New Publications: NAWQA program, April 12, 2000 to July 3, 2000

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Subject:  New Publications: NAWQA program, April 12, 2000 to July 3, 2000

For your information, recent publications from April 12, 2000 to July 3, 
2000 for the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program are listed 
below.  The complete bibliography of the NAWQA Program may be viewed 
through the web page, /nawqa/bib.html.  The NAWQA 
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NEW PUBLICATIONS FROM THE NAWQA PROGRAM
(Reports published from April 12, 2000 - July 3, 2000)

NAWQA STUDY UNITS:

NORTHEASTERN REGION:

        Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River Basins

Coles, James F., 1999, Length-age relations and PCB content of mature 
white suckers from the Connecticut and Housatonic River Basins: 
Northeastern Naturalist, 6(3), p. 263-275.

Robinson Jr., Gilpin R., Peper, John D., Steeves, Peter A., and DeSimone, 
Leslie A., 1999, Lithogeochemical character of the near-surface bedrock in 
the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River Basins: U.S. Geological 
Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4000, CD ROM.

        Great and Little Miami River Basins

Debrewer, Linda M., Rowe, Gary L., Reutter, David C., Moore, Rhett C., 
Hambrook, Julie A., and Baker, Nancy T., 2000, Environmental setting and 
effects on water quality in the Great and Little Miami River Basins, Ohio 
and Indiana: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 
99-4201, 98 p.

        Hudson River Basin

Phillips, P.J., Wall, G.R., Thurman, E.M., Eckhardt, D.A., and Vanhoesen, 
J., 1999, Metolachlor and its metabolites in tile drain and stream runoff 
in the Canajoharie creek watershed: Environmental Science & Technology, 
vol. 33, no. 20, p. 3531-3537.

        Lower Illinois River Basin

Warner, Kelly L., 2000, Analysis of nutrients, selected inorganic 
constituents, and trace elements in water from Illinois community-supply 
wells, 1984-91: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations 
Report  99-4152, 47 p.

Upper Illinois River Basin

Arnold, Terri L., Friedel, Michael 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 Open-File Report 
00-4027, 18 p.

Sullivan, Daniel J., 2000, Nutrients and suspended solids in surface 
waters of the Upper Illinois River Basin Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, 
1978-97: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 
99-4275, 57 p.

SOUTHEASTERN REGION:

Lower Tennessee River Basin

Hoos, Anne B., Robinson, John A., Aycock, Robert A., Knight, Rodney, R., 
and Woodside, Michael D., 2000, Sources, instream transport, and trends of 
nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment in the Lower Tennessee River Basin, 
1980-96: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 
99-4139, 96 p.

Southern Florida

Miller, Ronald L., McPherson, Benjamin F., and Haag, Kim H., 1999, Water 
quality in the southern Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp in the vicinity 
of the Tamiami Trail, 1996-97: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources 
Investigations Report 99-4062, 16 p.

CENTRAL REGION

Acadian-Pontchartrain

Demas, Charles R., Demcheck, Dennis K., Anderson, Mary L., and Garon, John 
D., 1999, National Water-Quality Assessment Program--Acadian-Ponchartrain 
Study Unit: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-185-99, 4 p.

Central Nebraska

Emmons, Patrick J., and Bowman, Phillip R., 2000, Ground-water flow and 
water quality of the Indian Island well field near Grand Island, Nebraska, 
1994-95: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-179-99, 4 p.

Eastern Iowa Basins

Savoca, Mark E., Sadorf, Eric M., Linhart, S. Mike, and Akers, Kymm K.B., 
2000, Effects of land use and hydrogeology on the water quality of 
alluvial aquifers in eastern Iowa and southern Minnesota, 1997: U.S. 
Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4246, 38 p.

Becher, Kent D., Schnoebelen, Douglas J., and Akers, Kimberlee K.B., 2000, 
Nutrients discharged to the Mississippi River from eastern Iowa 
watersheds: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, vol. 36, 
no. 1, February 2000, p. 161-173.

High Plains

McMahon, P.B., 2000, A reconnaissance study of the effect of irrigated 
agriculture on water quality in the Ogallala Formation, central High 
Plains: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-009-00, 6 p.

Qi, Sharon L., 2000, National Water-Quality Assessment Program--High 
Plains Regional Ground-Water Study web site: U.S. Geological Survey Fact 
Sheet FS-049-00, 2p.

Mississippi Embayment

Gonthier, Gerard J., 2000,Water quality of the deep tertiary aquifers of 
the Mississippi Embayment, 1996: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resourcesn 
Investigations Report 99-4131, 91 p.

Upper Colorado River Basin

Apodaca, Lori E., 2000, Ground-water-quality assessment of selected wells 
in the Fraser River Watershed, Colorado, August 1998: U.S. Geological 
Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4243, 8 p.

Apodaca, Lori E., and Bails, Jeffrey B., 2000, Water quality in alluvial 
aquifers of the Southern Rocky Mountains
physiographic province, Upper Colorado river Basin, Colorado, 1997: U.S. 
Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4222, 68 p.

Spahr. Norman E., Boulger, Robert W., and Szmajter, Richard J., 2000, 
Water quality at basic fixed sites in the Upper Colorado River Basin 
National Water-Quality Assessment Study Unit, October 1995-September 1998: 
U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4223, 63 
p.

Upper Mississippi River Basin

Talmage, Philip J., Lee, Kathy E., Goldstein, Robert M., Anderson, Jesse 
P., and Fallon, James D., 1999, Water quality, physical habitat, and fish 
community composition in streams in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, 
Minnesota: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 
99-4247, 18 p.

Stauffer, J.C, Goldstein, R M., and Newman, R.M., 2000, Relationship of 
wooded riparian zones and runoff  potential to fish community composition 
in agricultural streams: Canadian Journal Fish. Aqaut.Science, vol. 57, p. 
307-316.

WESTERN REGION:

Central Columbia Plateau

Jones, Joseph L., and Roberts, Lonna M., 1999, The relative merits of 
monitoring and domestic wells for ground water quality investigations: 
Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation, vol. 19, no. 3, p. 138-144.

Cook Inlet Basin

Frenzel, Steven A., 2000, Selected organic compounds and trace elements in 
streambed sediments and fish
tissues, Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources 
Investigations Report   00-4004, 39 p.

Puget Sound Basin

Black, Robert W., Haggland, Alan L., Voss, Frank V., 2000, Predicting the 
probability of detecting organochlorinesn pesticides and polychlorinated 
biphenyls in stream systems on the basis of land use in the Pacific 
northwest, USA: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, vol. 19, no. 4, 
p.1044-1054.

Upper Snake River Basin

Plummer, L.N., Rupert, M.G., Busenberg, E., and Schlosser, P., 1999, Age 
of irrigation water in ground water from the eastern Snake River Plain 
aquifer, South-Central Idaho: Ground Water, vol. 38, no. 2, p. 264-283.

NATIONAL SYNTHESIS REPORTS:

Alexander, Richard B., Smith, Richard A., and Schwarz, Gregory E., 2000, 
Effect of stream channel size on the delivery of nitrogen to the Gulf of 
Mexico: Nature, vol. 403, February 17, 2000, p. 758-761.

Alpers, Charles N., Antweiler, Ronald C., Taylor, Howard E., Dileanis, 
Peter D., and Domagalski, Joseph L., eds., Metal transport in the 
Sacramento River, California, 1996-97: Volume 2: Interpretations of metal 
loads: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 
00-4002,106 p.

Alpers, Charles N., Taylor, Howard E., and Domagalski, Joseph L., eds., 
Metal transport in the Sacramento River, California, 1996-97: Volume 1: 
Methods and data: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations 
Report 99-4286, 430 p.

Bender, David A., Zogorski, John S., Luo, Wentai, Pankow, James F., 
Majewski, Michael, and Baker, Ronald, 2000, Atmosphere-water interaction 
of chloroform, toluene, and MTBE in small perennial urban streams in 
Proceedings of the Air and Waste Management 93rd Annual Conference and 
Exposition, June 18-22, 2000, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Callender, Edward, and Rice, Karen C., 2000, The urban environmental 
gradient: Anthropogenic influences on the spatial and temporal 
distributions of lead and zinc in sediments: Environmental Science & 
Technology, vol. 34, no. 2, p. 232-238.

Focazio, Michael J., Welch, Alan H., Watkins, Sharon A., Helsel, Dennis 
R., and Horn, Marilee A., 2000, A   retrospective analysis on the 
occurrence of arsenic in ground-water resources of the United States and 
limitations in drinking-water-supply characterizations: U.S. Geological 
Survey Water Resources Investigations Report WRIR 99-4279, 21 p.

Francy, Donna S., Helsel, Dennis H., and Nally, Rebecca A., 2000, 
Occurrence and distribution of microbiological indicators in ground water 
and stream water: Water Environment Research, vol. 72, no. 2, p. 152-161.

Johnson, Richard, Pankow, James, Bender, David, Price, Curtis, and 
Zogorski, John, 2000, MTBE--To what extent will past releases contaminate 
community water supply wells? Environmental Science & Technology, vol., 
no., p. xx-xx.

Lundgren, Robert F., and Lopes, Thomas J., 1999, Occurrence, distribution, 
and trends of volatile organic compounds in the Ohio River and its major 
tributaries, 1987-96: U.S. Geologcial Survey Water-Resources 
Investigations Report 99-4257, 99 p.

Moran, Michael J., Clawges, Rick M., and Zogorski, John S., 2000, 
Identifying the usage patterns of methyl  tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and 
other oxygenates in gasoline using gasoline surveys in Proceedings of the 
American Chemical society, 219th ACS National meeting, 2000: San 
Francisco, CA, American, American Chemical Society, vol. 40, no. 1, p. 
209-218.

Moran, Michael J., Halde, Mike J., Clawges, Rick M., and Zogorski, John 
S., 2000, Relations between the  detection of methyl tert-butyl ether 
(MTBE) in surface and ground water and its content in gasoline in 
Proceedings of the American Chemical society, 219th ACS National meeting, 
2000: San Francisco, CA,  American, American Chemical Society, vol. 40, 
no. 1, p. 195-198.

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.

Nolan, Bernard T., 2000, Nutrients in groundwaters of the conterminous 
United States, 1992-1995: Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 34, 
no. 7, p. 1156-1165.

Welch, Alan H., Helsel, Dennis R., Focazio, Michael J. and Watkins, Sharon 
A., 2000, Arsenic in ground water supplies of the United States in 
Chappell. W.R., Abernathy, C.O., and Calderon, R.L., eds., Arsenic 
Exposure and Health Effects: 1999 Elsevier Science B.V.

Welch, Alan H., Watkins, Sharon A., Helsel, Dennis R., and Focazio, 
Michael J., 2000, Arsenic in ground-water resources of the United States: 
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-063-00, 4 p.

Zogorski, J.S., Baehr, A.L., Bauman, B.J., Conrad, D.L., Drew, R.T., 
Korte, N.E., Lapham, W.W., Morduchowitz, A., Pankow, J.F., and Washington, 
E.R., 1997, Significant findings and water-quality recommendations of the 
Interagency Oxygenated Fuel Assessment, in Kostecki, P.T., Calabrese, 
E.J., and Bonazountas, Marc, eds.,Contaminated Soils: Amherst, Mass., 
Amherst Scientific Publishing, v. 2, p. 661-679.