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Nebraska Water Science Center Publications
Water Quality
 The Nebraska Water Science Center maintains a network of wells to monitor the effects of droughts and other climate variability on groundwater levels. Publications concerning Nebraska's groundwater resources are listed below.
| Report number | USGS Scientific Investigations Reports - Report title |
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| SIR 2012-5036 | Altitude, Age, and Quality of Groundwater, Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District, Eastern Nebraska, 1992 to 2009 |
| SIR 2009-5175 | Water Quality of Combined Sewer Overflows, Stormwater, and Streams, Omaha, Nebraska, 2006–07 |
| SIR 2009-5224 | Riparian and Associated Habitat Characteristics Related to Nutrient Concentrations and Biological Responses of Small Streams in Selected Agricultural Areas, United States, 2003-04 |
| SIR 2008-5050 | Hydrogeology, Chemical Characteristics, and Transport Processes in the Zone of Contribution of a Public-Supply Well in York, Nebraska |
| SIR 2007-5228 | Occurrence of agricultural chemicals in shallow ground water and the unsaturated zone, northeast Nebraska glacial till, 2002-04 |
| SIR 05-5157 | Age and quality of ground water and sources of nitrogen in the aquifers in Pumpkin Creek Valley, western Nebraska, 2000 |
| Report number | USGS Circulars - Report title |
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| Circular 1163 | Water quality in the Central Nebraska Basins, Nebraska, 1992-95 |
| Report number | USGS Data Series - Report title |
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| Data Series 117 | Occurrence of selected pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical compounds, and stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios in a riverbank filtration study, Platte River, Nebraska, 2001 to 2003, Volume 1 |
| Data Series 133 | Microbe concentrations, laser particle counts, and stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios in samples from riverbank filtration study, Platte River, Nebraska, 2002 to 2004 |
| Data Series 141 | Occurrence of selected pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical compounds, and stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios in a riverbank filtration study, Platte River, Nebraska, 2002 to 2005, Volume 2 |
| Report number | USGS Fact Sheets - Report title |
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| FS 2007-3098 | Water-Quality and fish-community data for the Niobrara National Scenic River, Nebraska, 2003-05 |
| FS 2005-3022 | Assessing the vulnerability of public-supply wells to contamination from urban, agricultural, and natural sources |
| FS 114-03 | Occurrence of pesticides in ground water of the North Platte Natural Resources District, Nebraska, 2002 |
| FS 072-03 | Is septic waste affecting drinking water from shallow domestic wells along the Platte River in Eastern Nebraska? |
| FS 013-03 | Water-quality assessment of the central Nebraska basins: Entering a new decade |
| FS 100-01 | Use of environmental tracers and isotopes to evaluate sources of water, nitrate, and uranium in an irrigated alluvial valley, Nebraska |
| FS 151-00 | Shallow ground-water quality in the Platte River Valley alluvium, Nebraska, October- November 1997 |
| FS 120-00 | Ground-water quality in the Upper Republican Natural Resources District, southwestern Nebraska, 1998-99 |
| FS 078-00 | Minimizing the risk of herbicide transport into public water supplies-A Nebraska case study |
| FS 179-99 | Ground-water flow and water quality of the Indian Island well field near Grand Island, Nebraska, 1994-95 |
| Report number | USGS Open-File Reports - Report title |
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| OFR 05-1337 | Sampling and analysis plan for ground-water monitoring of wells near the metropolitan utilities district's Platte River West Well Field near Wann, Nebraska: Part I, field sampling plan and Part II, quality assurance project plan |
| OFR 00-413 | Selected field and analytical methods and analytical results in the Dutch Flats area, western Nebraska, 1995-99 |
| OFR 99-454 | Water-quality assessment of the Central Nebraska Basins-Design for field operations, 1992 through 1995 |
| OFR 96 419 | The chemical quality of overbank sediment deposited by the 1993 floods and streambed sediment in major streams at selected sites in eastern Nebraska |
| OFR 96-551 | Streamflow gain-and-loss measurements and water-quality data of Salt Creek and its tributaries near Lincoln, Nebraska, 1994-95 |
| OFR 94-100 | Compilation of atrazine and selected herbicide data from previous surface-water- quality investigations within the Big Blue River Basin, Nebraska, 1983-92 |
| OFR 93-457 | Reconnaissance data for selected herbicides, two atrazine metabolites, and nitrate in surface water of the midwestern United States, 1989-90 |
| OFR 93-422 | Water-quality assessment of the Central Nebraska Basins--Summary of data for recent conditions through 1990 |
| OFR 91-097 | 1991 National Water Quality Assessment Program--The Central Nebraska Basins |
| OFR 90-581 | Surface-water-quality assessment of the lower Kansas River Basin, Kansas and Nebraska--Concentrations of major metals and trace elements in streambed sediments, 1987 |
| OFR 89-409 | U.S. Geological Survey Second National Symposium on Water Quality; Abstracts of the Technical Sessions; Orlando, Florida; November 12-17, 1989 |
| Report number | USGS Water-Data Reports - Report title |
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| WDR NE-08-1 | Nebraska Data Report, 2008 |
| WDR NE-07-1 | Nebraska Data Report, 2007 |
| WDR NE-06-1 | Nebraska Data Report, 2006 |
| WDR NE-05-1 | Water Resources Data-Nebraska, 2005 |
| WDR NE-04-1 | Water Recources Data, Nebraska, 2004 |
| WDR NE-03-1 | Water Resources Data, Nebraska, 2003 |
| WDR NE-02-1 | Water recources data, Nebraska, 2002 |
| WDR NE-01-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 2001 |
| WDR NE-00-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 2000 |
| WDR NE 99-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 1999 |
| WDR NE 98-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 1998 |
| WDR NE 97-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 1997 |
| WDR NE 96-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 1996 |
| WDR NE 95-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 1995 |
| WDR NE 94-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 1994 |
| WDR NE 93-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 1993 |
| WDR NE 92-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 1992 |
| WDR NE 91-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 1991 |
| WDR NE-90-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 1990 |
| WDR NE-89-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 1989 |
| WDR NE-88-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 1988 |
| WDR NE 87-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 1987 |
| WDR NE-86-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 1986 |
| WDR NE-85-1 | Water resources data, Nebraska, 1985 |
| Report number | USGS Water-Resources Investigations Reports - Report title |
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| WRIR 02-4270 | Changes in nutrient and pesticide concentration in urban and agricultural areas of the South Platte River Basin, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska, 1994-2000 |
| WRIR 00-4155 | Hydrogeology and water quality of five principal aquifers in the Lower Platte South Natural Resources District, eastern Nebraska, 1994 |
| WRIR 00-4254 | Historical water-quality data for the High Plains regional ground-water study area in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming, 1930-98 |
| WRIR 00-4056 | Distribution of nitrate in ground water of the Republican River Basin, southwest Nebraska, 1996-98 |
| WRIR 98-4106 | Nitrate concentrations in ground water in the paleovalley alluvial aquifers of the Nemaha Natural Resources District, Nebraska, 1989 and 1994-96 |
| WRIR 98-4168 | Quantity and quality of urban stormwater runoff from selected drainage basins, Omaha, Nebraska, 1992-93 |
| WRIR 98-4210 | Field screening of water quality, bottom sediment, and biota associated with irrigation drainage in the North Platte Project Area, Nebraska and Wyoming, 1995 |
| WRIR 98-4138 | Nitrate and other water-quality characteristics, and nitrogen in the unsaturated zone, in the Red Willow and Hitchcock Counties Special Protection Area, southwest Nebraska, 1993-95 |
| WRIR 98-4033 | Geohydrology and water quality of the North Platte River alluvial aquifer, Garden County, western Nebraska, 1993-94 |
| WRIR 98-4207 | Hydrogeology and subsurface nitrate in the Upper Big Blue Natural Resources District, central Nebraska, July 1995 through September 1997 |
| WRIR 96-4239 | Distribution of selected nitrogen compounds in ground water and the unsaturated zone, Superior-Hardy Special Protection Area, Nuckolls County, Nebraska, 1991-93 |
| WRIR 96-4095 | Water quality and chemical evolution of ground water in the Long Pine Creek area, Brown and Rock Counties, Nebraska, 1993-94 |
| WRIR 96-4272 | Potential effects of large floods on the transport of atrazine into the alluvial aquifer adjacent to the Lower Platte River, Nebraska |
| WRIR 96-4316 | Reconnaissance of surface-water quality in the North Platte Natural Resources District, western Nebraska, 1993 |
| WRIR 95-4202 | Relations of nonpoint-source nitrate and atrazine concentrations in the High Plains aquifer to selected explanatory variables in six Nebraska study areas |
| WRIR 94-4015 | Temporal distributions of herbicide and nitrite- nitrate concentrations and loads in the West Fork of the Big Blue River, Nebraska, 1990 and 1991-92, in Morganwalp, D.W., and Aronson, D.A., eds. 1994, U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program-Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, September 20-24, 1993 |
| WRIR 94-4015 | Predicting nitrate-nitrogen and atrazine contamination in the High Plains aquifer in Nebraska, in Morganwalp, D.W., and Aronson, D.A., eds. 1994, U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program-Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, September 20-24, 1993 |
| WRIR 94-4157 | Water-level changes in the High Plains aquifer--Predevelopment to 1993 |
| WRIR 94-4027 | Water-level changes in the High Plains aquifer-- Predevelopment to 1992 |
| WRIR 94-4201 | Surface-water-quality assessment of the lower Kansas River basin, Kansas and Nebraska--Distribution of trace-element concentrations in dissolved and suspended phases, streambed sediment, and fish samples, May 1987 through April 1990 |
| WRIR 94-4197 | Reconnaissance of ground-water quality in the Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District, eastern Nebraska, July through September 1992 |
| WRIR 94-4057 | Reconnaissance of ground-water quality in the North Platte Natural Resources District, western Nebraska, June-July 1991 |
| WRIR 90-4184 | Ground-water quality in the Nemaha Natural Resources District, southeastern Nebraska, 1989 |
| WRIR 88-4220 | Overview of the relations of nonpoint-source agricultural-chemical contamination with local hydrogeologic, soil and land-use characteristics of the High Plains aquifer of Nebraska, in Mallard, G.E., and Ragone, S.E., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program-Proceedings of the technical meetings, September 26-30, 1988 |
| WRIR 86-4338 | Nonpoint-source agricultural chemicals in ground water in Nebraska-Preliminary results for six areas of the High Plains aquifer |
| WRIR 85-4153 | Water quality variations in Antelope Creek and Deadmans Run, Lincoln, Nebraska |
| WRIR 81-65 | Results of a reconnaissance water-quality sampling program of the Ogallala aquifer in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas |
| Report number | USGS Water Supply Papers - Report title |
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| WSP 2375 | Nebraska floods and droughts, in National Water Summary 1988-89-Hydrologic events, selected water-quality trends and floods and droughts |
| WSP 2325 | Nebraska ground-water quality, in National Water Summary 1986-Hydrologic events and ground-water quality |
| WSP 2325 | Agricultural chemical contamination of ground water in six areas of the High Plains aquifer, Nebraska, in National Water Summary 1986-Hydrologic events and ground- water quality |
| WSP 2245 | Appraisal of data for ground-water quality in Nebraska |
| Report number | Non-USGS Publications - Report title |
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| Journal of Environmental Quality, v. 37, p. 1116-113 | Occurrence and fate of pesticides in four contrasting agricultural settings in the United States: Journal of Environ. Qual., v. 37, p. 1116-1132.
Steele, G.V., Johnson, H.M., Sandstrom, M.W., Capel, P.D., and Barbash, J.E., 2008 |
| Journal of Environmental Quality, v. 37, p. 1116-113 | Pesticides in rain in four agricultural watersheds in the United States: Journal of Environmental Quality, v. 37, p. 1101-1115.
Vogel, J.R., Majewski, M.S., and Capel, P.D., 2008 |
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