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Chemistry Data from Southern Florida Canals Collected in Support of the Aquatic Cycling of Mercury in the Everglades Project Several canals in southern Florida run from Lake Okeechobee through the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) and feed water to the northern Everglades. Agricultural and water-management practices affect the water quality of these canals. Fertilizers added in the EAA flow into the canals and are transported to treatment areas which remove much of the phosphorous in the water, but are not as effective in removing dissolved sulfate. Elevated sulfate concentrations, found downstream in the Water Conservation Areas in the northern Everglades, can stimulate sulfur-reducing bacteria which can also convert inorganic mercury to methyl mercury, a bioaccumulative neurotoxin. Chemistry data at 25 canal sites in southern Florida... Categories: Data; Tags: Broward County, Energy Resources, Geochemistry, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, All tags... The Everglades, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), contaminant transport, datasets, nonpoint-source pollution, sulfur, surface water quality, Fewer tags Various Lake Powell data used for predicting smallmouth bass entrainment rates and population growth based on thermal suitability below and downstream of Glen Canyon Dam These data were compiled to create models that estimate entrainment rates and population growth rates of smallmouth bass below Glen Canyon Dam. Objective(s) of our study were to predict smallmouth bass entrainment rates and population growth under different future scenarios of Lake Powell elevations and management. These data represent parameters needed for associated models and data needed to produce figures. These data were collected from publicly available online sources including published papers and federal government datasets. These data were assembled by researchers from U.S. Geological Survey, Utah State University, Colorado State University, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. These data can be used to run... Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Arizona, Climatology, Colorado River, Diamond Creek, All tags... Ecology, Geography, Glen Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam, Global Horizon Irradiance, Grand Canyon, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Lake Powell, Lees Ferry, Little Colorado River, Page, Page Airport, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Williams, adaptive management, age class, air temperature, area, bathymetry, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, data release, depth suitability, ecological processes, elevation, entrainment rates, environment, evaporation, field inventory and monitoring, inflow projections, inlandWaters, mean observed lengths, modeling, observed daily depths, outflow projections, population growth, precipitation (atmospheric), reproduction, reservoir water quality model CEQUAL-W2, smallmouth bass, solar, study areas, surface water (non-marine), surface water quality, temperature profiles, thermal suitability, water depths, water temperature, Fewer tags High-resolution spatial water-quality and discrete phytoplankton data, Owasco Lake, Seneca Lake, and Skaneateles Lake, Finger Lakes Region, New York, 2018-2019 From August 2018 to October 2019, the U.S. Geological Survey collected spatially high-resolution water quality data as part of five shoreline synoptic surveys around the perimeters of Owasco, Seneca, and Skaneateles Lakes within the Finger Lakes Region of New York. Water-quality data were collected just below water surface utilizing YSI EXO2 multiparameter sondes and portable nitrate sensors paired with real-time GPS data as part of a HABs monitoring program in the Finger Lakes. In October 2019, water-quality data collection was paired with discrete phytoplankton grab samples on Owasco Lake and Seneca Lake. Phytoplankton grab samples were collected just below water surface with a peristaltic pump at twelve locations... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Contaminants, HABS, Finger Lakes, Limnology, New York, All tags... Owasco Lake, Seneca Lake, Skaneateles Lake, Surface-Water Quality Monitoring, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Quality, Water Quality, Water Resources, algae, algal blooms, chlorophyll, class, continuously-measured, cyanobacteria, dissolved oxygen, division, family, fluorescent dissolved organic matter (fDOM), freshwater (surface), genus, hazards, lake ecosystems, limnology, nitrate, nutrient content (water), order, oxygen content (water), phycocyanin, phycology, phytoplankton, spatial, species, specific conductance, surface water quality, synoptic, taxa, taxonomy, turbidity, water pH, water temperature, Fewer tags Owasco Lake, New York spatial water-quality data, June 26 and October 8, 2019 This child item data set provides high-resolution, nearshore, spatial water-quality data collected from Owasco Lake, New York, on June 26 and October 8, 2019. All data are reported as raw measured values. Continuous water-quality monitors were mounted to a boat at approximately 0.5-meters below the water surface and used to measure nitrate, chlorophyll fluorescence (fChl), fluorescent dissolved organic matter (fDOM), dissolved oxygen, specific conductance, phycocyanin fluorescence (fPC), turbidity, pH, and temperature. Categories: Data; Tags: Contaminants, HABS, Finger Lakes, New York, Owasco Lake, Surface-Water Quality Monitoring, All tags... United States, Water Quality, algae, algal blooms, chlorophyll fluorescence (fChl), continuously-measured, cyanobacteria, dissolved oxygen, fluorescent dissolved organic matter (fDOM), freshwater (surface), hazards, limnology, nitrate, nutrient content (water), oxygen content (water), phycocyanin fluorescence (fPC), spatial, specific conductance, surface water quality, synoptic, turbidity, water pH, water temperature, Fewer tags Sediment Concentration, Water Velocity, and Suspended Particle Size and Settling Data to Estimate Estuarine Sediment Flux at Dumbarton Bridge, San Francisco Bay, CA from 2018 - 2019 Measurements of suspended sediment concentration, water velocity, suspended-sediment particle size, and suspended-sediment particle settling velocity were collected to estimate suspended-sediment flux and investigate sediment transport processes at Dumbarton Bridge in San Francisco Bay (NWIS station 373015122071000) from calendar year 2018 to 2019. Data were collected using: stationary and boat-mounted acoustic Doppler current meters (ADCP, a 1 MHz Nortek Aquadopp and a 1200kHz Teledyne RiverPro, respectively), four stationary and one profiling multiparameter water quality profiling sondes (YSI 6920), a stationary acoustic backscattering sensor (ABS, Sequoia LISST-ABS), a stationary laser diffraction particle size... Categories: Data; Tags: Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Dumbarton Bridge, Dumbarton Point, San Francisco Bay, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... environment, estuarine processes, inlandWaters, oceans, sediment transport, surface water quality, Fewer tags Annual mean concentrations and annual total loads from WRTDS and WRTDS_K models for sites in the Spokane River watershed, water years 1990 to 2018 Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge and Season (WRTDS) and WRTDS with Kalman filtering (WRTDS_K) models were developed for total and dissolved cadmium, zinc and lead; total phosphorus and nitrogen; and dissolved orthophosphate at twelve sites in the Spokane River watershed, northern Idaho, for water years 1990 to 2018. The data table contains the annual mean concentrations and annual total loads estimated by WRTDS_K, and the flow-normalized annual mean concentrations and flow-normalized annual total loads estimated by WRTDS for each modeled site and constituent. Categories: Data; Tags: Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, South Fork Coeur d'Alene, Spokane, Superfund site, All tags... dissolved metals, environment, heavy metal pollution, inlandWaters, mine sites, remediation, surface water quality, water quality, Fewer tags Regression models and associated data for describing variability of host specific bacteria fluxes in eight Great Lakes tributaries, 2011-2013 Three regression models were developed for describing variability of host-specific flux data in eight Great Lakes tributaries. Models include one for Lachnospiraceae flux, one for human bacteroides flux, and one for ruminant bacteroides flux. Models were developed using the R project for statistical computing with core functionality and the survival, smwrBase, and smwrQW packages. Predictor variables for these models are included in the data file and input files provided. These include sampling dates and times, rainfall depth, percent of watershed underlain by tile drainage, cattle population (for the ruminant marker model) and human population (for the human marker models). Sample collection and laboratory analyses... Categories: Data; Tags: Bacteria, Great Lakes Region, Regression analysis, Surface water quality, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC) Pesticides and pesticide transformation product data from passive samplers deployed in 15 Great Lakes tributaries, 2016 This dataset includes pesticides and pesticide transformation products in 15 tributaries of the Great Lakes. Pesticides were monitored using polar organic chemical integrative samplers (POCIS) to estimate concentrations in water following standard protocols (Alvarez, 2010) in June and July 2016. POCIS extracts were analyzed for 225 chemicals (USGS National Water Quality Laboratory schedule 5437, Sandstrom and others, 2016), for which 129 chemicals also have POCIS uptake rates, allowing calculations of time-weighted mean concentration over the approximately 30 day deployment (Alvarez and others, 2008). Collectively, there were 97 chemicals detected, and time-weighted mean concentrations could be calculated for 95... Categories: Data; Tags: Bad River, Clinton River, Cuyahoga River, Environmental Health, Fox River, All tags... Genesee River, Grand River, Great Lakes, Indiana, Indiana Harbor canal, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Superior, Limnology, Maumee River, Michigan, Milwaukee River, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oswego River, River Rouge, Saginaw River, St. Joseph River, St. Louis River, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vermilion River, Water Resources, Wisconsin, contamination and pollution, dissolved contaminants, emerging contaminants, inlandWaters, legacy contaminants, passive samplers, pesticides, surface water, surface water quality, water chemistry, Fewer tags Microplastics in the water column and sediment in Milwaukee-Area streams, the Milwaukee Harbor, and Lake Michigan, 2016 This dataset describes the quantity, morphology, and polymer identity of microplastics in the water column and surficial sediments of Milwaukee-Area streams, the Milwaukee Harbor, and Lake Michigan (Wisconsin). Water samples were collected at 10 locations, 2-4 times each, from May to September, 2016. At the 4 shallowest locations, water was collected only at the water surface. At the remaining 6 locations, water was collected at the water surface and at 1-4 depths below the surface. Sediment samples were collected once, in June 2016, at a subset of 9 locations. Sampling and analysis methods are described in the Processing Steps section of the metadata. These data are interpreted in the following journal article:... Categories: Data; Tags: Environmental Health, Hydrology, Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Water Quality, Water Resources, Wisconsin, contamination and pollution, inlandWaters, microplastics, runoff, surface water quality, Fewer tags Geochemical data for post-fire surface water, streambed sediment, and soils from areas affected by the 2018 Camp Fire, Butte County, California During November 2018, the Camp Fire burned more than 150,000 acres in Butte County, California. The fire was the deadliest and most destructive in California history, destroying more than 18,000 structures and causing at least 85 fatalities. The U.S. Geological Survey sampled surface water in areas affected by the Camp Fire, plus an unburned control site, during two post-fire sampling events, January 21-23, 2019 and February 28 - March 1, 2019. During each of those two sampling events, surface-water samples were collected at 8 stream locations. These 16 water samples were filtered using filters with multiple pore sizes (1.2 µm, 0.8 µm, 0.45 µm, and 0.22 µm) to evaluate colloid transport of trace elements. The filtrates... Categories: Data; Tags: Butte County, California, Environmental Health, Geochemistry, Land Use Change, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, boundaries, fires, runoff, soil chemistry, surface water quality, suspended material (water), Fewer tags SPARROW model dataset for total suspended solids in North Carolina, including simulated stream loads To better understand the influence of human activities and natural processes on surface-water quality, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) developed the SPARROW (SPAtially Referenced Regressions On Watershed attributes) (Schwarz and others, 2006; Alexander and others, 2008) model. The framework is used to relate water-quality monitoring data to sources and watershed characteristics that affect the fate and transport of constituents to receiving surface-water bodies. The core of the model consists of using a nonlinear-regression equation to describe the non-conservative transport of contaminants from point and nonpoint sources on land to rivers, lakes and estuaries through the stream and river network. In North Carolina,... Categories: Data; Tags: North Carolina (state), USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, surface water quality Compilation of multi-agency specific conductance observations for streams within the Chesapeake Bay watershed Freshwater salinization is an emerging issue for freshwater environments in the Chesapeake Bay, USA region. Salinization is often described by measurements of specific conductance (SC). This data release contains specific conductance observations collected by multiple regional agencies for streams within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This inventory compiles and harmonizes data from the Water Quality Portal (WQP), which is a data repository developed by the National Water Quality Monitoring Council and supported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Geological Survey, and the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System (NWIS). Both discrete measures of SC, which are single measures taken... Categories: Data; Tags: Chesapeake Bay watershed, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hydrology, Maryland, All tags... New York, Pennsylvania, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Virginia, Water Quality, Water Resources, West Virginia, biota, environment, freshwater ecosystems, inlandWaters, salinity, surface water quality, Fewer tags Total and Dissolved Organic Carbon Data to Support Implementation of Revised Freshwater Aluminum Water-Quality Criteria in Massachusetts This data set contains historical data on concentrations of total and dissolved organic carbon in Massachusetts streams from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System (NWIS) database. The data were compiled from NWIS using site and sample selection criteria to retrieve all publicly available data from surface-water samples that contained analysis of both total and dissolved organic carbon. The data set was screened, as much as possible from the site and sample description information in NWIS, to retain only routine environmental samples from stream sites. The final data set consists of 223 samples from 52 sites and were collected from 1978 to 2007. Categories: Data; Tags: Massachusetts, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, surface water quality Emerging contaminant data at wastewater treatment facilities, municipal water supplies, surface water and lake sites in the northeastern United States, 2009-2018 (ver. 1.1, January 2023) Over 300 samples were collected in New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts from wastewater treatment facilities (20 locations), drinking water facilities (9 locations), streams (53 locations), lakes (2 locations), a bay (1 location), and a POCIS (Polar Organic Chemical Integrative Sampler) blank sample between April 2009 and October 2018. This data release provides chemistry data for over 400 analytes, including pharmaceuticals, hormones, personal care and domestic use compounds, pesticides and other compounds using 10 different laboratory analytical methods on water, sediment, wastewater sludge, and POCIS samples. Quality assurance data, such as equipment and field blank data and percent recovery for isotopic dilution... Categories: Data; Tags: Contaminants, Emerging, Contaminants, Organic, Environmental Quality, Massachusetts, New York, All tags... Sediment Quality, Sediment Quality, Surface Water Quality, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS:62d96808d34e2842e1edcf6e, Vermont, Wastewater, Water Quality, Water Quality, Water quality, streambed sediment, surface-water water-quality, wastewater, Fewer tags 11: Streamwater sample constituent concentration outliers from 15 watersheds in Gwinnett County, Georgia for water years 2003-2020 This dataset contains a list of outlier sample concentrations identified for 17 water quality constituents from streamwater sample collected at 15 study watersheds in Gwinnett County, Georgia for water years 2003 to 2020. The 17 water quality constituents are: biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), total suspended solids (TSS), suspended sediment concentration (SSC), total nitrogen (TN), total nitrate plus nitrite (NO3NO2), total ammonia plus organic nitrogen (TKN), dissolved ammonia (NH3), total phosphorus (TP), dissolved phosphorus (DP), total organic carbon (TOC), total calcium (Ca), total magnesium (Mg), total copper (TCu), total lead (TPb), total zinc (TZn), and total dissolved solids... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Gwinnett County, State of Georgia, inlandWaters, surface water quality Dataset used for estimating catchment-level nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use from commercial fertilizer sales data for the Conterminous U.S., 2012 This dataset includes all of the variables that were used in predictive models to estimate nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use from commercial fertilizer sales data at the catchment/county level for the Conterminous U.S. for the year 2012. The dataset includes model input at the catchment/county level. A companion USGS Scientific Investigations Report describes the methods and subsequent results of two models developed for estimating elemental nitrogen and phosphorus commercial fertilizer use on agricultural lands for the conterminous US at the catchment/county scale for the year 2012. A companion data release provides catchment-level estimates of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use, for agricultural lands,... Tags: N fertilizers, NPK fertilizers, National Water Quality Program, Phosphorus fertilizers, Soil Sciences, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, conterminous United States, modeling (mathematical), nitrogen, phosphorus, surface water quality, Fewer tags Water-quality data for nitrate plus nitrite, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus for sites in Red River of the North basin, 1970–2017 This child page contains 34 csv files, site_qw_nuts, which contain observations of nitrate plus nitrite as nitrogen (npnN), total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP) for each site . Each file includes date of observation, measured value of water-quality constituent, remark code for the measured value, and site name. Availability of observations of water-quality constituents depended upon collecting agency and varied by site and constituent. Not all sites had observations for all constituents. The format of the csv file (date format and column headings) is designed to meet the specific requirements of file format for R-QWTREND. If csv files are opened directly in excel, the format of the data can change. To ensure... Categories: Data; Tags: Manitoba, Minnesota, North Dakota, Red River of the North, datasets, All tags... nitrogen, nutrient content (water), phosphorus, surface water quality, Fewer tags Lake St. John Nutrient and phytoplankton data indicate poor environmental health in four oxbow lakes in central Louisiana suggesting that long-term agriculture practices and increases in shoreline development have accelerated eutrophication. Surface-water quality and phytoplankton indicators of eutrophication were examined at Lake Bruin, Lake St. John, Lake St. Joseph, and False River Lake along an eutrophication gradient. These oxbow lakes are cut-off meanders of the Mississippi River that do not receive overbank flow from the river due to the levee system built in the early twentieth century. Oxbows have formed at various times in the last few hundred years as the Mississippi River carves a more efficient hydrologic route to... Tags: algae, phytoplankton, surface water quality Selected sediment data and results from regression models, modified Einstein Procedure, and loads estimation for the Nemadji River, 1973-2016 This data set includes new and historical sediment data collected at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) streamgage on the Nemadji River near South Superior, Wisconsin (station number 04024430) from 1973 through 2016. The data were used in a comparison study of stream sediment collection and laboratory techniques for characterizing suspended sediment, bedload, and total sediment loads. Data results included in this data release include 1) suspended-sediment concentration data collected in 2015-16 using U.S. Geological Survey and Wisconsin and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) methods; 2) streambed material particle size, measured bedload, total sediment loads, and model archive for the modified Einstein... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: City of Superior, Douglas County, Lake Superior, Minnesota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Water Resources, Wisconsin, river systems, surface water quality, suspended material (water), Fewer tags Insecticide and fungicide concentrations in irrigation runoff and soils from a lettuce field in the Salinas Valley, California, 2019 and 2020 Irrigation runoff and soil samples were collected from a lettuce field located at the USDA-ARS Spence Research farm in the Salinas Valley, California to measure neonicotinoid insecticides (clothianidin and imidacloprid) and a fungicide (azoxystrobin) applied via coated seed and drench treatments. The field trial was designed to evaluate four treatments with replication: 1) control, untreated seed, 2) imidacloprid treated seed, 3) clothianidin treated seed, and 4) azoxystrobin treated seed with an imidacloprid drench. Samples were collected from each treatment over two lettuce growing seasons: August to October 2019 and September to October 2020. Runoff samples were collected over both growing seasons during 6 irrigation... Categories: Data; Tags: California, Salinas, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, All tags... Water Resources, contamination and pollution, environment, fungicides, insecticides, irrigation, pesticide and herbicide contamination, pesticides, seed treatment, soil drenching, soil resources, surface water quality, Fewer tags 1 2 3 4 5 ... 12 »