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Nutrients in rivers, streams, and aquifers in the United States
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USGS Circular 1350: Nutrients in the Nation's Streams and Groundwater
Nitrate in the Mississippi River and its tributaries, 1980 to 2008: Are we making progress? (Sprague and others, 2011)
Nitrogen Contamination of Surficial Aquifers -- A Growing Legacy (Puckett and others, 2011)
Nitrate in groundwater of the United States, 1991-2003 (Burow and others, 2010)
Predicting Unsaturated Zone Nitrogen Mass Balances in Agricultural Settings of the United States (Nolan and others, 2010)
Changes in Streamflow and the Flux of Nutrients in the
Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin, USA, 1980–2007 (Battaglin and others, 2010)
Nitrate loads and concentrations in surface-water base flow and shallow groundwater for selected basins in the United States, water years 1990–2006 (Spahr and others, 2010)
Development and Application of Regression Models for Estimating Nutrient Concentrations in Streams of the Conterminous United States, 1992–2001 (Spahr and others, 2010)
Nutrient trends in streams and rivers of the United States, 1993-2003 (Sprague and others, 2009)
Decadal-scale changes of nitrate in ground water of the United States, 1988-2004 (Rupert, 2008)
Nutrients in streams and rivers across the Nation--1992-2001 (Mueller and Spahr, 2006)
Vulnerability of shallow groundwater and drinking-water wells to nitrate in the United States (Nolan and Hitt, 2006)
Reports from studies of effects of nutrient enrichment on stream ecosystems
Understanding nutrients in surface water using the national SPARROW model
Linking ground water age and chemistry data along flow paths: implications for trends and transformations of nutrients and pesticides (Tesoriero and others, 2007)
Drinking-water nitrate and health--Recent findings and research needs (Ward and others, 2005)
May/June 2008 JEQ articles evaluating nutrient transport in five agricultural watersheds
Factors affecting nitrate transport to public supply wells (McMahon and others, 2008)
Redox processes and water quality of selected principal aquifer systems (McMahon and Chapelle, 2007)
Efficacy of algal metrics for assessing nutrient and organic enrichment in flowing waters (Porter and others, 2008)
National Data Sets
County-level esitmates of nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizer, 1987-2006
Water-quality, streamflow, and ancillary data for nutrients in streams and rivers across the Nation, 1992-2001
County-level estimates of nutrient inputs to the land surface 1982-2001
Summary of nutrient concentrations for streams and ground water
- July 2000 (Used by Heinz Center)
Nutrient concentrations and yields in undeveloped stream basins
- 2000
Surface water (rivers and streams)
- 1999
Ground water (aquifers)
- 1999
Retrospective database for nutrients in ground water and surface water
- 1996
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