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Water-Resources Investigations Reports (WRIR/WRI)

Hydrologic information, mainly of local interest, intended for quick release. Book or map format. Varied scales.

Publications
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4203 Occurrence and distribution of nutrients, suspended sediment, and pesticides in the Mobile River Basin, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee, 1999-2001, by A.K. McPherson, R.S. Moreland, and J.B. Atkins
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4182 Comparison between agricultural and urban ground-water quality in the Mobile River Basin, 1999-2001, by J.L. Robinson
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4181 Shallow ground-water quality in agricultural areas of northern Alabama and Middle Tennessee, 2000-2001, by James A. Kingsbury
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4268 Response of fish communities to cropland density and natural environmental setting in the Eastern Highland Rim Ecoregion of the lower Tennessee River Basin, Alabama and Tennessee, 1999, by J.R. Powell
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4258 Simulations of Flooding on the Pea River and Whitewater Creek in the Vicinity of the Proposed Elba Bypass at Elba, Alabama, by T.S. Hedgecock
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4182 Investigation of water quality and aquatic-community structure in Village and Valley Creeks, City of Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, 2000 – 01, by A.K. McPherson, T.A. Abrahamsen, and C.A. Journey
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4162 Environmental setting and water-quality issues of the Mobile River Basin, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee, by G.C. Johnson, R.E. Kidd, C.A. Journey, Humbert Zappia, and J. Brian Atkins
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4160 Organochlorine compounds and trace elements in fish tissue and streambed sediment in the Mobile River Basin, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia, 1998, by Humbert Zappia
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4052 Ground-water quality beneath an urban residential and commercial area, Montgomery, Alabama, 1999-2000, by J.L. Robinson
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4225 Assessment of water-quality conditions in the J.B. Converse Lake Watershed, Mobile County, Alabama, 1990-98; by C.A. Journey and A.C. Gill
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4185 Water quality of the Flint River Basin, Alabama and Tennessee, 1999-2000, by A.B. Hoos, J.W. Garrett, and R.R. Knight
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4184 Occurrence and distribution of organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, and trace elements in fish tissue in the lower Tennessee River Basin, 1980-98, by R.R. Knight and J.R. Powell
Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4114 Simulations of flooding on the Tennessee River in the vicinity of U.S. Highway 231 near Huntsville, Alabama, by T.S. Hedgecock
Water-Resources Investigations Report 1999-4080 Environmental setting and water-quality issues in the lower Tennessee River Basin, by J.A. Kingsbury, A.B. Hoos, and M.D. Woodside
Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4040-A Simulations of the effects of U.S. Highway 231 and the proposed Montgomery outer loop on flooding in the Catoma Creek and Little Catoma Creek Basins near Montgomery, Alabama, by T.S. Hedgecock
Water-Resources Investigations Report 1995-4199 Magnitude and frequency of floods in Alabama, by J. Brian Atkins
Water-Resources Investigations Report 1993-4186 Low-flow and flow-duration charateristics of Alabama streams, by J. Brian Atkins, J. Leroy Pearman
Water-Resources Investigations Report 1988-4041 Estimating flood hydrographs and volumes for Alabama streams, by D. A. Olin, J. Brian Atkins

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