Guidance documents for Cycle 3 Groundwater

• NAWQA, Cycle 3 Groundwater Network Sampling Task List for FY14 (updated 1/27/2014)
• Required PCODES to populate in QWData for NAWQA groundwater samples collected in Cycle 3 (posted 8/7/2013)
• Required GWSI Fields for wells sampled for NAWQA in Cycle 3 (updated 6/5/2014)
• Project Networks
  • Specific information for setting up Cycle 3 Groundwater networks in Project Networks
  • General guidance about using NWIS ProjectNetworks to manage NAWQA Networks (NAWQA Data Synthesis wiki)
• General NAWQA QW-sample-coding guidance (NAWQA Data Synthesis wiki)

Guidance Documents from Cycles 1 & 2

NOTE: Information in some of the reports listed below may be superseded by information elsewhere on the NAWQA web pages. Contact your Principal Aquifer Analyst if you have questions.

• WRIR 98-4107. Koterba, 1998. Ground-water data-collection protocols and procedures for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program: collection, documentation, and compilation of required site, well, subsurface, and landscape data for wells, 91 p.
• OFR 96-217. Squillace and Price, 1996. Urban land-use study plan for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program, 19 p.
• OFR 96-199. Lapham, Saeid, 1996. Plan for assessment of the occurrence, status, and distribution of volatile organic compounds in aquifers of the United States, US Geological Survey, 44 p.
• Circular 1112. Gilliom, Alley, Gurtz, 1995. Design of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program: occurrence and distribution of water-quality conditions, 33 p.
• OFR 95-399. Koterba, Wilde, Lapham, 1995. Ground-Water Data-Collection Protocols and Procedures for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program: Collection and Documentation of Water-Quality Samples and Related Data, 114 p.
• OFR 95-398. Lapham, Wilde, Koterba, 1995. (general GW guidance) 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, 71 p.
• OFR 89-396. Hardy, Leahy, Alley, 1989. (pilot and early cycle 1 info) Well installation and documentation, and ground-water sampling protocols for the pilot National Water-Quality Assessment Program, 36 p.
• NAWQA Ground-Water Sampling Protocols - Revised August 11, 2008 (174K Word file)
• Guidance for detecting hydrogen sulfide and entering data into NWIS

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