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Environmental and Quality-Control Data Collected by the USGS National Water-Quality Assessment Project for Hormones and Pharmaceuticals in Groundwater Used as a Source of Drinking Water Across the United States, 2013-15 This data set includes results for hormone and pharmaceutical compounds analyzed in environmental and quality-control samples collected by the USGS National Water-Quality Assessment Project during 2013 through 2015 for a study of groundwater resources used for drinking-water supply across the United States. Hormone and pharmaceutical results are provided for environmental samples collected at 1,120 wells or springs; selected ancillary data, such as principal aquifer, well depth, and land-use information also are provided for the sampled sites. The types of quality-control samples included in this data set are blanks, matrix spikes, and replicates collected at field sites or field offices. Included in this data... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cycle 3, Drinking water, Environmental Health, Groundwater, Hormones, All tags... Human health, NAWQA, National Water Quality Program, Pharmaceuticals, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Quality, Water quality, Fewer tags Data for the occurrence and distribution of strontium in U.S. groundwater Water-quality data for groundwater samples collected from 4,824 sites between 1991 through 2018, and ancillary data and information on sampled wells and principal aquifers, were used to assess the occurrence and distribution of strontium in U.S. groundwater from 32 principal aquifers. This data release includes one tab-delimited text file detailing these data. Table: Chemical data from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System and ancillary data considered for assessment of strontium concentration in U.S. groundwater. Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Hydrology, NAWQA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, cycle 3, All tags... drinking water, groundwater, strontium, water quality, Fewer tags Geochemical and Geospatial Data for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Groundwater Used as a Source of Drinking Water in the Eastern United States Concentrations of inorganic constituents, dissolved organic carbon (DOC), tritium, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and pharmaceuticals were measured in groundwater samples collected from 254 wells in 2019 and 2020. Concentrations of inorganic constituents, DOC, VOCs, and pharmaceuticals were measured at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Quality Laboratory in Lakewood, Colorado. Concentrations of tritium were measured at the USGS Tritium Laboratory in Menlo Park, California. Concentrations of PFAS were measured at SGS Laboratory in Orlando, Florida. In addition, several geospatial parameters were determined, including: percentages of selected land uses... Categories: Data; Tags: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Hydrology, Illinois, All tags... Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, NAWQA, New Hampshire, Ohio, PFAS, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, West Virginia, cycle 3, groundwater, Fewer tags Data from Decadal Change in Groundwater Quality Web Site, 1988-2012 Groundwater quality data were collected in 5,000 wells between 1988-2001 by the National Water-Quality Assessment Project. About 1,500 of these wells were sampled again between 2002-2012 to evaluate decadal changes in groundwater quality. Monitoring wells, domestic supply wells, and some public supply wells were included in this study. All water was collected prior to treatment. Groundwater samples used to evaluate decadal change were collected from networks of wells with similar characteristics. Some networks, consisting of domestic or public supply wells, were used to assess changes in the quality of groundwater used for drinking water supply. Other networks, consisting of monitoring wells, assessed changes in... Tags: NAWQA, National Water Quality Program, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, cycle 3, All tags... groundwater, groundwater quality, trends, water quality, Fewer tags Stream metabolism estimates for the Regional Stream Quality Assessments of the National Water Quality Program, 2013 to 2016 This dataset provides details from stream metabolism models for 20 stream sites in the United States that were sampled as part of the National Water Quality Program's Regional Stream Quality Assessments (RSQA). Metabolism was estimated at each site using the streamMetabolizer package in R. For each of the 20 sites, three files are provided; (1) the input data, which includes continuous dissolved oxygen, water temperature, light, and stream depth, (2) the output data containing the daily metabolism estimates, and (3) a site-specific html 'guide' for running the streamMetabolizer package in R. The site 'short_name' is included in each file name to distinguish the files associated with each field site. Final metabolism... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, All tags... New York, North Carolina, Oregon, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Washington, dissolved oxygen, ecosystem respiration, environment, gross primary productivity, inlandWaters, oxygen content (water), photosynthesis, rivers, stream metabolism, streamMetabolizer, streams, water quality, water temperature, Fewer tags Concentrations of Pesticide, Pharmaceutical, and Organic Wastewater Contaminants from a Multi-Regional Assessment of Wadeable USA Streams, 2014-17 Human-use pharmaceutical, pesticide, and wastewater indicator compounds were analyzed at the U.S. Geological Survey, National Water Quality Laboratory, Denver, Colorado, in wadeable streams in 4 Regional Stream Quality Assessments: Northeast (NESQA), Southeast (SESQA), Pacific Northwest (PNSQA) and California (CSQA). Multiple (with few exceptions) samplings occurred at each site, during base flow, between 2014 and 2017. Sites were located in the headwaters of perennial, wadeable streams in urban and agricultural watersheds. Site selection and methodology for each assessment can be found in Van Meter and others (2015), Sheibley and others (2015), Van Meter and others (2017), Coles and others (2016), Van Meter and... Tags: California, Connecticut, Environmental Health, Georgia, Massachusetts, All tags... New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Water Resources, biota, pesticide compounds, pharmaceutical compounds, surface water, target analytes, wastewater indicator compounds, Fewer tags Geochemical Correction of Carbon-14 in Dissolved Inorganic Carbon used for Groundwater Age Dating in the Glacial Aquifer System, Conterminous United States Data provided here describe geochemical correction of carbon-14 in dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) for groundwater age dating. Datasets include major ion chemistry of groundwater samples, model parameter inputs, and final corrected carbon-14 in DIC. Geochemical correction was completed in two phases: determination of reactive phase mole transfers through an inverse geochemical model (PHREEQC; Parkhurst and Appleo, 1992) and tracking of isotopic mass transfer among phases (NetpathXL; Parkhusrtand Charlton, 2008). Parkhurst, D.L., and Appelo, C.A.J., 2013, Description of input and examples for PHREEQC version 3—A computer program for speciation, batch-reaction, one-dimensional transport, and inverse geochemical... Tags: Cenozoic, Connecticut, Holocene, Idaho, Illinois, All tags... Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, NAWQA, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pleistocene, Quaternary, Rhode Island, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, alkalinity, aqueous solutions, atmospheric chemistry, calcium, carbon cycle, carbonate minerals, carbonate rocks, chemical equilibrium, chemical interactions, chemical precipitation, chemical speciation, cycle 3, data release, dissolved carbon dioxide, dissolved gases, exchangeable cations, gas exchange, geochemical processes, geochemistry, glacial deposits, glacial drift, glacial soils, groundwater, groundwater, groundwater flow, groundwater quality, half life, hydrogeochemistry, hydrogeology, isotope fractionation, magnesium, mathematical simulation, minerals, rain, soil chemistry, soil chemistry, soil sciences, soil water, soil-plant-atmosphere interactions, solubility, stable isotopes, thermodynamics, unsaturated flow, vadose zone, water analysis, water chemistry, water quality, Fewer tags Dissolved Gas, Environmental Tracer Concentrations, and Lumped Parameter Modeling Results for Groundwater Age Dating in the Glacial Aquifer System, Conterminous United States This data release documents nine Microsoft Excel tables that contain data for understanding groundwater ages in the Glacial aquifer system. Results for the three sample networks (PAS, principal aquifer study; MSS, modeling support study; FPS, flow path study) are described by three tables each: dissolved gas modeling results, environmental tracer concentrations (tritium, tritiogenic helium-3, sulfur hexafluoride, carbon-14, and radiogenic helium-4), and results for the mean age and age distribution. Tables are labeled by network and data type (as described below) separated by an underscore (_). For example, dissolved gas modeling results from the PAS network is label ‘PAS_NGmodel’. Dissolved gas modeling results... Tags: Connecticut, Dissolved gas, Glacial Aquifer System, Groundwater, Groundwater age, All tags... Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Lumped parameter modeling, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, NAWQA, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Recharge temperature, Rhode Island, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vermont, Washington, Water quality, Wisconsin, cycle 3, Fewer tags Classification of Chloride-to-Sulfate Mass Ratio for U.S. Groundwater With Respect to the Potential to Promote Galvanic Corrosion of Lead, 1991-2015; Water Well Data and Characteristic Values for States Galvanic corrosion of lead in water distribution systems can occur when lead pipe or lead solder is in contact with a dissimilar metal such as copper. If the source water entering those systems has a relatively elevated chloride-to-sulfate mass ratio (CSMR), the potential for galvanic corrosion to occur is elevated (Gregory 1985; Edwards and Triantafyllidou, 2007), especially in water with low values of alkalinity (Nguyen and others, 2011). Values of CSMR were computed for untreated groundwater samples from 26,631 locations in the United States. Three levels, identified by Nguyen and others (2011), were used to classify CSMR values relative to their potential for promoting galvanic corrosion of lead. The three-level... Types: Citation; Tags: USGS:5702b6f9e4b0328dcb817860, United States Third-party performance assessment data encompassing the time period of analysis of groundwater samples collected for hormones and pharmaceuticals by the National Water-Quality Assessment Project in 2013-15 This data set includes sample information and results for third-party performance assessment samples analyzed for hormones and pharmaceuticals during the same general time period as environmental samples collected by the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project for a study of groundwater resources used for drinking-water supply across the United States, 2013 through 2015. Hormone and pharmaceutical results are provided for spiked and unspiked samples submitted by the Quality Systems Branch (QSB) Organic Blind Sample Project (OBSP), providing information regarding analyte recovery and occurrence of false positive and false negative results. Included in this data release are the following data tables: Table... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cycle 3, Groundwater, NAWQA, National Water Quality Program, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... United States, Water Quality, Water quality, hormones, laboratory performance, pharmaceuticals, quality control, Fewer tags Data for timescales of water-quality change in a karst aquifer, south-central Texas Continuous monitoring and discrete water-quality sampling were coupled in a karst aquifer to assess drivers and timescales of water-quality change. Water-quality data included environmental tracers of groundwater age (tritium [3H], tritiogenic helium-3 [3He-trit], sulfur hexafluoride [SF6], carbon-14 [14C], and radiogenic helium-4 [4He-rad]). All water quality data is available from the U.S. Geological Survey NWIS database (U.S. Geological Survey, 2019). Groundwater ages were estimated by calibration of environmental tracers to lumped parameter models of groundwater age for multiple samples collected at six groundwater wells using the program TracerLPM (Jurgens and others, 2012). The final estimates for mean groundwater... Tags: Aquifer vulnerability, Cycle 3, Dissolved gas, Edwards aquifer, Groundwater, All tags... Groundwater age, Hydrology, Karst, Lumped parameter modeling, NAWQA, Radiocarbon, Texas, Tritium, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water quality, Fewer tags Data for machine learning predictions of pH in the glacial aquifer system, northern USA A boosted regression tree (BRT) model was developed to predict pH conditions in three-dimensions throughout the glacial aquifer system (GLAC) of the contiguous United States using pH measurements in samples from 18,258 wells and predictor variables that represent aspects of the hydrogeologic setting. Model results indicate that the carbonate content of soils and aquifer materials strongly controls pH and when coupled with long flow paths, results in the most alkaline conditions. Conversely, in areas where glacial sediments are thin and carbonate-poor, pH conditions remain acidic. At depths typical of drinking-water supplies, predicted pH > 7.5 – which is associated with arsenic mobilization – occurs more frequently... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Boosted regression trees, Calcite saturation index, Connecticut, Geochemistry, Geochemistry, All tags... Glacial aquifer system, Groundwater, Groundwater corrosivity, Hydrology, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Machine learning, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, NAWQA, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vermont, Washington, Water Quality, Wisconsin, pH, Fewer tags Dissolved Gas and Tracer Concentrations for the High Plains Aquifer, Vertical Flowpath Study Network This data release documents three Microsoft Excel tables that contain data for understanding environmental tracer concentrations in groundwater of the High Plains aquifer system. Results of dissolved-gas modeling using environmental tracer concentrations (tritium, tritiogenic helium-3, and radiogenic helium-4), for the sample network (VPFS, vertical flow path study) are described. Dissolved gas modeling results (ModOut) contains detailed information on the calibration of dissolved gas models to measured dissolved-gas concentrations (neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and nitrogen). Calibration was done using methods described by Aeschbach-Hertig and others (1999 & 2000) with modifications to include nitrogen gas (Weiss,... Categories: Data; Tags: Dissolved gas, Environmental tracers, High Plains Aquifer, Hydrology, Nebraska, All tags... Noble gas, Recharge temperatures, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Fewer tags Datasets from Groundwater-Quality and Select Quality-Control Data from the National Water-Quality Assessment Project, January through December 2016, and Previously Unpublished Data from 2013 to 2015 Groundwater-quality data were collected from 648 wells as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Project of the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Program and are included in this report. Most of the wells (514) were sampled from January through December 2016 and 60 of them were sampled in 2013 and 74 in 2014. The data were collected from seven types of well networks: principal aquifer study networks, which are used to assess the quality of groundwater used for public water supply; land-use study networks, which are used to assess land-use effects on shallow groundwater quality; major aquifer study networks, which are used to assess the quality of groundwater used for domestic supply; enhanced... Categories: Data; Tags: Hydrology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources Estimates of atmospheric inorganic nitrogen deposition to the Chesapeake Bay watershed, 1950-2050 Reactive nitrogen is transported from the atmosphere to the landscape as wet and dry deposition that contributes to annual nitrogen loads to the Chesapeake Bay. Estimates of atmospheric inorganic nitrogen deposition to the Chesapeake Bay watershed during 1950 to 2050 are presented, and are based on field measurements, model simulations, statistical relations, and surrogate constituents used for estimates. Wet atmospheric nitrogen deposition has generally been quantified from weekly precipitation sample collections, whereas dry atmospheric nitrogen deposition has been simulated by a model at an hourly time step. Tags: Chesapeake, Chesapeake Bay watershed, Delaware, District of Columbia, Environmental Health, All tags... Geochemistry, Hydrology, Land Use Change, Lower Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Water Quality, West Virginia, ammonia, ammonium, atmospheric and climatic processes, atmospheric deposition (chemical & particulate), atmospheric properties, direct atmospheric deposition, estuary, inorganic, nitrate, nitric acid, nitric oxide, nitrogen, oxides, precipitation (atmospheric), reduced, water quality, watershed, watershed management, Fewer tags Till geochemistry from rotosonic cores in Minnesota, USA Samples for analysis were selected from 1) archived rotosonic cores drilled by the Minnesota Geological Survey and archived at the Lands and Minerals Drill Core Library, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Hibbing, Minnesota, USA; or b) freshly collected rotosonic cores, collected on-site at the time of coring. Cores in the sample archive are stored in wooden core-boxes in ambient air. Cores have supporting geology, stratigraphy, geochemistry, and hydrogeology data as published in County Geologic Atlases, Parts A and B, by the Minnesota Geological Survey (MGS) and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MDNR); or in Regional Hydrogeologic Assessments, MGS. Included in this data release are: Core_Chem_Locations.pdf:... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Geochemistry, Hydrology, Minnesota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, All tags... arsenic, county geologic atlas, drinking water use, groundwater, till geochemistry, trace elements, water quality, Fewer tags Data for three-dimensional distribution of groundwater residence time metrics in the glaciated United States using metamodels trained on general numerical simulation models Residence time distribution (RTD) is a critically important characteristic of groundwater flow systems; however, it cannot be measured directly. RTD can be inferred from tracer data with analytical models (few parameters) or with numerical models (many parameters). The second approach permits more variation in system properties but is used less frequently than the first because large-scale numerical models can be resource intensive. With the data and computer codes in this data release users can (1) reconstruct and run 115 General Simulation Models (GSMs) of groundwater flow, (2) calculate groundwater age metrics at selected GSM cells, (3) train a boosted regression tree model using the provided data, (4) predict... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Boosted regression tree, Connecticut, Cycle 3, Glacial Principal Aquifer, Groundwater age, All tags... Groundwater model, Hydrology, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Metamodel, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, NAWQA, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Residence time distribution, Rhode Island, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vermont, Washington, Water Quality, Wisconsin, Fewer tags Inorganic Constituent and Ancillary Data for Evaluation of Lithium in Groundwater in the United States, 1991-2018 Lithium concentrations in untreated groundwater from 1,464 public-supply wells, 1,676 domestic-supply wells, and 1,560 monitoring wells distributed across 33 principal aquifers in the United States were evaluated for spatial variations and possible explanatory factors. For context, lithium concentrations are compared to a drinking-water only threshold (60 micrograms per liter) and a Health-Based Screening Level (HBSL, 10 micrograms per liter). These thresholds were exceeded in 9% and 45% of samples from public-supply wells and in 6% and 37% from domestic-supply wells, respectively. Exceedances were most frequent for arid regions and older groundwater. Groundwater lithium concentrations were highest in unconsolidated... Categories: Data; Tags: Hydrology, NAWQA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Quality, All tags... Water Resources, cycle 3, drinking water use, lithium, public supply water use, water quality, Fewer tags Data for Tritium as an Indicator of Modern, Mixed and Premodern Groundwater Age Categorical classification of groundwater age based on concentrations of tritium (3H) in groundwater can provide useful information for the assessment and understanding of groundwater resources. These data present a three-part groundwater age classification system for the continental United States based on tritium thresholds that vary in space and time: modern (recharged after 1952), if the measured value is larger than an upper threshold; premodern (recharged prior to 1953) if the measured value is smaller than a lower threshold; or mixed if the measured value is between the two thresholds. Inclusion of spatially-varying that vary geographically on the basis of the location of the sample rather than a single threshold... Categories: Data; Tags: Conterminous United States, Cycle 3, Groundwater age, Hydrogeology, NAWQA, All tags... Recharge, Tritium, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water quality, Fewer tags Water-quality and stream-habitat metrics calculated for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program's Regional Stream Quality Assessment conducted in the southeast United States in support of ecological and habitat stressor models, 2014 This data release includes metrics from the Regional Stream Quality Assessment (RSQA) from the Southeast Region for habitat stressors related to water-quality and habitat substrate. The goals of RSQA are to characterize multiple water-quality factors that are stressors to aquatic life ‐ contaminants, nutrients, sediment, and streamflow alteration – and to develop a better understanding of the relation of these stressors to ecological conditions in streams throughout the region. In order to characterize water-quality variables and stream-habitat measurements as an aggregation of multiple measurements over a sampling period, and in support of ecological stressor modelling, metrics (summary statistics or indices) were... Categories: Data; Tags: Alabama, Aquatic Biology, Ecological, Environmental Health, Georgia, All tags... Habitat, Metrics, North Carolina, South Carolina, Southeast United States, Stressors, Substrate, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, Water Quality, Water quality, biota, inlandWaters, Fewer tags 1 2 3 4 »