Water-Resources Scientific Investigations Reports

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2004

SIR2004-5237: Conceptual model and numerical simulation of the ground-water-flow system in the unconsolidated deposits of the Colville River Watershed, Stevens County, by D.M. Ely and S.C. Kahle Washington

SIR2004-5210: Seepage Study of Mapleton Lateral Canal near Mapleton, Utah, 2003, by C.D. Wilkowske and J.V. Phillips—ONLINE ONLY

SIR2004-5205: Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California— hydrogeologic framework and transient ground-water flow model, edited by Wayne R. Belcher—ONLINE ONLY

SIR2004-5196: Sediment Remobilization of Mercury in South San Francisco Bay, California, by B.R. Topping, J.S. Kuwabara, M.C. Marvin-DiPasquale, J.L. Agee, Le H. Kieu, J.R. Flanders, Francis Parchaso, S.W. Hager, C.B. Lopez, and D.P. Krabbenhoft—ONLINE ONLY

SIR2004-5194: Pesticides Detected in Urban Streams in King County, Washington, 1998-2003, by L.M. Frans—ONLINE ONLY

SIR2004-5192: Estimation of travel times for seven tributaries of the Mississippi River, St. Cloud to Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2003, by A.D. Arntson, D.L. Lorenz, and J.R. Stark

SIR2004-5187: Regional water table (2004) and water-level changes in the Mojave River and Morongo Ground-Water Basins, Southwestern Mojave Desert, California, by C.L. Stamos, J.A. Huff, S.K. Predmore and D.A. Clark

SIR2004-5180: Estimation of a water budget for 1972-2000 for the Grasslands Area, Central Part of the Western San Joaquin Valley, California, by C.F. Brush, Kenneth Belitz, and S.P. Phillips

SIR2004-5172: Investigation of hydroacoustic flow-monitoring alternatives at the Sacramento River at Freeport, California: Results of the 2002-2004 pilot study, by C.A. Ruhl and J.B. DeRose

SIR2004-5168: Simulation of runoff and wetland storage in the Hamden and Lonetree Watershed Sites within the Red River of the North Basin, North Dakota and Minnesota, by K.C. Vining

SIR2004-5166: Water Resources of the Tulalip Indian Reservation and adjacent area, Snohomish County, Washington, 2001-03, L.M. Frans and D.L. Kresch

SIR2004-5165: Geochemistry of Mercury and other Trace Elements in Fluvial Tailings Upstream of Daguerre Point Dam, Yuba River, California, August 2001, by M.P. Hunerlach, C.N. Alpers, Mark Marvin-DiPasquale, H.E. Taylor, and John F. De Wild—ONLINE ONLY

SIR2004-5161: Virus fate and transport during recharge using recycled water at a research field site in the Montebello Forebay, Los Angeles County, California, 1997-2000, by Robert Anders, W.A. Yanko, R.A. Schroeder, and J.L. Jackson

SIR2004-5158: Ground-water hydrology and water quality of the Southern High Plains Aquifer, Melrose Air Force Range, Cannon Air Force Base, Curry and Roosevelt Counties, New Mexico, 2002-03, by J.B. Langman, F.E. Gebhardt, and S.E. Falk

SIR2004-5157: August median streamflow on ungaged streams in Eastern Coastal Maine, by Pamela J. Lombard

SIR2004-5155: Estimates of natural ground-water discharge and characterization of water quality in Dry Valley, Washoe County, West-Central Nevada, 2002-2003, by D.L. Berger, D.K. Maurer, T.J. Lopes, and K.J. Halford

SIR2004-5153: Water-Quality Synoptic Sampling, July 1999: North Fork Shenandoah River, Virginia, by J.L. Krstolic and D.C. Hayes

SIR2004-5149: Assessing the susceptibility to contamination of two aquifer systems used for public water supply in the Modesto and Fresno Metropolitan Areas, California, 2001 and 2002, by M.T. Wright, Kenneth Belitz, and Tyler Johnson

SIR2004-5147: Mercury in the Walker River Basin, Nevada and California.sources, distribution, and potential effects on the ecosystem, by R.L. Seiler, M.S. Lico, S.N. Wiemeyer, and D.C. Evers—ONLINE ONLY

SIR2004-5138: Presesence and distribution of organic wastewater compounds in wastewater, surface, ground, and drinking waters, Minnesota, 2000–02, by K.E. Lee, L.B. Barber, E.T. Furlong, J.D. Cahill, D.W. Kolpin, M.T. Meyer, and S.D. Zaugg

SIR2004-5135: Magnitude and frequency of floods on small rural streams in Alabama, by T.S. Hedgecock

SIR2004-5130: Simulation of ground-water flow in the Cedar River alluvial aquifer flow system, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, by M.J. Turco and R.C. Buchmiller

SIR2004-5128: Water-quality and biological conditions in the Lower Boise River, Ada and Canyon Counties, Idaho, 1994-2002, by D.E. MacCoy

SIR2004-5121: Evaluation of conceptual models of natural rganic matter (Humus) from a consideration of the chemical and biochemical processes of humification, by R.L. Wershaw

SIR2004-5119: Fish communities of the Buffalo River Basin and nearby basins of Arkansas and their relation to selected environmental factors, 2001-2002, by J.E. Funkhouser and C.S. Barks

SIR2004-5117: Occurrence, distribution, and transport of pesticides, trace elements, and selected inorganic constituents into the Salton Sea Basin, California, 2001-2002, by L.A. LeBlanc, R.A. Schroeder, J.L. Orlando, and K.M. Kuivila—ONLINE ONLY

SIR2004-5116: Microbial and dissolved organic carbon characterization of stormflow in the Santa Ana River at Imperial Highway, Southern California, 1999-2002, by J.A. Izbicki, M.I. Pimentel, Menu Leddy, and Brian Bergamaschi—ONLINE ONLY

SIR2004-5114: Simulation of ground-water flow and evaluation of water-management alternatives in the Assabet River Basin, Eastern Massachusetts, by L.A. DeSimone

SIR2004-5110: Sediment quality in the North Coastal Basin of Massachusetts, 2003, by R.F. Breault, M,S. Ashman, and Douglas Heath

SIR2004-5106: Water budget for Lake Auburn, Maine, May 1, 2000 through April 30, 2003, by R.W. Dudley

SIR2004-5102: Hydrogeology and Simulation of Ground-Water Flow and Land-Surface Subsidence in the Northern Part of the Gulf Coast Aquifer System, Texas, by Mark C. Kasmarek and James L. Robinson

SIR2004-5098: Periphyton and macroinvertebrate communities at five sites in the San Joaquin River Basin, California, during June and September, 2001, by Larry R. Brown and Jason T. May—ONLINE ONLY

SIR2004-5097: Changes in rice pesticide use and surface water concentrations in the Sacramento River Watershed, California, by J.L. Orlando and K.M. Kuivila

SIR2004-5095: Evaluation of streamflow losses along the Gunnison River from Whitewater downstream to the Redlands Canal Diversion Dam, near Grand Junction, Colorado, water years 1995-2003, by Gerhard Kuhn and C.A. Williams

SIR2004-5094: Analysis of phosphorus trends and evaluation of sampling designs in the Quinebaug River Basin, Connecticut, by E.C. Todd Trench

SIR2004-5093: Quality of Water in the Fractured-Bedrock Aquifer of New Hampshire, by Richard Bridge Moore

SIR2004-5092: Comparison of methods for determining streamflow requirements for aquatic habitat protection at selected sites on the Assabet and Charles Rivers, Eastern Massachusetts, 2000-02, by G.W. Parker, D.S. Armstrong and T.A. Richards

SIR2004-5089: Water, ice, and meteorological measurements at South Cascade Glacier, Washington, balance year 2002, by W.R. Bidlake, E.G. Josberger, and M.E. Savoca

SIR2004-5087: Regional ground-water-flow models of surficial sand and gravel aquifers along the Mississippi River Between Brainerd and St. Cloud, Central Minnesota, by J.F. Ruhl, and T.K. Cowdery

SIR2004-5086: Predicting water quality by relating secchi-disk transparency and chlorophyll a measurements to satellite imagery for Michigan Inland Lakes, August 2002, by L.M Fuller, S.S. Aichele, and R.J. Minnerick

SIR2004-5084: Sources of mercury in sediments, water, and fish of the Lakes of Whatcom County, Washington, by Anthony J. Paulson

SIR2004-5083: Occurrence, distribution, instantaneous loads, and yields of dissolved pesticides in the San Joaquin River Basin, California, during summer conditions, 1994 and 2001, by L.R. Brown, S.Y. Panshin, C.R. Kratzer, Celia Zamora, and J.M. Gronberg

SIR2004-5082: Preliminary investigation of structural controls of ground-water movement in Pipe Spring National Monument, Arizona, by Margot Truini, J.B. Fleming, and H.A. Pierce

SIR2004-5081: Regional water table (2002) and water-level changes in the Mojave River and Morongo Ground-Water Basins, Southwestern Mojave Desert, California, by G.A. Smith, C.L. Stamos, and S.K. Predmore

SIR2004-5079: Riverbed elevations and water quality of the Missouri River at Sioux City, Iowa, 2002-03, by D.E. Christiansen—ONLINE ONLY

SIR2004-5078: Comparison of Forest Survey Data with Forest Dynamics Simulators FORCLIM and ZELIG along Climatic Gradients in the Pacific Northwest, by R.T. Busing and A.M. Solomon

SIR2004-5077: Simulated effects of impoundment of Lake Seminole on ground-water flow in the Upper Floridan Aquifer in Southwestern Georgia and adjacent parts of Alabama and Florida, by L.E. Jones and L.J. Torak—ONLINE ONLY

SIR2004-5074: Hydrogeology, water quality, and ecology of Anderton Branch near the Quail Hollow Landfill, Bedford County, Tennessee, 1995-99, by James J. Farmer

SIR2004-5073: Ground-water and surface-water flow and estimated water budget for Lake Seminole, Southwestern Georgia and Northwestern Florida, by M.S. Dalton, B.T. Aulenbach, and L.J. Torak—ONLINE ONLY

SIR2004-5072: Hydrodynamic simulation and particle-tracking techniques for identification of source areas to public-water intakes on the St. Clair-Detroit River Waterway in the Great Lakes Basin, by D.J. Holtschlag, and J.A. Koschik

SIR2004-5071: Streamflow and water-quality characteristics for Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, 2002-03, by A.J. Heakin

SIR2004-5070: Delineation of areas contributing recharge to selected public-supply wells in glacial valley-fill and wetland settings, Rhode Island, by P.J. Friesz

SIR2004-5068: Evaluation of methods used for estimating selected streamflow statistics, and flood frequency and magnitude, for small basins in North Coastal California, by M.P. Mann, Jule Rizzardo, and Richard Satkowski—ONLINE ONLY

SIR2004-5067: Ground-water quality of coastal aquifer systems in the West Coast Basin, Los Angeles County, California, 1999-2002, by Michael Land, E.G. Reichard, S.M. Crawford,R.R. Everett, M.W. Newhouse, and C.F. Williams

SIR2004-5066: Summary and comparison of multiphase streambed scour analysis at selected bridge sites in Alaska, by Jeffrey S. Conaway

SIR2004-5065: Fish and aquatic invertebrate communities in waterways, and contaminants in fish, at the Barataria Preserve of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, Louisiana, 1999-2000, by C.M. Swarzenski, S.V. Mize, B,A. Thompson, and G.W. Peterson

SIR2004-5064: Development of a traveltime prediction equation for streams in Arkansas, by J.E. Funkhouser and C. Shane Barks

SIR2004-5063: Questa baseline and pre-mining ground-water quality investigation 4. historical surface-water quality for the Red River Valley, New Mexico, 1965 to 2001, by A.S. Maest, D. Kirk Nordstrom, and S.H. LoVetere

SIR2004-5061: Organochlorine pesticides in the Johnson Creek Basin, Oregon, 1988-2002, by D.Q. Tanner and K.K. Lee

SIR2004-5060 Chloride in ground water and surface water in the vicinity of selected surface-water sampling sites of the beneficial use monitoring program of Oklahoma, 2003, by S.L. Mashburn and M.P. Sughru

SIR2004-5058: Ground-water system in the Chimacum Creek Basin and surface water/ground water interaction in Chimacum and Tarboo Creeks and the Big and Little Quilcene Rivers, Eastern Jefferson County, Washington, by F.W. Simonds, C.I. Longpré, and G.B. Justin

SIR2004-5057: Glacial history and runoff components of the Tlikakila River Basin, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska, by T.P. Brabets, R.S. March, and D.C. Trabant

SIR2004-5055: Status of water levels and selected water-quality conditions in the Sparta-Memphis Aquifer in Arkansas and the Sparta Aquifer in Louisiana, Spring-Summer 2001, by T.P. Schrader

SIR2004-5053: Vertical gradients in water chemistry and age in the Southern High Plains Aquifer, Texas, 2002, by P.B. McMahon, J.K. Böhlke, and T.M. Lehman

SIR2004-5050: Reductive dechlorination of chlorinated ethenes under oxidation-reduction conditions and potentiometric surfaces in two trichloroethene-contaminated zones at the Double Eagle and Fourth Street Superfund Sites in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, by C.L. Braun—ONLINE ONLY

SIR2004-5047: Surface-water-quality conditions and relation to taste-and-odor occurrences in the Lake Olathe Watershed, Northeast Kansas, 2000-02, by D.P. Mau, A.C. Ziegler, S.D. Porter, and L.M. Pope

SIR20045046: Hydrologic and geochemical evaluation of aquifer storage recovery in the Santee Limestone/Black Mingo Aquifer, Charleston, South Carolina, 1998-2002, by M.D. Petkewich, D.L. Parkhurst, K.J. Conlon, B.G. Campbell, and J.E. Mirecki—ONLINE ONLY

SIR20045044: Effects of changes in reservoir operations on water quality and Trophic-State Indicators in Voyageurs National Park, Northern Minnesota, 2001-03, by V.G. Christensen, G.A. Payne, and L.W. Kallemeyn

SIR20045043: Hydrology and ground-water quality in the mine workings within the Picher Mining District, Northeastern Oklahoma, 2002-03, by Kelli L. DeHay, William J. Andrews, and Michael P. Sughru

SIR20045042: Hydraulic-geometry relations for rivers in coastal and central Maine, by R.W. Dudley

SIR20045040: Hydrogeology and ground-water-flow simulation in the former airfield area of Naval Support Activity Mid-South, Millington, Tennessee, by C.J. Haugh, J.K. Carmichael, and D.E. Ladd

SIR20045039: Reconnaissance of surface-water quality and possible sources of nutrients and bacteria in the Turkey Creek Watershed, Northwest Oklahoma, 2002-2003, by Carol J. Becker—ONLINE ONLY

SIR20045038: Guidelines for evaluating ground-water flow models, by T.E. Reilly and A.W. Harbaugh

SIR20045037: Mercury and methylmercury concentrations and loads in Cache Creek Basin, California, January 2000 through May 2001, by J.L. Domagalski, C.N. Alpers, D.G. Slotton, T.H. Suchanek, and S.M. Ayers

SIR20045036: Chemical data for detailed studies of irrigation drainage in the Salton Sea Area, California, 1995-2001, by R.A. Schroeder

SIR20045035: Sedimentation Survey of Lago Toa Vaca, Puerto Rico, June-July 2002, by Luis R. Soler-López

SIR20045034: External quality-assurance results for the National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends Network, 2000-2001, by G.A. Wetherbee, N.E. Latysh, and J.D. Gordon —ONLINE ONLY

SIR20045033: Estimates of flow duration, mean flow, and peak-discharge frequency values for Kansas stream locations, by C.A. Perry, D.M. Wolock, and J.C. Artman

SIR20045032: Estimates of median flows for streams on the 1999 Kansas Surface Water Register, by C.A. Perry, D.M. Wolock, and J.C. Artman

SIR20045031: Simulation of ground-water flow, surface-water flow, and a deep sewer tunnel system in the Menomonee Valley, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by C.P. Dunning, D.T. Feinstein, R.J. Hunt, and J.T. Krohelski

SIR20045030: Estimating the magnitude and frequency of floods in small urban streams in South Carolina, 2001, by T.D. Feaster and W.B. Guimaraes

SIR20045028: Application of acoustic and optic methods for estimating suspended-solids concentrations in the St. Lucie River Estuary, Florida

SIR20045027: Ground-water flow direction, water quality, recharge sources, and age, Great Sand Dunes National Monument, South-Central Colorado, 2000-2001, by M.G. Rupert and L.N. Plummer

SIR20045026: Estimating monthly, annual, and low 7-Day, 10-Year streamflows for ungaged rivers in Maine, by R.W. Dudley

SIR20045024: Methods to identify changes in background water-quality conditions using dissolved-solids concentrations and loads as indicators, Arkansas River and Fountain Creek, in the vicinity of Pueblo, Colorado, by R.F. Ortiz

SIR20045023: Water quality and streamflow of the Indian River, Sitka, Alaska, 2001-02, by Edward G. Neal, Timothy P. Brabets, and Steven A. Frenzel

SIR20045021: Water-quality, biological, and physical-habitat conditions at fixed sites in the Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska, National Water-Quality Assessment Study Unit, October 1998-September 2001, by T.P. Brabets and M.S. Whitman—ONLINE ONLY

SIR20045020: Estimated water use and availability in the Pawcatuck Basin, Southern Rhode Island and Southeastern Connecticut, 1995-99, by E.C. Wild and M.T. Nimiroski

SIR20045019: Generalized estimates from streamflow data of annual and seasonal ground-water-recharge rates for drainage basins in New Hampshire, by R.H. Flynn and G.D. Tasker

SIR20045017: Water-quality characteristics of the Snake River and five tributaries in the upper Snake River Basin, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1998-2002, by M.L. Clark, W.J. Sadler, and S.E. O’Ney

SIR20045016: Trends in streamflow and comparisons with instream flows in the Lower Puyallup River Basin, Washington, by S.S. Sumioka

SIR20045015: Estimated domestic, irrigation, and industrial Water Use in Washington, 2000, by R.C. Lane

SIR20045014: Simulated interaction between freshwater and saltwater and effects of ground-water pumping and sea-level change, lower Cape Cod Aquifer System, Massachusetts, by John P. Masterson

SIR20045013: Characterization of ground-water quality, upper Republican Natural Resources District, Nebraska, 1998-2001, by J.D. Frankforter and D.T. Chafin

SIR20045012: Estimation of total nitrogen and phosphorus in New England Streams using spatially referenced regression models, by R.B. Moore, C.M. Johnston, K.W. Robinson, and J.R. Deacon

SIR20045010: An inventory of aquatic macroinvertebrates and calculation of selected biotic indices for the U.S. Army Atterbury Reserve Forces Training Area near Edinburgh, Indiana, September 2000-August 2002, by B.A. Robinson

SIR20045007: Hydrologic and water-quality characteristics for Calf Creek near Silver Hill, Arkansas, and selected Buffalo River sites, 2001-2002, by J.M. Galloway and W.R. Green

SIR20045005: Third U.S. Geological Survey Wildland Fire-Science Workshop, Denver, Colorado, November 12-15, 2002, by R.K. Livingston

SIR20045004: Sharing of Ribotype Patterns of Escherichia Coli Isolates During Baseflow and Stormflow Conditions, by P.G. Hartel, E.A. Frick, A.L. Funk, J.L. Hill, J.D. Summer, and M.B. Gregory

SIR20045003: Method of analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey California District Sacramento Laboratory—Determination of Trihalomethane Formation Potential, Method Validation, and Quality-Control Practices, by K.L. Crepeau, M.S. Fram, and Noël Bush—ONLINE ONLY

SIR20045001: Modeling streamflow and water temperature in the North Santiam and Santiam Rivers, Oregon, 2001-02, by A.B. Sullivan and S.A. Rounds

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