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Data for Radium Mobility and the Age of Groundwater in Public-drinking-water Supplies from the Cambrian-Ordovician Aquifer System, North-Central USA: Table 3. Detailed information on calculations of environmental tracer data. High radium (Ra) concentrations in potable portions of the Cambrian-Ordovician (C-O) aquifer system were investigated using water-quality data and environmental tracers ( 3H, 3Hetrit, SF6 , 14C and 4Herad) of groundwater age from 80 public-supply wells (PSWs). Groundwater ages were estimated by calibration of tracers to lumped parameter models and ranged from modern (1 Myr) in the most downgradient, confined portions of the potable system. More than 80 and 40 percent of mean groundwater ages were older than 1000 and 50,000 yr, respectively. Anoxic, Fe-reducing conditions and increased mineralization develop with time in the aquifer system and mobilize Ra into solution resulting in the frequent occurrence of combined... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, All tags... NAWQA, Wisconsin, alpha recoil, cycle 3, dissolved gas, groundwater age, lumped parameter modeling, nawqa, radium, radium 226 distribution coefficient, recharge temperature, water quality, Fewer tags Pesticide concentration and streamflow datasets used to evaluate pesticide trends in the Nation’s rivers and streams, 1992-2012 (input) In 1991, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began a study of more than 50 major river basins across the Nation as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) project of the National Water-Quality Program. One of the major goals of the NAWQA project is to determine how water-quality conditions change over time. To support that goal, long-term consistent and comparable monitoring has been conducted on streams and rivers throughout the Nation. Outside of the NAWQA project, the USGS also has collected long-term water-quality data to support additional assessments of changing water-quality conditions. These data have been combined to provide insight into how natural features and human activities have contributed... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: United States, pesticides, streamflow, trends, usgsnawqaswtrends, All tags... water quality, Fewer tags Water-quality and streamflow datasets used in the Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS) models to determine trends in the Nation’s rivers and streams, 1972-2012(output) In 1991, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began a study of more than 50 major river basins across the Nation as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) project of the National Water-Quality Program. One of the major goals of the NAWQA project is to determine how water-quality conditions change over time. To support that goal, long-term consistent and comparable monitoring has been conducted on streams and rivers throughout the Nation. Outside of the NAWQA project, the USGS and other Federal, State, and local agencies also have collected long-term water-quality data to support their own assessments of changing water-quality conditions. Data from these multiple sources have been combined to support... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Puerto Rico, United States, WRTDS, carbon, discharge, All tags... nutrients, rivers, salinity, sediment, trends, usgsnawqaswtrends, weighted regression, Fewer tags Data on annual total nitrogen loads and watershed characteristics used to develop a method to estimate the total nitrogen loads in small streams This USGS Data Release represents the data used to develop multiple linear regression models for estimating the loads of total nitrogen in small streams. Recursive partitioning and random forest regression were used to assess 85 geospatial, environmental, and watershed variables across 636 small (less than 585 square kilometers) watersheds to determine which variables are fundamentally important to the estimation of annual loads of total nitrogen. These data support the following publication: Kronholm, S.C., Capel, P.D., and Terziotti, Silvia, 2016, Statistically extracted fundamental watershed variables for estimating the loads of total nitrogen in small streams: Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 10 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10666-016-9525-3. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United states, Water Quality, fundamental variables, national model, All tags... nitrogen, random forest regression, recursive partitioning, Fewer tags Sediment chemistry and sediment toxicity in wadable streams across the Midwestern United States, 2013 These data present chemistry and toxicity results from freshwater stream sediments collected from 99 wadable stream sites across eleven states in the Midwestern U.S. as one component of a larger USGS study in the summer of 2013. This data presents a selected suite of chemistry collected at these sites (PAHs, Organochlorines, PCBs, Trace Elements, and current use pesticides) used in calculating a Probable Effect Concentration-Likely Effect Benchmark quotient mixture score for contaminants measured in sediments. The toxicity data presents results of toxicity tests following ASTM and US EPA standard methods for sediment toxicity tests with the amphipod Hyalella azteca (28-d exposure), the midge Chironomus dilutus (10-d),... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, All tags... Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Wisconsin, chemistry, invertebrates, monitoring, pesticides, pollution, sediment, toxicity, Fewer tags Multi-stressor Predictive Models of Invertebrate Condition in the Corn Belt, U.S.A. The data set includes the macroinvertebrate metrics calculated by IDAS software (Cuffney 2003, USGS OFR 03-172) for the Midwest Stream Quality Assessment (MSQA). Invert data is taxonomic data that has been summarized into variables called metrics that summarize various components of the taxonomic data. The original taxonomic data comes from USGS BioData. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Ecology, Environmental Health, Midwest, U.S., USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... bioassessment, contaminants, macroinvertebrate, multi-stressor, streams, Fewer tags Aqueous Phases of Bifenthrin in Mesocosms Direct and indirect ecological effects of the widely used insecticide bifenthrin on stream ecosystems are largely unknown. To investigate such effects, a manipulative experiment was conducted in stream mesocosms that were colonized by aquatic insect communities and exposed to bifenthrin-contaminated sediment; implications for natural streams were interpreted through comparison of mesocosm results to a survey of 100 Midwestern streams, USA. In the mesocosm experiment, direct effects of bifenthrin exposure included reduced larval macroinvertebrate abundance, richness, and biomass at concentrations (EC50s ranged 197.6 – 233.5 ng bifenthrin/ g organic carbon) previously thought safe for aquatic life. Indirect effects... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, All tags... Michigan, Midwest United States, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, adult emergence, aquatic insect communities, aquatic-terrestrial linkages, bifenthrin, contaminants, mesocosm, pesticides, sediment quality, suspended sediment, trophic cascade, water quality, Fewer tags Characteristics of Spikes Delivered to Mesocosms Direct and indirect ecological effects of the widely used insecticide bifenthrin on stream ecosystems are largely unknown. To investigate such effects, a manipulative experiment was conducted in stream mesocosms that were colonized by aquatic insect communities and exposed to bifenthrin-contaminated sediment; implications for natural streams were interpreted through comparison of mesocosm results to a survey of 100 Midwestern streams, USA. In the mesocosm experiment, direct effects of bifenthrin exposure included reduced larval macroinvertebrate abundance, richness, and biomass at concentrations (EC50s ranged 197.6 – 233.5 ng bifenthrin/ g organic carbon) previously thought safe for aquatic life. Indirect effects... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, All tags... Michigan, Midwest, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, adult emergence, aquatic insect communities, aquatic-terrestrial linkages, bifenthrin, contaminants, mesocosm, pesticides, sediment quality, suspended sediment, trophic cascade, water quality, Fewer tags Pesticide concentration and streamflow datasets used to evaluate pesticide trends in the Nation’s rivers and streams, 1992-2012 In 1991, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began a study of more than 50 major river basins across the Nation as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) project of the National Water-Quality Program. One of the major goals of the NAWQA project is to determine how water-quality conditions change over time. To support that goal, long-term consistent and comparable monitoring has been conducted on streams and rivers throughout the Nation. Outside of the NAWQA project, the USGS also has collected long-term water-quality data to support additional assessments of changing water-quality conditions. These data have been combined to provide insight into how natural features and human activities have contributed... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: National Water Quality Program, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Quality, pesticides, All tags... streamflow, trends, usgsnawqaswtrends, water quality, Fewer tags Ecological community datasets used to evaluate the presence of trends in ecological communities in selected rivers and streams across the United States, 1992-2012 (input) In 1991, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began a study of more than 50 major river basins across the Nation as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) project of the National Water-Quality Program. One of the major goals of the NAWQA project is to determine how water-quality and ecological conditions change over time. To support that goal, long-term consistent and comparable ecological monitoring has been conducted on streams and rivers throughout the Nation. Fish, invertebrate, and algae data collected as part of the NAWQA program were retrieved from the USGS Aquatic Bioassessment database for use in trend analysis. Ultimately, these data will provide insight into how natural features and human... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: United States, aquatic, biology, diatoms, ecology, All tags... fish, invertebrates, river, stream, trend, usgsnawqaswtrends, wadeable, Fewer tags Daily streamflow datasets used to analyze trends in streamflow at sites also analyzed for trends in water quality and ecological condition in the Nation's rivers and streams (output) In 1991, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began a study of more than 50 major river basins across the Nation as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) project of the National Water-Quality Program. One of the major goals of the NAWQA project is to determine how water-quality conditions change over time. To support that goal, long-term consistent and comparable monitoring has been conducted on streams and rivers throughout the Nation. Outside of the NAWQA project, the USGS and other Federal, State, and local agencies also have collected long-term water-quality data to support their own assessments of changing water-quality conditions. Data from these multiple sources have been combined to support... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Puerto Rico, United States, annual streamflow, change points, daily streamflow, All tags... trends, usgsnawqaswtrends, Fewer tags Daily streamflow datasets used to analyze trends in streamflow at sites also analyzed for trends in water quality and ecological condition in the Nation's rivers and streams In 1991, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began a study of more than 50 major river basins across the Nation as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) project of the National Water-Quality Program. One of the major goals of the NAWQA project is to determine how water-quality conditions change over time. To support that goal, long-term consistent and comparable monitoring has been conducted on streams and rivers throughout the Nation. Outside of the NAWQA project, the USGS and other Federal, State, and local agencies also have collected long-term water-quality data to support their own assessments of changing water-quality conditions. Data from these multiple sources have been combined to support... Categories: Data Release - Revised; Types: Citation; Tags: National Water Quality Program, Puerto Rico, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Quality, All tags... daily streamflow, ecological streamflows, loads, pesticides, usgsnawqaswtrends, water quality, 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 Data for Radium Mobility and the Age of Groundwater in Public-drinking-water Supplies from the Cambrian-Ordovician Aquifer System, North-Central USA: Table 1. 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 of groundwater by calibration of lumped parameter models to tracer concentrations. High radium (Ra) concentrations in potable portions of the Cambrian-Ordovician (C-O) aquifer system were investigated using water-quality data and environmental tracers ( 3H, 3Hetrit, SF6 , 14C and 4Herad) of groundwater age from 80 public-supply wells (PSWs). Groundwater ages were estimated by calibration of tracers to lumped parameter models and ranged from modern (1 Myr) in the most downgradient, confined portions of the potable system. More than 80 and 40 percent of mean groundwater ages were older than 1000 and 50,000 yr, respectively. Anoxic, Fe-reducing conditions and increased mineralization develop with time in the aquifer system and mobilize Ra into solution resulting in the frequent occurrence of combined... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, All tags... NAWQA, Wisconsin, alpha recoil, cycle 3, dissolved gas, groundwater age, lumped parameter modeling, nawqa, radium, radium 226 distribution coefficient, recharge temperature, water quality, Fewer tags Bifenthrin Absorption to Mesocosm Walls Resulting From the Delivery of a Bifenthrin Spiked Suspended Sediment Direct and indirect ecological effects of the widely used insecticide bifenthrin on stream ecosystems are largely unknown. To investigate such effects, a manipulative experiment was conducted in stream mesocosms that were colonized by aquatic insect communities and exposed to bifenthrin-contaminated sediment; implications for natural streams were interpreted through comparison of mesocosm results to a survey of 100 Midwestern streams, USA. In the mesocosm experiment, direct effects of bifenthrin exposure included reduced larval macroinvertebrate abundance, richness, and biomass at concentrations (EC50s ranged 197.6 – 233.5 ng bifenthrin/ g organic carbon) previously thought safe for aquatic life. Indirect effects... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, All tags... Michigan, Midwest United States, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, adult emergence, aquatic insect communities, aquatic-terrestrial linkages, bifenthrin, contaminants, mesocosm, pesticides, sediment quality, suspended sediment, trophic cascade, water quality, Fewer tags Groundwater Quality Data from the National Water Quality Assessment Project, May 2012 through December 2013 Groundwater-quality data were collected from 748 wells as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Project of the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Program from May 2012 through December 2013. The data were collected from four types of well networks: principal aquifer study networks, which assess the quality of groundwater used for public water supply; land-use study networks, which assess land-use effects on shallow groundwater quality; major aquifer study networks, which assess the quality of groundwater used for domestic supply; and enhanced trends networks, which evaluate the time scales during which groundwater quality changes. Groundwater samples were analyzed for a large number of water-quality... Types: Citation; Tags: Hydrogeology, NAWQA, National Water Quality Program, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, All tags... Water Quality, cycle 3, groundwater, groundwater, nawqa, water quality, Fewer tags Study Boundary for the U.S. Geological Survey Midwest Stream Quality Assessment In 2013, the first of several Regional Stream Quality Assessments (RSQA) was done in the Midwest United States. The Midwest Stream Quality Assessment (MSQA) was a collaborative study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA), the USGS Columbia Environmental Research Center, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) National Rivers and Streams Assessment (NRSA). One of the objectives of the RSQA, and thus the MSQA, is to characterize the relationships between water-quality stressors and stream ecology and to determine the relative effects of these stressors on aquatic biota within the streams (U.S. Geological Survey, 2012). To meet this objective, a framework of fundamental... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Ecoregions, Geographic Information Systems, Geospatial Analysis, Geospatial Datasets, Illinois, All tags... Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, MSQA, Michigan, Midwest, Midwest Stream Quality Assessment, Minnesota, Missouri, National Water Quality Assessment, Nebraska, Ohio, RSQA, Regional Stream Quality Assessment, South Dakota, Study boundary, Wisconsin, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Data for Radium Mobility and the Age of Groundwater in Public-drinking-water Supplies from the Cambrian-Ordovician Aquifer System, North-Central USA: Table 2. Detailed information on the calibration of dissolved gas models to dissolved gas concentrations (neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and nitrogen). High radium (Ra) concentrations in potable portions of the Cambrian-Ordovician (C-O) aquifer system were investigated using water-quality data and environmental tracers ( 3H, 3Hetrit, SF6 , 14C and 4Herad) of groundwater age from 80 public-supply wells (PSWs). Groundwater ages were estimated by calibration of tracers to lumped parameter models and ranged from modern (1 Myr) in the most downgradient, confined portions of the potable system. More than 80 and 40 percent of mean groundwater ages were older than 1000 and 50,000 yr, respectively. Anoxic, Fe-reducing conditions and increased mineralization develop with time in the aquifer system and mobilize Ra into solution resulting in the frequent occurrence of combined... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, All tags... NAWQA, Wisconsin, alpha recoil, cycle 3, dissolved gas, groundwater age, lumped parameter modeling, nawqa, radium, radium 226 distribution coefficient, recharge temperature, water quality, Fewer tags Daily streamflow datasets used to analyze trends in streamflow at sites also analyzed for trends in water quality and ecological condition in the Nation's rivers and streams (input) In 1991, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began a study of more than 50 major river basins across the Nation as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) project of the National Water-Quality Program. One of the major goals of the NAWQA project is to determine how water-quality conditions change over time. To support that goal, long-term consistent and comparable monitoring has been conducted on streams and rivers throughout the Nation. Outside of the NAWQA project, the USGS and other Federal, State, and local agencies also have collected long-term water-quality data to support their own assessments of changing water-quality conditions. Data from these multiple sources have been combined to support... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Puerto Rico, United States, daily streamflow, ecological streamflows, loads, All tags... pesticides, usgsnawqaswtrends, water quality, Fewer tags Water-quality and streamflow datasets used in Seasonal Kendall trend tests for the Nation’s rivers and streams, 1972-2012 (output) In 1991, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began a study of more than 50 major river basins across the Nation as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) project of the National Water-Quality Program. One of the major goals of the NAWQA project is to determine how water-quality conditions change over time. To support that goal, long-term consistent and comparable monitoring has been conducted on streams and rivers throughout the Nation. Outside of the NAWQA project, the USGS and other Federal, State, and local agencies also have collected long-term water-quality data to support their own assessments of changing water-quality conditions. Data from these multiple sources have been combined to support... Types: Citation; Tags: Puerto Rico, Seasonal Kendall, United States, carbon, nutrients, All tags... rivers, salinity, sediment, trends, usgsnawqaswtrends, Fewer tags 1 2 3 »