., Böhlke, J.K., and Lehman, T.M., 2004, Vertical gradients in water chemistry and age in the southern High Plains aquifer, Texas, 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004–5053, 53 p.
McMahon, P.B., Burow, K.R., Kauffman, L.J., Eberts, S.M., Böhlke, J.K., and Gurdak, J.J., 2008, Simulated response of water quality in public supply wells to land use change: Water Resources Research, v. 44, W00A06, doi:10.1029/2007WR006731.
McMahon, P.B., Dennehy, K.F., Bruce, B.W., Böhlke, J.K., Michel, R.L., Gurdak, J.J., and Hurlbut, D.A., 2006, Storage and transit time of chemicals in thick unsaturated zones under rangeland and irrigated cropland, High Plains, USA: Water Resources Research, v. 42, W03413, doi:10.1029/2005WR004417.
McMahon, Peter B., Dennehy, Kevin F., Bruce, Breton W., Gurdak, Jason J., and Qi, Sharon L., 2007, Water-quality assessment of the High Plains Aquifer, 1999–2004: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1749, 136 p.
McMahon, P.B., Dennehy, K.F., Michel, R.L., Sophocleous, M.A., Ellett, K.M., and Hurlbut, D., 2003, Water movement through thick unsaturated zones overlying the central High Plains aquifer, southwestern Kansas, 2000-2001: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003–4171, 30 p.
Qi, S.L., Konduris, A., Litke, D.W., and Dupree, J., 2002, Classification of irrigated land using satellite imagery, the High Plains aquifer, nominal data 1992: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002–4236, 31 p.
Stanton, J.S. and Fahlquist, L., 2006, Ground-water quality beneath irrigated cropland of the Northern and Southern High Plains aquifer, Nebraska and Texas, 2003-04: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5196, 94 p.
Stanton, J.S. and Qi, S.L., 2007, Ground-Water quality of the Northern High Plains aquifer, 1997, 2002–04: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5138, 60 p.
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.
Ator, Scott W., 2008, Natural and Human Influences on Water Quality in a Shallow Regional Unconsolidated Aquifer, Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5190, 32 p.
Ator, S.W., Denver, J.M., Krantz, D.E., Newell, W.L., and Martucci, S.K., 2005, A surficial hydrogeologic framework for the Mid-Atlantic coastal plain: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1680, 44 p., and 4 maps.
Lindsey, B.D., Falls, W.F., Ferrari, M.J., Zimmerman, T.M., Harned, D.A., Sadorf, E.M., and Chapman, M.J., 2006, Factors Affecting Occurrence and Distribution of Selected Contaminants in Ground Water From Selected Areas in the Piedmont Aquifer System, Eastern United States, 1993-2003: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5104, 72 p.
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