National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program
Nutrients National Synthesis
INTERPRETIVE REPORTS
Circulars
Fuhrer, G.J., Gilliom, R.J.,
Hamilton, P.A., Morace, J.L., Nowell, L.H., Rinella, J.F., Stoner,
J.D. and Wentz, D.A., 1999, The quality of our nation's water:
nutrients and pesticides: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1225, 82
p.
Mueller, D.K., and Helsel, D.R.,
1996, Nutrients in the Nation's waters¾Too much of a good thing?: U.S. Geological
Survey Circular 1136, 24 p.
Open-File Reports
Nolan, B.T., 1998, Modeling approaches for assessing risk of non-point
contamination of ground water: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
98-531, 22 p.
Mueller, D.K., 1998, Quality of nutrient data from streams and
ground water sampled during 1993-95¾National Water-Quality Assessment Program:
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-276, 25 p.
Puckett, L.J., and Triska, F.J., editors, 1996, U.S. Geological
Survey nitrogen cycling workshop, Denver, Colo., October 30 - November
2, 1995: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-477, 88 p.
Water-Resources Investigations Reports
Hitt, K.J., 1994, Refining 1970's
land-use data with 1990 population data to indicate new residential
development: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations
Report 94-4250, 15 p.
Litke, D.W., 1999,
Review of phosphorus control measures in the United States and their
effects on water quality: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources
Investigations Report 99-4007, 38 p.
Mueller, David K., Hamilton, Pixie A., Helsel, Dennis R., Hitt,
Kerie J., and Ruddy, Barbara C. 1995, Nutrients in ground water and
surface water of the United States¾An
analysis of data through 1992: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources
Investigations Report 95-4031, 74 p.
Nolan, B.T., and Hitt, K.J.,
2002, Nutrients in shallow ground waters
of beneath relatively undeveloped areas in the conterminous United
States: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4289, 17 p.
Puckett, L.J, 1994, Nonpoint and
point sources of nitrogen in major watersheds of the United States:
U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4001,
6 p.
Scientific Investigations Reports
Mueller, David K. and Spahr, Norman E., 2006,
Nutrients in streams and rivers across the Nation--1992-2001:
U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5107, 44 p.
Mueller, David K. and Titus, Cindy J., 2005, Quality of Nutrient Data
from Streams and Ground Water Sampled During Water Years 1992-2001:
U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5106, 27
p.
Ruddy, B.C., Lorenz, D. L., and Mueller, D. K., 2006,
County-level estimates of nutrient inputs to the land
surface of the conterminous United States, 1982-2001:
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5012, 17 p.
Articles and Papers
Alexander, R.B.,
Smith, R.A., and Schwarz, G.E., 2000, Effect of stream channel size on the
delivery of nitrogen to the Gulf of Mexico: Nature, vol. 403, 17
February 2000, pp. 758-761
Brezonik, P.L. & V.J. Bierman, V.J. (co-chairs), R. Alexander,
J. Anderson, J. Barko, M. Dortch, L. Hatch, D. Keeney, D. Mulla,
V. Smith, C. Walker, T. Whitledge, and W. Wiseman (task group
members), Effects of reducing nutrient loads to surface waters within
the Mississippi River Basin and the Gulf of Mexico, Report of Task
Group 4 to the White House Committee on Environment and Natural
Resources, Hypoxia Work Group, Federal Register, 64, 23834-23835
(1999).
Clark, G.M., Mueller, D.K.,
Mast, M.A., 2000, Nutrient concentrations and yields in undeveloped basins of
the United States: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, vol. 36,
no. 4, p. 849-860.
Hughes, W.B., E.J. Reuber, and L.J. Puckett, Fate of nitrogen in
ground water in a coastal plain agricultural setting, Orangeburg
County, South Carolina, South Carolina Water-Quality Conference, 1999.
Kolpin, Dana, Hallberg, George, Sneck-Fahrer, Debra, and Libra,
Robert, 1997, Agricultural chemicals in Iowa's ground water,
1982-95¾What are the trends?
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-116-97, 4 p.
Mueller, David K., Ruddy, Barbara C., and Battaglin, William A.,
1993, Relation of nitrate concentrations in surface water to land use
in the upper- midwestern United States, 1989-1990, in Goolsby, D.A.,
Boyer, L.L., and Mallard, G.E., compilers, Selected papers on
agricultural chemicals in water resources of the midcontinental United
States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-418, p. 41-50.
Mueller, David K., Ruddy, Barbara C., and Battaglin, William A., 1997,
Logistic model of nitrate in streams of the upper-midwestern United States:
Journal of Environmental Quality, vol. 26, no. 5, p. 1223-1230.
Mueller, D.K., and Stoner, J.D., 1998, Identifying the potential for
nitrate contamination of streams in agricultural areas of the United
States in Proceedings of the National Water-Quality Monitoring
Conference, July 7-9, 1998, Reno, Nev., p. III-163 to III-173.
Nolan, B.T., 1999, Nitrate behavior in
ground waters of the southeastern United States:
Journal of Environmental Quality, vol. 28, no. 5, Sep.-Oct. 1999, p. 1518-1527.
Nolan, B.T., 2001,
Relating nitrogen sources and aquifer susceptibility to nitrate
in shallow ground waters of the United States: Ground Water,
vol. 39, no. 2, March-April 2001, p. 290-299.
Nolan, B.T., and Hitt, K.J., 2006,
Vulnerability of shallow groundwater and drinking-water wells to
nitrate in the United States: Environmental Science and Technology,
vol. 40, no. 24, p. 7834-7840.
Nolan, B.T., Healy, R.W., Tabera, P.E., Perkins, K., Hitt, K.J., and Wolock, D.M., 2006,
Factors influencing ground-water recharge in the eastern United States:
Journal of Hydrology.
Nolan, B.T., Hitt,
K.J., and Ruddy, B.C., 2002, Probability of nitrate contamination of
recently recharged groundwaters in the conterminous United States:
Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 36, no. 10,
p. 2138-2145.
Nolan, B.T., Ruddy,
B.C., Hitt, K.J., and Helsel, D.R., 1997, Risk of nitrate in ground
waters of the United States¾A national
perspective: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 31, n. 8,
p. 2229-2236.
Nolan, B.T., Ruddy, B.C., Hitt,
K.J., and Helsel, D.R., 1998, A national look at nitrate contamination
of groundwaters: Water Conditioning and Purification, v. 39, no. 12,
p. 76-79
Nolan, B.T., Ruddy, B.C., Hitt, K.J., and Helsel, D.R., 1998, Nitrate
in ground waters of the United States. in Proceedings of the National
Water-Quality Monitoring Conference, July 7-9, 1998, Reno, Nev.
Nolan, B.T., and Stoner,
J.D., 2000, Nutrients in ground waters of the conterminous United States,
1992-1995: Environmental Science and Technology, volume 34, number 7,
p. 1156-1165.
Puckett, Larry J., 1995, Identifying the major sources of nutrient
water pollution: Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 29, no. 9,
September 1995, p. 408-414.
Puckett, L.J., 1999, The effectiveness of riparian buffer zones for
removing nitrate from groundwater discharging to Atlantic Coastal
Plain streams, Sixth Symposium on Biogeochemistry of Wetlands,
1999.
Puckett, L.J., 2004,
Hydrogeologic controls on the transport and fate of nitrate
in ground water beneath riparian buffer zones: results
from thirteen studies across the United States:
Water Science and Technology, vol. 49, no. 3, p. 47-53.
Puckett, L.J., and Cowdery, T.K., 2002,
Transport and fate of nitrate in a glacial
outwash aquifer
in relation to ground-water age, land use practices and redox processes:
Journal of Environmental Quality, vol. 31, no. 3.
Puckett, L.J., and Hughes, W.B., 2005, Transport and Fate
of Nitrate and Pesticides: Hydrogeology and Riparian Zone Processes:
Journal of Environmental Quality, vol. 34, no. 6, p. 2278-2292.
Puckett, L.J., Cowdery, T.K., Lorenz, D.L., and Stoner, J.D., 1999,
Estimation of
nitrate contamination of an agro-ecosystem outwash aquifer using
a nitrogen mass-balance budget: Journal of Environmental Quality,
vol. 28, no. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1999, p. 2015-2025.
Puckett, L.J., Cowdery, T.K., McMahon, P.B., Tornes, L.H., and Stoner, J.D.,
2002,
Using chemical, hydrologic, and age dating analysis to delineate redox
processes and flow paths in the riparian zone of a glacial outwash
aquifer-stream system:
Water Resources Research, vol. 38.
Smith, R.A., Schwarz, G.E., and Alexander, R.B., 1997, Regional
interpretation of water-quality data: Water resources Research,
Vol. 33, No. 12, p. 2781-2798.
Stoner, J.D., and Goolsby, D.A., 1999, [abstract], Stream nutrients
findings from national and regional water-quality assessments:
U.S. Department of Agriculture Workshop-"Agricultural and Coastal
Resources: Issues in Measuring the Economic Dimensions of Problems and
Policies," Washington DC, June 3, 1999.
Ward, M. H., deKok, T.M., Levallois, P., Brender, J., Gulis, G., Nolan, B.T., and VanDerslice, J., 2005,
Drinking-Water Nitrate and Health--Recent Findings and Research Needs:
Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 113, no. 11, p. 1607-1614.
Wilber, William G., and Davis, Jerri V., 1994, Assessing the
quality of the Nation's water¾Point
versus nonpoint sources of phosphorus in rivers: U.S. Geological
Survey Yearbook, Fiscal Year 1993, p. 48-49.
Pamphlets
Puckett, L.J, 1994, Nonpoint and
point sources of nitrogen in major watersheds of the United States:
Based on U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4001,
6 p.
Posters
Hitt, K.J. and Nolan, B.T., 2005,
Nitrate in ground water: Using a model to simulate the probability of nitrate
contamination of shallow ground water in the conterminous United
States: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 2881.
Nolan, B.T., Ruddy, B.C., Hitt, K.J., and Helsel, D.R., 1997,
Nitrate contamination of ground waters in the United States¾Evaluating the risk: U.S. Geological
Survey poster.
