INTRODUCTORY DOCUMENTS ON GROUND-WATER HYDROLOGY

• Ground Water (General Interest Publication)
• The Water Cycle (Water Science Basics Web Site)
• Basic ground-water hydrology, by Ralph C. Heath (WSP 2220)
• Ground Water and the Rural Homeowner(General Interest Publication)
• What Is Ground Water (Fact Sheet 93-643)
• Aquifer Basics (Web site)
• Glossary of Hydrologic Terms

NATIONAL OVERVIEWS

• Ground Water Atlas of the United States
• Principal Aquifers of the United States
  • Printed wall map, 1:5,000,000
  • U.S. Aquifers data, 1:2,500,000
• Bibliography of Regional aquifer system analysis (RASA) studies, 1978-96 (WRIR 97-4074)
• Flow and Storage in Groundwater Systems (from Science Magazine, June 14, 2002)
• A Brief History of Contributions to Ground Water Hydrology by the USGS (from Ground Water, July-August, 2004)

USGS CIRCULARS

• Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2000 (Circ 1268)
• Ground Water in Freshwater-Saltwater Environments of the Atlantic Coast (Circ 1262)
• Heat as a tool for studying the movement of ground water near streams (Circ 1260)
• Evolving issues and practices in managing ground-water resources - Case studies on the role of science (Circ 1247)
• Water in storage and approaches to ground-water management, High Plains Aquifer, 2000 (Circ 1243)
• Assessing Ground-Water Vulnerability To Contamination: Providing Scientifically Defensible Information For Decision Makers (Circ 1224)
• Report to Congress -- Concepts for National Assessment of Water Availability and Use (Circ 1223)
• Ground-water resources of the Middle Rio Grande Basin, New Mexico (Circ 1222)
• Ground-Water-Level Monitoring and the Importance of Long-Term Water-Level Data (Circ 1217)
• Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 1995 (Circ 1200)
• Sustainability of ground-water resources (Circ 1186)
• Land Subsidence in the United States (Circ 1182)
• Estimating Areas Contributing Recharge to Wells -- Lessons from Previous Studies (Circ 1174)
• Ground Water And Surface Water: A Single Resource (Circ 1139)
• Summary of selected computer programs produced by the U.S. Geological Survey for simulation of ground-water flow and quality - 1994 (Circ 1104)
• Updates to USGS Circular 1104 (Updated 7/27/2004)

USGS FACT SHEETS

• Using temperature to study stream-ground water exchanges (Fact Sheet 2004-3010)
• Ground Water Depletion Across the Nation (Fact Sheet 103-03)
• Earthquakes - Rattling the Earth's Plumbing System (Fact Sheet 096-03)
• Desalination of Ground Water: Earth Science Perspectives (Fact Sheet 075-03)
• Measuring human-induced land subsidence from space (Fact Sheet 069-03)
• Fractured-rock aquifers - Understanding an increasingly important source of water (Fact Sheet 112-02)
• Real-time Ground-Water Data For The Nation (Fact Sheet 090-01)
• USGS Ground-Water Resources Program, 2001 (Fact Sheet 056-01)
• Land Subsidence in the United States (Fact Sheet 165-00)
• Desert Basins of the Southwest (Fact Sheet 086-00)
• Atlantic Coastal Zone (Fact Sheet 085-00)
• Tracing and dating young ground water (Fact Sheet 134-99)
• Modeling Ground-Water Flow with MODFLOW and Related Programs (Fact Sheet 121-97)

USGS TRAINING AND METHODS DOCUMENTS

• USGS Publications useful for education and training in ground-water hydrology
• Index of USGS Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations (TWRI)
• Index of USGS Techniques and Methods Reports (TM)

USGS CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• Subsidence Interest Group Conference, Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Galveston, Texas, November 27-29, 2001 (OFR 03-308)
• U.S. Geological Survey Artificial Recharge Workshop Proceedings, Sacramento, California, April 2-4, 2002 (OFR 02-89)
• Effects of Animal Feeding Operations (AFOs) on Hydrologic Resources and the Environment --Proceedings of the 1999 USGS conference (OFR 00-204)

• T.E. Reilly and A.W. Harbaugh, 2004, Guidelines for evaluating ground-water flow models (SIR2004-5038)
• System And Boundary Conceptualization In Ground-Water Flow Simulation (TWRI Book 3, Chapter B8)
• Aquifer Tests
  • Computer program (WTAQ) for analysis of aquifer tests in confined and water-table aquifers
    Barlow, P.M., and Moench, A.F., (WRIR 99-4225)
  • Spreadsheets for the Analysis of Aquifer-Test and Slug-Test Data
    Halford, K.J.and Kuniansky, E.L., 2002 (OFR 02-197)
• MODFLOW Resources
• MODFLOW-2000 software and user guides
• Jörn Hoffmann, S.A. Leake, D.L. Galloway, and Alicia M. Wilson, 2003, MODFLOW-2000 Ground-Water Model - User Guide to the Subsidence and Aquifer-System Compaction (SUB) Package (OFR 03-233)
• D.E. Prudic, L.F. Konikow, and E.R. Banta, 2004, A New Streamflow-Routing (SFR1) package to simulate stream-aquifer interaction with MODFLOW-2000 (OFR 04-1042)
• Guo, W. and Langevin, C.D., User's Guide to SEAWAT: A Computer Program For Simulation of Three-Dimensional Variable-Density Ground-Water Flow (TWRI Book 6 Chapter A7)
• Computer programs for Telescopic Mesh Refinement using MODFLOW-96 Leake and Claar, 1999, OFR 99-238)

DATA COLLECTION

• A Quality-Assurance Plan for District Ground-Water Activities of the U.S. Geological Survey (OFR 97-11)
• Ground-Water Data-Collection Protocols and Procedures for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program: Selection, Installation, and Documentation of Wells, and Collection of Related Data (OFR 95-398)
• Ground-Water Data-Collection Protocols and Procedures for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program: Collection and Documentation of Water-Quality Samples and Related Data (OFR 95-399)
• National Field Manual for the Collection of Water-Quality Data (TWRI Book 9 Section A)

WATER USE

• Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2000 (Circ 1268)
• Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 1995 (Circ 1200)
• Interagency Report: National Handbook of Recommended Methods for Water Data Acquisition -- Chapter 11 - Water Use
• Guidelines for preparation of State water-use estimates for 2000 (TM 4-4A)

• USGS Publications and Data Products

• New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey
• USGS Water Resources Publications and Products
• Search for USGS Formal Publications (Bulletins, Professional Papers, Circulars, Water Supply Papers, Thematic Maps)
• National Geologic Map Database (Locate references about maps and related data)
• National Atlas of the United States
• Search Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey (Using the Geologic References Database of the American Geological Institute)

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