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The National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program has produced more than 1,500 reports (complete bibliography) describing how water quality conditions vary locally, regionally, and nationally; whether conditions are getting better or worse over time; and how natural features and human activities affect these conditions. Conditions also were compared to national water-quality standards, guidelines, and benchmarks to assess the potential effects on drinking water and aquatic life. Most of these reports can be accessed on-line through the topical and geographical searches listed below.

 

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Tesoriero, Terziotti, Abrams, 2015, Predicting Redox Conditions in Groundwater at a Regional Scale: Environmental Science and Technology, 7 p.  doi/10.1021/acs.est.5b01869 Available Online

Tesoriero, A J , J A Gronberg, P F Juckem, M P Miller, B P Austin, 2017, Predicting redox-sensitive contaminant concentrations in groundwater using random forest classification: Water Resources Research, 53 p.  doi:10.1002/2016WR020197 Available Online

Clow, D.W., Mast, M.A., Sickman, J.O., 2018, Linking transit times to catchment sensitivity to atmospheric deposition of acidity and nitrogen in mountains of the western United States: Hydrological Processes, 1-15,   doi: 10.1002/hyp.13183 Available Online

Wetherbee, G.A., and Martin, RoseAnn, 2018, External quality assurance project report for the National Atmospheric Deposition Program's National Trends Network and Mercury Deposition Network, 2015-16: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5034, 27 p.  DOI: 10.3133/sir20185034 Available Online

Battaglin, W.A., Bradley, P.M., Iwanowicz, L., Journey, C.A., Walsh, H.L., Blazer, V.S., 2018, Pharmaceuticals, hormones, pesticides, and other bioactive contaminants in water, sediment, and tissue from Rocky Mountain National Park, 2012-2013: Science of The Total Environment Volume 643, 1 December 2018, pages 651-673.  DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.150 Available Online

Stackelberg, Paul, 2017, Groundwater quality in the glacial aquifer system, United States: US Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2017 - 3055, 4 p.  https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20173055 Available Online

Stackelberg, Paul, 2017, Groundwater quality in the Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system, midwestern United States: US Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2017 - 3056, 4 p.  https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20173056 Available Online

Stackelberg, P E, Szabo, Z, and Jurgens, B C , 2017, Radium mobility and the age of groundwater in public-drinking-water supplies from the Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system, north-central USA: Applied Geochemistry, 89C - 2018, pp. 34-48, 14 p.  doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2017.11.002 Available Online

Rosecrans, C Z., Nolan, B T, Gronberg, J M, 2017, Predicted pH at the domestic and public supply drinking water depths, Central Valley, California: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3377, 1 sheet, scale 1:2,400,000, 1 p.  https://doi.org/10.3133/sim3377 Available Online

Rosecrans, C Z, Nolan, B T, and Gronberg, J M, 2017, Ascii grids of predicted pH in depth zones used by domestic and public drinking water supply depths, Central Valley, California: U.S. Geological Survey data release,   https://doi.org/10.5066/F7FX77K4 Available Online

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