Synthesis of Ground-Water Quality at the Principal Aquifer Scale

For internal use only

Principal Aquifer Circular Planning Group
(Revised 09/20/2011)

Communication Plans
	Guidance, templates, text, and other resources to communicate the results of the PA Circulars Communication Plan outline and documents (Updated 09/21/2011)

Guidance For Preparing PA Circulars
	PA Quickr site: Draft chapters, templates, checklists, PA Circular tracking tool, timelines, and other planning tools
	USGS Standards for Illustrations
	General guidance from NLT for PA Circulars (05/30/2008)

Meetings and Conference Calls (most recent first)

Photos
	Photos from NWQL and Nutrient and Study Unit Circulars that may be used for PA Circulars. Some are copyrighted and we would need to have permission to re-publish them! Only the Nutrient Circular photos have documentation. No documentation is available for the Study Unit Circular photos.

Examples from the High Plains
	HP Circular 1337
	Glossary from HP Circular to build on for PA Circulars
	HP Circular Communications Plan (FY09) (08/20/2008)

Radium in Ground Water
	National occurrences of radium isotopes in GW -- PPT Slides about Fact Sheet 2/2009
	Conference call notes -- Discussion of National Radium in Ground Water Fact Sheet -- 11/10/08 (Word file)
	Draft Fact Sheet -- Radium Occurrence in Principal Aquifers Used for Drinking Water (Word file) -- FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY

GW Vulnerability Assessment
	Vulnerability Assessment definitions
	Slides from Hinkle (TANC) 06/2007
	Slides from Barbash (models) 06/2007
	Slides from Kauffman 06/2007
	Slides from McMahon and Chapelle (redox) 06/2007
	Slides from Wolock (travel time) 06/2007
	Publication: Erwin and Tesoriero, 1997, Predicting Ground-Water Vulnerability to Nitrate in the Puget Sound Basin: USGS FS-061-97
	Publication: Tesoriero and Voss, 1997, Predicting the Probability of Elevated Nitrate Concentrations in the Puget Sound Basin: Implications for Aquifer Susceptibility and Vulnerability: Ground Water, Vol. 35, No. 6, Pages 1029-1039, November-December 1997
	Publication: Focazio, Reilly, Rupert, and Helsel, 2002, Assessing ground-water vulnerability to contamination: Providing scientifically defensible information for decision makers: USGS Circular 1224
	Publication: Rupert, 2002, Probability of detecting atrazine/desethyl-atrazine and elevated concentrations of nitrate in ground water in Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey WRIR 02-4269
	Publication: Rupert, M.G., and Plummer, L.N., 2009, Groundwater quality, age, and probability of contamination, Eagle River watershed valley-fill aquifer, north-central Colorado, 2006-2007: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5082, 59 p.

Email: Ken Belitz (kbelitz@usgs.gov)

URL: http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa-only/aq/Circulars.html
Maintainer: Terri Arnold (email tlarnold)
Last modified: Friday, 11-Jan-2013 13:13:05 EST