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Every five years since 1950, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Use Information Program (NWUIP) has compiled water-use information in the United States and published a circular report...

Bathymetric surveys were conducted by the U.S. Geo-logical Survey, in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Transportation, on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers in the vicinity of 12 bridges...

The National Water-Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA) of the U.S. Geological Survey began a series of groundwater studies in 2001 in representative aquifers across the Nation in order to increase...

The High Plains aquifer, underlying almost 112 million acres in the central United States, is one of the largest aqui-fers in the Nation. It is the primary water supply for drinking water,...

Although numerous studies have been completed on pallid sturgeon populations and behavior, few have addressed the potential for water-quality characteristics to limit recruit-ment and population...

Continuous streamflow and turbidity data collected from October 1, 2008, to September 30, 2010, at streamgage sites upstream and downstream from Kanopolis and Tuttle Creek Lakes, Kansas, were used to...

Groundwater studies and monitoring efforts conducted during 2008-2009, as part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Cooperative Water Program with the City of Augusta in Richmond County, Georgia,...

TOPMODEL, a physically based, variable-source area rainfall-runoff model, was used to simulate streamflow and depth to water table for the period January 2007-September 2009 in the 65.6 square...

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the Massachusetts Department of...

Public water systems provide potable water for the pub-lic's use. The Safe Drinking Water Act amendments of 1996 required States to prepare a source-water susceptibility assessment (SWSA) for each...

Trends in loads and concentrations of suspended sedi-ment and suspended sand generally were downward for sta-tions within the Mississippi River Basin during the 60-, 34-, and 12-year periods analyzed...

Water-resource managers in Onondaga County, New York, are faced with the challenge of improving the water quality of Onondaga Lake, which has the distinction of being one of the most contaminated...

The State of Illinois' annual withdrawal from Lake Michigan is limited by a U.S. Supreme Court decree, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is responsible for monitoring flows in the Chicago...

The six Middle Rio Grande Pueblos have prior and paramount rights to deliveries of water from the Rio Grande for their use. When the pueblos or the Bureau of Indian Affairs Designated Engineer...

The U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service cooperated on a study to determine the occurrence of wastewater indicator compounds including nutrients; organic wastewater compounds (OWCs),...

Sustained, natural oil seepage from the seafloor is com-mon off southern California, and is of great interest to resource managers, who are tasked with distinguishing natural from anthropogenic oil...

Airborne geophysical surveys of selected areas of the North and South Platte River valleys of Nebraska, including Lodgepole Creek valley, collected data to map aquifers and bedrock topography and...

The U.S. Geological Survey collected geophysical data in Deep Creek Lake in Garrett County, Maryland, between September 17 through October 4, 2007 to assist the Maryland Department of Natural...

During 2010-11, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Texas Water Development Board, used hydrograph separation to quantify historical base flow at 11 USGS streamflow-gaging...

This report summarizes data from studies of the toxicity and bioavailability of nickel in nickel-spiked fresh-water sediments. The goal of these studies was to generate toxicity and chemistry data to...

In order to evaluate water availability in the State of Maine, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Maine Geological Survey began a cooperative investigation to provide the first rigorous...

The Albuquerque, New Mexico, area has two principal sources of water: groundwater from the Santa Fe Group aquifer system and surface water from the San Juan-Chama Diversion Project. From 1960 to...

The Pearl Harbor aquifer in southern Oÿahu is one of the most important sources of freshwater in Hawaiÿi. A thick freshwater lens overlays brackish and saltwater in this coastal aquifer. Salinity...

Flooding of streets and residential basements, and bacterial contamination of private-supply wells with Escherichia coli (E. coli) are recurring problems in the Rondout Valley near the Town of...

The 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake caused a massive landslide (Madison Slide) that dammed the Madison River and formed Earthquake Lake. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers excavated a spillway through the...

On September 18, 2000, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission published a final rule, 10 CFR Part 70, for licensing the use of special nuclear material. In this rule, NRC included a requirement that...

This report presents the results of an assessment of the capabilities of the TRAC-M(F777), Version 5.5.2.A, and TRAC-M(F90), Versions 3.580, codes to predict reflood and steam cooling phenomena that...

The Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards prepared this annual report for ISCORS member agencies as a means of documenting the ISCORS calendar year 2000 activities and accomplishments...

The Standard Technical Specifications for dry cask storage are intended to be used by potential 10 CFR Part 72 Certificate Holders in developing a set of clear and consistent technical specifications...

The report summarizes the input received from a 17-member Panel of Experts on the role and future direction of nuclear regulatory research. Membership on the panel was comprised of representatives...