National Programs on Drinking Water:

USGS data to protect your community's ground-water supplies

USGS resources for water-system security

National Survey of MTBE and Other VOCs in Community Drinking-Water Sources

Report:  Contaminants and Drinking Water Sources in 2001:  Recent Findings of the USGS

The National Water Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA)

The Quality of Our Nation's Waters: Nutrients and Pesticides

Questionnaire and running results:  What kind of drinking water do you use at home?

General Interest Brochure:  Ground Water

USGS Ohio District's Microbiology Program (includes national info)

Fact sheet on USGS Source Water Programs

Presentations on USGS Source Water Programs and Research (from AWWA Source Water Meeting, 1-31-01, Savannah, GA)

Report:  Estimating the Likelihood of MTBE Occurrence in Drinking Water Supplied by Ground-Water Sources in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions of the United States (pdf)

Report:  Early Warning Monitoring to Detect Hazardous Events in Water Supplies (pdf)

Fact Sheet:  USGS Drinking Water Initiative

A National Look at Nitrate Contamination of Ground Water

Microbiological Monitoring for the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program

Arsenic in ground water of the United States

National Reconnaissance of Emerging Contaminants in the Nation's Waters

Investigations of Endocrine Disruption in Aquatic Systems Associated
with the National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program

Source-area characteristics of large public water supplies on CD-ROM

User's Guide for Source Water Assessment and Protection at U.S. Army Installations (Also useful for civilian source-water assessments)

Bibliography of USGS Reports on Contributing Areas to Wells

Selected Community Water Supply Wells and Leaking Underground Storage Tanks, by State

MTBE in Drinking Water in 10 Eastern States--MS PowerPoint Presentation (Look under "Publications about Connecticut")

To what extent will past MTBE releases contaminate the Nation's community water supply wells?

Estimated use of water in the United States in 1990--Domestic Water Use

Abstract:  A National Model for Assessing the Susceptibility of Surface-Water Supplies to Source-Area Contamination

Fact Sheet--Herbicides in Ground Water of the Midwest: A Regional Study of Shallow Aquifers, 1991-94

Radon in Earth, Air, and Water (Be sure to view Geologic Radon Potential maps)

Freshwater-Saltwater Interactions along the Atlantic Coast 

USGS National Research Program in the Hydrologic Sciences:

    Organic Carbon Migration in Aquatic Environments (Aiken)

    Comprehensive Organic Analysis of Water (Leenheer/Barber/Rostad)

    Interaction of Bacteria with Environmental Contaminants and Solid Surfaces in the Aquatic Environment           (Harvey/Metge)

    Environmental Dynamics of Persistent Organic Compounds (Chiou) 

    Origin, Fate, and Transport of Organic Compounds in Surface and
Ground Waters and Their Effect on Water Quality (Ingebritsen//Hostettle)

Abstract:  Detection of tetrabromobisphenol A and formation of brominated 13C-bisphenol A's in commercial drinking water stored in reusable polycarbonate containers (a study of contaminants derived from the disinfection process prior to refilling  5-gallon reusable plastic water jugs)

Development and use of immuno- and bioassays for detection of cyanobacterial toxins

Abstract:  Increased zinc in the cortex of rats raised on drinking water containing enhanced levels of zinc

Powerpoint Presentation from 2000 Annual Meeting of Association of State Drinking Water Administrators:  "Realities of Contaminant Occurrence", 10-4-00

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