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Data Release for Water-quality and chemical loading data from the Geronimo Creek and Plum Creek watersheds, south-central Texas, April 2015–March 2016

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2015-04-15
End Date
2016-03-07

Citation

Lambert, R.B., Opsahl, S.P., and Musgrove, MaryLynn, 2017, Data release for water-quality and chemical loading data from the Geronimo Creek and Plum Creek watersheds, south-central Texas, April 2015–March 2016: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7Q23Z5S.

Summary

Located in south-central Texas, the Geronimo Creek and Plum Creek watersheds have long been characterized by elevated nitrate concentrations. From April 2015 through March 2016, an investigation was done by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) and the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board (TSSWCB), to assess nitrate (as nitrogen) concentrations and to document possible sources of elevated nitrate as nitrogen in these two watersheds. Water-quality samples were collected from 20 groundwater, spring, and stream sites across the two watersheds, along with precipitation samples and wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent samples from the Plum Creek watershed. Stream, spring, [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Public Information Officer, Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center
Originator :
Rebecca B Lambert, Stephen P Opsahl, MaryLynn Musgrove
Metadata Contact :
Public Information Officer, Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources
SDC Data Owner :
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center

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PlumCreek_Metadata.xml
“Metdata”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		29.16 KB application/fgdc+xml
PlumCreek_CodeDefinitions.txt
“Water-quality code definitions” 		110 Bytes text/plain
PlumCreek_FieldDefinitions.txt
“Water-quality field definitions” 		7.17 KB text/plain
PlumCreek_SiteInformation.txt
“Site information table” 		2.2 KB text/plain
PlumCreek_ReadMe.txt
“Read Me file” 		6.68 KB text/plain
PlumCreek_DataTables_Combined.xlsx
“EXCEL file of water-quality and chemical loading data tables” 		61.61 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
PlumCreek_QWData.txt
“Environmental water-quality data” 		5.18 KB text/plain
PlumCreek_QAData.txt
“Quality-assurance data” 		4.09 KB text/plain
PlumCreek_RPDs.txt
“Relative percent differences (RPDs)” 		1.17 KB text/plain
PlumCreek_QWLoads.txt
“Chemical loads from USGS data” 		4.86 KB text/plain
PlumCreek_WWTPLoads.txt
“Wastewater treatment plants loads from GBRA data” 		10.34 KB text/plain

Purpose

The purpose of this data release is to document water-quality and chemical loading data collected for the Plum Creek Isotopes project in the Geronimo Creek and Plum Creek watersheds from April 2015 through March 2016. Water-quality data were collected from stream, spring, and groundwater sites from April through October 2015 (PlumCreek_QWData.txt). Additional data from a bulk precipitation collector and five wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) located in the Plum Creek watershed also were collected from June 2015 through March 2016 and in April 2015, respectively (PlumCreek_QWData.txt). Quality-assurance data collected June 2015 through March 2016 also is included (PlumCreek_QAData.txt). Data on mean daily nitrate concentrations and effluent discharge values (variously dated, 2008-16) provided by the GBRA were used to calculate the effluent discharge contribution to the Plum Creek watershed (PlumCreek_WWTPLoads.txt).

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