Publications

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Product of current study 1997-2002

Product of pilot study 1986-1992

Friedel, M.J., 1998, National water-quality assessment program- Upper Illinois River Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 072-98 Fact Sheet (HTML Format)

	Adolphson, D.L., Arnold, T.L., Fitzpatrick, F.A., Harris, M.A., Richards, K.D., Scudder, B.C., and Stewart, J.S., 2002, Physical, chemical, and biological methods and data from the urban land-use-gradient study, Des Plaines and Fox River Basins, Illinois, 1999-2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-459, 20 p. Abstract || Report (PDF Format 8.1 MB) || Report (HTML format)
	Sullivan, D.J., and Terrio, P.J., 1994, Surface-water-quality assessment of the upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin: Data on agricultural organic compounds, nutrients, and sediment in water, 1988-90: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-421, 61 p. Abstract
	Sullivan, D.J., and Blanchard, S.F., 1994, Surface-water-quality assessment of the upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin: Fixed-station network and selected water-quality data for April 1987-August 1990: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-175, 213 p. Abstract
	Fitzpatrick, F.A., and Colman, J.A., 1993, Surface-water-quality assessment of the upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin: Data on manmade nonagricultural volatile and semivolatile organic chemicals in water, May 1988 through March 1990: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 92-467, 70 p. Abstract
	Colman, J.A., and Sanzolone, R.F., 1991, Surface-water-quality assessment of the upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin: Geochemical data for fine-fraction streambed sediment from high- and low-order streams, 1987: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-571, 108 p. Abstract
	Zogorski, J.S., Blanchard, S.F., Romack, R.D., and Fitzpatrick, F.A., 1990, Availability and suitability of municipal wastewater information for use in a national water-quality assessment: A case study of the upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-375, 68 p. Abstract
	Mades, D.M., 1987, Surface-water-quality assessment of the upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin: Project description: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 87-473, 35 p. Abstract

	Morrow, W.S., 2003, Anthropogenic Constituents in Shallow Ground Water in the Upper Illinois River Basin, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4293 Abstract || Report (PDF Format 2974K)
	Arnold, T.L., and Friedel, M.J., 2000, Effects of land use on recharge potential of surficial and shallow bedrock aquifers in the upper Illinois River Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4027, 18 p. Abstract || Report (PDF Format 3MB)
	Sullivan, D.J., 1999, Nutrients and Suspended Solids in Surface Waters of the Upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, 1978-97: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4275, 57 p. Abstract || Report (PDF Format 2.7 MB)
	Arnold, T.L., Sullivan, D.J., Harris, M.A., Fitzpatrick, F.A., Scudder, B.C., Ruhl, P.M., Hanchar, D.W., Stewart, J.S., 1999, Environmental setting of the upper Illinois River Basin and implications for water quality: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4268, 67 p. Abstract || Report (PDF Format 4MB)
	Fitzpatrick, F.A., Colman, J.A., and Arnold, T.L., 1998, Surface water-quality assessment of the upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin: Spatial distribution of geochemicals in the fine fraction of streambed sediment, 1987: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4109, 89 p. Abstract || Report (PDF Format 14MB)
	Sullivan, D.J., Stinson, T.W., Crawford, J.K., and Schmidt, A.R., 1998, Surface-water-quality assessment of the upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin--Pesticides and other synthetic organic compounds in water, sediment, and biota, 1975-90 with a section on Historical conditions by John A. Colman: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4135, 131 p. Abstract || Report (PDF Format 5MB)
	Schmidt, A.R., and Blanchard, S.F., 1997, Surface-water-quality assessment of the upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin--Results of investigations through April 1992: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4223, 63 p. Abstract || Report (HTML Format)
	Fitzpatrick, F.A., Scudder, B.C., Crawford, J.K., Schmidt, A.R., Sieverling, J.B., and others, 1995, Surface water-quality assessment of the upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin: Major and trace elements in water, sediment, and biota, 1978-90: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4045, 254 p. Abstract
	Marron, D.C., and Blanchard, S.F., 1995, Surface-water-quality assessment of the upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin: Cross-sectional and depth variation of water-quality constituents and properties in the upper Illinois River Basin, 1987-88: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4021, 19 p. Abstract
	Terrio, P.J., 1995, Water-quality assessment of the upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin: Nutrients, dissolved oxygen, and fecal-indicator bacteria in surface water, April 1987 through August 1990: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4005, 79 p Abstract
	Ruhl, P.M., 1995, Surface-water-quality assessment of the upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin: Analysis of relations between fish-community structure and environmental conditions in the Fox, Des Plaines, and Du Page River Basins in Illinois 1982-84: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4094, 50 p. Abstract
	Terrio, P.J., 1994, Relations of changes in wastewater-treatment practices to changes in stream-water quality during 1978-88 in the Chicago area, Illinois, and implications for regional and national water-quality assessments: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4188, 56 p. Abstract
	Steffeck, D.W., and Striegl, R.G., 1989, An inventory and evaluation of biological investigations that relate to stream-water quality in the upper Illinois River Basin of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 89-4041, 54 p. Abstract

	Leland, H.V., and Porter, S.D., 2000, Distribution of benthic algae in the upper Illinois River Basin in relation to geology and land use, Freshwater Biology--Applied Issues, no. 44, 279-301
	Robertson, D. M. and Richards, K.D., 2000, Influence of different temporal sampling strategies on estimating loads and maximum concentrations in small streams, Proceedings of the National Water Quality Monitoring Council National Monitoring Conference, Austin TX, p. 209-223. Abstract
	Robertson, D.M., and Roerish, E.D., 1999, Influence of different sampling strategies on load estimations for small streams, Water Resources Research, vol. 35, no. 12, p.3747-3759. Abstract

	Arnold, T.L., and Warner, K.L., 2001, Creating a multi-state database from well construction records--Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin: 2001 Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers Annual Meeting and Conference, December 7-9, 2001, Nashville, Tennessee, p. 31-32. Abstract (PDF Format)
	Arnold, T. L., Friedel, M.J., and Warner, K.L., 2001, Hydrogeologic inventory of the upper Illinois River Basin--creating a large data base from well construction records: Geological Models for Groundwater Flow Modeling, Workshop Extended Abstracts, North-Central Geological Society of America, April, 2001, Illinois State Geological Survey Open file Series 2001-1, p. 1-3. Abstract (PDF Format)